On Feb 4, 9:19 pm, björn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I use vim on OS X. I do not use MacVim. I use gvim under X11. Until I can
> > (easily) have multiple (OS, not vim) windows open under MacVim,
>
> Now I'm confused: what is difficult about having multiple (OS) windows
> open in MacVim?  How can I make it easier?
>
> > and an easy
> > way to alias opening them from the commandline, it isn't better than gvim
> > for my purposes. But I keep watching and waiting.
>
> Are you aware of the --remote flag?  It lets you specify which (OS)
> window to open a file in from the command line  (the name to pass to
> the flag is something like VIM or VIM1 -- it is the rightmost word in
> the window title by default).  Or where you looking for something
> else?
>
> Björn

Indeed, that is very useful.

$ mvim --servername DIR1 --remote-silent DIR1/foo.c
$ mvim --servername DIR1 --remote-silent DIR1/bar.c
$ mvim --servername DIR2 --remote-silent DIR2/quxx.c

Gives two windows. Perhaps all that is needed is a nice wrapper script
or alias around that. Personally I have :e aliases in my shell to
'mvim --remote-silent' currently, so for me

$ :e --servername DIR1 DIR1/foo.c

works. Fantastic.

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