On 07/01/09 21:13, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
>> I was wondering if anybody has a best practice to open multiple files
>> that each reside on different machines over the network. I plan to use
>> VIM because that is my primary tool for reading files.
>
>> I can manually open all of them one by one and have multiple vim
>> windows open, but I am hoping there is a better way.
>
> You *can* specify more than one file at a time in a single 'vim'
> instance, and/or hit another file with 'argadd' and add a new file to
> the filelist. From there, you can keep just one window/instance and use
> ":n" to get to the next file, then next, next, next, etc., then ":rew"
> to rewind back to the first file, and so on. Think ":N" is to switch to
> the previous file. For sure, "^^" (ctl-^) toggles between the current
> file and the last one you were editing.
>
> Each time it switches to another file, it'll refresh.
>
> Me personally, I don't like window-splits, so I rarely if ever use that
> other'n diffing files, so if that's what you were looking for, someone
> else will have to fill you in on details.
Alternately, you can tell Vim to open the current window full-height and
squash all other windows to a status line and nothing else, in the
fashion of a Rolodex cardholder: slips before the current one have their
names visible at top, slips after the current one have their names
visible at bottom, any one of them can be accessed immediately by
clicking its name (its status line) or by <number> Ctrl-W w --or you can
go from one to the next with Ctrl-W w or back to the previous one with
Ctrl-W W
Here's how:
:set noequalalways winminheight=0 winheight=9999 helpheight=9999
For easy "walking" I also have the following mappings:
:map <F11> <C-W>w
:map <S-F11> <C-W>W
The above are in my vimrc. In addition, to open several files in
split-windows, just use (for instance)
gvim -o3 file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
see
:help -o
Best regards,
Tony.
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