The goal is to meet the following requirements:
- entire screen space can be used for editing files, so that there is room to put files side-by-side, or top-and-bottom, or any combination - now if this were met by creating a Vim window as large as the screen, it would cover everything else - so the goal is to use separate widgets (or what emacs calls "frames") so that they can be raised and lowered individually when there is a need to reveal something else on the screen. or they can all be raised when the goal is to edit several files and see them at once. - and I want them conceptually the same as Vim windows: there is one Vim instance, it has a set of buffers loaded, and these buffers can be configured in any way into existing windows. If you think about what would happen if buffers were not independent of windows, that would be the same problem with using multiple Vim instances. Thanks, Mike > What is your eventual goal? I.e. why do you need each widget to be > part of the same Vim instance? You can copy text back and forth using > the system clipboard if needed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
