On 04/03/09 16:02, Michael Mossey wrote:
> Hello, I'm just starting to look at vim, and I'm wondering if it has a
> feature equivalent to emacs "frame"... that is, several separate OS
> windows that are really linked and all part of the same vim process.
> This is endlessly useful for me in emacs...
>
> (Note: I'm running VIM on Windows XP, using the GUI.)
>
> I definitely need side-by-side editing to get at least 4 buffers (vim
> "windows") visible. However do I need to create one large VIM OS
> window?
>
> With emacs, I create a frame on the left side, a frame on the right,
> and smaller terminals and things in the corners. I can then reveal the
> right side of the screen and all its little terminals by doing editing
> in the left frame, or vice-versa.
>
> If I want to edit something while looking at the right side objects, I
> put that thing into the left frame, and vice-versa.
>
> Perhaps two vim instances can synchronize?
In Vim you create the big window first, then you split it to show
several buffers -files-, or several views into one buffer (and if you
display the same buffer in several split-windows, any change you make in
one of them will be seen in all others). What you can not have is an OS
shell running in a Vim window, since Vim is an editor, not an OS.
You can also have several split-windows scroll in parallel.
See:
:help :split
:help :vsplit
:help :new
:help :sview
:help :vertical
:help :leftabove
:help :rightbelow
:help :topleft
:help :botright
:help design-not
:help 'scrollbind'
:help scroll-binding
Best regards,
Tony.
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