All, A recent thread[1] has prompted me to ask how to share an existing Vim instance from multiple machines.
At work, we have two lab areas. Each developer has a Linux box in the main lab on which to do work, and he generally used Gvim under the X window system for this purpose. When in the other lab, he often wants to view or edit the files on his main Linux box. This is generally done by an ssh connection into the main Linux box followed by starting up another instance of Vim. The "Swap file exists" message is a common occurrence for us, and it generally does not indicate a crashed ssh or vim session. We do not generally leave unsaved changes in running Vim sessions, and we have Vim configured to re-read changed files automatically (via :set autoread). I'm not really comfortable with this mode of operation, though, because I don't like conditioning our developers to ignore the swapfile message. We could use GNU screen and console Vim to resume a single session of Vim remotely, but that loses the nice Gvim features. I've seen suggestions to use VNC even when using a box locally so that the entire graphical session can be resumed from a remote connection, but that loses the local feel (not all keystrokes are transparently fed through VNC, and it doesn't feel snappy). Does anyone have a preferred solution for sharing running Vim instances from multiple machines? Thanks, Michael Henry [1]: vim_dev's thread 'Feature request: Add a Diff option upon open when "Found a swap file..."' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
