On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:18:33PM EST, Sven Brueggemann wrote: > Hello Chris,
> > That's what I meant by 'amazing your friends' since though it has > > its merits, I don't see this particular example as being very > > useful, probably not enough to justify the overhead and added > > complexity. > i didn't follow the thread closely. You might like to watch this video > http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/vim-intermediate-tutorial-videos/#onevim > (about 4:30 min). Thanks, I have something else streaming right now but I will watch it asap. > > I want to better understand the feature and find out if it might > > provide useful editing strategies > The strategy or paradigm or whatever is to use just one instance of > vim. If you end your work day with closing lots of vim instances like > I once did, it's worth a try... I tend to do everything in one permanent Vim instance that initializes when I bring up my desktop.. and have it remember what I was doing via :mksession. But since I do this to avoid the clutter of spawning instances all over the place, I may yet switch to the client-server paradigm in order to give my working model a bit more flexibility. Since I run pretty much everything I need in one instance of GNU/screen over xterm, it would be nice if I could also have screen switch focus to the particular region where the server vim instance currently lives - would make things more convenient/transparent. Another possible use is that you might use several server instances to address different needs, such as featuring a more capable font when I occasion have to deal with exotic scripts, maths symbols, etc. This is especially true, when other layers are involved, such as a mailer for instance, since this approach might turn out to be more effective than using the xterm mechanism to switch to a different font, resizing the terminal, switching back to the default font, resizing the terminal.. etc. Certainly worth a try as you indicated. Thanks, CJ -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
