On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:19:50AM EST, Shawn H Corey wrote: > Dennis German wrote: > > Happy New Year to all. :w > > > > An earlier post mentioned having files ending up with > > :q in them. > > > > When I'm done editing, I always use :x and > > only use :q when I didn't make any changes > > ( of course :q! when I didn't mean to make any changes). > > Is this just a matter of personal preference and > > does everyone else use :w:q or something else?? > > > > I use :q because it gives me more control. When I program, it's not > unusual for me to have several instances of gvim running, each with two > or three files opened. This is to coordinate the activities that are > distributed among them. But when things finally work, any pending > changes are not part of the test. :q will complain if there are any > unwritten changes. I then do u^R to move the cursor to the last change > and decide if I want to keep it.
I try to stick to just one vim instance and basically never quit.. What I do is that I periodically take a look at my buffer list and issue a bunch of :bw commands for those buffers I know I won't need in the foreseeable future. CJ -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
