On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 03:05:43PM EST, Shawn H Corey wrote: > Chris Jones wrote:
> > 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. > Gvim allows the window to be split vertically. This allows me to view > different files (or two places in the same file) at the same time. > It's useful in coordinating programs. For example, you could have the > variables in one side (which are frequency at the top of the file) and > the subroutines in another. For languages like C, there is often two > files, file_n.h and file_n.c that have to agree. Sure, but I often have to access 5-6 (or more) related files, certainly more than what I could display concurrently on my display. And that's where the :buffers/:ls commands really come in handy, especially associated with Ctrl-O. The only problem, is that after a while the buffer list in a long running instance of vim may become so large as to be unmanageable. As a result, when I notice that there are more than, what.. maybe twenty five or thirty buffers in my list, I take a break from what I'm doing and purge whatever I'm not likely to need any time soom via the :bd or :bw commands. I have experimented with the Buffer Explorer plugin, that makes things a bit more user-friendly, but I'm not sure yet whether I want to become dependent on yet another plugin. CJ -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
