On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 21:56, David Ohlemacher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to write a script to take advantage of vim's windowing. > > I have maybe a dozen files that I need to monitor. Is there a way to open > vim or gvim, and then have it tail -f each file in separate windows? I can > do this manually from within gvim, but how does one script window creation > and script the running of arbitrary shell commands within each? I'd really > like pipe tail -f through sed to so I could color code specific strings etc.
It seems to me that GNU screen or a similar program would be a much better tool for your task than vim. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
