John wrote:
Well, multiple instances give more flexibility with window placement, and make use of one's window manager and one's skills with it. There's already multiple windows with browser, xterms, file managers, and so on.
Yes, I have a (blind) friend that prefers to manage multiple vim instances from a shell so he can use his familiar unix command-line skills.
I have an unsubstantiaed belief that running multiple vim's with multiple files, each writing viminfo, swap, backup, or session files, etc. -- now and then, is asking for trouble. Indeed, my friend does seem to experience corrupt viminfo files with some frequency. I wonder if using a single instance is less prone to errors, corrupt files, etc?
and vim has a limited repertoire of window stuff
I wonder what others think about this? Certainly, vim's text-based windows are no match for graphical xterms. But the huge apparatus of multiple args, buffers, file explorers, windows, and tabs, sessions, views - - is meant to manage multiple files better inside vime, compared to outside - no? Otherwise, why bother?
Certainly, inside vim one can more easily switch files/buffers, cut and paste between files, do global changes and jumps, with many files, and so on. And the shell command lets one leave vim easily and do shell or xterm work, as one pleases.
I would think there would only be major advantages of multiple vims in multiple windows, if vim were a graphical editor like wordpad.
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