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I laughed at the poetry of the line "I don’t really want Vim to litter my filesystem with all of these piles of nervous energy." Truth
I was still thinking about this today. "I have all these receipts everywhere..."
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I actually went full on in the other direction and often have multiple vim instances working on the same file. It feels so much better than having to deal with swap file error messages. With the below it reloads the file when the window gets into focus. Super helpful when working in lots of terminal tabs. You just have to get into a habit of saving after every change as it conflicts otherwise. " check for and load fi…
why would you need to open the same file in multiple tabs instead of switching tabs to get to the file. in the few cases where i really need to open the file multiple times i use tmux to allow a shared view.
It's a bit crude but I really like how it results in a uniform way of working in the terminal. As opposed to handling different files and processes depending on what applications is currently running.
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why would you need to open the same file in multiple tabs instead of switching tabs to get to the file. in the few cases where i really need to open the file multiple times i use tmux to allow a shared view.
Mostly because I'm using kitty [0] and the tab and split-view handling in it is super quick and effortless. For example instead of opening a :vsplit in vim I just split my terminal and open a second instance on vim on the same file. You lose pretty much all the advanced buffer handling that vim offers, but I never used them much in the first place. It's a bit crude but I really like how it results in a uniform way of…