18 Jan
2020
18 Jan
'20
8:11 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Bakul Shah wrote:
On Jan 9, 2020, at 9:21 AM, Jon Steinhart
<jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
For your .vimrc:
nmap =f :vsplit<bar>wincmd l<bar>exe "norm!
Ljz<c-v><cr>"<cr>:set scb<cr>:wincmd h<cr>:set
scb<cr>
Don't remember where I picked that up, but this will give you two vim
windows, showing your file in both, one-screen's worth apart, with
synchronized scolling.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
It's for that reason that I hate the addition of multiple windows to vi. I
already have a windowing system on my machine, and that's what I use for windows.
To me, the correct thing to do is to open a new desktop window to edit a new file
and start a new instance of vi, not to use vi to open another internal window.
The Rand editor made good use of multiple windows. You could set things up so
that two windows would scroll *in sync*. This is handy e.g. when you are looking
at two columns or rows that far apart in the same file or in different files and
too large so you need to scroll.