Friday, August 12, 2011

Re: Is there anyway that Vim can 'tag' or 'name' a window for future reference?

My ASCII graph is ruinned by the width limitation, I mean

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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Xiaopan Zhang <zhangxiaopan@gmail.com> wrote:
> My requirement is a bit unique, so allow me to put a bit long story
> here.
>
> I have two 24-inch dell monitors for regular coding work.  I usually
> run a full-window terminal window and then run a console vim inside
> the terminal.  Due to the enormous size of the terminal, I usually
> split it vertically into 4 windows like following:
>
> |                              |
> |                              |                              |
> |                              |
> |                              |                              |
> |                              |
> |                              |                              |
> |                              |
> |                              |                              |
> |     window 1         |    window 2          |     window 3
> |    window 4          |
> |                              |
> |                              |                              |
> |                              |
> |                              |                              |
>
> I developed a whole bunch of customized commands for VIM to edit files
> in different windows, move files between windows, etc, etc. (If you
> are interested, you can look at http://code.google.com/p/spititan/source/browse/trunk/configuration/vimrc).
>
> The problem I have is: the more I work on this window layout, the more
> I feel that Vim lacks of facilities to identify windows, for example,
> if I want to implement a customized command to exchange the files
> between current window and window 1, I don't have a straightforward
> way to identify the current window number, which is a major obstacle
> to develop more sophisticated commands on this layout.
>
> Anybody has any idea?
>
> Thanks.

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张小潘

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