Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Synchronized editing in vim's buffers

Hi,
   I was trying to figure out how to edit 2 files in parallel, side by side. This post helped:


  But I have some sort of paging error, where the lines seem to be off, and I'm not sure what's going on. 
I opened two files in vim, then did ctrl+wv followed by :b2 (to get the second buffer)
   I did :set scrollbind in one file, then :set scrollbind in the other one. It looked like that didn't do much, so I tried
:syncbind  and it looked like as a I paged down in one the other file also was "in synch". Well, almost, because
when I was at line 45 in one, I was at line 1 in the other. So as I started paging up and down, one buffer was
always about a page off from the one.
   Clearly there's something I'm not understanding about synching both buffers. How do I use scrollbind and syncbind?
All I want is that if I go to line 100 in one buffer, I'm at line 100 in the other one. Or, what would be nice
is some sort of "toggle", so I could turn the synching on and off.

Is this possible in vim?

Thanks,
Ven

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