Re: vim: session of "sessions"

On 07/11/2012 04:38 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:25:58PM EDT, ping wrote:
>
> Maybe OT, but anyway..
>
> [..]
>
>> * switching beyond 9 windows is painful in screen, if you ever use it.
>
> Not sure what you mean by painful, but GNU/screen lets you define
> extra shortcuts to access windows directly via the 'bind' command:
>
> bind ')' select 10
> bind '!' select 11
>
> etc.
>
> So you would use 'CTRL-A Shift+0' to switch to window 10.. 'CTRL-A 1' to
> switch to window 11.. etc.
>
> Never tried it but you could also define more such shortcuts if you need
> more.. you could probably define 40-50 more shortcuts without stepping
> on the ones that GNU/screen assigns by defaut to other functionalities.
>
> If you run (e.g.) twenty vim instances under GNU/screen, each with 20
> tabs open, each with four windows.. that already adds up to 400 files,
> even without splitting the screen and not to mention hidden buffers.
>
> Another convenient way to switch betwee GNU/screen windows is to display
> the window list via 'CTRL-A "' (double quote) and use vim movement keys
> 'j' and 'k' to navigate and hit <Enter> to switch to the target window.
>
> This has the merit of letting you visualize whatever names you gave to
> each of your vim instances.. could come in handy in case you forget..
>
> Don't know of any application that lets you do this faster and with less
> overhead than GNU/screen. Considerably less so than handling more than
> c. 10-12 tabs in a web browser, for my money.
>
> Won't stop me from thinking that running more than one instance of Vim
> is not a good idea in the first place..
>

thanks Chris.
that's however all from GNUscreen point of view.
so back to my initial question regardless of screen, how to manage
multiple vim sessions in one vim instance then,if we should only use one
vim instance?

> HTH
>
> CJ
>


thanks

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