Campbell has a very straightforward approach of accomplishing the same end result by saving the contents of the current buffer, and then starting a new instance of gvim with that buffer. (I don't use gvim, so I hope I got that right. I did get it work to my satisfaction with MacVim).
Is there a reason Campbell's solution does not work for you? Ultimately, isn't the end result the most important part?
On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 11:37:58 PM UTC-4 v...@tlinx.org wrote:
On 2021/06/10 09:44, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>> If I use split, I can create a separate panel that
>> is a view on a file.
>>
>> How can I undock it?
>>
>
> That is not supported, Vim only works with one toplevel window.
>
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Why can't it allow undocking like other GUI apps? I'm not wanting
it to be a separate instance of vim -- since I want it to be a
different view on the same file -- so it's not like something that
would need interprocess communication -- but really just another GUI
window like browsers (like firefox or palemoon), like, I think,
Visual Studio, or Thunderbird. Seems like its not an uncommon feature,
and certainly would fit well with the idea of being able to undock
separate windows or tabs from the main window, no?
I.e. might it not be supportable?
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