Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Re: editing an existing buffer

On May 24, 6:20 pm, Kirill Igumenshchev <kirill_i...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi,
> suppose i have a vim session (vim1) with multiple buffers. I open another session vim2 in another terminal and would like to edit one of the files that is already opened as a hidden buffer in vim1.
>
> is there a way to do so that both vim1 and vim2 are synced?

Only by saving your changes in one Vim before switching to the other.
In general I would advise against this, but you could do it by making
sure you only ever have a single unsaved copy of this file. Write the
file, switch to the other Vim, and execute :checktime if Vim doesn't
automatically detect a file change. Then you can reload the file.

I'm not sure how well this works for hidden buffers, if at all...I
don't use them often myself. And I rarely ever have multiple Vims
editing the same file intentionally.

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