Re: Getting buffers positions, improving viewports layout

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Sven Guckes wrote:

> * Pablo Giménez [2010-09-06 19:47]:
> > 2010/9/6 Sven Guckes:
> > > here are the screenhots for reference:
> > >  http://www.guckes.net/tmp/pablo_gimenez.bad_Layout.jpg
> > >  http://www.guckes.net/tmp/pablo_gimenez.goodLayout.jpg
> > > mind you, i will remove these pictures from my website later.
> > > it's up to pablo to find a good place if he wants
> > > to document the problem - and hopefully a solution.
> > Thanks Sven.
> > It is ok if I attach a 99.4 KB zip file? Otherwise I
> > have to wait for later tonigh to upload them to my site.
>
> i prefer if didnt ever attach any pictures whatsoever. just upload
> them to some website and simply includes links to them.

I would prefer directly attached screenshots to avoid link rot. It's
really frustrating to find old list posts that are missing their
pastebin'ed scripts/examples/evidence/etc.

An external link is fine if it'll stay up forever. (I generally put
supporting scripts/etc on my own domain and never delete them.)

> the limiting factor forces people on twitter to do the same. and it
> seems to work - with the help of URL shorteners.

The limiting factor makes twitter an entirely different medium, and for
this use case (diagnosing/fixing/discussing technical issues in a forum
that gets archived), a worse choice.

> > > looks like you are suffering from the idea to use an editor's
> > > window as a tiling window manager. think again.
> > Well you mean I am trying to do too much from the split commands in
> > VIM? I just want to know if it is possible to have total control
> > over where to place your new windows.
>
> sure.. you can place your windows whereever you want. just take a
> minute to think about why you need it all on one "editor desktop".
> how about using more than just one window (within your window manager)
> for it all?

Often it's easier or more convenient to do certain types of editing when
all "windows" are under the same editor. (Moving sections of code from
one file to another is the first that comes to mind.)

--
Best,
Ben

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