Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Re: Getting buffers positions, improving viewports layout

2010/9/7 Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com>:
> 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.)
Yep I agree, and this is the reason because I prefer to work having in
the same main window and using split to create windows for my code,
plugins, etc ...
You have everything at a glance.
tiled windows is the best layout for me.
>
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> Best,
> Ben
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Pablo Giménez

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