Re: RFE: enable gvim to open a buffer or tab in a new window

Ben Fritz wrote:
> I'm not quite sure I understand why you need another top-level
> application window.
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Because it makes editing easier. I want to be able to
rearrange the windows with a mouse -- drag them. I want to be able
to drag a tab from one window to another. These are all simple actions
that have existed for over a decade in browsers.

Creating "auto-commands" to resize windows as I enter them is
not something I can do just by dragging. I'd have to write custom
scripts to handle windows in various ways. Having to write
custom scripts to create custom windows is not something I want to
spend my time doing when I could just press a key to open a tab
in a new window.

> From your description I think you may want to open a new tab on the
> first file with ":tab sp" and then ":vsp other_file" to get both files
> in one tab page (and you'll still have both files in the previous tab
> pages as well). When you're done, ":tabclose" and you're back to where
> you started.
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Tab sp/vsp/what? I don't want to try to type & split -- I want
to use a mouse. That's a more logical action for what I'm talking about.
How would I tell it to open a tab upward and to the right of the main
window above a TTY window?

I don't want to be constrained on how I open windows or their
geometry. I want to be able to stagger them -- diagonally or
side-by-side or over each other. Managing 10-12 files using a
keyboard-only is way too much typing -- that I can't do as fast
as moving something with a mouse.

Due to nerve damage I don't type as fast as I used to. This
is an ease-of-use issue -- I don't want to control windows with
a keyboard. I want to control windows and their position w/a
mouse and reserve typing for content in the windows. That's the
bottom line -- I want to control window positions and visibility
with a mouse -- not a keyboard.

Using a keyboard to navigate around a desktop is a royal pain.
That's what a mouse is for.

As I asked above in opening a new vim-view above a tty window.
How do you intersperse output from different applications with
vim if vim is all 1 window?

As I mentioned starting out -- this is a GUI issue -- where
one uses a mouse to control window positions. I want vim to be
able to use the window manager to manage windows so I can
have windows of other applications interspersed.

You can't do that when vim is one large block covering most
of the screen.


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