> then you'll start playing with tabs, splits and buffers
I want to like vim's window management but it's pretty quirky, at times it seems to be following the principle of most surprise.
Ideally one could use tabs (that aren't renamed to the buffer name when populating a named tab), splits, and buffers together in such a way that one's layout never, for example, collapses, leaving a single displayed buffer and N hidden ones, or a buffer getting cloned across 2 splits (the latter is pretty disorienting, unless I'm diff'ing versions of a file I don't ever want to see 2 versions of the code consuming visible screen area).
Granted am only 3 days into the vim WM experiment here, lot's to learn...
I want to like vim's window management but it's pretty quirky, at times it seems to be following the principle of most surprise.
Ideally one could use tabs (that aren't renamed to the buffer name when populating a named tab), splits, and buffers together in such a way that one's layout never, for example, collapses, leaving a single displayed buffer and N hidden ones, or a buffer getting cloned across 2 splits (the latter is pretty disorienting, unless I'm diff'ing versions of a file I don't ever want to see 2 versions of the code consuming visible screen area).
Granted am only 3 days into the vim WM experiment here, lot's to learn...