Kalkman: Other windows/tabs/whatever
Vafiadis: They’re basically open in-memory files
Lango: Buffers are like windows
Zollicoffer: Most of those aren’t vim
Bolognese: I have only 2 vim panes
Sandlan: 1 empty console, one for grunt, one for the application log
Vafiadis: They’re almost like tabs though, in that a lot of people use tabs for things for which they should use buffers
Grapes: Install ctrl-p vim plugin
Vafiadis: Ctrl-p AND buffergator
Greenhoward: The reason I have 2 vim panes is because that’s code I want to compare and look at at once
Lango: Oh buffers are like a stack
Vetere: Otherwise I would’ve just opened a new tab
Marcos: Http://bairuidahu.deviantart.com/art/Flying-vs-Cycling-261641977
Frump: What’s up with deviantart
Vasilauskas: Their CSS isn’t loading fo me
Remund: Its faster and easier and less cluttered than splits
Vafiadis: Buffergator gives you a bunch of extra buffer-switching powers, including using a key combo to break out a list of buffers to switch between
Danoski: Hasn’t for the past week
Vafiadis: I use a combo of that and ctrl-p for great justice
Thorndike: Havn’t tried buffergator
Phifer: But that thing I linked is pretty great
Schwabauer: Torkable: I’m not following
Kirovac: I personally can’t compare code comfortably having to switch my views over
Torstrick: Side by side all the way
Kohm: Ctrl-p makes it super easy to open files in new buffers
Kalkman: That’s because Torkable is suggesting a solution to a problem Gillice doesn’t have 😛
Vafiadis: Yeah but vim lets you put buffers into panes as well
Arsenault: The link goes in your vimrc and makes it super easy to switch between buffers
Vafiadis: And then yo ucan switch them, or get multiple vim tabs going with different split pane setups
Mcmina: What do buffers offer over tabs?
Vafiadis: I try to keep my tmux panes to “areas I am currently working on”
Kalkman: Tab is a UI concept for wrangling buffers ThePendulum
Pasquarella: How do you switch tabs
Kalkman: Or arrows if you want
Kalkman: Or you can switch by name
Kalkman: There’s a thousand ways
Partmann: 5gt takes me to the 5th tab
Vafiadis: Or click on them if you’re using gvim
Lango: Gt is “go tab” though
Lango: I havent touched my mouse in 3 hours
Altic: And I can instantly switch to any buffer
Vafiadis: I find gvim breaks rendering a lot anyway
Kalkman: Yeah, that’s *also* an option
Cava: Using number or fuzzy name match
Kalkman: Yep, already possible with tabs
Seacrest: You can click on them in terminal vim too, if you have mouse support turned on
Kalkman: Nothing incompatible between that and tabs
Lango: Gvim is like tofu bacon. Why even
Roznowski: And drag splits around, and select text
Keithan: Lango: same reasons I guess
Vafiadis: Well I was initially interested because I was almost able to get it into a very sublimetext-like state, but with the benefits of full vim
Kalkman: Gvim is nice for clipboard integration
Trautmann: Lango: claiming to be the elite without the responsibilities
Vafiadis: But it started to ***** up rendering so I gave it up
Kalkman: Kind of ****s getting clipboard to work through all the layers
Patt: Bloody hell copy pasting is a pita though