vim-session

Extended session management for Vim (:mksession on steroids)

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Extended session management for Vim (:mksession on steroids)

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2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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Keyframe·Oct 27, 2022

https://github.com/xolox/vim-session I actually have in normal mode ,ss for save session and ,so for opening them. Central location of session dirs and that's it. Save session saves everything from files open, positions, tabs, you name it.

In Vim After 15 Years (2017)

terhechte·Feb 3, 2013

I've tried Sublime Text several times, but each time I went back to Vim. The Vintage plugin just does not cut it for me; there're too many things that Vim does, that Sublime cannot do. I couldn't live with EasyMotion, RelativeNumber, the fantastic split window support, Gundo (Undo Tree), and much more. Regarding the plugins he mentions, I see nothing special, all of that is also available as Vim plugins: 5. Vim Compatibility (Obviously in there) 4. Keybindings in JSON are indeed nice, though imap / and friends in Vimrc are ok, too. Using Vim+Python, one can also write Vim plugins in Python (import vim). 3. Vundle (https://github.com/gmarik/vundle) is a fantastic package manager and reads GitHub repositories likehttps://github.com/vim-scripts. Adding a new package is as simple as doing :Bundle 'vim-scripts/YankRing.vim' :BundleInstall or :

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BundleSearch foo to find what's available. The listed plugins: Git -> try Fugitive.vim it is awesome Emmett -> Also available for Vim SublimeLinter -> Syntastic SublimeCodeIntel -> Clang Complete 2. Vim has built-in support for sessions via the :mksession command. Or, just use the session.vim (https://github.com/xolox/vim-session) plugin, because it makes it even easier. 1. There's CommandT (https://github.com/wincent/Command-T), CtrlP (https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim), Waldo (https://github.com/jtaby/Waldo), FuzzyFinder (https://github.com/vim-scripts/FuzzyFinder). And most offer much more functionality than just file, directory, or buffer search. I recently made the switch from Xcode to Vim (I mostly do Objective-C these days) by getting Clang Complete running (http://appventure.me/2013/01/use-vim-as-xcode-alternative-io...) so that I can use Vim full time and not only for web and python stuff. I couldn't be happier.

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