Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
by jolmg on Thursday November 22, 2018 @01:49PM
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> Amp has native clipboard integration, so content will carry between different instances
By "native" does that mean an X-server's clipboard? So when you're running it on a machine that has no X-server running (a typical server), there is no clipboard?
Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
by wasted_intel on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:05PM
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Amp has an internal clipboard that it synchronizes to an external/native equivalent, if available. You'd still be able to copy/paste within a single Amp process, but you would lose the ability to do the same between separate processes.
Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
by jolmg on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:41PM
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Right, so in the context of this discussion, tmux panes are not a good substitute for vim windows, since you wouldn't be able to copy-paste between them unless what you were copying fit in a single pane-full.
Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
by wasted_intel on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:49PM
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Yes, that's correct. :)
In that scenario, I would compromise by opening both files in the same Amp process and switch between them, but that's not the same as seeing both at the same time.
Amp also supports suspending (hit "z" in normal mode) as I use that workflow all the time. As for the small window issue, you can "zoom" a tmux panel with <leader>-z. I get that this is less than ideal if you're used to the suspend action collapsing all panes by default (and expanding them on resume). Workflows are tricky; to each their own, I guess! :)