Vim After 11 Years

Re:Vim After 11 Years by zokier on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @12:27PM (#5245608)

I'm not sure why the author advocates job control (ie ctrl-z/fg/bg) instead of using tmux/screen. A multiplexer offers far more flexibility, and most importantly does not lose state even if your session ends (eg ssh connection drops).

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Re:Vim After 11 Years by pekk on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @01:23PM (#5246009)

While that's true, clipboard interaction through tmux is awful.

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Re:Vim After 11 Years by saurabh on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @12:58AM (#5249190)

http://grota.github.com/blog/2012/05/08/tmux-clipboard-integ...

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Re:Vim After 11 Years by statico on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @10:16PM (#5248752)

I didn't mean for them to come across as mutually exclusive. The ^Z/fg approach is great for keeping context: Go to a directory, run something, edit something, suspend editing to run something else, resume editing, finish back at the command prompt.

With tmux I'd need to create a new pane, navigate to the same directory, and reinitialize any environment stuff like virtualenv.

Use both! :)

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Re:Vim After 11 Years by thevdude on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @01:02PM (#5245868)

nohup master race.

Just kidding, tmux for life.

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