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Re:Ask HN: Replacement for VIM by slambam on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:18PM (#8148521)
tmux with vim
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Re:Ask HN: Replacement for VIM by midgetjones on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:25PM (#8148565)
This.

There's some good thoughtbot posts on the subject: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/a-tmux-crash-course http://robots.thoughtbot.com/seamlessly-navigate-vim-and-tmu... http://robots.thoughtbot.com/love-hate-tmux

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Re:Ask HN: Replacement for VIM by zingermc on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:33PM (#8148621)
Vim can already do horizontal and vertical splits. If you use tmux and fire up multiple instances of Vim, you'll lose some good things like ctrl+n autocompletion of words in other files.
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