On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > The ability to edit the copy buffer in a different tab, doing a buffer > wide edit to change the axis references in the buffer, so that those > edits are done and stand a chance of being correct when the main buffer > has been scrolled to the point where the just edited buffer is to be > pasted back into the main file. > > If such an editor exists, I'll take it for a walk. But editors that > require more than 2 fingers to accomplish the copy/paste need not apply. > Same for editors whose fonts are stick figures one pixel wide and can't > be changed to something like "hack, bold".
If I understand your workflow correctly, you might find the NrrwRgn plugin[1] for vim very useful. Say you have a very long file and would like to edit just 2-3 paragraphs in it but keep the rest of the file untouched. You can open the file in vim, visually select the paragraphs to be edited (by V) and then press :nr . This will open a new buffer with the selected lines. Once you make all the edits in the new buffer -> save -> close, the changes will automatically be integrated into the original file. You can then review the changes and save the original file. [1] Stable version of the plugin can be downloaded from https://vim.sourceforge.io/scripts/script.php?script_id=3075 -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
