On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/12 06:42, Mark Wilden wrote: >> >> I've heard screen mentioned with Vim several times now, and I >> just have to ask: How does this differ from simply having a >> Vim window and a Terminal window (OS X)? > > One of the biggest advantages of screen is that you can detach from it and > the re-attach from another machine.
Just to be crystal clear - that's why you would use screen, right? There are no benefits if you're working locally. Is that correct? > Folks > frequently have an IRC session in one screen-window, a file-browser like > Midnight Commander in another, a console mail program like mutt/pine in > another, perhaps a console music-player in another, and then a variety of > shell sessions (vim, bash, etc). I usually crank it up like folks would use > an IDE, so I have one window for Vim, one for a general bash shell, one for > testing program output, and one for my VCS (usually git). Yes, I'm actually pretty familiar with this whole "windows" concept. :) ///ark Mark Wilden Web Applications Developer California Academy of Sciences -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
