Ultimately I added:
let curfile = @%
and added that to:
call system("mvim ".curfile." -S ".shellescape(sessionfile).' -c "set
lines='.h.' columns='.w.'"'.' -c "winpos '.x.' '.y.'"')
and it seems to work for me. I'm assuming mvim is lacking something gvim
automatically does.
On Friday, June 11, 2021 at 11:47:15 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
>
> I tried it. I'm using MacVim. I edited the plugin replacing 'gvim' with
> 'mvim'.
>
> It closes the current tab (good), opens a new macvim window (good) that is
> empty (bad).
>
> I'm guessing the purpose of creating a new tmpname is to hold the contents
> of the current buffer without forcing it to be saved first, except the
> current buffer isn't getting written?
> On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7:56:56 PM UTC-4 Charles Campbell wrote:
>
>> L A Walsh wrote:
>> > If I use split, I can create a separate panel that
>> > is a view on a file.
>> >
>> > How can I undock it?
>> >
>> Its not exactly what you're asking for, but I wrote something called
>> "Detach" which will detach a tab into its own process. ctrl-w T will
>> move a window into a new tab. The :Detach command will cause the
>> currently visible tab and all its windows to be brought up in a separate
>> gvim. Detaching a tab yields two independent instances of vim/gvim: they
>> do not share variables, vim functions, etc. If you're interested, you
>> may get it from http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim.index.html#DETACH .
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chip Campbell
>>
>
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