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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > :e Vim\ Megathread.txt | wq

homercles: Feb 14, 2010

If I vim edit a file I'm already editing, is there a way to tell the old vim session to close and the new vim session to load in whatever changes the old session had made?

So the workflow is:

vim edit a file on window 1
make some changes
vim edit the same file on window 2
window 1's vim closes
window 2's vim has window 1's changes (kind of like "screen -d -r" of an old attached screen session)

I just love opening new xterms and this habit will never change.

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homercles: Feb 14, 2010

Thanks, that's pretty close to what I'm looking for. I'll have to figure out a way to introspect all gnome-terminal inactive tab names since they're not visible to wmctrl, but I have alternatives now.

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