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Do you really want to do window management and terminal tasks in your text editor? I'd rather use my window manager for managing windows, or my terminal for doing terminal tasks.

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Just try to imagine someone wanting to have the editor fill the entire screen, and designate one small pane to a terminal. I can't imagine how to do that with something like tmux and vim (other than running multiple instances of vim which is bad for its own reasons).

Take a cross split.

https://i.imgur.com/Flqexnq.png

I left neovim for vim, though, because of the known system clipboard pasting issue.

> I left neovim for vim, though, because of the known system clipboard pasting issue.

What clipboard issue is that? I couldn't find it online, and don't currently use neovim.

Do you refuse to use vim's tabs and windows for the same reason?

It makes it really easy to write Perl/c, compile and run it, search the history for output of previous runs etc. It's a big improvement on having to have multiple putty sessions, or even alt-tabbing between shells on a box with a UI.

I don't refuse to use tabs or windows, but a lot of the times I'd rather split them out into separate non-vim windows.

I guess it all depends on your workflow though. I mainly use vim in a tiling wm environment on Linux, not through putty on Windows.

I don’t use it regularly, but it’s handy in a few scenarios. When you’re in a terminal and working with nvim and never launched tmux, it’s handy to be able to build or access a REPL without suspending your editor. Also, in a GUI editor where you don’t have tmux.

I do those things inside emacs.

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