How to have a static view of the same file

In :help Gist, there is a setting that automatically copies the gist link to your clipboard with :Gist -c

If you set g:gist_clip_command, gist.vim will copy the gist code with option '-c'.

Mac:

let g:gist_clip_command = 'pbcopy'

Linux:

let g:gist_clip_command = 'xclip -selection clipboard'

Others (cygwin?):

let g:gist_clip_command = 'putclip'

Add this to your ~/.vimrc and you're good to go.

Edit:

Found a hackish solution.

Go to gist.vim and find this function.

function! s:GistPost(user, token, content, private)

  " find GistID: in content, then we should just update

  ...  

  let location = substitute(location, '^[^:]\+: ', '', '')
  if len(location) > 0 && location =~ '^\(http\|https\):\/\/gist\.github\.com\/'
    redraw
    echo 'Done: '.location
  else

  ...

  return location
endfunction

Change echo to echomsg.

  if len(location) > 0 && location =~ '^\(http\|https\):\/\/gist\.github\.com\/'
    redraw
    echomsg 'Done: '.location

Now restart vim, and after entering :Gist, type :message to get the link from the message-history. The message-history logs everything from echomsg and echoerr for that session.

Vim will work inside the Windows console window if you run it with vim.exe.

If you run it with gvim.exe then it will pop up a graphical window, kind of like Notepad would.

Therefore, you want to type the command vim or vim file_name and you should get what you want.

Make sure your $PATH is set to include the folder with vim.exe.