Mac – Vim across multiple monitors

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Does anyone have an elegant solution for having MacVim or gvim span across multiple(potentially different resolution) monitors? Having 2 sessions doesn't work well due to separate buffers and swap files.

You would think you could have 2 gui windows share the same buffers, but I can't find anything that works.

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Expand the gvim window to cover both screens and use CTRL-W v to split the editing window vertically.

See :help CTRL-W for more window commands.

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Once you have closed that output it is lost. If you want semi-permanent access to that kind of data you should probably use :redir. See:

:help :redir

For example, open a new window with a blank buffer, redirect all :-command output to register "a", get the output of the "ls" shell command, end redirection, and paste register "a" into the buffer:

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