Instead of typing :sh and being taken to the shell prompt after temporarily quitting vi, is that possible to open a split screen which is shell? Because it is difficult to keep track of whether a vi is open if working a long time in shell.
johndoe444 1 Posting Whiz in Training
johndoe444 1 Posting Whiz in Training
Is there a way to autosave say after 10 minutes?
penguiniator 0 Newbie Poster
Instead of typing :sh and being taken to the shell prompt after temporarily quitting vi, is that possible to open a split screen which is shell? Because it is difficult to keep track of whether a vi is open if working a long time in shell.
If you run vi in gnu screen, you can open a split window with vi in one pane and a shell in another.
penguiniator 0 Newbie Poster
Is there a way to autosave say after 10 minutes?
Vim does not support auto-saving a file periodically.
For more information, read
:help 'updatetime'
:help CursorHold
:help swap-file
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