I’ll often want to open a couple of files in Vim and then split the main window so I have one file on the left, and one file on the right. I’ve just learnt that you can tell Vim to open each in it’s own split, a vertical split or a horizontal split.
# Vertical split:
vim -O <file1> <file2>
# Horizontal split:
vim -o <file1> <file2>
It works with more than one file as well, so you could open three files, and have a pane for each.
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