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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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I'd like to know the answer for this as well. I found this vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/remote.html which seems like the right direction. But I haven't tried it out yet. – Amjith Oct 25 '11 at 15:47
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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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I'm well aware of splitting windows. This does not work well with different monitor resolutions unfortunately. Seems like there really isn't a good way to do this. – Patm Oct 26 '11 at 16:10
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This is just an idea, as I am not too familiar with how vim and its variants handle a shared buffer. Perhaps a unix solution may help. Have you tried creating a hard or symbolic link with the ln command?

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