On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:16:05AM +0900, Carl Youngblood wrote:
> This would probably be a departure from vi, but one thing that I've
> been longing for is an editor like Textpad or Ultraedit on windows
> that keeps a side list of all open files and allows me to bounce
> quickly between them.

ruvi does this already.
http://thekode.net/misc/ruvi01.png
shows 4 buffers being edited simultaneously. You can change the active
buffer with <C-j>/<C-k> (small snippet needed in the ~/.ruvirc to set
the keybindings).

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