Most of us are Vim users and have tweaked our favorite editor for speed and convenience. See thoughtbot’s dotfiles. One of my favorite tools is the window split. Here is a quick splits overview and configurations to use them more effectively. The basics Create a vertical split using :vsp and horizontal with :sp. By default, they duplicate the current buffer. This command also takes a filename:
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