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		fishtoaster on Feb 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools Vim buffers fit what I think you're describing. Put `:set hidden` in your vimrc and you can flip between buffers in the same window with no trouble.

zzzmarcus on Feb 3, 2012 [–]

You can also use tabs in macvim and split windows, or any combination of buffers, tabs and splits. It's pretty flexible that way.

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