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Updated on July 7, 2020 in #vim

Open a File with Multiple Columns Scrolled to Specific Lines with Vim

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In this video, we'll run Vim with custom arguments to auto-split a file into multiple columns and jump to specific lines in each column.

Quick Jump:

We’ll be using the -c flag which lets us run a command after the file has been read by Vim.

# Demo Video

Timestamps

1:48 – Going over the Vim command to make all of this work

Command

vim multiopen \
  -c "vsplit +112 multiopen | normal zt" \
  -c "vsplit +221 multiopen | normal zt"

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