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ecto on July 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Keeping a plaintext “did” file

This is great! I might end up doing something like `alias todo=vim -o ~/{todo,progress,done}`

edit: I was curious so pulled up the man page: changing -o to -O opens the windows horizontally stacked.

sciurus on July 16, 2018 [–]

Yep, -o will have your work flow top to bottom, -O will have it flow left to right. I prefer the former because it gives me more horizontal space on each line.

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