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Sir Broddock

I love vim on xfce. I have a workspace for every function key, 12 in all. Then, I use window snapping and when I am working locally i typically fill out all the 4 corners. Whew, that's a lot of windows but it really helps my workflow especially when each of them is tagged for certain purposes. I try to keep 1 set of function keys tied to a single project. Then on f1 I will have db windows, command line stdout app running, etc. Utility screens. f2 is reserved for website previews and debugging on the server. f3 is backend files and f4 is front end files. Bigger projects I'll go into a second set of functions and then the purpose gets more muddy.

Ultimately this has been fantastic and it is so speedy. All these are opened on a virtual machine and if it ever runs out of memory it isn't because of vim! Amazing!