Summary

As you now appreciate, Vim ramps up the editing horsepower with its many windowing features. Vim lets you create and delete windows easily and on the fly. Additionally, Vim provides the under-the-hood power of the raw buffer commands, buffers being the underlying file management infrastructure with which Vim manages window editing. This is once again a perfect example of how Vim brings multiwindow editing to beginners while simultaneously giving power users the tools they need to tune their windowing experience.

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