Currently I'm using this to open a file in an existing vim instance.
gvim --remote-silent some_file.txt
While it opens the file as expected, it sometimes splits the window.
I'm not sure what logic it uses, but I'd like to be able to tell it never to create a new split-window for the new buffer since it means I need to manually delete the new window - which gets annoying.
:set hidden
in yourvimrc
?set nohidden
.:set nohidden
.set nohidden
and still had this problem occur. Perhaps nerdtree or some other plugin is messing with my config. (though I don't use so many plugins)