What is the most convenient window splitting strategy for Vim users when using Terminal Multiplexer and Tiling Window Managers? [closed]

Question

I use Vim/Neovim mostly inside Wezterm, with I3 as my window manager. Also all of them offer tabbed interface. Shortcuts to cycling through the different layers is difficult, even with ergonomic keyboards and fancy key mappings. Why split in Vim if I can manage with my terminal. Also why split in the terminal if I can split a Vim window and start a :term in it and run any cli applications in it. It is not a technical troubleshoot I am asking. I am just collecting strategies and methodologies around Vim/Multiplexers/TWM in a non Reddit environment.

Answer 1

The more I spend time with Vim/Neovim the more I tend to stay within Vim:

• For file editing (of course)
• For file browsing with:
  • netrw (:Ex, :Vex)
  • NERDTree
  • nvim-tree for Neovim only
• For fuzzy searching with:
  • Fzf
  • Telescope for Neovim only
  • clap
• For git:
  • vim-fugitive
• Terminal (:terminal)

This allow me to navigate through the windows and tabs using the same shortcut I use to navigate through editors (Ctrl wh, Ctrl wl, ..., gt, gT)

There are some standard commands that helps to manage the windows and theirsizes:

• Ctrl w= to tile the windows (make them "equal" size)
• :only to keep only the current window

There are a number of plugins that may help:

• vim-maximizer to temporary maximize one window
• bbye to delete or wipeout a buffer without closing the corresponding window
• winresizer to resize the windows and move buffers across windows.

This answer is of course personal but spending time answering people's questions and reading expert users I believe part of my answer is shared by others.