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I feel like I'm misunderstanding something?

The main complaint was having to dig through terminal tabs to find your vim and not being able to Alt+Tab to it. Surely just detaching that single tab would work just fine? Their solution seems to add a lot of complexity for not much benefit...

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This is more about “Cmd+Tab” on app-oriented desktops like macOS or gnome. In these environments, cmd+tab will switch applications, not just windows, and this person wants neovim to be there alongside whatever other apps they run (eg safari, Finder).

There’s a similar problem where some people don’t like to search for email or chat tabs, so they install a “native” (electron) app like teams or slack so that it acts like more than just another browser tab.

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