I tend to want to work with three windows side by side. Two have the code I am working with, often production code on the left, test code on the right. The third window is the output from running commands to test the code.

I recently have decide to go all-in on vim, and it is progressing nicely. Thank you the Jake Worth for inspiring this. In Vim, the meta key for for doing windows operations is Ctrl-W. Here are a few commands I have gathered up from the internet. I will collect up the links where I get them at the bottom