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Vim split windows are very useful for folks who use vim as their primary IDE. You get the advantage of multiple windows in a single terminal without needing to use tmux or screen.

Split windows along with vim file explorer give you the advantage of a shared buffer among all open files, so copy/pasting and such becomes a lot simpler.

To split a window horizontally along the x axis:

:vs

To split a window vertically along the y axis:

:sp

To split a window horizontally and open file explorer:

:Vex

To split a window vertically and open file explorer:

:Sex

To set or adjust the height of a window:

:res 60  # resizes the height to 60 rows
:res +5  # increases the current height by 5 rows
:res -5  # decreases the current height by 5 rows

To set or adjust the width of a window:

:vertical res 60  # resizes the width to 60 columns
:vertical res +5  # increases the current width by 5 columns
:vertical res -5  # decreases the current width by 5 columns

To reset all window dimensions based on their splits:

Ctrl+w =