I use vim splits as well. I find my typical workflow is something like this: 1) Open a tmux split (vertical). 2) In the left tmux pane, open vim (and split hor

I use vim splits as well. I find my typical workflow is something like this: 1) Open a tmux split (vertical). 2) In the left tmux pane, open vim (and split horizontally). 3) On the right side, have my tests open and running via a watch command, eg: watch -n 10 "nosetests", or something similar.