Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
The subject says it all :)
Files are _always_ loaded into tabs in Vim 7 with +windows (i.e. in any Vim 7
executable except "tiny" versions); however if 'showtabline' is 0 the tab bar
is never shown (but you can still switch tabs), and if it is 1 (the default)
the tab bar is displayed only if there are at least two tabs. To _always_
display the tab bar, use ":set showtabline=2".
I want to load a file into a tab when starting vim from the console
(termulator under X) with that file given on the commandline.
Another thing (not included in the subject :O)))
When starting vim as above but without an argument and loading
a file into vim with
:e tab sp <filename>
When I give that command, I get "E172: only one file name allowed".
":tab sp filename.txt", or, when written in full, ":tab split filename.txt",
would keep the current tab (even if there is only a [No Name] file in it) and
edit filename.txt in a new tab. To replace the current display by that of
filename.txt, use ":e filename.txt". To display the tab bar even if there is
only one tab, use ":set showtabline=2". Try it just after loading Vim with no
filenames on the command-line, you'll see a tab for your current [No Name] buffer.
then, I always get a tab called [No Name] and the second one is the
tab of the file I want to edit.
Is there a way to avoid the "No Name" buffer...it make the option
"showtabline" a little superflous (only my two cents...), because
there is alway an additional buffer ("No Name") even when loading
only one file into a tab...
Thank you very much in advance for any :h ! :))
Keep :hacking!
mcc
For a single file:
vim "+set showtabline=2" foo.txt
If your vimrc sets 'showtabline' to 2 you can even use just "vim foo.txt".
For two or more files:
vim -p foo.txt bar.txt
Best regards,
Tony.
