Ben, AK: Thanks for the help. I did a bit of reading and now understand the purpose/functionality of tabs in Vim much better.
$ alias vim='vim -p' Got me most of the way there. With this Bash alias if I open a bunch of files at once they will open in a separate tab each. I also mapped ":tab ball" to a key, which takes care of converting buffers to tabs. Matt On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote: > On 25/02/11 7:02 AM, Matt wrote: >> How can Vim be setup so that all new files edited will open in their >> own tab? >> >> I know I can open multiple files from the command line, each in their >> own tab with: >> >> $ vim -p aaa.txt bbb.txt ccc.txt >> >> And if I have multiple files open in buffers I can put them each into >> a tab with: >> >> :tab ball >> >> What is desired is that every time a new file is opened (after the >> initial one) that it automatically opens in a tab. >> As if ":tab ball" is done after every file open. Is this possible? > > Just use :tab when you're opening your files. So you :tabe instead of :e > (or :tab e), or move to the next file in the arg list with :tab n etc., > etc.. > > You can also move a window (if you have multiple open at once) to its > own tab page by doing CTRL-W T (capital T). > > :help :tab > :help :tabe > :help CTRL-W_T > > Is that what you're after, or are you opening your files differently or > something? There are other possibilities.... > > Ben. > > > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
