On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Ven Tadipatri <vtadipa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, ok, so they are 'tabs'. But why should ctrl+w, gf open a new tab > as opposed to a new window? And I can see that gt navigates through > tabs, but is there a way I can navigate forward 3 tabs, like :b3 for > buffers? I could yank the filename into a register, then do :sp and > paste it from the register, but it's a bit cumbersome. > I might not be much help -- and you very well may be more experienced in vim than I -- but for me dealing with files I use NERDTree. Also tried FuzzyFinder which is pretty nice too, but have ended up just using NT. Otherwise kind of a pain to be typing or copying the file paths all the time, at least from what I have found. > > Thanks, > Ven > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ven Tadipatri <vtadipa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So I'm in vim currently looking at a file that has another filename > > and I want to be able to open that particular file in a new, I guess > > 'buffer'. I tried ctrl+w then gf, but that opens it up into something > > that looks like a tab. The only way I could figure out how to navigate > > to it is by clicking on the tab at the top of the screen. First of > > all, I'm quite confused between tabs, windows, buffers, and viewports. > > Normally when I have a file open, I can do :new or :sp and look at > > another file and jump to it using ctrl+w, but the behavior for ctrl+w, > > then gf seems to be different. Furthermore I can't seem to get to the > > other 'tabs' using ctrl+w or :next or :bn. Is there some other command > > for navigating these tabs or whatever they're called? > > Could someone help clarify things? All I want to do is be able to > > highlight the name of a file, and open it up in the > > buffer/window/viewport/tab/whatever that I get when I do :new, so I > > can navigate to it using ctrl+w. > > > > Thanks, > > Ven > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
