Tabs

Stop the Tab Madness

If you’ve switched to Vim from a GUI tab-based editor like TextMate or Sublime Text, then you’ve probably learned how to use Vim’s tabs. However, Vim’s version of tabs are different, and to really take advantage of them involves properly learning buffers and split windows.

Too Many Tabs!

I use tabs and split windows a lot. I organise them depending on context: sometimes I’ll have test | source, other times arbitrary groupings based on the problem at hand. I have two main issues with tabs, though: switching between large numbers of tabs, and opening them based on buffers.

Vim 101: Tabs

When Vim 7.0 was released, a tabbed interface was introduced. It works in both the text mode and GUI versions of Vim, but it doesn’t take up any extra interface space if it isn’t used.

Tabs are actually known as a “tab page”. The help file for tab pages can be accessed with…