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Reputation: 1900

How to switch to the tab where I'm working on a particular file?

How can I switch to the tab where I'm working on a particular file, when I know its filename, but not its tab number?

Suppose I have lots of open tabs in Vim, say 20, and I need to move to the particular tab where I'm working on file foo. The thing is, I don't know the tab number. So {number}gt will not do. And I'm lazy to have to switch among 19 tabs until I find it.

I'm looking for something like gt foo

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196476

With this option:

set switchbuf=useopen,usetab

in your ~/.vimrc you can do :sb foo to go to buffer foo wherever it is displayed.

See :help :sb and :help switchbuf.

However…

Vim's tab pages are not at all like tabs in other editors: you can't have a 1:1 relationship between a tab page and a file/buffer or even between a window and a file/buffer. Tab pages are more like ad-hoc workspaces and windows are viewports.

Buffers are Vim's real file proxies (and more) so, my advice is to drop tab pages and use straight buffers instead.

Upvotes: 2

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