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josh-fuggle
josh-fuggle

Reputation: 3167

Vim: Open each buffer in a new tab

I am wondering how I can open all of the current buffers in vi(m) in new tabs. I know that you can edit your vimrc file to do something like this, but I'd prefer just to be able to run a command when needed. I can do it manually by chaining the new tab and open buffer commands, such as:

:tabnew | b 1

But I would prefer a more automatic approach.

Upvotes: 44

Views: 16237

Answers (3)

sehe
sehe

Reputation: 393769

The way to go is:

:tab sball

From the help:

"sball: Rearrange the screen to open one window for each buffer in the buffer list... When the |:tab| modifier is used new windows are opened in a new tab, up to 'tabpagemax'."

Without the |:tab| modifier, it open each buffer in split view.

:sball

or to open at most 6 of them

:6sball

etc.

Upvotes: 63

lessthanideal
lessthanideal

Reputation: 1104

[I would have commented on the accepted answer above but haven't enough rep points.]

For me the accepted answer leaves the new tabs without syntax highlighting, if they are buffers that have never been previously viewed. (To reproduce - select a number of XML files, choose Edit with Single Vim in Windows Explorer, try it from there.) I don't know why this happens so my solution is just to turn syntax highlighting on again.

I also find it annoying that the last buffer ends up with two tabs, so my solution is to move to the last tab and close it.

:bufdo tab split
:tablast
:tabclose
:syntax on

So in a mapping,

:map ,bt :bufdo tab split<CR>:tablast<CR>:tabclose<CR>:syntax on<CR>

Upvotes: 10

fespinozacast
fespinozacast

Reputation: 2494

you can assign a mapping to this command:

:bufdo tab split
  • explanation:
    • bufdo [command] apply the [command] to all buffers
    • tab split take the current buffer and open a tab with it

finally, to map this:

map ,bt :bufdo tab split<CR>

greets

Upvotes: 38

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