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David542
David542

Reputation: 110093

Open a file from a new blank tab in vim

If I've already opened a tab with:

:tabe

Is it possible to load the file in that tab? For example, to do something like:

:o ~/.vimrc

In other words, instead of doing :tabe ~/.vimrc, can I do that in two commands (one to open the new tab and another to open that file)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1220

Answers (1)

Eric Wang
Eric Wang

Reputation: 164

Basically what Matt Clark said in the comments of your question, you can do:

:tabe

followed by

:e ~/.vimrc

vim will treat :tabe without arguments as opening a new tab without a file. From there you can run any vim command you want. You can basically think of it as running vim without arguments except now you are opening up a tab instead of the vim editor.

Upvotes: 2

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