Tip 40: Organize Your Window Layouts with Tab Pages
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a tab page is a container that can hold a collection of windows
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# If you open the file in vim,
# then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command:
:h tabpage
How to Use Tabs
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:lcd {path}: set the working directory locally for the current window.
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:windo lcd {path}: set the working directory locally for all windows in the current tab page.
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Opening and Closing Tabs
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Command
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Effect
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:tabe[dit] {filename}
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Open {filename} in a new tab
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<C-w>T
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Move the current window into its own tab
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:tabc[lose]
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Close the current tab page and all of its windows
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:tabo[nly]
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Keep the current tab page, closing all others
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Switching Between Tabs
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Ex Command
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Normal Command
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Effect
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:tabn[ext] {N}
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{N}gt
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Switch to tab page number {N}
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:tabn[ext]
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gt
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Switch to the next tab page
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:tabp[revious]
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gT
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Switch to the previous tab page
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Rearranging Tabs
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:tabmove [N]
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:tabmove 0: the current tab page is moved to the begging
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:tabmove: the current tab page is moved to the end
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