We can instruct vim to open ,as tab view, multiple files by vim -p file1 file2. You may want to use Vim global marks. This way you can quickly bounce between files, and even to the marked location in the file. Also, the key commands are short: 'C takes me to the code I'm working with, 'T takes me to the unit test I'm working with. When you change places, resetting the marks is quick too: mC marks the new code spot, mT marks the new test spot. I use the same. I tend to use tabs in gVim and buffers in the command line Vim, so I have my.
This clobbers the existing mappings for H and L , but it makes switching between files extremely fast and easy. Just hit H for next and L for previous; whether you're using tabs or buffers, you'll get the intended results. If using only vim built-in commands , the best one that I ever saw to switch among multiple buffers is this:. It perfectly combines both :ls and :b commands -- listing all opened buffers and waiting for you to input the command to switch buffer.
If you are going to use multiple buffers, I think the most important thing is to set hidden so that it will let you switch buffers even if you have unsaved changes in the one you are leaving.
I have it working this way on both my mac and linux machines and I find it better than the native window pane switching mechanism that's provided on Macs. I find the switching easier and only with tmux have I been able to get the 'new page at the same current directory' working on my mac despite the fact that there seems to be options to open new panes in the same directory which is a surprisingly critical piece.
An instant new pane at the current location is amazingly useful. A method that does new panes with the same key combos for both OS's is critical for me and a bonus for all for future personal compatibility.
Aside from multiple tmux panes, I've also tried using multiple tabs, e. I am very 'visual' and like to keep my various contexts right in front of me, connected together as panes. Or, you can always press. This will open each new file in a new tab on an existing window and will create one window for each git repository. So if you open two files from repo A, and 3 files from repo B, you will end up with two windows, one for repo A with two tabs and one for repo B with three tabs.
The mini-buffer explorer script is nice too to get a nice compact listing of your buffers. Then :b1 or :b I made a very simple video showing the workflow that I use. In this way I can press Enter in normal mode, look at the list of open files that shows up in a small new window at the bottom of the screen , select the file I want to edit and press Enter again. To quickly search through multiple open files, just type part of the file name, select the file and press Enter.
I don't have many files open in the video, but it becomes incredibly helpful when you start having a lot of them. Since the plugin sorts the buffers using a MRU ordering, you can just press Enter twice and jump to the most recent file you were editing. Actually in the beginning tabs are not even there before v7. When VIM 7. So I tried vim-airline and enabled the visual on-top tab-like buffer bar, but graphic was having problem with my iTerm2, so I tried a couple of others and it seems that MBE works the best for me.
It seems to be even easier than gt and gT, and :e is easier than :tabnew too. I find :bd is not as convenient as :q though MBE is having some problem with it but I can live with all files in buffer I think. Most of the answers in this thread are using plain vim commands which is of course fine but I thought I would provide an extensive answer using a combination of plugins and functions that I find particularly useful at least some of these tips came from Gary Bernhardt's file navigation tips :.
For quickly moving around a project the answer is a fuzzy matching solution such as CtrlP. In the case I want to see a visual representation of the currently open buffers I use the BufExplorer plugin. Simple but effective. If I want to browse around the file system I would use the command line or an external utility Quicklsilver, Afred etc. Do not use this though in the place of 2 as your main file finding method.
It will really slow you down. These should be enough for finding and opening files. From there of course use horizontal and vertical splits. Concerning splits I find these functions particularly useful:. Open new splits in smaller areas when there is not enough room and expand them on navigation. Refer here for comments on what these do exactly:. Also, check out this related discussion. You can be an absolute madman and alias vim to vim -p by adding in your.
This will result in opening multiple files from the shell in tabs, without having to invoke :tab ball from within vim afterwards. Also u can use which will not create a new tab and will open file on screen slicing your screen: :new file3. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.
Some characters have special meanings. This is put in an expression escaped with the backslash to find the ending or the beginning of a word. The character search searches within one line to find a character entered after the command. The f and F commands search for a character on the current line only. The t and T commands search for a character on the current line only, but for t , the cursor moves to the position before the character, and T searches the line backwards to the position after the character.
You can change the look and feel of your vi screen using the following :set commands. Once you are in the command mode, type :set followed by any of the following commands. Sets the width of a software tabstop. If wrapscan is set, and the word is not found at the bottom of the file, it will try searching for it at the beginning.
If this option has a value greater than zero, the editor will automatically "word wrap". The vi has the capability to run commands from within the editor. To run a command, you only need to go to the command mode and type :! For example, if you want to check whether a file exists before you try to save your file with that filename, you can type :! The g stands for globally. The result of this command is that all occurrences on the cursor's line are changed.
You must be in command mode to use the commands. Press Esc twice at any time to ensure that you are in command mode. Eduonix Learning Solutions. Frahaan Hussain. Pradeep D. Musab Zayadneh. As we mentioned before, you can show the buffers list by running :buffers command. Vim will create one more buffer for this file. It will also add another item in buffers list. For each new file you open, its buffer is added to the internal buffers list.
At one point, you want to execute a command which will affect all the active buffers in buffers list , you need to use :bufdo command. In order to save changes in all your active buffers and exit Vim, simply run :bufdo wq. Alternatively, you could also run the command :wqa which will w rite changes in a ll buffers and q uit Vim. Related tip: Whenever you execute :w , Vim will actually write the buffer to the file, no matter whether the buffer was changed from the last saved state.
This means it will update the timestamp of the file to the time when you run :w , even if the contents of the file did not actually change. On the other hand, when you execute :up[date] , the Vim will update the file timestamp ONLY if the file has been changed. Skip to main content. Start your free trial.
Editing Multiple Files. Invoking vi on Multiple Files. Keystrokes Results vi practice note W ith a screen editor you can scroll the page, move the cursor, delete lines, insert characters, and more, while seeing Open the two files practice and note. Henshaw: Thank you for the prompt.
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