I've started using Vim recently, and so far my main issue is with the buffer. I miss my Mac OS-style drawer with all open docs. I recently learned about tabs, and I think that's somewhat of a good solution, at least for when I have only a few files open. Opening a new tab is :tabe <filename>. Is there a way to remap that to :te <filename>?
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eykanal
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2This is a possible duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7513380/vim-change-x-function-to-delete-buffer-instead-of-save-quit – Peter Rincker Sep 23 '11 at 16:08
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Looks like you're right, the trick is a plugin called [cmdalias.vim](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=746). Thanks for pointing that question out. – eykanal Sep 23 '11 at 16:36
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By using the Buffergator plugin (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3619), and with "let g:buffergator_autodismiss_on_select=0" in your `~/.vimrc`, you should be able to get the always-open drawer behavior. – Jeet Sep 24 '11 at 07:03
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The first thing that came to my mind was a custom command.
command! -complete=file -nargs=1 Te tabedit <args>
Use the command: :Te <filename>
Please see the comments by Peter Rincker in this post.
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You want to be very careful with `cmap` such as these, they will "expand" in many more cases than you expect. e.g. `:update`, `:write`, `:execute`, `: substitute `, `:delete`, `:regeisters`, etc. Not to mention this will also expand when you do a search. e.g. `/update`. – Peter Rincker Sep 23 '11 at 19:01
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Whoa! That's no good at all! Thank you for the heads up. *I removed ":cmap" portion of my answer above.* – John Kaul Sep 23 '11 at 19:42
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3your welcome. You may also want to simplify your command. `command! -complete=file -nargs=1 Te tabedit
` You do not need the function at all. You may also want to look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7513380/vim-change-x-function-to-delete-buffer-instead-of-save-quit/7515418#7515418 – Peter Rincker Sep 23 '11 at 19:47 -