Vim - open new tab in buffer

Question

I jsut switched from sublime text to vim and I'm trying to replicate sublime's tab view.

I usually have a vertical split opened with :vsp and each split I'd like to open new tabs. To do this I type in bufdo tab split but it opens a new tab over my split and not within the split.

How can I open the tab within the split?

Many thanks

Answer 1

To Open a tab, editing the current file's name you can use %, which acts as a macro for the current file:

:tabe %

To Open a new tab & show the current file's directory:

:Te or :tabe %:h

To move between opened tabs:

gt # Go to next tab
gT # Go to previous tab

Answer 2

In Vim, each edited file corresponds to a buffer. These are displayed in windows. Multiple windows can be split. Multiple such an arrangements of window(s) can be switched to in tab pages (this is a more recent addition).

In this hierarchy, the tab pages are always "above" the windows, so there can only be one single tabline that structures the tab pages. (And it's always between the menu / window title and the windows.)

In Vim, working with window splits is preferred over tab pages. It's recommended to use the latter only to separate different workspaces / projects, etc. Vim is very powerful (and with a long heritage), so you cannot directly take over concepts seen in other editors.