Into#
What’s going on guys youcef here and today we work with files and tabs in vim .as well as how to open and save files in different ways .
Vim does have tabs just like many other text editors do and to deal with the tabs we have to use command though as you kow there’s no button to just click on to open new tab and the way that we would open new tab in vim .
Open new tab#
Is of course using a command so we need our : from normal mode and the command is :tabnew which will go ahead and open a new tab to the right of whatever the last tab that you were just working with was.
Navigate between tabs#
In order to navigate between these tabs so we can do :tabprevious to go back to the prevoius tab and we can do :tabnext to go back to the next tab we can also abbreviate these command a little bit by useing :tabp and :tabn .
but went you use this command the name of new tab is no name and this is because there isn’t actualy any file open here doesn’t actualy have a file name yet .
what if we start inputting some text here and then you want it to save this but you wanted to also be able to give it file name .
Save File#
well the command to save is : write in order to give it a name we simply have to do is to hit space and then filename for example :write filename.txt
or:w filename.txt.
Open file in vim#
We are inside of vim we can open up a file from inside of here the command for us to do that is :edit [filename]by the way edit can be shortened to just the latter :e . to show all different files in the directory we write :e [hit tab button] and this going to output all of the file that are in that current directory .
Multiple Vim tabs#
If you have open multipe tabs and you do not went to do tabp three times in order to do that simplly : tabfirst and this automaticlly jump us back to first tab and the opposite in :tablast .
We can move our tabs around as well the command for that is :tabmove [numbre for where you want it to go] and postions start at 0 like in programming.
Quit vim#
And to quit vim you need only to type:q to save and quit :wq and quit without saveing :q!
