amarakon/vim-ultitabs

The successor to tabops: missing tab features in Vim

UltiTabs

Contents

• Introduction
• Changes
  • TabClose
  • Keybindings
  • Tab numbers
• Installation
  • Vim
  • Neovim

Introduction

This plugins relates to all three definitions of tabs, including the character and the key. It improves a lot of things relating to tabs. First, it changes how :tabclose works. Then, it adds a couple of keybindings relating to tabs. Additionally, it automatically numbers tabs if you use vim-airline.

Changes

TabClose

The TabClose command is added which is a better version of Vim’s original tabclose. tabclose is abbreviated to TabClose, so you do not have to worry about your muscle memory. Anyways, it adds plenty of options that I believe should be included by default in Vim.

You can use <, l, or left as an argument to close all the tabs to the left. The same is true for the right. You can close multiple tabs by separating them by commas or spaces (e.g. 2,4 or 2 4). Similarly, you can specify a range of tabs by using a hyphen (e.g. 2-4).

Keybindings

You can go to any tab by its number by using <Leader>N, where N is the number you wish to go to. You can use <Leader>0 to return to the last tab. The default Leader key is \, but you can change it using map mapleader = ',' as an example. If you use the Tabular plugin, <Leader><Tab> is mapped to Tabularize.

Tab numbers

If you use the vim-airline plugin, the airline tab extension will automatically be enabled. Additionally, it will show the tab number on each tab. This can help you with the keybindings mentioned before. I strongly recommend installing the airline plugin. Support for numbering tabs without airline will hopefully come in the future.

Installation

Vim

`# user` git clone https://github.com/amarakon/nvim-sensible ~/.vim/pack/vendor/start/nvim-sensible

Neovim

`# user` git clone https://github.com/amarakon/nvim-sensible ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/default/start/nvim-sensible