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Window tabs are everywhere and you will find this in the curret version of vim too, which as of this writing is 7.0.042-0.fc5 on fedora-core-5.

Below are notes on how you can quickly navigate between open tabs:

• Open several fies for editing in seperate tab pages:
  

  $ vi -p file1 file2 file3...
  

• Goto next tab:

  gt
  

  or

  :tabn
  

• Goto previous tab:

  gT
  

  or

  :tabp
  

• Got to a numbered tab where "#" is a number:

  #gt
  

  or

  :#tabn
  

• Rewind to the first tab:

  :tabr
  

• Open new tab page. Optionally you can provide a filename:

  :tabnew [filename]
  

• Edit an existing file:

  :tabe {filename} 
  

• Split the tab page:

  :tab split
  

• Close all other tab pages:

  :tabo[!]
  

• Close current tab page:

  :tabc[!]
  

• To get help using tabpages:

  :tab help tabpages
  

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