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I'm looking for something like

:tabsplit file1 file2

which will open the two files in a new tab that is split with file1 in one split and file2 in another split

I really want something like tabvsplit. Currently, I am using

:tabe file1
:vsp file2

not too bad, but could be better, and I am wondering if there is something built-in that is easier to type and faster.

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You can do something like this:

:tabedit +sp\ file1 file2

You can create a new command for that, but that will make the quoting ugly. Something like this might work (warning, this is really ugly, but seems to work from my basic tests):

com! -nargs=+ -complete=file Tabsplit :let a=split(<q-args>) | if len(a) == 2 | exe ':tabedit +'. fnameescape('sp '. a[0]) fnameescape(a[1]) | else | echoerr "too many arguments" |endif

It basically checks, that the supplied arguments are exactly 2 and if that is the case, runs the :tabedit +sp command mentioned earlier and if not, will echo an error message.

I am not quite sure, the fnameescape() is needed for the file arguments. You need to test, if this is really required when using a filename that contains spaces.

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  • eyes widen woah (to the second one). Thanks for the first tip. I'll check out second one after work.
    – dylnmc
    Jun 28, 2017 at 19:09

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