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I have my fuzzy file finder in Vim and it does a pretty good job. But it always opens the file in the current tab. I want my :find to open the resulting file in a new tab.
I know I can :tabnew <file> but I need to write the complete file path here to open the file. So how do I do that?
The command is
:tabfind
From :help :tabfind:
Open a new tab page and edit {file} in 'path', like with :find.
Ralf’s answer is the correct one, but I’ll add some more generically useful commands:
:vertical to any command which splits and it will use a vertical split:tab to any command which splits and it will use a tabThese more general commands work for most things (so :tab help does what you thing), so they are good to have in your toolbox—especially for plugin authors, who may want to support <modifiers> in their :commands!
(Note that in this case you’d use :sfind for split, :vertical sfind à la :vsplit, and :tab sfind for tabs.)
:tab function Foo() is nonsense). But you’re on the right track! Give :help :vertical and :help :tab a read, if you haven’t already. Vim’s help rocks.