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I would like to make a new tab page from part of the current text.
I would use visual selection, or other means to specify a text range.
Is there a single command like "New tab from selection"?
Writing this, I see the command is not exactly of vim style.
In that case, a small script may solve it.
Possibly there is a related plugin containing it?
Here, one could reasonably hope for useful related features like creating a new file with derived name.
If you intend to persist the selected lines under a new filename (and it's complete lines), you can do:
:'<,'>w new-name | '<,'>delete _ | tabedit #
The '<,'> range is inserted automatically when you enter command-line mode from visual mode. :write can take a range, and afterwards, the filename is accessible via the alternate file (#) shortcut.
If you just need a scratch buffer that is not written to disk, you have to delete and put:
d:tabedit +set\ buftype=nofile new-name | put!
If you use this frequently, I would write a custom command (that also saves and restores the original register contents) for it.
If you want cloning, not moving, drop the :delete / change d into y.
<,>y- for yank visual rangetabnew- for creating new tabp- for paste yanked text in first step