Thanks! Ok, so I made it work for a given file type by changing MIME types of that type adding the remote-tab-silent option. Do you know how to make this change to work for every MIME type opened with vim? Changing one by one is a daunting task! I opened /etc/mime.types but I see no vim in there (to do some sort of find and replace). I see a lot of mime named files all over the system and not sure which ones are relevant.