Opening Stuff in New Tabs

[Mike Lewis]

Hi All,

Just got eclim running (was a huge pain in OS X).

Anyways, was wondering if there's a way to set a default behaviour to
open stuff in new tabs, for example if do FooSearch, it opening up
what you choose in a new tab versus a split pain.

(Also, was wondering since I can't use embedded gvim, if it's possible
to make it when you open a new file from the eclipse GUI, for it to
open in a new tab in the currently running vim window)

Thanks,
Mike

[Eric Van Dewoestine]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:09:53PM -0800, Mike Lewis wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just got eclim running (was a huge pain in OS X).

Can you elaborate on what you found difficult? Were you using the .sh
installer or building from source? There is a blog out there that
gives the impression that the .sh installer isn't supported on OSX,
which shouldn't be the case (after talking with the blog author I
tried to clear up the install docs a bit and fixed a bug or 2 on OSX).

Unfortunately I don't have an OSX environment to test with so any
insight you can provide on improving the installation experience on
OSX would be greatly appreciated.

> Anyways, was wondering if there's a way to set a default behaviour to
> open stuff in new tabs, for example if do FooSearch, it opening up
> what you choose in a new tab versus a split pain.

Most of the features that open a file should have a setting to change
the default behavior. For example, :JavaSearch has the
g:EclimJavaSearchSingleResult variable[1]:

let g:EclimJavaSearchSingleResult = 'tabnew'

There are almost a dozen of these variables, so I think I'm going to
create a global setting which would provide the default for each of
these unless they are overridden explicitly. Unless you are working
with several different languages though, you should only need to set a
few of these.

> (Also, was wondering since I can't use embedded gvim, if it's possible
> to make it when you open a new file from the eclipse GUI, for it to
> open in a new tab in the currently running vim window)

This feature doesn't currently exist, but it shouldn't be too hard to
implement. I'll add this to my todo list.

[1] http://eclim.org/vim/java/search.html#g-eclimjavasearchsingleresult

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eric