:new and :tag

[Eli the Bearded]

I find myself often wanting to open a new buffer and then lookup a tag.
In visual mode, I can use <ctrl-w><ctrl-]> while on top of a tag word.
In ex (command line) I have been using:

:cmap ,nt new\|tag

and then typing ":,nt" which expands before my eyes to ":new|tag". But I
keep feeling like that's a feature that would be there as some built-in
command I can't find. Is it?

Elijah
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has been weighing merits of :cab versus :cmap that

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 1:17 PM Eli the Bearded <v...@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>
> I find myself often wanting to open a new buffer and then lookup a tag.
> In visual mode, I can use <ctrl-w><ctrl-]> while on top of a tag word.
> In ex (command line) I have been using:
>
> :cmap ,nt new\|tag
>
> and then typing ":,nt" which expands before my eyes to ":new|tag". But I
> keep feeling like that's a feature that would be there as some built-in
> command I can't find. Is it?
>

Did you try using the ":stag" command? This command splits the window and
then jumps to the specified tag.

- Yegappan

[Eli the Bearded]

Yegappan Lakshmanan <yega...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you try using the ":stag" command? This command splits the window and
> then jumps to the specified tag.

No, I had not. And that looks to be the command I was overlooking.
Thanks.

Elijah