A gf mapping which opens a tab or window?

[BPJ]

Apologies if I'm asking the bleeding obvious, but as so often I find it hard to find what I'm looking for in the help.

The `gf` mapping opens the file name under the cursor in the same window. I have a file with one (absolute) file path on each line, and would like to be able to open two or more of them in new tabs without closing that file. If I do `gf` and then `:tabe #` I "lose my position" in the file with paths. So is there a mapping or command which opens the filepath under the cursor in a new tab or at least a new window without losing my position in the file with the path, or how could one be created (it probably could, this being Vim, but I can't figure out how...)?

TIA,

/bpj

[Tim Chase]

On 2025-01-12 12:45, BPJ wrote:
> The `gf` mapping opens the file name under the cursor in the same window. I
> have a file with one (absolute) file path on each line, and would like to
> be able to open two or more of them in new tabs without closing that file.
> If I do `gf` and then `:tabe #` I "lose my position" in the file with
> paths. So is there a mapping or command which opens the filepath under the
> cursor in a new tab or at least a new window without losing my position in
> the file with the path, or how could one be created (it probably could,
> this being Vim, but I can't figure out how...)?

While I don't use tabs much and can't speak to them, for windows, you can use

:help CTRL-W_f

to open the filename under the cursor in a new window.

-tim

[Christian Brabandt]

... and for tabpages there is CTRL-W_gf (mentioned just a few lines
below the above entry :))

Thanks,
Christian
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[Martino Ischia]

Hi,

there is this the family of commands, of which this is the most representative:

CTRL-W gf                        *CTRL-W_gf*
        Open a new tab page and edit the file name under the cursor.
        Like "tab split" and "gf", but the new tab page isn't created
        if the file does not exist.

Best regards,

Martino

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[Igbanam Ogbuluijah]

I'd do it like so

1. :vs (or :s) Open the buffer in a new split. This keeps your position
2. gf to the file under the cursor.
3. <C-W>T Move the new split into a tab

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[Oleg Zadorozhnyi]

guys there is a special global option, which i won't say the name
basically it changes default behaviour of opening new buffer

so by default it opens in current window

and by changing this option you can make it open in new tab

this will change not only gf, but :e file also!

вт, 14 янв. 2025 г. в 10:44, Igbanam Ogbuluijah <xigb...@gmail.com>:

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[Arun E]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM BPJ <b...@melroch.se> wrote:

Apologies if I'm asking the bleeding obvious, but as so often I find it hard to find what I'm looking for in the help.

The `gf` mapping opens the file name under the cursor in the same window. I have a file with one (absolute) file path on each line, and would like to be able to open two or more of them in new tabs without closing that file. If I do `gf` and then `:tabe #` I "lose my position" in the file with paths. So is there a mapping or command which opens the filepath under the cursor in a new tab or at least a new window without losing my position in the file with the path, or how could one be created (it probably could, this being Vim, but I can't figure out how...)?

:help CTRL-W_f

:help CTRL-W_gf

Regards,

-Arun