How do I: Open file in same window (new tab) and GOTO line?

[Alistair MacDonald]

I have an alias setup to open a file in the same window, like so:

alias edit="open -a MacVim.app $1"
# edit ./myfile.txt

But this does not work for the goto line/function. I get the following error:

The file /Users/me/+123 does not exist.

To get around this I am using a separate alias, like this:

alias edit@="mvim $1 $2"
# edit@ +123 ./myfile.txt

But I would like to use the `edit` alias to both. Is there a way I can do this using the `open -a MacVim.app` syntax?

[Tony Mechelynck]

I assume that by “window” you mean “Vim instance”, since in Vim parlance there may be one or more (plit) windows within a tab but not the opposite. There are also one or more tabs (or tab pages) in one “Vim screen” (or Vim instance) but not the opposite.

I don't run a Mac, but in general to start Vim with three tab pages, one file in each, you would invoke it as

vim -p file1.ext file2.ext file3.ext

This should work with any "vim flavour" such as vim, gvim, MacVim, etc. You may want to vary it according to the peculiarities of MacOsX.

See ":help -p"

To open the file at a specific line, I expect that prefixing the filename with +123 (for line 123), followed by a space, should work, but I haven't yet tested it: so to open several files, each in its tab, and each at a specific line, you could do

vim -p +123 file1.ext +456 file2.txt +789 file3.txt

but I haven't tested it.

See ":help +cmd"

In general, if you set the 'viminfo' option correctly, Vim will remember where the cursor was in a given file when it was last used, and with the proper autocommand (as in $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc.example.vim lines 73-79, so if you source that from your vimrc you've got it) the file will be reopened at that same position (or at line 1 if no position was remembered for the file).

Best regards,
Tony.

[Adam Horner]

Alistair,

If you have a look in the download bundle for MacVim you will see a command line tool that is distributed with it called mvim.

Put mvim in a standard location that is on your PATH, on the mac a good default location is /usr/local/bin (chosen to work with as many flavours of the Mac OS as possible, including the latest).

mvim helps the MacVim binary get called in a completely compatible way with the unix counterpart such that you can then rely on the documentation, including Tony’s suggestions below.

Thanks,
Adam.

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