Tabs in vim

[ Thanks to Jadu for this link. ]

"How to open a new tab in vim ?

:tabnew
:tabedit

:tabnew or :tabedit alone will open a new tab with empty buffer

:tabnew filename or tabedit filename will load the file in new tab

How to open files in separate tabs at start-up?

The following will open the 4 files in 4 separate tabs.

$ vim -p file1 file2 file3 file4"

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