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gcb on June 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs

Step one: enable dirty buffers.

no step 2. Vim will behave like any other tabbed editor. Be it using tabs or buffers. Done. Why it's not the default? Well i don't care as vim is painful in all sorts of ways without customization anyway :)

funksta on June 9, 2012 [–]

Could you expand on this? I'm not familiar with this option/setting and can't seem to turn anything up via search.

gcb on June 10, 2012 | [–]

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching

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funksta on June 10, 2012 | | [–]

Thanks, turns out I had it in my .vimrc already but didn't remember what it did.

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