OP should consider using buffers: you can :ls to display the list of buffers (which I have mapped to gl) and then :bn (where n is a buffer number) to go to some

OP should consider using buffers: you can :ls to display the list of buffers (which I have mapped to gl) and then :bn (where n is a buffer number) to go to some specific buffer. Also, in the same fashion of gt and gT for tabs, I mapped gb to go to the next buffer, gB to the previous one, and g space to go to the last one. IIRC all these key bindings are unused by default. In my opinion tabs are more useful/interesting when you work with multiple windows layouts. https://github.com/pera/vim/blob/master/.vimrc https://github.com/pera/vim/blob/master/.vimrc