Since I rarely do window splits, I finally gave up on tabs and just stick with buffers. Tabs in vim aren't really tabs anyway. They are window layouts. If one t

Since I rarely do window splits, I finally gave up on tabs and just stick with buffers. Tabs in vim aren't really tabs anyway. They are window layouts. If one tries to treat them like tabs, things can get confusing fast. Using Airline, you can show your buffers in a line at the top of the screen and treat them like tabs, which is nice. I map <leader>h and <leader>l to move between buffers.