Splits came to vim way before tabs did as a result I use splits as vertical pseudo tabs: nnoremap <c-j> <c-w>j<c-w>_ nnoremap <c-k> <c-w>k<c-w>_ Which

Splits came to vim way before tabs did as a result I use splits as vertical pseudo tabs: nnoremap <c-j> <c-w>j<c-w>_ nnoremap <c-k> <c-w>k<c-w>_ Which does both split navigation and split maximizing. I could probably switch to tabs but I'm happy with how things work and I don't really see any advantage over how I'm doing things now.