Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-07 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
Anand Hariharan wrote: On Feb 6, 1:36 am, Tony Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anand Hariharan wrote: [...] Ben says For every tab, Vim adds a new tab. It seems counter- intuitive to me considering that my command is *bufdo* tabnew (i.e., for each *buffer* create a new tab).

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-06 Fir de Conversatie Anand Hariharan
On Feb 6, 12:44 am, Ben Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben says For every tab, Vim adds a new tab.  It seems counter- intuitive to me considering that my command is *bufdo* tabnew (i.e., for each *buffer* create a new tab). Just seeking to understand here:  Do tabs transcend buffers

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-06 Fir de Conversatie Anand Hariharan
On Feb 6, 1:36 am, Tony Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anand Hariharan wrote: [...] Ben says For every tab, Vim adds a new tab.  It seems counter- intuitive to me considering that my command is *bufdo* tabnew (i.e., for each *buffer* create a new tab). [...] Yes: for each

Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-05 Fir de Conversatie Anand Hariharan
Running 7.1.242 by building SVN source revision 859. However, I observed this problem almost a year ago (cf MID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). First of all, I admit not understanding the window-tab feature. All I was trying to do was see if I could create a tab for each buffer. So I try :bufdo tabnew

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-05 Fir de Conversatie ap
On Feb 6, 6:21 am, Anand Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running 7.1.242 by building SVN source revision 859. However, I observed this problem almost a year ago (cf MID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). First of all, I admit not understanding the window-tab feature. All I was trying to do was see

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-05 Fir de Conversatie Anand Hariharan
On Feb 5, 11:21 pm, Anand Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running 7.1.242 by building SVN source revision 859. However, I observed this problem almost a year ago (cf MID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). First of all, I admit not understanding the window-tab feature. All I was trying to do was

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-05 Fir de Conversatie ap
I retract, what I said about it beeing a bug. I just read 'tabpagemax'. Thanks to both Ben and 'ap' for the prompt replies. Ben says For every tab, Vim adds a new tab. It seems counter- intuitive to me considering that my command is *bufdo* tabnew (i.e., for each *buffer* create a new

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-05 Fir de Conversatie Ben Schmidt
There is only 1 bufferlist in an vim instance. tabs more like windows, a view of a buffer. Yes. Vim has a single buffer list, and a bunch of tabpages. Each tabpage has one or more windows. Each window is a view of a buffer. :tabnew, :tabedit, etc. make a new tabpage with a single

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-05 Fir de Conversatie Ben Schmidt
Ben says For every tab, Vim adds a new tab. It seems counter- intuitive to me considering that my command is *bufdo* tabnew (i.e., for each *buffer* create a new tab). Just seeking to understand here: Do tabs transcend buffers or vice- versa (i.e., can I have a set of buffers in a tab

Re: Doing :bufdo tabnew causes vim to hang, hog all resources

2008-02-05 Fir de Conversatie Jürgen Krämer
Hi, Ben Schmidt wrote: I also had some philosophical questions in my post whose MID I referred above (as in Why tabs?). I don't know how to search for a message by its MID, I'm afraid. Does google have a facility for it or something? Can you provide a link to the webpage view of