> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of James Vega
> Sent: 25 April 2008 16:23
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: How many windows? tabs?
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:04:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Well, if you start 'vim a' and follow by ':vsp file...'
> > and/or 'sp file...', you'll see you original window
> > split in several smaller ones. "How many of these
> > smaller ones I have?" is my question.
>
> :echo winnr('$')
>
> > When in one of those split windows one does 'tabe files...'
> > several times one sees several 'tabs' on the top of that split
> window. "How
> > many of these 'tabs' are there?"
> > You may answered this one though...
>
> :echo tabpagenr('$')
Excellent, exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Thomas Geulig
> Sent: 25 April 2008 16:20
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: How many windows? tabs?
>
>
> > Well, if you start 'vim a' and follow by ':vsp file...'
> > and/or 'sp file...', you'll see you original window
> > split in several smaller ones. "How many of these
> > smaller ones I have?" is my question.
>
> How about this:
>
> :let x=0
> :windo let x=x+1
> :echo x
Works too, thanks, the solution above seems more "elegant"
(whatever that means).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of fritzophrenic
...
>
> You're missing a very basic concept.
>
No, not really.
> Vim contains multiple tabs. When you use :tabe, it opens a new tabe.
>
> Each tab contains multiple windows. When you use :split, it opens a
> new window WITHIN the current tab.
>
> You can observe this by going back and forth between windows, and
> noticing that the tab list remains the same. If you go back and forth
> between tabs, however, the displayed windows will change.
>
> In addition, Vim opens files in "buffers". Each buffer can be opened
> in any number of windows, each of which could be opened in any one of
> possibly many tabs.
I know all of this, my question was much simpler and I the
answers above are what I needed.
Thanks to all,
---Zdenek
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