Turn out that half my problem was having ONLY a ~/.vimrc I also need a ~/.gvimrc
So, tabs no problem. Getting a single instance to work is proving WAY more difficult. Tried lots of things found via google. Anyone have a clue as to how to get gvim to load whatever I ckick on INTO a new tab an as a simgle instance of gvim...without loading itself up again. ??? thanks for reading! > > Exec=gvim -p --remote-tab-silent %F > > and still have : tab all in my ~/.vimrc though hav additionally > added tab all to the /et/vimrc file which was empty. Likely due to my > moving the original one that was there. > > I'll keep trying and reboot etc. though I'm still not clear that I've > got it right. Or, what else may be happening... > > Great assist though Bill ... looking forward to success... and bill > the cream lead could well help someone for sure..! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
