So I'm in vim currently looking at a file that has another filename and I want to be able to open that particular file in a new, I guess 'buffer'. I tried ctrl+w then gf, but that opens it up into something that looks like a tab. The only way I could figure out how to navigate to it is by clicking on the tab at the top of the screen. First of all, I'm quite confused between tabs, windows, buffers, and viewports. Normally when I have a file open, I can do :new or :sp and look at another file and jump to it using ctrl+w, but the behavior for ctrl+w, then gf seems to be different. Furthermore I can't seem to get to the other 'tabs' using ctrl+w or :next or :bn. Is there some other command for navigating these tabs or whatever they're called? Could someone help clarify things? All I want to do is be able to highlight the name of a file, and open it up in the buffer/window/viewport/tab/whatever that I get when I do :new, so I can navigate to it using ctrl+w.
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