Thanks so much for your help, *particularly* your most recent post. I doubt I would *ever* have figured out that there were GUI and non-GUI tabs.
So now I have a few more things to explore… Cheers & thanks again, Ric SFO > > Thanks for the screenshot, that clears things up. > > You're correct, %t should only display the tail of the file name, with none > of the path. > > But you're not seeing a GUI tab pages line. You're seeing the non-GUI > tabline. So, either you need to enable the GUI tab line with :set > guioptions+=e, or you need to use the 'tabline' option to set the label > instead. > > Note that the default value of guioptions already includes the 'e' flag, so > at some point in your config you must have removed it. See the output of: > > :verbose set guioptions? > > to see where you last set the option. > > Your screenshot LOOKS like you're on a Windows system, which supports a GUI > tab pages line, but note that :help 'guioptions' claims that only GTK, Motif, > Mac OS/X, and Microsoft Windows support this if you're not on one of those > systems. On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:45:37 AM UTC-7, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:33:47 AM UTC-5, sfosparky wrote: > > Thanks to all. The good news is that I'm making progress. (And yes, it > > was just a typo — guitabel was guitablabel all along.) > > > > OK, per the attached PNG screenshot, I'm not sure if guitablabel=%t is > > working properly or not. I seem to have *reduced* the long pathname in > > front of the file, but filenames still include a preceding path character > > (V\) that I'd like to get rid of. > > > > So, is it possible to display *only* a filename in a tab? Or must one > > always have at least one directory/folder indicator? > > > > Thanks for the screenshot, that clears things up. > > You're correct, %t should only display the tail of the file name, with none > of the path. > > But you're not seeing a GUI tab pages line. You're seeing the non-GUI > tabline. So, either you need to enable the GUI tab line with :set > guioptions+=e, or you need to use the 'tabline' option to set the label > instead. > > Note that the default value of guioptions already includes the 'e' flag, so > at some point in your config you must have removed it. See the output of: > > :verbose set guioptions? > > to see where you last set the option. > > Your screenshot LOOKS like you're on a Windows system, which supports a GUI > tab pages line, but note that :help 'guioptions' claims that only GTK, Motif, > Mac OS/X, and Microsoft Windows support this if you're not on one of those > systems. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
