nm, I think I got it:

vim --servername SWILSON --remote-send ':call RedirFile("tabs",
"/dev/pts/57")<CR>'

with:

function! RedirFile(cmd, file)
  redir => message
  silent execute a:cmd
  redir END
  let lines = split(message, '\n')
  call writefile(lines, a:file)
endfunction

In my vimrc seems to do what I want

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:00 PM, shawn wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I often want to query vim from a command line - so for example:
> vim --servername SWILSON --remote-send ':tabs<CR>'
>
> executes fine and displays the results in vim and i get nothing on the
> command line. I either want a simple shell style redirect (and then
> spit it out to $tty) or redirect to a buffer and save that (though
> having vim save that to /dev/stdout probably isn't going to give me
> the result I want).

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