mihaicristiantanase / cmdtabs

Vim tabs without tabline

cmdtabs

What is does:

1. displays a very simplified tabline in the command line when pressing F3 key;
2. keeps the actual tabline hidden;

The fake tabline shows the number of the tab with additional "+" character in case one of the buffers in the tab has unsaved changes.

What it requires:

1. vim-mctab plugin needs to be removed because of the mapping collision
2. VIM 7+

How does it look:

Assuming there are 4 tabs, second and forth tabs with unsaved buffers and the second tab currently selected, the fake tabline will look like this

  1  [ 2+]  3    4+

This tabline is displayed in the middle of the command line.

What is the motivation:

An additional line is needed to show vim's tabline. This plugin shows a fake tabline in an area which is always visible, the command line.

This is an incremental improvement over the vim-mctab. vim-mctab plugin displays a simplified tabline for a breaf moment, disrupting the active windows while trazitioning.

Another reason is that it's very useful to have a quick glimpse of the tab line when changing tabs.

How to install:

Vundle
Plugin 'mihaicristiantanase/cmdtabs'

vim-plug
Plug 'mihaicristiantanase/cmdtabs'

Pathogen
git clone https://github.com/mihaicristiantanase/cmdtabs ~/.vim/bundle/cmd-tabs