在选项卡而不是Windows中使用VIM打开文件

Question

I have searched and found threads related to this, but not exactly the same case.

I use VIM in Windows7. It's set as the default editor for text files. The problem is when I click in some text file in order to open it, it is opened in a new VIM window no matter if I already have one or more VIM windows opened.

How to change this behavior? Thanks!

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Answer 1

vim has a "remote-server" concept, which allows you to open files in single/certain vim instance.

vim's man page (help doc too: :h remote ) has the explanation. in short:

vim --serverlist                      #list names of all found vim servers
vim --servername {name}               #current instance becomes as server named {name}
vim --servername {name} --remote file #open file in {name} vim-server

You can still send keys to the remote vim, when the buffer load by --remote-send or with command ... --remote +{cmd} file

For your requirement, you want to open files in a vim server's tab page, you could:

vim --servername FOO --remote-tab yourfile

Answer 2

You should manually set up your file associations in Windows to launch Vim with a custom command. If you're an administrator and don't mind messing with EVERYBODY's config, you can use the ftype and assoc commands in the cmd.exe shell. Otherwise, you can manually create registry entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Classes .

The registry method actually sets up the same structure that you would set up automatically with ftype and assoc . First you must create a file type like "sourcecode" under that Classes key, with shell\\open\\command key having the exact command you want to open Vim with, using %1 in place of the file name to pass in. Then create a association key like .c with a value of the filetype you created, in this case "sourcecode".

Some details on file associations here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Windows_file_associations

Specifically for setting up "launch in tabs" behavior, you want --remote-tab-silent, as done here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Launch_files_in_new_tabs_under_Windows