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I'd like to use a few lines somewhere in my vim window to show a list of all the files I have open, and what number they are (ie, which number I need to use to switch to them). Ideally, they would be lined up across the top of the screen, almost like tabs, to save room. I'm trying to prevent having to type :ls to get the number before I switch to a window.

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Vim 7 does have tabs, you can use these instead of buffers. To open a file in a new tab use :tabnew <filename>. :tabn and :tabp go forwards and backwards. See more info at http://vim.cybermirror.org/runtime/doc/tabpage.txt.

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That's great! Do you know of anyway to use the standard buffer commands with tabs instead? – user3530 Feb 22 '10 at 21:10
And I'd vote you up, but I don't have any rep yet – user3530 Feb 22 '10 at 21:10
I don't but you appear to have found what you were after. – Martin Hilton Feb 22 '10 at 21:36
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Maybe this might be useful to you...

map <F4> :ls<CR>:buffer<space>

put this in ur vimrc file.... now when you press <f4> you will be shown the list of buffers and prompted for the one to open.....

I found it somewhere... Whoever did this... its great....

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This is what I wanted: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=159

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