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My vim cheat sheet for working with tabs and window splits.

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Tabs

New Tab

:tabnew - new blank tab
:tabedit [file] - open file in tab

Cursor Movement

gt (:tabn) - next tab
gT (:tabp) - previous tab
[i]gt - go to tab [i]

Tabs Management

:tabs - list open tabs
:tabm 0 - move current tab to first position
:tabm - move current tab to last position
:tabm [i] - move current tab to position [i]

Close Tab

:tabc - close current tab
:tabo - close all other tabs

Window Split

New Split

Pro-Tip: control splitting directionality by setting splitright and splitbelow options.

<C-w>n (:new [file]) - split horizontaly
<C-w>s (:split [file]) - split horizontaly
<C-w>v (:vsplit [file]) - split verticaly

Cursor Movement

<C-w>w - next split
<C-w>p - previous split
<C-w><Up> - move above
<C-w><Down> - move bellow
<C-w><Left> - move left
<C-w><Right> - move right

Splits Movement

<C-w>r - rotate to the right
<C-w>H - move to the left
<C-w>J - move to the bottom
<C-w>K - move to the top
<C-w>L - move to the right
<C-w>T - (:tab split) move split to new tab

Resize Split

<C-w>p + - increase height
<C-w>p - - decrease height
<C-w>p < - increase width
<C-w>p > - decrease width

Close Split

<C-w>c (:close) - close split
<C-w>q (:q) - close split and quit file
<C-w>o (:only) - close all other splits

Sources

codemonkeyiow commented Sep 22, 2025

If you have multiple tabs open, and want to pull one of those tabs into your active tab as a split, you can :sb x where x is the number of the tab.

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