Re: Does "set guitablabel" require scripting? (Virtually all examples seem to imply that it does…)

Thanks to all. The good news is that I'm making progress. (And yes, it was just a typo — guitabel was guitablabel all along.)

OK, per the attached PNG screenshot, I'm not sure if guitablabel=%t is working properly or not. I seem to have *reduced* the long pathname in front of the file, but filenames still include a preceding path character (V\) that I'd like to get rid of.

So, is it possible to display *only* a filename in a tab? Or must one always have at least one directory/folder indicator?

Cheers & thanks again to all,
Ric
SFO


On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 7:23:37 AM UTC-7, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 6:32:27 PM UTC-5, sfosparky wrote:
> > I've been trying to figure out how to change how Vim labels tabs. Everywhere I turn for information contains Vim script examples. This has led me to believe that "set guitablabel" can only be used via scripts(?)
> >
> > At present, Vim labels tabs with a file name prefaced with a "path code" of the form "\P\M\M\F\R\F\R\T", where each character is the first character of a folder name on the path. Ugh!
> >
> > In an effort to get rid of the path info, I tried using (without the quotation marks) ":set guitabel=%t" This has no effect.
> >
>
> I assume you mean 'guitablabel' instead of 'guitabel'. Are you using GUI Vim with GUI tabs enabled? See :help 'guitablabel' for the requirements, and also for details in setting it.
>
> You don't NEED to write any script to use guitablabel or tabline options, it is just more powerful if you do. Nevertheless, you can achieve a simple tab label using only format strings like %N, %t, etc. See:
>
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Show_tab_number_in_your_tab_line
>
> The comments section at the bottom contains a simple example without any scripting, even though the tip itself contains a lot of script. Also see :help setting-guitablabel, which includes this:
>
>
> A simple example that puts the tab page number and the buffer name in the
> label:
> :set guitablabel=%N\ %f

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