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

Thanks so much for your help, *particularly* your most recent post. I doubt I would *ever* have figured out that there were GUI and non-GUI tabs.

So now I have a few more things to explore…

Cheers & thanks again,
Ric
SFO


>
> Thanks for the screenshot, that clears things up.
>
> You're correct, %t should only display the tail of the file name, with none of the path.
>
> But you're not seeing a GUI tab pages line. You're seeing the non-GUI tabline. So, either you need to enable the GUI tab line with :set guioptions+=e, or you need to use the 'tabline' option to set the label instead.
>
> Note that the default value of guioptions already includes the 'e' flag, so at some point in your config you must have removed it. See the output of:
>
> :verbose set guioptions?
>
> to see where you last set the option.
>
> Your screenshot LOOKS like you're on a Windows system, which supports a GUI tab pages line, but note that :help 'guioptions' claims that only GTK, Motif, Mac OS/X, and Microsoft Windows support this if you're not on one of those systems.



On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:45:37 AM UTC-7, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:33:47 AM UTC-5, sfosparky wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> Thanks for the screenshot, that clears things up.
>
> You're correct, %t should only display the tail of the file name, with none of the path.
>
> But you're not seeing a GUI tab pages line. You're seeing the non-GUI tabline. So, either you need to enable the GUI tab line with :set guioptions+=e, or you need to use the 'tabline' option to set the label instead.
>
> Note that the default value of guioptions already includes the 'e' flag, so at some point in your config you must have removed it. See the output of:
>
> :verbose set guioptions?
>
> to see where you last set the option.
>
> Your screenshot LOOKS like you're on a Windows system, which supports a GUI tab pages line, but note that :help 'guioptions' claims that only GTK, Motif, Mac OS/X, and Microsoft Windows support this if you're not on one of those systems.

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