Monday, August 26, 2019

:new and :tag

I find myself often wanting to open a new buffer and then lookup a tag.
In visual mode, I can use <ctrl-w><ctrl-]> while on top of a tag word.
In ex (command line) I have been using:

:cmap ,nt new\|tag

and then typing ":,nt" which expands before my eyes to ":new|tag". But I
keep feeling like that's a feature that would be there as some built-in
command I can't find. Is it?

Elijah
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has been weighing merits of :cab versus :cmap that

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