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When I run :

gvim -p *.xyz

I find that not all files are opened in tabs.

It feels, like a kind of tab limit?

But ! When I try to open unopened with : 

:tabnew

it is opened next to previous tabs - it works !

How to make gvim -p ... to open all files without need of opening those above limit manually with :tabnew ?

Btw. Is this limit somewhere written ? Possible to be configured?

Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
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  • Related: [How can I edit multiple files in VIM?](http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/27586/9689) – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Feb 02 '12 at 16:32
  • In my experience, only a certain number of tabs are _visible_ on the screen at a given time, but they're all there (just off screen). Could that be the case? What happens if you do a `:tabprev` from your first tab? – gdw2 Feb 02 '12 at 18:15
  • It is not that. I know `:tabprev` `:tabnext`. There are not there. There are `10` tabs maximum when I open with `gvim -p`. If I want more I need to add them manually with : `:tabnew`. Problem is present in `vim -p` as well. – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Feb 03 '12 at 13:19
  • As I haven't (recently) experienced this 10-tab phenominon, I decided to look at my (short) vimrc and found something that might work... see my answer. – gdw2 Feb 03 '12 at 16:42

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Put this in your .vimrc (usually located at ~/.vimrc):

set tabpagemax=100
Willem Van Onsem
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gdw2
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    I really need to get this committed into my dotfiles because I forget about it every time I'm on a new machine and wanting to edit a bunch of files in tabs and I only get 8-10 the first pass and doing `:next` a bunch of times to go through all the buffers that weren't opened in tabs is terribly annoying. – dragon788 May 12 '20 at 14:27