Feature request: open Gstatus in new tab

[rhardih]

Sometimes it's nice to have a little more vertical space to deal with preparing commits and in those cases opening Gstatus as a new tab would be nice to have.

I've tried to "promote" the window to a new tab, by either Ctrl-W_T or :tabedit %, but in both cases the navigation bindings are lost and e.g. Ctrl-d results in an error:

E486: Pattern not found: context

[tpope]

Huh? Ctrl-d isn't mapped in fugitive. Either of those should work fine, or :Gtabedit :.

[rhardih]

What a brainfart on my part. 😞 It totally does work. 👍, don't know how that d got in there, as I was obviously thinking of Ctrl-{n,p}.

Closing 😁

[ipod825]

either
autocmd BufEnter *.git/index if &ft == 'gitcommit' | wincmd T | endif
or
autocmd BufEnter *.git/index if &ft == 'gitcommit' | Gtabedit | endif
does the trick automatically.

However, I get the error message "E441 no preview window".
It seems "wincmd P " in s:Status() is making this error.

@tpope, I would like to know if I can achieve this trick without making errors?

[geneotech]

@ipod825
Looks like I can just

nmap <silent> <C-s> :Gstatus <bar> wincmd T<CR>

[ipod825]

@geneotech
Even with the map, I still get the same error.

[tpope]

:Gtabedit :

[huangzonghao]

:Gtabedit : works perfectly in opening the status window in a new tab. However, whenever I diff a file (say by dv), the 2 diff windows will kick the status window away and take the tab. And I can't seem to find a way to go back to the status window after I finished with the diff mode. So I am wondering if there is a way that I can diff a file in the same tab but still have status window persist, or how should I go back to the previous status window after I am done with diff?

[tpope]

:set previewwindow should work.

[huangzonghao]

Thank you @tpope! That's exactly what I want!

[Melandel]

Hi, I have these lines in my vimrc:

augroup gitstatus
	autocmd!
	autocmd FileType fugitive set previewwindow
augroup END

nnoremap <silent> <Leader>G :Gtabedit :<CR>

It works fine but now the status window closes after I leave Insert mode in the commit window.

How can I keep the status window open at all times in my new tab?

[tpope]

Preview window closing sounds like a completion plugin. This is one of the reasons I recommend against using a preview window!

[Melandel]

I'll :tabedit % | G instead of :Gtabedit : in that case.

Thank you for your time :)

[tpope]

:tab G works!

[Melandel]

Oh. My. God.

Thanks a bunch tpope!