Enhancement: Reuse Vim Tabs with drop

[davidlmontgomery]

I use vim and gvim opening many files in new tabs. I found that when following links forward and back vimwiki would frequently create a new tab for a file that was already open, so that I would end up with the same file open many times. My preference is to reuse the existing tab.

Below are two patch files for how I hacked my local vimwiki to reuse tabs instead of creating new ones.

--- markdown_base.vim   2016-07-02 14:13:32.750195233 -0700
+++ markdown_base.vim   2016-07-02 14:11:47.274198885 -0700
@@ -86,9 +86,9 @@
     elseif a:split ==# "vsplit"
       let cmd = ":vsplit "
     elseif a:split ==# "tabnew"
-      let cmd = ":tabnew "
+      let cmd = ":tab drop "
     else
-      let cmd = ":e "
+      let cmd = ":drop "
     endif

     " try WikiLink

--- base.vim    2016-07-02 14:13:21.342195628 -0700
+++ base.vim    2016-07-02 14:08:44.654205208 -0700
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@
   if exists("b:vimwiki_prev_link")
     " go back to saved wiki link
     let prev_word = b:vimwiki_prev_link
-    execute ":e ".substitute(prev_word[0], '\s', '\\\0', 'g')
+    execute ":drop ".substitute(prev_word[0], '\s', '\\\0', 'g')
     call setpos('.', prev_word[1])
   else
     " maybe we came here by jumping to a tag -> pop from the tag stack

[tinmarino]

Nice @davidlmontgomery,

Are you willing to make a PR with you branch (please)?

May you add some Vader tests ?

Cheers.