supporting any extreme right wing talking points will land you in jail . You know Germany has a rightwing government right now , don ' t you ? It ' s not any rightwing talking points that are forbidden , it ' s constitutionviolating hate speech . Can you tell the difference ? Can you ? <| sep |> But , really , why ? Because it can ' t work . Plain and simple . If I only have 23 files opened at a time , then why can ' t I open every one of those in a separate tab ? Who said you can ' t ? It is impossible to tie a buffer to a window or a tab page . And when I say impossible I mean it . This means that you must be careful about what you open and where and that the relationship between each tab page and the buffer displayed within is both imaginary and extremely brittle . That extra care needed to force your buffers into a onetoone relationship with tab pages and the limits it imposes on the commands you can use to move around is simply not worth the benefit . Using tab pages as file or document metaphors can ' t work because it goes against the very design of tab pages , windows , and buffers , it doesn ' t scale beyond eight or nine tab pages YMMV , it is brittle , it requires extra care , it limits how you interact with your filesdocuments . In short , it ' s a very bad idea . In Vim , documents are buffers and that ' s the metaphor you are supposed to use .