Moving between tabpages

We’ve just learned how to create new tabpages. But that’s not much use without knowing how to move between them!

Moving between tabpages is really easy in Vim. You can use:

• gt to go to the next tabpage
• gT to go to the previous tabpage
• [count]gt to go to the [count]’th tabpage — e.g. 2gt takes you to tabpage number 2

Let’s try this in the editor. Like before, open 4 or 5 new tabpages with the :tabnew command. For each new tabpage, write something distinctive inside the buffer. Then, try switching between them with gt, gT, and [count]gt. As you move through them, you’ll notice that the highlighting on the tabline at the top changes to reflect which tabpage you’re currently on.