Today I Learned Mapping te to tabedit in Vim
June 2015
Vim's :tabedit command seems long considering how often it's used. Applying logic from this StackOverflow answer produces this customization:
== &&It defines a :te shortcut which expands to `:tabedit`. Throw it in ~/.vimrc and save five characters for every tab open.
It's worth pointing out that this accepted StackOverflow answer provides a dangerous alternative. It recommends ca (aka cabbrev). For example, ca te tabedit.
The gotcha hidden in this approach is that it expands across the command. Trying to run :!ls /tmp/te/ will be altered to :!ls /tmp/tabedit/.
Not so good.
And, yes, I added an answer to help out there too.
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