Question

I am looking for a way to open all files in my path that match a regex such as ‘MyFileName*.cpp”.

I was hoping that the command below would open all matching files in tabs. But it opens a list of files and allows me to select one to open.

:tabf MyFileName*.cpp

A few things to note of what I am looking for:

• only search files in the vim path. Any ** globbing takes too
  long and I would rather open each file one by one at that point.

• It needs to work from within vim. (not vim -p)

Answer 1

The solution I came up with is here:

function! OpenAll(arg)
    let args=globpath(&path, a:arg)
    for temp_file in split(args, '\n')
        silent exec "tabe ".temp_file
        silent exec "tabr"
    endfor
endfunction

com! -nargs=1 Tabf call OpenAll('<args>')

Then all you have to do is the following

:Tabf MyFileName*.cpp