Question

I’m having a problem when trying to make vim expand the file name under cursor. For example:

include("../path/file.php");

When the cursor is on file name and I type gf the file.php is opened just fine. However, when I remap the gf command in vimrc this way: map gf :tabnew <cfile><CR>, then instead of opening the file in a new tab gf just opens up an empty file.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

It should be.

:nnoremap gf :exe 'tabnew '.expand('<cfile>')<cr>