gvim -p limit of opened tabs?

Question

When I run :

gvim -p *.xyz

I find that not all files are opened in tabs.

It feels, like a kind of tab limit?

But ! When I try to open unopened with :

:tabnew

it is opened next to previous tabs - it works !

How to make gvim -p ... to open all files without need of opening those above limit manually with :tabnew ?

Btw. Is this limit somewhere written ? Possible to be configured?

In my experience, only a certain number of tabs are visible on the screen at a given time, but they're all there (just off screen). Could that be the case? What happens if you do a :tabprev from your first tab? — gdw2, Feb 02 '12 at 18:15
It is not that. I know :tabprev :tabnext. There are not there. There are 10 tabs maximum when I open with gvim -p. If I want more I need to add them manually with : :tabnew. Problem is present in vim -p as well. — Grzegorz Wierzowiecki, Feb 03 '12 at 13:19
As I haven't (recently) experienced this 10-tab phenominon, I decided to look at my (short) vimrc and found something that might work... see my answer. — gdw2, Feb 03 '12 at 16:42

score 82 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 11 '17 at 18:42

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Put this in your .vimrc (usually located at ~/.vimrc):

set tabpagemax=100

edited Aug 11 '17 at 18:42

willeM_ Van Onsem

answered Feb 03 '12 at 16:41

gdw2

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I really need to get this committed into my dotfiles because I forget about it every time I'm on a new machine and wanting to edit a bunch of files in tabs and I only get 8-10 the first pass and doing :next a bunch of times to go through all the buffers that weren't opened in tabs is terribly annoying. – dragon788 May 12 '20 at 14:27

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