Convenient tab commands

I was conversing with a friend about how to turn a split into a new tab, and vice versa this morning. You can call IMing 'conversing', right? Yes. At this day and age, I'd hope so. Anyway. We came up with a couple convenient commands/abbreviations. Take your pick:

" Close a split and then open it in a new tab:
:ca tb let a=bufnr("%") q tabnew exe "b ". a
:command! Tb :let a=bufnr("%") | q | tabnew | exe "b ". a

" Close the current tab and open as a split in another existing tab:
:command! Ts :let a=bufnr("%") | tabprev | sp | exe "b ". a | tabnext | q | tabprev
:ca ts :let a=bufnr("%") tabprev sp exe "b ". a tabnext q tabprev

Note these obviously aren't that smart. If you have no splits, its not gonna act quite right. I've made the order open X, then close Y so that vim still has *something* open. Hopefully that means your Vim session won't disappear out from underneath you.

Yep, I just tested it out. Vim doesn't close, and the 'tb' command works fine regardless of the # of windows open. The 'ts' command acts a little funny when there is more than one split open in a tab. It removes one split, sticks it in another tab but doesn't completely remove the other tab b/c there's still a window in it. Not so bad. Just a little wierd.

switching between bash and batch scripts.

Were it only as easy as s/sh/tch/! Well, it almost is.

For the most part only a few search replaces are required. Most of the tme I need to convert a dos batch to a bash script. The first round of conversion includes:

:set ft=unix
:%s/%\(\w\+\)%/$\1/g
:%s/set //ig
:%s/rem/#/ig
:%s/;/:/g
:%s/\\/\//g

There is always additional work to do, but these replaces do most of the tedious portion for me.