How to effectively work with multiple files in Vim

Question

I\'ve started using Vim to develop Perl scripts and am starting to find it very powerful.

One thing I like is to be able to open multiple files at once with:

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Answer 1

You can be an absolute madman and alias vim to vim -p by adding in your .bashrc:

alias vim="vim -p"

This will result in opening multiple files from the shell in tabs, without having to invoke :tab ball from within vim afterwards.