how to let tab display only file name rather than the full path in vim

Question

If the full path of a file is very long, you can\'t tell which file is in a given tab. so I\'m wondering is there is a way let the tab only disply the file name rather than

Answer 1

The other solutions only work for GUI VIM and does not work for terminal vim or embedded vim (nvim).

You can use vim-plug and vim-airline. Then, add this to your .vimrc.

call plug#begin(stdpath('data') . '/plugged')
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes'
call plug#end()

let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#fnamemod = ':t'