MacVim Open File In Existing Window

Question

Is there a way to set up MacVim to open a new file in the current window in a running MacVim instance? I currently have the MacVim preference \"Open new files in a new tab i

Answer 1

I personally use a command like this, after seeing everything here and resorting to experimenting with what

mvim --help 

turned up.

I found that

mvim --remote-tab-silent foo.txt

worked for me and then I soon added an alias to my .profile. Yes, it barfs if you don't feed it a file after the option, but who opens a blank file with no name anyway?