I want to set up vim so that it opens automatically in tab and not in buffers. I know that I could use alias gvim='gvim -p' or some such shell mapping but I am wondering if there is a way to do that from vim itself.
So, what I want is for
gvim ook eek monkey
to be equivalent in behaviour to
gvim -p ook eek monkey
aka a tab is opened for each file/buffer.
See :tabnew and :tabedit in :help tabpage. (I'm not sure if you can (or want to) re-map :edit)
(Edit There is a related and helpful SO discussion)
(Edit to match your refined question)
I doubt it will be less hassle than alias gvim=gvim -p, but using autocmd (and some Vimscript, everything in your .vimrc) this might be possible. (But I'm not knowledgeable enough to go into detail with this.)
