The following script will set up a tab label containing a "modified" indicator, the tab number, the name of the currently active buffer in the tab, and the number of windows in the tab. Drop it into your vimrc or its own file in your plugin directory. Getting the tab number is easy, it's just the "let label.=v:lnum" portion of the script, if you don't want to use the entire thing. We could have also used the tabpagenr() function, which may be required if using 'tabline' instead. Note that we CANNOT simply use %N as stated in [