Is there anyway in Vim to display two rows of tabs when you have a lot of files open at once. I don\'t want the tab overflow-style arrows to appear.
This isn't exactly what you asked for. But I switched from using tabs to plain old multiple buffers with BufExplorer to switch between them.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=42
BufExplorer brings up a nice quick list of all the buffer filenames so that you can quickly select one without any need for mousing..