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xtabline

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Note: you may need some patched font for icons. In a Debian-based distribution you can install the following packages:

  • ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola
  • fonts-powerline

In Windows, one of the pre-patched nerd-fonts is recommended.


Introduction

This plugin tries to give you full control on the tabline:

  • three tabline modes: tabs, buffers, arglist
  • buffer filtering on the base of the CWD (also local)
  • you can rename tabs and/or buffers, and assign them icons

Also:

  • tab CWD/name is shown in the right corner of the tabline
  • commands to quickly set/change (tab/window) working directory
  • reopen closed tabs
  • clean up buffers across all tabs
  • session management and tabs bookmarks

Features

The tabline can be rendered in three different modes:

tabs tab name, CWD, or buffer name
buffers up to a max of N (default 10) recent buffers
arglist buffers contained in the arglist

In tabs-mode, the tabline will show the numbered tabs. This looks a lot like vim default tabline, but the CWD is shown in the top-right corner.

In buffer-mode, the tabline will show a filtered list of buffers that belong to the tab's CWD, or any open buffer inside the window. By default, only the 10 most recently accessed buffers are displayed.

In arglist-mode, the tabline will show the files defined in the arglist. You can switch file with the usual commands (:next, etc).

These modes can be cycled with a mapping (F5 by default). You can also define which modes to cycle with a setting.

Buffers and tabs can be renamed, and also given a custom icon.


Installation

Install the plugin:

Use vim-plug or any other Vim plugin manager.

With vim-plug:

Plug 'mg979/vim-xtabline'
Recommendation for macOS users:

If you want to use the session management feature, you must install the GNU core utilities, because its implementation requires the GNU version of the stat and date commands. The corresponding GNU commands are gstat and gdate. Install them with:

brew install coreutils

Usage

:help xtabline.txt

Some quick tips, assuming you are using default mappings:

F5 change tabline mode
N BS go to N tab (in tabs mode) or N buffer (in buffers mode)
[b/]b go to count next/previous buffer
cdw/cdl/cdt set working directory (tab/local)
cd? show tab informations (cwd, git dir, tag files)
\x? a list of all mappings

Themes

Some details may vary, depending on color schemes and plugin version. Here used with default bufferline formatter, and with empty formatter:

codedark

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slate

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monokai

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seoul

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tomorrow

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dracula

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Credits

Bram Moolenaar for Vim
Aristotle Pagaltzis for Buftabline
Giacomo Comitti for Taboo


License

MIT