Mini Bufremove

Buffer removing (unshow, delete, wipeout), which saves window layout

See more details in Features and Documentation.

[!NOTE] This was previously hosted at a personal echasnovski GitHub account. It was transferred to a dedicated organization to improve long term project stability. See more details here.

⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See whole library documentation to learn about general design principles, disable/configuration recipes, and more.

⦿ See MiniMax for a full config example that uses this module.

If you want to help this project grow but don't know where to start, check out contributing guides of 'mini.nvim' or leave a Github star for 'mini.nvim' project and/or any its standalone Git repositories.

Demo

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24854248/173044032-7874cf95-2e41-49fb-8abe-3aa73526972f.mp4

Features

Which buffer to show in window(s) after its current buffer is removed is decided by the algorithm:

• If alternate buffer is listed, use it.
• If previous listed buffer is different, use it.
• Otherwise create a scratch one with nvim_create_buf(true, true) and use it.

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

• main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
• stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

• 'mini.nvim' library:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
  Stable	Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation

• Standalone plugin:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	add('nvim-mini/mini.bufremove')
  Stable	add({ source = 'nvim-mini/mini.bufremove', checkout = 'stable' })

• 'mini.nvim' library:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	{ 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', version = false },
  Stable	{ 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', version = '*' },

• Standalone plugin:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	{ 'nvim-mini/mini.bufremove', version = false },
  Stable	{ 'nvim-mini/mini.bufremove', version = '*' },

• 'mini.nvim' library:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim'
  Stable	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }

• Standalone plugin:

  Branch	Code snippet
  Main	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.bufremove'
  Stable	Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.bufremove', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: no need to call require('mini.bufremove').setup(), but it can be done to improve usability.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

• Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
• Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Whether to disable showing non-error feedback
  silent = false,
}

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