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Is there any way we can have buffers containerized in tabs.
I mean suppose I open 3 buffers in vim.
then I create a new tab and open 3 completely new buffers in that tab.
Now if I :ls it shows all the buffers, the behaviour that I expect or think-of-as-better-one is that if I :ls in second tab, only buffers opened in that tab are shown.
And first tab buffers are only shown for the first tab on :ls.
Though it should be configurable, if one want to access buffers from the first tab then some variant of :ls or some other command should give me all the buffers so that I can use vim's default behaviour.
what do you guys think of it?
Should it be this way, as I described or should this be left to tmux+new-vim-instance?
I never thought of containerizing buffer in tabs before, but that's a good point. I personally don't use Vim tabs. I may have multiple Vim instances in different Tmux windows, so they are automatically containerized.
I think it comes down to a design decision. The people who wrote Vim (Bram etc) probably decided that buffers are shared objects instead of tab-specific objects. It could've gone either way haha.
Again, this is a really good point that you brought up!
vim-ctrlspace is a plug-in to containerize buffers in tabs.
Will look into that.
from a users perspective I think this should be configurable, for the folks who do not have tmux available (like I on my employer's windows machine).
Or I think we could make a plugin that does this somehow. I don't know the details of it, but I think it might be possible.
Super helpful -- thank you!
This was useful. Getting familiar with the terms really helped me back when I was using Emacs. Now I'm learning VIM and this is a good reference.
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ctrl-pwithfzfto switch buffers/tabs/files is a superb tip, I'd forgotten I had that set up. So much easier & faster than:tabnetc.Nice! Looks like it was kind of article I needed so much.
Super helpful! Thank you.
I still don't get it. What's the practical usage of buffers?
This is one of the best explanations I've ever seen about anything (not only VIM resources)!! The X/Y/Z axis thinking makes everything soooooo much cleaner!