mini.tabline

mini.tabline

Generated from the main branch of ‘mini.nvim’

Minimal and fast tabline showing listed buffers

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 the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.

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

Features

  • Buffers are listed in the order of their identifier.
  • Different highlight groups for “states” of buffer affecting ‘buffer tabs’.
  • Buffer names are made unique by extending paths to files or appending unique identifier to buffers without name.
  • Current buffer is displayed “optimally centered” (in center of screen while maximizing the total number of buffers shown) when there are many buffers open.
  • ‘Buffer tabs’ are clickable if Neovim allows it.
  • Extra information section in case of multiple Neovim tabpages.
  • Truncation symbols which show if there are tabs to the left and/or right. Exact characters are taken from ‘listchars’ option (precedes and extends fields) and are shown only if ‘list’ option is enabled.

Dependencies

For full experience needs (still works without any of suggestions):

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):

With mini.deps

  • ‘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.tabline’)
    Stable add({ source = ‘nvim-mini/mini.tabline’, checkout = ‘stable’ })
With folke/lazy.nvim

  • ‘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.tabline', version = false },
    Stable { 'nvim-mini/mini.tabline', version = '*' },
With junegunn/vim-plug

  • ‘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.tabline'
    Stable Plug 'nvim-mini/mini.tabline', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don’t forget to call require('mini.tabline').setup() to enable its functionality.

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 show file icons (requires 'mini.icons')
  show_icons = true,

  -- Function which formats the tab label
  -- By default surrounds with space and possibly prepends with icon
  format = nil,

  -- Where to show tabpage section in case of multiple vim tabpages.
  -- One of 'left', 'right', 'none'.
  tabpage_section = 'left',
}

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