Re: [Vimprobable-users] RFC: Added support for buffers

[Matthew C. <m...@ah...>]

Morgan Howe <mt...@gm...> writes:

> This patch adds basic support for handling multiple buffers. New
> commands are ":buf[fer], :badd, and :bdelete". Buffers are given a
> unique constant buffer id starting at 1 in the same manner as vim.
>
> <snip>
>
> Regards,
> Morgan
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Very nice Morgan, built cleanly and works great so far.

I love that I can toggle what used to be tab specific features to a set
of buffers now.

For instance, if I have a few sites that I want to run with javascript
enabled, I can open them all in buffers in one tab, do a:

         :set javascript=on

And as I refresh the pages (or do the set initially) they'll all retain
the setting.  Then my next tab of buffers will use my defaults.

I don't like typing :buf 1, :buf 2 though, I'd like to use what I use in
vim, a simple :b1, :b2 (and :ls for listing the buffers).

Maybe I'll expand on your patch unless you plan to (or there was a
larger reason for not using the shorter syntax).

Just a wishlist item, but some type of command to open a "set" of
buffers defined in the RC file would be pretty awesome (for instance, I
could define news aggregates as something like:

      :set NA=reddit.com,slashdot.org,hackernews.com

And then run something like:

    :bufaddset NA

To automatically open up all 3 pages at once.

For grouping, I can't imagine a better set up (where I could have news
buffers in one tab, social media in another, programming resources in
one and miscellaneous elsewhere).


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