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

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

Matthew Carter <m...@ah...> writes:

> 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).

Usability issues I see so far:

          'd' - I think this should close the current buffer, not the
          whole window if we do use these buffers

          '^6' - This should switch between most recent buffer and
          current buffer instead of tabs (at least when buffers exist).

          Maybe keep gt/gT bound for tab cycling still.

Thats all I can think of for now.

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