lightline-buffer ·

A buffer plugin for lightline.vim

Main Features

• 🌟 Clickable buffer switching

• 📃 Show file type icon with perfect UTF-8 support

• ✏️ Show tab info and buffer info in tabline

• ↔️ Support using left / right arrow key for quickly switching buffer

• 🔍 Auto-folding for long buffer name

• 📐 Scrollable when tabline length overflow screen

Usage

1. Make sure you've already installed lightline.vim

2. Add this repo to your favorite vim plugin manager

   If you are using Dein.vim (recommended)

   call dein#add('taohexxx/lightline-buffer')

   If you are using NeoBundle

   NeoBundle 'taohexxx/lightline-buffer'

3. Add this block to your init.vim (for neovim) or .vimrc (for vim)

   set hidden  " allow buffer switching without saving
   set showtabline=2  " always show tabline
   
   " use lightline-buffer in lightline
   let g:lightline = {
       \ 'tabline': {
       \   'left': [ [ 'bufferinfo' ],
       \             [ 'separator' ],
       \             [ 'bufferbefore', 'buffercurrent', 'bufferafter' ], ],
       \   'right': [ [ 'close' ], ],
       \ },
       \ 'component_expand': {
       \   'buffercurrent': 'lightline#buffer#buffercurrent',
       \   'bufferbefore': 'lightline#buffer#bufferbefore',
       \   'bufferafter': 'lightline#buffer#bufferafter',
       \ },
       \ 'component_type': {
       \   'buffercurrent': 'tabsel',
       \   'bufferbefore': 'raw',
       \   'bufferafter': 'raw',
       \ },
       \ 'component_function': {
       \   'bufferinfo': 'lightline#buffer#bufferinfo',
       \ },
       \ 'component': {
       \   'separator': '',
       \ },
       \ }
   
   " remap arrow keys
   nnoremap <Left> :bprev<CR>
   nnoremap <Right> :bnext<CR>
   
   " lightline-buffer ui settings
   " replace these symbols with ascii characters if your environment does not support unicode
   let g:lightline_buffer_logo = ' '
   let g:lightline_buffer_readonly_icon = ''
   let g:lightline_buffer_modified_icon = '✭'
   let g:lightline_buffer_git_icon = ' '
   let g:lightline_buffer_ellipsis_icon = '..'
   let g:lightline_buffer_expand_left_icon = '◀ '
   let g:lightline_buffer_expand_right_icon = ' ▶'
   let g:lightline_buffer_active_buffer_left_icon = ''
   let g:lightline_buffer_active_buffer_right_icon = ''
   let g:lightline_buffer_separator_icon = '  '
   
   " enable devicons, only support utf-8
   " require <https://github.com/ryanoasis/vim-devicons>
   let g:lightline_buffer_enable_devicons = 1
   
   " lightline-buffer function settings
   let g:lightline_buffer_show_bufnr = 1
   
   " :help filename-modifiers
   let g:lightline_buffer_fname_mod = ':t'
   
   " hide buffer list
   let g:lightline_buffer_excludes = ['vimfiler']
   
   " max file name length
   let g:lightline_buffer_maxflen = 30
   
   " max file extension length
   let g:lightline_buffer_maxfextlen = 3
   
   " min file name length
   let g:lightline_buffer_minflen = 16
   
   " min file extension length
   let g:lightline_buffer_minfextlen = 3
   
   " reserve length for other component (e.g. info, close)
   let g:lightline_buffer_reservelen = 20

4. Show file type icons

   Install VimDevIcons in your favorite vim plugin manager

Examples

Navim