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authorMarc Coquand <marc@baemingo.com>2023-05-19 14:25:31 -0500
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-# NVIM Buffer Browser Navigation
+# NVIM Buffer Browse
`:b#` on steroids. Browse your buffers like you browse history in a browser.
## Motivation
While `:bnext` and `:bprev` allows you to browse between buffers, it is not
-very intuitive. Oftentimes I would jump to definitions, a different file
-through netrw, an org file and then when using bprev I would end up in a
-completely different file, because buffers are ordered by when they are opened.
-`:b#`, <Ctrl-I> and <Ctrl-O> works only assuming you didn't navigate one step
-further in the documentation.
+very intuitive. Oftentimes I jump to definitions, a different file through
+netrw, an org file. `:bprev` would then end up in a completely different file,
+because buffers are ordered by when they are opened, not by history. `:b#`,
+<Ctrl-I>, <Ctrl-6> and <Ctrl-O> works only assuming you didn't navigate one step further
+in the documentation.
I wanted to be able to browse buffers in a way that is similar to how you
browse tabs in a browser.
## Usage
-Install through any of your favorite plugin managers. For example, with
-[lazy](https://www.lazyvim.org).
-
This plugin implements two functions: `require('buffer-browser').next()` and
`require('buffer-browser').prev()`.
You can easily map these to whatever you want. Here is an example `init.lua`:
```lua
-vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<leader>b[', require("buffer-browser").next(), {desc = "Next [B]uffer [[]"})
-vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<leader>b]', require("buffer-browser").prev(), {desc = "Previous [B]uffer []]"})
+vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<leader>b[', require("buffer_browser").next(), {desc = "Next [B]uffer [[]"})
+vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<leader>b]', require("buffer_browser").prev(), {desc = "Previous [B]uffer []]"})
```
-## Splits
+### Splits
+
+If a split has been performed, the new split will not preserve any of the previous history.
+
+## Insallation
+
+Install through any of your favorite plugin managers.
+
+### [lazy](https://www.lazyvim.org).
+
+Make sure to run the setup function. For example with lazy:
+
+```lua
+{
+ 'https://git.sr.ht/~marcc/BufferBrowser',
+}
+```
+
+Then run
+
+```lua
+require('buffer_browser').setup()
+```
+
+
+### Configuration
+
+You can configure the `filetype_filters` by passing a table to the `setup`
+function. This is the default config:
+
+```lua
+require('buffer-browser').setup({
+ -- '' + 'netrw' is used to filter out netrw.
+ filetype_filters = ['', 'netrw', 'gitcommit', 'TelescopePrompt']
+})
+```
+
+This can be used to filter out buffers you do not want in the history.
+
+#### Limitation
+
+To filter out netrw, we need to also filter out `''`, as the filetype
+occassionally gets set to that by netrw (not sure why...). This means files
+without filetype are filtered out.
-This plugin works with splits. If you have multiple splits open, the plugin
-will fork the split history and create a different "buffer history" for that
-particular split.
+## Credits
-## Credits
+The plugin is mostly a copy of
+[ton/vim-bufsurf](https://github.com/ton/vim-bufsurf), but rewritten in Lua and
+adds the ability to filter unwanted filetypes to get rid of netrw buffers.
-The plugin is mostly based on [ton/vim-bufsurf](https://github.com/ton/vim-bufsurf), but rewritten in Lua.