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Tabbar, better then buftabs

Posted by tibi at Nov 26, 2009 09:34 AM |

Lately I've started to feel that Buftabs has certain inconveniences:

  • in the recommended setup it takes over the status bar
  • it can't display a list of all the tabs, just what fits in a line on the screen

The status bar is not something that I really have to see, but I like to see the entire list of opened buffers, especially when editing a lot of files. Vertical space is not as important as seeing a whole list of buffers, so the buffers list can take 2 or 3 lines, if needed.

My searches led me to Tabbar, a plugin that builds on the legacy of Minibufexplorer. It solves both issues I had with Buftabs: it keeps the statusbar and it creates its own window where it displays the list of buffers. Another nice point, I can quickly change buffers using the numbers listed in the tabbar, using alt+num. The only issue I have with it right now is that the active buffer is not so visibly highlighted, but I assume I can fix this with enough care.

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