You can try it directly in your current session by running the command :set hidden! to toggle the option on and off. It will complain that you’re hidden buffer is not saved to get around that, I would recommend to set the option hidden in your vimrc (by default ~/.vimrc), as follow: set hidden If you modify a file, forget to save it, and close the window making the buffer hidden, you won’t be able to quit Vim. :1,10bdelete - Delete buffers from ID 1 to 10 included.You can specify more than one ID or name separated with spaces to delete multiple buffers. :bdelete - Delete a buffer by ID or name.If we can create buffers, we should be able to delete them: If you create a window, a buffer will be created automatically (see below).Now, let’s ask this existential question: how can we create buffers? You’ll see unlisted buffer with an indicator u just after its ID. To display unlisted buffers, you can use the command :buffers! or :ls!. Not all buffers are displayed in the buffer list. You can as well apply a command to all buffers using :bufdo. For example, 75CTRL-^ switch to the buffer with ID 75. CTRL-^ - Switch to a specific buffer with ID.It’s indicated in your buffer list with the symbol #. CTRL-^ - switch to the alternate buffer.
:blast or :bl - move to the last buffer.:bfirst or :bf - move to the first buffer.:bprevious or :bp - Move to the previous buffer.:bnext or :bn - Move to the next buffer.:buffer - Move to the buffer using its ID or its name.To navigate through the buffer list, you can use these commands: You can as well know what’s the current buffer displayed with the flag % just before its state. It can be the filepath of the file linked to the buffer.įor example: 27 %a "layouts/shortcodes/notice.html" line 18 means that the buffer ID 27 is in state a (active), its name is layouts/shortcodes/notice.html and the cursor in this specific buffer is on line 18. Indicators displaying different informations (for example a for active, h for hidden, or (space) for inactive).You can use the command :buffers to display it. To see all opened buffered, we can look at the buffer list. At that point, you might wonder: how do we know that this buffer is still open, if we can’t see it? The content of a file in a hidden buffer is not directly visible in Vim. inactive - The buffer is not displayed and empty.hidden - The buffer is not displayed, but it exists and the file is still open.active - The buffer is displayed in a window.In fact, a buffer can have three different states: Not in Vim if you close a window containing a buffer, the buffer is still there, hidden. The big difference: when you close a tab in an IDE, you close the file as well. To make a comparison with a standard IDE, a buffer would be the content of a tab. Vim BuffersĪ buffer directly match an open file in memory. Indeed, there are four layers of abstraction you can use for that: the buffers, the windows, the tabs, and the argument list. Vim use other ways to represent and organize open files. If you’re using an IDE, you’re certainly used to manage your files with tabs. You can read these help sections directly in Vim when you’re ready to dive deeper. You’ll see at the end of each sections some related Vim’s help commands. If you want to build a complete Mouseless Development Environment, you might be interested by this book. Experiment with Vim as you read along, try to understand how it works, and you’ll have a powerful tool you can control entirely with your keyboard. My advice: take your time and don’t try to swallow everything at once. The amount of information in this article can feel overwhelming. Plugins which offers different ways to manage some ideas we saw before.Ways of manipulating the command line history.Powerful functionalities to repeat some of your keystrokes.Mapping new keystrokes to old keystrokes or commands.Useful motions to jump quickly from one place to another in your entire codebase.Ways you can organize open files in Vim using buffers, windows, tabs, and the argument list.Who wasn’t blown away discovering Vim’s macros? In this article, I’ll explain more concepts, some of them making Vim truly special compared to other editors. If you like my articles about Vim, I’m currently writing an ambitious book about The Best Editor™ with many more tips!
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