clickable buffers in tabline

[patflick]

First of all, thanks for vim-airline - it's awesome! 👍

A small remark:
So far only tabs are clickable in the tabline, not the buffers in case there is only one tab. Double click on a buffer opens a new empty tab (is this intended?).

It would be cool if you could fix this.

Thanks!

[bling]

unfortunately this cannot be done. the tabline is supposed to be used for tabs, not buffers....and airline is more or less using a clever hack to display the list of buffers instead. all the exposed mouse events assume you are clicking on tabs....so unless support is exposed by vim itself, there's nothing i can do here....

[robinro]

I just had the same feature wish as @r4d2 above.

Tabline is used by quite a lot of people only for buffers; maybe there's another way to do this.
A seperate "bufferline" extension that assumes a single tab only should be able to do this, right?
@bling Can you point me to the file, where the mouse actions for the tabline are handled? I don't know much about vimscript yet.
Thanks for all your work on vim-airline 👍

[bling]

@robinro i don't know of an easy way to do this...vim only exposes that "tab 3" was clicked. there's no autocmd that exposes that the mouse was clicked. getchar() can do it, but you would need to call it before you click the mouse....

[ZyX-I]

@taohex You write %{N}T…%T (also %{N}X…%X) in the tabline and this when mouse clicking makes Vim run something like tabnext N (tabclose N for %X) when clicking on …. There are no events run for these actions, except for the events which are consequences of switching/closing tabs which are run after the switch/close was initiated.

[harrysummer]

Hi, @ZyX-I could you please give us a simple example of how to make buffer tabline clickable after applying your patch to neovim? Thank you!

[ZyX-I]

@harrysummer Buffer segment for buffer 42 should look like

%42@SwitchBuffer@{segment contents}%X

where SwitchBuf is

function SwitchBuffer(minwid, clicks, button, modifiers) abort
    " Run the following code only on a single left mouse button click without modifiers pressed
    if a:clicks == 1 && a:button is# 'l' && a:modifiers !~# '[^ ]'
        execute 'buffer' a:minwid
    endif
endfunction

[ZyX-I]

@bling Note that my PR was merged into Neovim, so this issue can be reopened. PR added has('tablineat') support, so it is easy to check for the presense of the feature.

[chrisbra]

I'll look into it.

[pierz]

I realise this issue is closed but I had a related question about using airline with tabs and buffers. It seems if they are both enabled in airline's tabline and if one clicks on the current tab filename in the top right corner it toggles to show the 'buffers' but how does one switch back to tab view?

[chrisbra]

I think this is an unintended side-effect, this is not supposed to happen at all, I believe. This is a neovim thing, right?

[pierz]

No this is happening in vim v7 and v8 on OSX and Linux.

[tuxflo]

Hey guys! I'm just too confused with all those referenced issues/merges and cloded tags.
Just the simple question: is it possible to get a clickable bufferline in vim 8.x or neovim and if so: how?
If I try to click in nvim in the terminal (konsole in my case) nothing happens, if I click in vim new tabs with [No Name] are created. I don't use tabs at all so I just want to know how to use the buffers.
Thanks,
Flo

[chrisbra]

clickable buffer line is supported only in neovim. In Vim closing the current tabpage should occur if you click on the X or a new tab will be created. Check your 'mouse' setting.

[tuxflo]

OK thanks for the hint! If anybody else has this issue: try set mouse=a helped for me.
Just one more thing: is it possible to disable the "Tab behavior" completely? As I said II just use buffers.

[wsdjeg]

@chrisbra hello I can not understand your last comment, when double click on tabline, it will create a new tab, any option for this? as I know, I can use %{N}T for jump to tab N, %{N}X for close tab N, but how to config double click?

[ZyX-I]

@wsdjeg If has('tablineat') returns 0 there is nothing you can do. If it returns 1 then you should have documentation on relevant option somewhere around documentation for %{N}T. My comment above provides an example. Currently feature is supported only in Neovim.

[wsdjeg]

@ZyX-I Thanks, I have added the feature to my neovim's config, it works well for me now.

[sanigo]

Could macvim be supported?

[chrisbra]

It is a neovim only feature

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[uninhm]

Reopen this for Vim

[chrisbra]

What do you mean? It currently is not possible for vim

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[uninhm]

What do you mean? It currently is not possible for vim

If tabs are clickable, buffers why not?

[chrisbra]

Please read the complete issue. It is mentioned there several times

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