Tip #208: Alter the display of buffers in the buffers menu

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created:		January 31, 2002 9:51		complexity:		basic
author:		Roger Pilkey		as of Vim:		6.0

If you use the buffers menu, here's where you can change how the buffernames are displayed: menu.vim, function s:BMMunge OLD: let name2 = name2 . ' (' . a:bnum . ')' displays: .vimrc (1) menu.vim (2) NEW: let name2 = '&' . a:bnum . '. ' . name2 displays 1. .vimrc 2. menu.vim (with the 1 and the 2 underlined) which is more useful, because you can (almost) always pick the buffer you want with one keystroke, the buffernumber, until you get to buffer 10 anyway. Roger

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Additional Notes

Anonymous, October 15, 2002 10:12

Great tip. I changed it so that if you have more than 9 buffers, you get the numbers for 1-9, and for the others you can type the first letter of the filename (which still may not be unique, of course, in which case it will take more keystrokes to select it). if a:bnum >= 10 let name2 = name2 . ' (' . a:bnum . ')' else let name2 = '&' . a:bnum . '. ' . name2 endif Dana

rpilkey at magma.ca, June 24, 2003 9:24

This tip didn't work in the vim 6.2 menu.vim. Someone added this line a couple of lines down (line 702): let name = substitute(name, "&", "&&", "g") so to make this tip work again, comment out this line. Rog




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