Loco Screencast Vim 3: Powerful Buffer
We go over what a buffer is in Vim, how it differs from a window, and how we
can use windows with buffers to work on our files much faster than we can with
tabs.
Commands we talk about
- :buffers
- :buffer 2
- :buffer 3
- :b 2
- :buffers
- :sb 4
- :bnext :bn
- :bprevious :bp
- :ball
Links and plugins
- More Buffer Docs
- Minibufexpl
- LustyJuggler
- My Vim Config on Github
Let us know what you think by providing feedback in the video source or
emailing us at feedback@lococast.net
Also available on YouTube
- mitechie
October 20th, 2010 - 13:45Added, so sorry for missing that. Also sorry for the delay, completely missed I was getting new comments. Need to find that email setting.
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- gmarik
October 6th, 2010 - 12:42Try FuzzyFinder it has “popup” for buffers you can filter through!
Very useful!Thanks for the great screencasts!
( REPLY )- mitechie
October 20th, 2010 - 13:46I tried FuzzyFinder once a long time ago. I should check it out again, but I really didn’t care for it as much. Thanks for the note!
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- Federico Holgado
December 13th, 2010 - 09:01Thanks for the cool video. I wanted to let you guys know that we have started updating MiniBufExpl recently to add a few awesome features. You can find it here:
https://github.com/fholgado/minibufexpl.vim
( REPLY )- mitechie
December 13th, 2010 - 11:07Awesome, I’ll have to check out the updates.
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- Will
December 14th, 2010 - 00:49I might have missed it in the video but :b [tab] or :b fn[tab] where fn is the first one or two characters of a filename works to cycle through all buffers or the buffers with those starting characters. It is simple yet robust enough to be sufficient for all my buffer switching.
( REPLY ) - Scott Kirkwood
December 20th, 2010 - 12:47It looks like you are using my key-mon program (code.google.com/p/key-mon). That’s great!
There’s a parameter that I made thinking about vim a while back, called “–old-keys N” (where N is the number of additional keys that will be shown). The idea that with –old-keys 3 you could see “Y Y P” for yank line, pop. Instead of seeing the keys one-at-a-time. Perhaps you knew about it and your viewers found it confusing? I’d love some feedback.
Also, why don’t I link back to your podcast? You can send me the info you want posted here:
code.google.com/p/key-mon/wiki/LinksToKeymonUsers( REPLY )- mitechie
December 20th, 2010 - 17:04Yes! I do use key-mon and it’s been really great for these. I wasn’t aware of the –old-keys setting and I’ve not tried it. I’ve actually not gotten any feedback on the key-mon being either good/bad. I’ll have to check it out and see how it works. Initially I’d worry about it keeping up/not showing bad combos.
Thanks for the great tool and hope it’s showing off ok here.
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- Simon
November 5th, 2012 - 10:37Sorry if it’s already been said, but what’s the software you’re using for recording the screencast? Thanks!
( REPLY )- Rick Harding
November 6th, 2012 - 09:15I used recordmydesktop to record it. I might have even used the gtk front end but don’t recall at the moment.
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October 5th, 2010 - 21:31
Can you add the vim tag for this post? Thanks you