Buffers, Windows, Tabs in Neovim

In this video I walk through the building blocks of Neovim and Vim for viewing and editing files. Buffers, Windows and Tabs allow you to manipulate your editor and customize it to your needs.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Buffers
1:47 Windows
4:15 Tabs
6:11 Outro
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[@ascourter]

Do you have any tips or tricks you use for opening or manipulating buffers, windows, tabs?

[@Drezaem55]

This was exactly what I needed next in my vim journey. I can reasonably fluently move within a file, and this teaches how to move through a project which was the next step I needed to take. Thank you very much!

[@ascourter]

You're very welcome! Glad I was able to help. You might also check out my video on NetRW too. There's some good overlap between these concepts and using NetRW.

[@licokr]

I'm a noob for neovim. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks man 👍

[@ascourter]

Thank you! Glad it helped and let me know if there are other topics you're interested in.

[@TheStickofWar]

When Andrew resizes the window with his keybinding (ctrl+w -> arrow key), You can actually enter ctrl+w -> any number -> arrow key and you will repeat this. It's the equivalent to the cols and rows of your terminal, so if you want 5 columns (synonymous with characters) or 5 rows (synonymous with line height), then you can do that. Of course you can map some shortcut to spam it if you prefer.

[@ascourter]

Thanks for sharing this!

[@hungrycode]

this is so helpful thank you

[@ascourter]

Thanks for watching!

[@BlaximusIV]

Awesome, this was just what I was looking for! Very helpful. It might be helpful to note that at 0:55, pv that's used is a custom mapping for the 'Ex' command. e.g. ':Ex' or vim.cmd.Ex

[@ascourter]

Thanks for calling that out. That's definitely a custom keymap like you mentioned.

[@user-ew6mz8kz8v]

Я минут пять не мог понять как открыть файл. Потом решил посмотреть комментарии и благодаря тебе смог открыть файл/ Спасибо! Для тех, кто в затруднении нужно выполнить

[@elw8058]

The local arglist is a really under rated feature of Vim. Perhaps you can explain how it's independent in tabs,splits.

[@elw8058]

and how it differs from buffers

[@ascourter]

That's a great suggestion! I'll add that to my list to go over. Thanks!

[@rbereziuk]

Great video, thanks. Not vim question, why do you use useMemo for simple object literal? Using hooks is not free, and for simple object, it could have the opposite effect to app performance

[@ascourter]

Thanks! If I remember correctly I needed it to do a deep comparison or copy to get it to work. Definitely performance implications like you mentioned so I should go back and double check this is still necessary. Thanks for the question!

[@simplyblunder]

Great video! one thing I was wondering that while it's nice to be able to send a split to a new tab like you showed at the end, is it possible to then send this tab back into a split??

[@simplyblunder]

or is it just sort of easier to use ":sb" for this sort of thing?

[@ascourter]

Great question, I don't think there's a built in way to move a window back into an existing tab from what I've researched. I did find this link with a custom function for vim: vim.fandom.com/wiki/Move_current_window_between_tabs

[@simplyblunder]

@@ascourter awesome, cheers for the reply I’ll check it out!

[@GSon-bj7mp]

what is that 'column' that is highlighted on the right side of your screen? i have that same thing, and drives me nuts... do you know how to get rid of it? or at least why it appears there? thanks in advance

[@ascourter]

Haha I have debated turning this off as well. I believe this is "colorcolumn". Try setting vim.opt.colorcolumn = "" in your init.lua to disable it.

[@GSon-bj7mp]

lol, i c. thank you!@@ascourter

[@user-go3rb6rs2l]

Andrew Courter thank you from Russia о7 👏

[@yash1152]

1:35 equivalent to _[i list opened buffers using telescope]_ i'll have to search for the way to do it natively in nvim. as i am not into any plugins for the time being.

[@ascourter]

Using :buffers should be the built in way to list the open buffers

[@LuRybz]

Hey, I am a game developer (Unity) and I am passionate about Vim but the tutorials that I`ve found dont mention about debugging. I cant debug Unity C# code in Vim :( do you have any idea how to solve it?

[@ascourter]

It's on my list to create a C# video. I haven't done much C# but I should be able to show how to get debugging and tests running

[@AdharshMk96]

How to configure telescope to open a new tab everytime?

[@ascourter]

Unless you have overridden the default mappings, Ctrl+t should open a file in a new tab. You can override the mappings if you want it to be in a tab but the default of using buffers is more vim-like. github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file#default-mappings

[@AdharshMk96]

I got the desired behavior with bufferline and setting mode=“buffers” Now when any new buffer is shown as tab

[@ascourter]

@@AdharshMk96 ah ok. That's a little different than opening each in a tab but I'm glad that got the behavior you wanted!

[@michalroesler]

You're using this this key combination " ff" a lot. Can you please explain what it's doing if a few simple words??

[@ascourter]

Of course! This runs:Telescope find_files. Here's a link to my keymaps for Telescope: github.com/exosyphon/nvim/blob/main/after/plugin/telescope.lua

[@michalroesler]

It's great you have Return YouTub Dislike button installed. It shows you're the legit content creator. I was a little disappointment, because you have a little to much of those plugins installed, so your key combinations are a little bit different then plain vanilla Vim. But thanks for the explanation, regarding Buffers, Windows and Tabs. That's quite a lot features for a single text editor, but one needs to learn and understand the world we live in. Doesn't he??

[@ascourter]

Glad my explanation was helpful!

[@ripndipp]

This is my 3rd time trying to divorce myself to BSCode

[@ascourter]

Good luck! What have you run into in the past that prevented the switch?