bufdel.nvim is a neovim plugin that helps you delete buffers without changing windows layout.

• Installation
• Usage
• User Commands
• User Autocmds
• Credits
• Self-Promotion
• License

Using nvim-plug

require('plug').add({
    'wsdjeg/bufdel.nvim',
})

Using luarocks

luarocks install bufdel.nvim

1. delete a specific buffer:

require("bufdel").delete(2, { wipe = true })

2. delete more than one buffers:

require("bufdel").delete({ 2, 3, 5 }, { wipe = true })

3. delete buffers with filter function:

require("bufdel").delete(function(buf)
    return not vim.bo[buf]modified and vim.bo[buf].buflisted
end, { wipe = true })

bufdel.nvim also provides two user commands :Bdelete and :Bwipeout, which is just same as :delete and :bwipeout, but these user commands will not change the windows layout.

bufdel.nvim triggers two user autocmds when delete a buffer, User BufDelPro and User BufDelPost. here is an example to handled these events:

local mygroup = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("bufdel_custom", { clear = true })
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "User" }, {
	group = mygroup,
	pattern = "BufDelPro",
	callback = function(ev)
        --- the deleted buffer number is saved in ev.data.buf
    end,
})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "User" }, {
	group = mygroup,
	pattern = "BufDelPost",
	callback = function(ev)
        --- the deleted buffer number is saved in ev.data.buf
    end,
})

The User BufDelPost event will not be triggered if failed to delete buffer.

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This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License.