[question] How to scope buffers to tab pages?

[midrare]

Say if I open a buffer when a certain tab page is open, I want that buffer to appear in cokeline only when that tab page is open. Under any other tab page, that buffer is hidden.

Is this possible in cokeline, and do you have any general pointers for how to best implement this? (Alternatively, would this be a good new feature to be built into cokeline?)

edit: Also, scoping buffers to windows?

[yyy33]

I think this is a cool feature

[midrare]

I found a workaround: use bufferline.nvim with scope.nvim. I'd still prefer a tabline-native solution though.

[willothy]

Absolutely planning on adding this feature!

I'd like to be able to scope/group buffers to tabs and collapse the tab groups for more free space.

[willothy]

Moved this to here for discussion purposes, feature updates will be posted in #35.

[midrare]

I see that the feature went through, but after reading the docs it's not obvious to me how to implement scoping buffers to tabs/windows. Any tips?

[willothy]

I use scope.nvim, and I'd suggest others to do so as well. It works very well with cokeline, no extra configuration needed. I may still implement tab scoping here at some point, but given that scope does it very well it's not a high priority for me. My next goal for cokeline is to make all component updates event driven / asynchronous - after that, I may begin adding more features again.

I'll make an issue for this and try to get to it as soon as I can.