Buffer Hint

bufferhint is a handly buffer switcher for Vim.

With this plugin, you can browse all buffers in a popup side window.

In addition, this plugin provides a "hint key" for each buffer, just like what Vimperator/Vimium/VimFx does.

Therefore, you can switch among buffers quickly with a single key stroke in the best case.

Installtion

cp bufferhint.vim ~/.vim/plugin/

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/bsdelf/bufferhint.git

Add following two lines in ~/.vimrc:

nnoremap - :call bufferhint#Popup()
nnoremap \ :call bufferhint#LoadPrevious()

Yellow hints means the buffers are sorted by path, green hints means the buffers are sorted by LRU.
You can also type / in bufferhint window and search what you want, then type ENTER to load it.
Apparently j/k/d/n/N are excluded from the hint chars.

bufferhint#Popup()

Toggle bufferhint window.
bufferhint#LoadPrevious()

Load the second item in LRU. It's very useful in the scene where you want to switch back and forth between two files.
bufferhint#Save()

Save current session to an external session file which can be restored by vim -S command in the future. The default session file name is "session.vim".

g:bufferhint_SortMode

Default sort mode.
- 0: sort by path
- 1: sort by LRU
g:bufferhint_MaxWidth

Maxmium window width.
g:bufferhint_PageStep

Page step, will affect PGUP, PGDN, C-f, C-b.
g:bufferhint_SessionFile

The default session file name.
g:bufferhint_KeepWindow

Set to 1 to keep window open after buffer deleting.

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