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The original was posted on /r/neovim by /u/linkarzu on 2024-11-02 15:57:34+00:00.

In this video I go over how I used to navigate buffers in Neovim, I used tabs in the past, but over the past few months, I’ve discovered that I find tabs in Neovim distracting and overwhelming. Sometimes I have up to 20 files open, and I just cannot focus that well by having so many tabs shown at the top. That’s why I prefer to have the tabs “hidden” we could say, and I navigate between my open buffers using the telescope buffers command (you don’t require an additional plugin)

In the video I also demo how I previously used the bufexplorer plugin, which allows me to navigate between neovim buffers using the j and k keys, it also allowed me to close buffers by pressing the letter d, and to quit the plugin by pressing the letter q

I love this way of navigating buffers, because it’s pretty similar to the way that I navigate sessions in tmux, I bring up the tmux sessions, navigate them with j and k and quit with q, so it’s all about consistency across the tools I use

I now use telescope buffers, I open it in normal mode so that I can navigate buffers without having to switch from insert mode to normal mode, I can close buffers with d and I can quit the plugin with q

I also configured winbar to show me the number of buffers that I have open, and I demo how to configure this as well

I always like learning new ways of doing things and tricks, so if you can, share how you navigate buffers and why

Link to the video here

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