lualine.nvim VS bufferline.nvim

Lualine.nvim - A blazing fast and easy to configure Neovim statusline written in Lua

Many of you already know I've been maintaining a fork of lualine shadmansaleh for a while.If you didn't know check this out.

See https://github.com/hoob3rt/lualine.nvim/pull/311 for more details and to see what the difference are.

# 🎁 Features - Multiple colorschemes (AKA [flavors](#-flavors)) available! - Handy CLI for loading colorschemes. - Allows user remaps. - Extensible for many use cases. - Integrations with a lot of stuff: - [Treesitter](https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter) - [Native LSP](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig) - [Telescope](https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim) - [LSP Saga](https://github.com/glepnir/lspsaga.nvim) - [Trouble](https://github.com/folke/trouble.nvim) - [WhichKey](https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim) - [Git signs](https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim) - [BarBar](https://github.com/romgrk/barbar.nvim) - [NvimTree](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua) - [Lualine](https://github.com/hoob3rt/lualine.nvim) - [Git Gutter](https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter) - [Fern](https://github.com/lambdalisue/fern.vim) - [Lightline](https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim) - [Dashboard](https://github.com/glepnir/dashboard-nvim) - [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/) - [Sneak](https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak) - [Neogit](https://github.com/TimUntersberger/neogit) - [Indent Blankline](https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim)

Lualine is in a pretty similar situation. There is no activity since 05/27 and there is a fork with 32 commits waiting to be accepted.

In lualine you can have extentions . Extention confuguration is similar to normal configuration except you get to chose which filetypes to display that for . You can put extention files in your config usually ~/.config/nvim/lua/lualine/extensions folder and load them in your config :)

lualine

new lualine theme that changes color depending on the chosen style

Checkout the options for diagnostics in lualine here.

So, I'm using bufferline and I want to setup some highlight colors based on the current Neovim theme (light or dark). While Neovim is working, if I run :lua print(vim.o.background) effectively gives me light or dark according to the current Neovim theme. BUT, doing so in the plugin's configuration does not work:

if you use bufferline you can override with: lua options = { offsets = { { filetype = "NvimTree", text = "File Explorer", text\_align = "center" } } }

I’m not familiar with Nvchad but I’m sure they’re using some kind of plugin that show buffers as tabs, you could try something like bufferline.nvim

there are many ways to achieve that. i recommend bufferline.

🧩 Works with any plugin. Check Show and Tell for snippets to integrate even better with plugins like neo-tree.nvim, bufferline.nvim

Left and right arrows to switch between buffers. I used to pair this with giving every buffer its own tab, but now I just use Bufferline which functions similarly.

I'm currently using bufferline.nvim with scope.nvim. I made a github repo with the modifications and credits to Everblush, but I'm not sure if it's allowed, since Everblush doesn't have a License. If It's not allowed, then I'll just delete the repo and forke the Everblush repo.

I used bufferline https://github.com/akinsho/bufferline.nvim

I believe this bug was fixed in bufferline.nvim's PR#727.