taboo.vim VS vim-buftabline

gcmt/taboo.vim - Tab page utilities like renaming etc.

If you're okay with using a plugin for this, this plugin lets you do that pretty easily with :TabooRename. Could also look at the source of the plugin and see how they do it if you don't want to add a plugin.

I think I understand where you come from, sometimes with plain tabs its hard to know what buffers they contain, because the name usually is one of the buffers. That's why I used a plugin called taboo.vim to rename tabs and group buffers under those new names (like modules in a project).

I use buftabline and treat them like tabs in a graphical editor.

You’re right, I essentially built my own plugin. And I know could use a plugin like vim-buftabline or vim-buffet to accomplish a similar look.

ap/vim-buftabline for buffer line

You can see your buffer list with :ls, :b (note the space), or with a plugin like vim-buftabline (ap/vim-buftabline: Forget Vim tabs – now you can have buffer tabs)

this and ctrl+p with https://github.com/ap/vim-buftabline

ap/vim-buftabline can display the buffer number which you can use in :bN commands, no idea if it works in neovim. But I most often use tab completion in a :b command.

It's also not a (super) new idea – my plugin is just a Lua ripoff of [vim-buftabline](https://github.com/ap/vim-buftabline), which had its first commit in 2014, and I think Airline may have had it before then.

I like to use Buftabline https://github.com/ap/vim-buftabline and set the next/prev tab to /

In this plugin wishlist thread, I mentioned how I'd like to see an implementation of vim-buftabline in Lua. -olivier directed me to his plugin, nvim-bufbar, and encouraged me to use it as a base.