How to avoid having six million buffers open

• telescope.nvim

  322 13,961 9.1 Lua

  Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

  

I switched to neovim a few years ago; didn't notice much a difference since I was using the same .vimrc. Maybe it was faster, but nothing else really changes. The first major "Wow!" moment I had was using telescope.nvim.

• vim-ctrlspace

  13 1,726 4.3 Vim Script

  Vim Space Controller

  

I thought it would be nice to have something like :ls but only for buffers of a current tab. There's a plugin that does exactly that: https://github.com/vim-ctrlspace/vim-ctrlspace. It supports fuzzy search of buffers (as well as files in your project), but I mostly use j/k in the buffer selection list. You can do browsing in a separate tab to keep those uninteresting buffers separate from everything else. I just no longer use :ls since it still contains a list of all buffers ever opened, and vim-ctrlspace buffer switching is much better. Though I sometimes still use :b filename.

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• harpoon

  64 5,708 4.1 Lua

You can check The Primagen's Harpoon

• BufOnly.vim

  2 64 10.0 VimL

  Delete all the buffers except the current/named buffer

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