I'm seeing a "new" trend in tabline plugins and I don't understand it

• barbar.nvim

  38 2,064 6.9 Lua

  The neovim tabline plugin.

I usually lurk around here and occasionally save some plugins to try out later. Today I started doing that and I was looking at barbar.nvim, which looked really nice. But when I started using it, for some reason instead of just showing my tabs, it also showed buffers I previously opened. The usual gt and gT didn't work and had to setup new mappings to change "tabs" which were actually buffers disguised as such.

• vim-buftabline

  11 775 0.0 Vim Script

  Forget Vim tabs – now you can have buffer tabs

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.

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• taboo.vim

  3 252 0.0 Vim Script

  Few utilities for pretty tabs

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).

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