minitab.nvim

Minitab is a minimal lua reimplementaion of the tabline render function with some improvements. It consists of only ~80 lines of code.

Minitab started as a fork of alvarosevilla95/luatab.nvim

Features

Hackable text-only rendering
Size/position of tabs doesn't change while switching tabs
Minimal file paths are shown
Smart handling of module files (e.g. init.lua => module/init.lua)

Example bar

The above text demonstrates more or less what to expect from this plugin's default tabline rendering. This example also shows how several special cases for various buffer types are handled.

Install

Using a lazy.nvim module

return { url = 'https://git.tjkeller.xyz/minitab.nvim', config = true }

Configuration

The plugin calls the helpers.tabline function to render the line. It uses the other functions and constants defined in helpers. You can pass overrides for any of these in setup. See lua/minitab.lua for details.

Example:

require("minitab").setup{
    modifiedC = "*",
    separator = function(index)
        local sepC = "><"
        if index == 0 then
            sepC = "<"
        elseif index == vim.fn.tabpagenr('$')
            sepC = ">"
        end
        return '%#TabLine#' .. sepC
    end,
}