Re: Hidden buffers

On 7 April 2013, Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:48:37PM +0300, LCD 47 wrote:
> > > > Given a buffer number, is it possible to find out (in Vimscript)
> > > > whether the corresponding buffer is hidden or not?

[...]
> The solution might be a loop over tabpages and checking if a buffer is
> associated with one of them. The following function will test if
> bufnr is associated with one of tabpages:
>
> fun! BufInTab(bufnr)
> for tabnr in range(1,tabpaggenr('$'))
> if index(tabpagebuflist(tabnr), a:bufnr) != -1
> return 1
> endfi
> endfor
> return 0
> endfun

Aha, this works fine, thank you!

> If you just want to test if the buffer is not shown just in the current
> tab page you can use winbufnr(), it return -1 if the buffer has not
> associated window.

This works too, using bufwinnr() (winbufnr() returns the buffer in
window, bufwinnr() gets the window of the buffer). It's exactly what I
need.

On 7 April 2013, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:
> How about using :redir to capture the output of :ls and parsing the
> result?

That was the last resort option, it's really ugly, and I'm glad
there's a better solution. :) But thank you for answering nonetheless.

/lcd

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