Feature Request: Delete Buffer in CtrlPBuf Mode

[amadeus]

I searched through the documentation but I couldn't find it anywhere...

I tend to be pretty anal about my buffer management and thought it would be nice to press <c-d> and delete the currently selected buffer in the list (and keep the buffer list open).

Thoughts?

[kien]

ctrlp doesn't have this built-in. I'm not going to add it because it's not essential, and you can just be creative with the options. Use something like this in your vimrc, for example:

let g:ctrlp_buffer_func = { 'enter': 'MyCtrlPMappings' }

func! MyCtrlPMappings()
    nnoremap <buffer> <silent> <c-@> :call <sid>DeleteBuffer()<cr>
endfunc

func! s:DeleteBuffer()
    let line = getline('.')
    let bufid = line =~ '\[\d\+\*No Name\]$' ? str2nr(matchstr(line, '\d\+'))
        \ : fnamemodify(line[2:], ':p')
    exec "bd" bufid
    exec "norm \<F5>"
endfunc

Then pressing <c-@> in Buffer mode will delete the selected buffer.

[d11wtq]

I might take another stab at this. My extremely limited knowledge of Vimscript and of the source code in ctrlp tripped me up last time. Good to have some example code to go by :) I was aiming for something where you could <c-z> to mark a number of buffers (this already works out-of-the-box), then use some combination to delete those buffers. Starting with handling just a single buffer would be a good start though!

I'm pretty bad at opening lots of buffers and then having the tedious task of closing the ones I'm no longer using.

[amadeus]

Dude, @kien, that works awesomely. Thanks so much!

@d11wtq If you get something worked out, let me know!

[Tinche]

I'm going to respectfully disagree; so what if it's non essential? It sounds like a very useful feature to me: it fits naturally within the use case and looks like it'd be very easy to add.

I realize the author is probably worried about bloat but making your users extend your addon through their .vimrc for simple things like this doesn't sound like a good design trade off to me.

[kien]

It's partly because there aren't many usable mappings left to use. I'd also have to make something to allow changing the deletion command between :bd, :bw, :bun, otherwise people would be requesting it. Lastly, I think people should be using plugins dedicated to buffer management instead.

[wting]

I'm also interested in this feature. CtrlP has replaced BufExplorer for switching between buffers. The only reason I keep BufExplorer is to wipe buffers. I imagine I'm not alone in this common use case.

It would be awesome if I could run :CtrlPBuffer, select a bunch of buffers and with <c-z> and then delete/wipe with <c-d> or <c-w>.

[saamalik]

@wting that's exactly what I was thinking, <c-z> to select buffers, and then delete/wipe using some fancy keyboard shortcut.

@kien soo how can we entice you to reconsider? =)

[milushov]

plus one 👍 for this feature request 😃 (yep, i have read entire thread)

[nicklasos]

+1

[451F]

👍

[martco]

👍

[rradonic]

+1