feature request: tree like buffer overview

[minad]

I am currently using ibuffer as a buffer viewer. It might be nice to have something like treemacs showing buffers categorized somehow? Is this within the scope of this project?

[yyoncho]

#263 (comment) you may take a look at this comment and the reply.

[minad]

Wow that looks incredible. It seems there is already a showcase doing something like that. I will dig a bit around then!

[minad]

@yyoncho Any idea on when those things will lang in master?

[Alexander-Miller]

What you see is in master already. It's just incomplete because it still needs node navigation (which I've made good progress on) and the current version only comes with extensions for projects, not top level nodes like a list of buffers would be.

Other than that a buffer overview is definitely on the program.

[minad]

@Alexander-Miller Cool, I am looking very much forward to that! You mean extension support is already in master? I've found the buffer viewer in the dev branch (WIP SHOWCASE).

[Alexander-Miller]

I had only included the buffer viewer at first to serve as an example. It's certainly easier than writing proper documentation for the whole process, especially when the api is far from solid and done.

What meant is that the extension support code is in master, but it's not really used yet, except in @yyoncho's fork. You'll need to be a bit more patient before this whole thing comes into its own.

[minad]

Sure no hurry!

[minad]

@Alexander-Miller I've seen you updated https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs/blob/master/Extensions.org about using extensions to get a buffer view 👍

Is it possible to create a separate treemacs window, which only shows the buffer nodes under some special buffer root node instead of putting them below some project? Do you plan something like that?

[Alexander-Miller]

Yes. That kind of stuff is the goal of the extension api. You can track that in #263.

[minad]

Thank you! Yes, I am following that! I've seen @yyoncho basically asked the same there. Looking forward to it :)

[minad]

@Alexander-Miller Since the extensions api seems done now, will this feature be implemented as part of the treemacs package?

[Alexander-Miller]

Yeah, that is the plan. I have just done plenty of work on account of #247, so I want to play catch up with the older issues first, but doing a buffer view is high up on the list.

[minad]

Cool. Looking forward to it! Great work you are doing! I haven't had issues anymore since a while with treemacs and I am updating quite often from melpa. Everything working smoothly!

[Alexander-Miller]

Work on buffers has started, see #326.