feat: restore buffers after loading a session#3335
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I went with this location since it was the standard, but it might a good idea have this as an eager autocmd. Otherwise, any means of "lazy loading" may end up calling setup too late (sessions could be loaded relatively early, as in, part of the initilization with nvim -S Session.vim).
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| if vim.api.nvim_win_is_valid(win) then | ||
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There's an edge case with this approach: if nvim-tree was the only buf from a tabpage, it will not be restored. I think that's fine, as it's sort of unlikely. Could add a comment as a reference, or otherwise look into it. The vim api is not very tab friendly, but I guess it should be possible to hook an unholy :[N]tabnew...
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Hello,
I'm on a quest to make all of my plugins (vim) "session friendly". For nvim-tree this sounds pretty straightforward, so I went ahead and implemented it myself.
Problem: nvim-tree leaves stale empty buffers after restoring a session
Solution: detect these buffers on
SessionLoadPostand reopen them.