vim-tab-bar.el

The vim-tab-bar.el package enhances Emacs' built-in tab-bar, giving it a style similar to Vim's tabbed browsing interface. It also ensures that the tab-bar's appearance aligns with the current theme's overall color scheme, providing a consistent look for your Emacs tab-bar.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Options
• Screenshots
• License
• Links

Features

• The vim-tab-bar.el package ensures that tabs maintain a uniform appearance regardless of the theme used. This is also beneficial those who use themes that do not configure the tab-bar properly.
• Group Formatting: Optionally display and format tab groups.
• Makes the Emacs tab-bar (Emacs version >= 27.1) look in a manner reminiscent of Vim's tabbed browsing interface:

(The screenshot above shows how the vim-tab-bar.el package makes the Emacs tab-bar appear)

Installation

The vim-tab-bar package can be installed from MELPA by adding the following to your init.el:

(use-package vim-tab-bar
  :ensure t
  :commands vim-tab-bar-mode
  :hook
  (after-init . vim-tab-bar-mode))

Options

Show the tab groups

By default, tab groups are not displayed. You can make tab-bar-vim display them by setting the variable:

(setq vim-tab-bar-show-groups t)

Screenshots

The screenshots below shows how the vim-tab-bar.el package makes the Emacs tab-bar appear:

License

Copyright (C) 2024 James Cherti

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.

Links

• vim-tab-bar.el @GitHub
• Article: Making the Emacs built-in tab-bar Look Like Vim’s Tab Bar
• tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme.el: a beautiful deep blue variant of the Tomorrow Night theme, which is renowned for its elegant color palette that is pleasing to the eyes.

Other Emacs packages by the same author:

• minimal-emacs.d: This repository hosts a minimal Emacs configuration designed to serve as a foundation for your vanilla Emacs setup and provide a solid base for an enhanced Emacs experience.
• outline-indent.el: An Emacs package that provides a minor mode that enables code folding and outlining based on indentation levels for various indentation-based text files, such as YAML, Python, and other indented text files.
• easysession.el: Easysession is lightweight Emacs session manager that can persist and restore file editing buffers, indirect buffers/clones, Dired buffers, the tab-bar, and the Emacs frames (with or without the Emacs frames size, width, and height).
• elispcomp: A command line tool that allows compiling Elisp code directly from the terminal or from a shell script. It facilitates the generation of optimized .elc (byte-compiled) and .eln (native-compiled) files.
• tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme.el: The Tomorrow Night Deepblue Emacs theme is a beautiful deep blue variant of the Tomorrow Night theme, which is renowned for its elegant color palette that is pleasing to the eyes. It features a deep blue background color that creates a calming atmosphere. The theme is also a great choice for those who miss the blue themes that were trendy a few years ago.
• Ultyas: A command-line tool designed to simplify the process of converting code snippets from UltiSnips to YASnippet format.
• flymake-bashate.el: A package that provides a Flymake backend for the bashate Bash script style checker.