Soulthym / vim-focus-buffer

Simple vim plugin to toggle fullscreen for a buffer using vim's tabpage feature

focus-buffer

Simple vim plugin to toggle fullscreen for a buffer using vim's tabpage feature

Installing

Using vim-plug:

Plug 'soulthym/vim-focus-buffer'

Usage

You can focus any window using Ctrl+w Ctrl+m or Ctrl+w m: it will open your current buffer in a new tab, essentially making it fullscreen.
As long as you don't leave this window, you can use the same key mapping to go back to normal. If you enter any other window however, the same keymap will treat the previously created tab as any other vim tab.

Mappings

By default it is mapped to <c-w><c-m> (Ctrl+w Ctrl+m) and <c-w>m (Ctrl+w m)
You can remap it to your liking with nnoremap <YOURMAPPING> :call MaximizeBuffer()<CR> in your vimrc

NOTE: It is not mapped to <c-m> because that would interfere with the Enter key in most terminals.
That is also the reason why you can use <c-w><CR> (Ctrl+w Enter)

Because it doesn't conflict with any built-in mappings (according to :help index), you can be pretty sure you won't have to change it in the future.

Mnemonics

You can think of it as Ctrl+Window Maximize

TODO

• Hide the tab-bar