supercrabtree / vim-resurrect

Add Chrome's "Reopen Closed Tab" behaviour to vim buffers

Resurrect

Resurrect reopens your last deleted buffers. When you delete a buffer Resurrect adds it to a list of recently closed buffers and you can then use :Resurrect to reopen the last closed buffer. Repeated calls to :Resurrect will work through the list reopening each buffer in reverse historical order. The behaviour is designed to be as similar as possible to the way modern browsers reopen last closed tabs.

Why not...?

<C-^>

Pressing <C-^> will open the alternative file, which is often the buffer that was just deleted. But repeated presses will just toggle between the two, not open earlier files. Also the alternative file is not always the last buffer, it depends on the language.

Most recently used plugins.

Plugins such as mru.vim and mru provide easy access to the most recently opened files, but this is not the most recently closed files, and is not as quick to just reopen.

Installation

You can use your favorite plugin manager, I like vim-plug.

Plug 'supercrabtree/vim-resurrect'

Customisation

By default Resurrect reopens any kind of file but you probably want to ignore a few kinds of file, for example anything in the .git dir:

let g:resurrect_ignore_patterns = [ '/.git/' ]

Or to also ignore all fugitive diffs:

let g:resurrect_ignore_patterns = [ '/.git/', '^fugitive://' ]

Each string is a regular expression and any file that matches any of them will be ignored by Resurrect. Here is a full example:

let g:resurrect_ignore_patterns = [
\  '/.git/',
\  'fugitive://',
\  '/undotree_2',
\  '/__CtrlSF__'
\]