Buffer navigation through clicking on bufferline

[xJonathanLEI]

Navigating through buffers via the keyboard is fast accurate. However there are cases where one would like to navigate through mouse:

• when using one hand
• when the keyboard is hard to use or simply not available (e.g. touch screen devices)

Being able to click on a bufferline item to navigate to the buffer solves this. The nvim bufferline plugin has this and it's handy.

[AddictArts]

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[jameynakama]

Is this not being considered anymore?

[the-mikedavis]

There are a few PRs that we need to look at that address this. I removed the tags just because it's not super straightforward so I wouldn't consider it to be an easy issue. But I think it would be a nice feature to have

[ElYaiko]

Any update?

[lynnpepin]

I've fallen in love with the Helix editor recently and I'd love to put some time into this issue. The gentle learning curve is in large part to Helix's good mouse support. I think bufferline mouse support would be an appreciated feature in this direction.

I've done a review of the related issues and PRs, which I'm sharing here in case it's useful for anyone else :)

I saw two duplicate issues (6950, 5102) with out much discussion.

And four PRs across four authors, each with a different approach to support:

• 5041 (Dec 2022) was critiqued as inefficient and closed April 7th for being stale and in favor of 5335,
• 5274 (Dec 2022) was a possible dupe of 5041, saw some iteration, and was closed. The same author then introduced 5335:
• 5335 (Dec 2022), closed for being stale and for bufferline mouse-support being non-priority.
• 6120 (Feb 2023), but closed before there was any discussion. A a fourth developer has made commits from this branch as recent as March 2024.

From my perspective, it looks like 5335 or 6120 make for candidates, where 5335 would need some effort to make "fresh", and 6120 might be due some fresh eyes? Does this sound correct? (It's certainly possible I missed something relevant)