Sort buffers by fricensy of use

[Stanislav-Lapata]

Hi, thanks for a wonderful project.

Can you add sort for require'telescope.builtin'.buffers?
When I use buffers. I would like to see the last files used at the bottom of the list.

I open Gemfile and then Procfile, but they find at the top of the list.

[tjdevries]

So highest buffer number in the bottom or actually the last buffer you were in?

[Stanislav-Lapata]

Actually the last buffer I was in.
If it helps you, I saw similar logic in fzf.vim.

[sunjon]

I'd wanted this feature too. I'm not sure about how FZF ordered the buffers, because I don't want to be navigating with cursor keys in a fuzzy finder.. what was useful, was the "%" buffer being pinned to the top.

Then if I have <leader><CR> mapped to telescope buffers, I can hit <leader><cr><cr> to toggle back and forth between two buffers.

[tjdevries]

But that's builtin, you can use <C-^>, right?

[tjdevries]

To neovim I mean.

[sunjon]

But that's builtin, you can use <C-^>, right?

Sure, I could. But I find that an inconvenient shortcut that seem chosen. For me it's about least resistance and keeping my hands on the homerow.

I map <Leader>(space)+<CR> to present the buffer list
The keys to interact with the window are <esc> (caps-lock)[homerow], <C-j>/<C-k>[homerow], and which my finger is already on. The choice of four or five buffers are available from a couple of key presses beneath keys my fingers are already on, without be having to even begin an actual fuzzy search.
It becomes a zero-thought process.

It does feel like I'm reasoning on Junegunn' behalf though, as it's nothing more than a request for the same feature as FZF, and that feature was undoubtedly a design choice.
In fact not only does FZF bump the previous buffer to the top of the list for this convenience, it also shows % / ^ /etc marks preceeding the buffer name.

[Conni2461]

I would take a closer look at this in the next few days, if it is okay for all involved.

[cseelus]

@Stanislav-Lapata Did you ever get this to work with #208? Also which theme are you using? Looks really decent 👍

[creativecreature]

This section of the README describes how to achieve this: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim#customize-default-builtin-behavior

This is the configuration you would need:

local actions = require('telescope.actions')require('telescope').setup{
  pickers = {
    buffers = {
      sort_lastused = true
    }
  }
}

[Herz3h]

This is not shown anymore in the README, it talks about sorters, but no example on how to override the default one..

[Conni2461]

Most of the documentation is moved from the readme to the :help telescope. How to configure setup is shown in :help telescope.setup and the buffer options are documented here :help telescope.builtin.buffers.

It makes more sense to have the documentation in vim, rather than in the readme.

The readme is meant as a quickstart not on how to configure every single detail