CloseUnsplitView

Combining closing and unsplitting a message or error buffer

If you often do an unsplit after closing a message or error buffer you can combine these into one key command in your ~/.textadept/init.lua:

keys['ctrl+w'] = function()
  if buffer._type then
    buffer:close()
    ui.goto_view(-1)
    view:unsplit()
  else
    buffer:close()
  end
end

NOTE: The above code is simple but doesn't work as intended when you have a vertical split and you run the program/script in the left hand split. It's a subtle point but ui.goto_view(-1) does not go back to the previously active view, instead it goes to the view with view number one less than that of the current view.

To get the desired behavior you need to goto the view above the current view (the message buffer) before you do the unsplit, the only way I've found to do this is to recursively search the split table, see ui.get_split_table().

Anyway here's the code that should work regardless of how the views are split.

function is_view(t)
  return not (t[1] or t[2])
end

function get_view_num(v)
  return _G._VIEWS[v]
end

-- Find upper view in horizontal split given view number
-- of the lower view
-- vnum is view number of lower view in horizontal split
-- t is the split table to search (recursively)
-- Returns view number of upper view or 0 if no such view
function split_walker(vnum, t)
  local result = 0
  if is_view(t) then
    return 0
  else
    if ((not t.vertical) and is_view(t[2])
         and get_view_num(t[2]) == vnum) then
      return get_view_num(t[1])
    else
      result = split_walker(vnum, t[2])
      if result == 0 then
        result = split_walker(vnum, t[1])
      end
    end
  end
  return result
end

-- Goto view above the current view if there is one
function goto_view_above()
    cur_view_num = _G._VIEWS[_G.view]
    t = ui.get_split_table()
    view_above = split_walker(cur_view_num , t)
    if view_above > 0 then
      ui.goto_view(_G._VIEWS[view_above])
    end
end

keys['ctrl+w'] = function()
  if buffer._type then
    buffer:close()
    goto_view_above()
    view:unsplit()
  else
    buffer:close()
  end
end