Always hide *Mini buffers?

[toyboot4e]

Currently *Mini buffers visibility policy is unclear. It's sometimes visible in the buffers bar, but I guess they should be always hidden? If so, we would need a dedicated buffer group for them (such as "hidden").

Current *Mini buffer group assignments is as follows:

• centaur-tabs-buffer-groups
*Mini buffers are grouped into "Common" (centaur-tabs-common-group-name). If you're in a "Common" group buffer and open a minibuffer, they're visible in the buffer bar.
• centaur-tabs-projectile-buffer-groups
*Mini buffers are grouped into the current project (Minibuf-X appears in Treesitter buffers #238). Minibuffers are always visible in the buffer bar.

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Note:

• centaur-tabs-excluded-prefixes
  It hides tab bar in *Mini. It doesn't stop *Mini appearing the tab bar in other buffers.

[jcs090218]

As far as I know, mini buffers should be ignored completely. 🤔

[toyboot4e]

Thanks, I opened a PR. It's just a suggestion and feel free to modify/close.

[jcs090218]

I'm a little confused. Minibuffer shouldn't show up at all. 🤔 I've tried with emacs -q and cannot seems to produce the situation you've described.

[toyboot4e]

Hi, thanks a lot for checking. I also failed to reproduce it with minimum config (sorry!). Let me find the real issue.

[toyboot4e]

I dont' know why, but this time I succeeded in reproducing.

1. Create init.el in some directory:

(setopt custom-file nil)

(eval-and-compile
    (customize-set-variable
     'package-archives '( ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")))
    (package-initialize))

(use-package projectile
    :ensure t
    :config
    (projectile-mode 1))

(use-package centaur-tabs
    :ensure t
    :config
    (centaur-tabs-group-by-projectile-project)
    (centaur-tabs-mode t))

2. Open Emacs from the directory: emacs --init-directory $(pwd) init.el
3. Press C-x C-f
4. You'll see *Minibuf-1* in your buffer bar.