Get The Buffer Number Of A Buffer In A Neovim Window With Lua

Getting The Buffer Number

Use this to get the buffer number of the buffer in a specific window:

nvim_win_get_buf(WINDOW_NUMBER)

Where WINDOW_NUMBER is the number of the window you want to get the buffer number for. It can be set to zero to get the buffer number of the current window.

To see the value on the command line, use:

:echo nvim_win_get_buf(WINDOW_NUMBER)

The Current Window Number

You can find the window number of the current window with:

nvim_get_current_win()

Which is used like this on the command line

:echo nvim_get_current_win()

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