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[mini.tabline] Allow overwriting of tabpage section

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the mini.tabline implementation and its make_tabpage_section entry point. Trace how the current "Tab 1/2" text is produced and how configuration is defined. Done means the tabpage section can be customized through configuration without changing existing default behavior.

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Description

feature-request mini.tabline
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Module(s)

mini.tabline

Description

I would really like to be able to customize the "Tab 1/2" part of MiniTabline. My usecase is that I implemented a system myself to name tabs. This is a try to stay atop of different tasks I have to work on concurrently.

My suggestion would be to add a field to the config which is a function. This function would return what to print instead of "Tab 1/2". Then use this function inside make_tabpage_section.

I would also be willing to implement a PR for this if this gets your blessing.

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