TIL: How to Use Open Buffers When Debugging With Neovim’s DAP Plugin
I had an issue that whilst debugging my Golang tests in Neovim, the buffer I was focusing on would always change to the breakpoint. Even when the buffer was open and visible already, say I had the code with the breakpoint on the left buffer and the tests I was starting the debugger from on the right buffer.
You can see the example belows:
When I start the DAP debugger on the right hand side, by using it to debug the nearest tests, the buffer will change to the breakpointed line. However I want it to use the open buffer on the left because it is already open.
To do this we need to update our Neovim options: vim.o.switchbuf = "useopen,uselast". This will now behave as we
want. Note uselast, here is the default value for this option. You can read more about by typing :help 'switchbuf.
That’s it! We can now debugger our code and keep the layout we have.