The vim-tab-bar.el package enhances Emacs' built-in tab-bar, giving it a style similar to Vim's tabbed browsing interface. It also ensures that the tab-bar's appearance aligns with the current theme's overall color scheme, providing a consistent look for your Emacs tab-bar.

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• The vim-tab-bar.el package ensures that tabs maintain a uniform appearance regardless of the theme used. This is also beneficial those who use themes that do not configure the tab-bar properly.
• Group Formatting: Optionally display and format tab groups.
• Makes the Emacs tab-bar (Emacs version >= 27.1) look in a manner reminiscent of Vim's tabbed browsing interface:

(The screenshot above shows how the vim-tab-bar.el package makes the Emacs tab-bar appear)

To install vim-tab-bar from MELPA:

1. If you haven't already done so, add MELPA repository to your Emacs configuration.

2. Add the following code to your Emacs init file to install vim-tab-bar from MELPA:

(use-package vim-tab-bar
  :ensure t
  :commands vim-tab-bar-mode
  :hook
  (after-init . vim-tab-bar-mode))

By default, tab groups are not displayed. You can make tab-bar-vim display them by setting the variable:

(setq vim-tab-bar-show-groups t)

The screenshots below shows how the vim-tab-bar.el package makes the Emacs tab-bar appear:

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• vim-tab-bar.el @GitHub
• Article: Making the Emacs built-in tab-bar Look Like Vim’s Tab Bar
• tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme.el: a beautiful deep blue variant of the Tomorrow Night theme, which is renowned for its elegant color palette that is pleasing to the eyes.

Other Emacs packages by the same author:

• minimal-emacs.d: This repository hosts a minimal Emacs configuration designed to serve as a foundation for your vanilla Emacs setup and provide a solid base for an enhanced Emacs experience.
• compile-angel.el: Speed up Emacs! This package guarantees that all .el files are both byte-compiled and native-compiled, which significantly speeds up Emacs.
• outline-indent.el: An Emacs package that provides a minor mode that enables code folding and outlining based on indentation levels for various indentation-based text files, such as YAML, Python, and other indented text files.
• easysession.el: Easysession is lightweight Emacs session manager that can persist and restore file editing buffers, indirect buffers/clones, Dired buffers, the tab-bar, and the Emacs frames (with or without the Emacs frames size, width, and height).
• elispcomp: A command line tool that allows compiling Elisp code directly from the terminal or from a shell script. It facilitates the generation of optimized .elc (byte-compiled) and .eln (native-compiled) files.
• tomorrow-night-deepblue-theme.el: The Tomorrow Night Deepblue Emacs theme is a beautiful deep blue variant of the Tomorrow Night theme, which is renowned for its elegant color palette that is pleasing to the eyes. It features a deep blue background color that creates a calming atmosphere. The theme is also a great choice for those who miss the blue themes that were trendy a few years ago.
• Ultyas: A command-line tool designed to simplify the process of converting code snippets from UltiSnips to YASnippet format.
• flymake-bashate.el: A package that provides a Flymake backend for the bashate Bash script style checker.
• flymake-ansible-lint.el: An Emacs package that offers a Flymake backend for ansible-lint.
• inhibit-mouse.el: A package that disables mouse input in Emacs, offering a simpler and faster alternative to the disable-mouse package.
• quick-sdcv.el: This package enables Emacs to function as an offline dictionary by using the sdcv command-line tool directly within Emacs.
• enhanced-evil-paredit.el: An Emacs package that prevents parenthesis imbalance when using evil-mode with paredit. It intercepts evil-mode commands such as delete, change, and paste, blocking their execution if they would break the parenthetical structure.
• stripspace.el: Ensure Emacs Automatically removes trailing whitespace before saving a buffer, with an option to preserve the cursor column.
• persist-text-scale.el: Ensure that all adjustments made with text-scale-increase and text-scale-decrease are persisted and restored across sessions.
• pathaction.el: Execute the pathaction command-line tool from Emacs. The pathaction command-line tool enables the execution of specific commands on targeted files or directories. Its key advantage lies in its flexibility, allowing users to handle various types of files simply by passing the file or directory as an argument to the pathaction tool. The tool uses a .pathaction.yaml rule-set file to determine which command to execute. Additionally, Jinja2 templating can be employed in the rule-set file to further customize the commands.