Sort open buffers?

[yanniskatsaros]

Is there a way to sort open buffers in the editor (by name, file extension, etc.)?

For example, if I had the following buffers open:

c-example.py	b-example.toml	a-example.py	d-example.txt	e-example.py

I was hoping there would be something akin to doing:

:buffer-sort name

which would sort the buffers to:

a-example.py	b-example.toml	c-example.py	d-example.txt	e-example.py

or instead by file extension:

:buffer-sort extension

a-example.py	c-example.py	e-example.py	b-example.toml	d-example.txt

I tried exploring suggestions from the command palette using <space>? but didn't see anything relevant.

[grv07]

What is your use case?
Generally Space+b resolve most of mines.

[yanniskatsaros]

@grv07 my use case is that I usually have many buffers open at once and I have keymaps setup (Shift+h to move to the left buffer and Shift+l to move to the right buffer) to switch between them quickly. There are situations when I'd like to logically group buffers together to make it easier when I'm switching back and forth between them.

Not a huge deal if this functionality isn't available, I just wanted to ask in case I was missing something. Space+b is definitely useful and I do use it, this is just a slightly different use case.