Manuel Ortega wrote:
> As noted in an earlier thread, I discovered that most attributes to
> ":command" can be abbreviated. I discovered this only by accident, looking
> in syntax/vim.vim.
>
> Turns out, in that syntax file (a) there is no support for the attribute
> "-buffer" (for buflocal commands), and (b) trial and error indicates that
> the attribute "-buffer" CAN be abbreviated all the way down to "-b".
>
> So Dr. Chip, please add this attribute to the syntax file.
>
> And Bram, please note this in the docs about "-buffer" too.
This is not really intended to work that way. It happens that because
the code uses the length of the typed argument to compare that it
happens to work. But I really would prefer everybody to use the whole
name. One might call it a bug, but since some scripts rely on it we
probably won't fix it.
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