Consider the following test sequence...
:new
:ls
1 #a "[No Name]" line 1
2 %a "[No Name]" line 1
:hide
:ls
1 %a "[No Name]" line 1
2 h "[No Name]" line 0
:new somefile.txt
:ls
1 #a "[No Name]" line 1
2 h "[No Name]" line 0
3 %a "somefile.txt" line 1
As expected, the empty [No Name] buffer created with :new was hidden by
the :hide command and remains in the buffer list. I can get it back in
its own window by executing...
:sb 2
Now consider the following variation on the test sequence above...
:new
:ls
1 #a "[No Name]" line 1
2 %a "[No Name]" line 1
:hide e somefile.txt
:ls
1 a "[No Name]" line 1
2 %a "somefile.txt" line 1
Notice that the [No Name] buffer that used to be buffer 2 is now gone,
apparently replaced by somefile.txt. I can't possibly get it back. I
know it was discarded (and not simply reassigned the name somefile.txt)
because any buffer-local variables it contained are not accessible in
the somefile.txt buffer.
It seems to me that the 2 test cases above should produce similar
results. In particular, I would expect that executing...
:sb 2
...at the end of the second sequence would restore to its own window the
[No Name] buffer hidden by...
:hide e somefile.txt
Is this a bug, or is the behavior described somewhere in the documentation?
Thanks,
Brett Stahlman
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