On Friday, 13 July 2012 03:22:49 UTC+1, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 06:34:32AM EDT, Geoff wrote: > > > You can also use :bd to unload the buffer and delete it from > > the list once you've finished with it, to avoid leaving it > > in the buffer list. Possibly a dangerous habit to acquire > > though. > > I'm not sure I understand what ‘danger’ you are referring to, though.. > If the target buffer is modified, Vim will complain (unless you do > a :bd!).. otherwise the only risk is that you'd have to reload the > buffer (:e file).
Hmm, I'm not sure either. But if you've set hidden and then you use :bd all the time you are defeating the purpose of having hidden set. Presumably you had it set for a good reason... I'm glad you asked actually - I set hidden a couple of years ago and I definitely had a good reason at the time, but I find I'm no longer sure what it was. When I wrote the previous email I did vaguely think hidden was a way of protecting you from losing changes but as you say, :bd warns about that anyway. Maybe I'll try turning it off and find out why I set it in the first place :) regards, Geoff -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
