On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 9:46:16 AM UTC-5, Jan wrote:
> I've two files loaded, FileNumberOne in buffer 1, and FileNumberTwo in buffer 
> 2, with just FileNumberOne currently shown. I want to open FileNumberTwo in a 
> new split window. I can do ":split FileNumberTwo" to achieve this. However, I 
> don't want to type out or use completion to refer to FileNumberTwo. Some 
> commands will accept "#2", or even part of the buffer name as an argument, 
> but not :split (and some others) - or can they?
> 
> I see the usage of split is ":[N]sp[lit] [++opt] [+cmd] [file]", so I was 
> trying to find help on what "[file]" means and what exactly I can substitute 
> it with, but don't know how to search the help for "[file]". What would I 
> search for for that? And [++opt], [cmd], etc. Are they in the help somewhere?

There is also ":sbuffer" which will take a buffer number or partial buffer name.

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