On 4/27/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: vim prison ? > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:08:51 -0400 > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:52:25AM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > > Now I recognize, that file1 does not need any changes and want vim to > > > simply "forget" that file. I have "set hidden" in my .vimrc since I > > > normally have to edit more than one file. And the files are long and > > > loading takes some time ( : ...[converting]... .). > > > ... > > GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi James, > > thank you for your super fast reply :O) ! > > I searched through the help files before. Ad a newbie to vim it > is not simple for me sometimes to find out for what to search... > > And a simple "grep" ist not /that/ helpful....
First of all, you need to understand all the modes the buffers can be in. There are several commands which handle them. As for grep, are you using :helpgrep ? If you do, then you can use :copen to see all the results in a window that will jump to the instances. Don't forget ^D with :help