When I start vim from the command line and provide a filename, how can
I prevent a default scratch buffer from also being opened?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a "default scratch
buffer".
If you supply a filename on the command line
bash$ vi file.txt
you only have one buffer:
:ls
1 %a "file.txt" line 1
If you don't supply a file name, Vim will create an empty
buffer for you
bash$ vi
:ls
1 %a "[No File]" line 1
However, if you don't supply a filename, and you *don't*
want to have the empty buffer, there's nothing for vim to
do. The snarky answer would be
vim -c "q"
:)
Perhaps you could elaborate a bit as to what you're seeing
as "wrong" and what would remedy it.
-tim
