> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 5:03 PM > > > 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" > > :)
There is if you set up vim to restore the last session. But even in this case vim will create a scratch buffer in addition to the buffers you last edited. To prevent this from happening I start vim with the following command: gvim +bd -- JP
