On Fri, 12 May 2006, Salman Khilji apparently wrote: 
> When you have a window split, issuing a :bd command 
> closes the buffer AND one panes of the split window as 
> well. 

Just leave it open.
To edit newfile.txt in it
:e newfile.txt
To then immediately get rid of oldfile.txt
:bd#

hth,
Alan Isaac



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