On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> 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#
... and if you want an empty buffer, use
:enew
instead of :bd . As above, you can then do :bd# if you want.
I guess I never use :bd myself, so maybe I am missing the point.
HTH --Benji Fisher
