A coworker (who is not on VIM Mailing List) has asked me to forward this issue here. Is this already known about or what do we do to submit a bug?
I have verified that it happens on my build of vim. His repro steps are below. My :version is >>> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled May 7 2006 16:23:43) MS-Windows 32 bit GUI version with OLE support Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Big version with GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent +clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments +cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs -dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +folding -footer +gettext/dyn -hangul_input +iconv/dyn +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape +multi_byte_ime/dyn +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg +ole -osfiletype +path_extra +perl/dyn -postscript +printer -profile +python/dyn +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby/dyn +scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white +tcl/dyn -tgetent -termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup -xfontset -xim -xterm_save +xpm_w32 system vimrc file: "$VIM\vimrc" user vimrc file: "$HOME\_vimrc" 2nd user vimrc file: "$VIM\_vimrc" user exrc file: "$HOME\_exrc" 2nd user exrc file: "$VIM\_exrc" system gvimrc file: "$VIM\gvimrc" user gvimrc file: "$HOME\_gvimrc" 2nd user gvimrc file: "$VIM\_gvimrc" system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME\menu.vim" Compilation: cl -c /W3 /nologo -D_MT -MT -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DWIN32 -DFEAT_CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG -DFEAT_XPM_W32 -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 /Fo.\ObjGOLYTR/ /Ox -DNDEBUG -DFEAT_OLE -DFEAT_MBYTE_IME -DDYNAMIC_IME -DFEAT_GUI_W32 -DDYNAMIC_ICONV -DDYNAMIC_GETTEXT -DFEAT_TCL -DDYNAMIC_TCL -DDYNAMIC_TCL_DLL=\"tcl83.dll\" -DDYNAMIC_TCL_VER=\"8.3\" -DFEAT_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON_DLL=\"python24.dll\" -DFEAT_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL_DLL=\"perl58.dll\" -DFEAT_RUBY -DDYNAMIC_RUBY -DDYNAMIC_RUBY_VER=18 -DDYNAMIC_RUBY_DLL=\"msvcrt-ruby18.dll\" -DFEAT_BIG /Zi /Fd.\ObjGOLYTR/ Linking: link /RELEASE /nologo /subsystem:windows /incremental:no /nodefaultlib:libc advapi32.lib shell32.lib gdi32.lib comdlg32.lib ole32.lib uuid.lib oldnames.lib kernel32.lib gdi32.lib version.lib winspool.lib comctl32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib /machine:i386 /nodefaultlib libcmt.lib oleaut32.lib user32.lib /nodefaultlib:python24.lib e:\tcl\lib\tclstub83.lib WSock32.lib e:\xpm\lib\libXpm.lib /PDB:.\ObjGOLYTR/gvim.pdb -debug-- INSERT -- <<< Chuck _____________________________________________ From: Boris Kazanskii Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:43 PM To: Chuck Mason Subject: :args -> buffer list mapping issue :args allows to insert directory browser buffers into the buffer list, which cause :bn, :bufdo and friends to fail To reproduce: - Open vim (win32) - :args D:\Program\ Files\Vim\**\co*.* (or whatever matches your configuration) - :bfirst - do a couple of :bn, this will never ever get over the first directory browser buffer (D:\Program\ Files\Vim\vim70\colors\ in this case) - :bufdo echo expand("%") will also stop after it encounters the first directory browser - :bd/:bw are unable to delete these "bad" directory buffers - the only way to get rid of these is to do :1,1000bd