Clearly lots of us have solved this problem in various ways. My take on it was that, for each window in your vim session, I wanted a memory of which buffers had been displayed there - almost like a "back" button in a web browser. When you close a buffer, it would jump back to the previous buffer for that particular window (repeatedly) - so you could open a file, "gf" to another file, "gf" to another file etc - then step backwards, closing them as you go, back to your first file (or the unnamed file if you go one too far - but there's an undo function to fix that :)
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1147 if you're interested. John On Tuesday 01 May 2007 10:18, Michael Henry wrote: > All, > > Vim Tip #1078 ("Best way to close (delete) buffer without closing its > window") is pretty useful. In the version shown on the tip page[1], it > doesn't keep your cursor in the window you are trying to preserve. I > think the following line is supposed to serve that purpose: > > execute "normal " . g:kwbdWinNum . "" > > The final pair of double-quotes are likely not supposed to be empty. > > If you replace the line above with the following line, the active window > will be preserved: > > execute g:kwbdWinNum "wincmd w" > > I would have posted a comment on the tip, but comments are currently > disabled due to spam considerations. > > As a side note, is there hope for re-enabling the comment feature? I've > found that many of the scripts have valuable comments, sometimes > containing bug fixes, sometimes pointing to similar or complementary > scripts, etc. > > Thanks, > Michael Henry > > [1]: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1078 > >
