Y. Hida wrote: > Is there a way to name a scratch buffer other than "[Scratch]" and still > be able to have multiple buffers with same name? Right now I have a > bunch of scratch buffers: > > :ls > 1 #a "[No Name]" line 1 > 2 h- "[Scratch]" line 1 > 3 a- "[Scratch]" line 0 > 4 %a- "[Scratch]" line 1 > > and I'd like to rename some subset as "[My scratch]" or some such. > > If I try > > :f [My scratch] > > to more than one scratch buffer, it complains that buffers cannot have > the same name.
The ":file" command is the right way to go. You may be hitting one of two problems that occur to me: 1) if your new name is literally "[My scratch]", the "[" and "]" characters may be intercepted as shell metachars and trigger weirdness. Try without them: :file my_scratch 2) you didn't include the error number, but if you're getting an "E95: buffer with this name already exists", choose another name for the 2nd buffer. -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
