Re: switching to window, by buffer nr

Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Apr 8, 9:20 am, "Christian Brabandt" <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, April 8, 2010 4:14 pm, Ben Fritz wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 7, 3:16 pm, Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> exe "bufwinnr(1)" wincmd w
>>>>
>>> This will not work. wincmd w does the same thing as CTRL-W w, which
>>> will jump to a specific WINDOW, in top-to-bottom, left-to-right order.
>>> It does NOT jump to the window containing a specific BUFFER.
>>>
>> Yes it does. There is even an example in the help.
>> See :h winc
>>
>>
>
> >From :help :winc :
>
> The count can also be a window number. Example:
> :exe nr . "wincmd w"
> This goes to window "nr".
>
> I assume this is the example to which you refer.
>
> Note the difference between WINDOW nr, and BUFFER nr.
>
> The OP may have a situation like this:
>
> +-------------------------------------+
> | | | |
> | Window 1 | Window 2 | Window 3 |
> | | | |
> | Buffer 2 | Buffer 4 | Buffer 1 |
> | | | |
> +-------------------------------------+
>
> Executing :2wincmd w will take you to Window 2, which is displaying
> Buffer 4. IIUC, the OP said he wants to jump to the window containing
> BUFFER 2 in this situation, which would be Window 1.
>
>
Um, Ben: CB used bufwinnr(), the result of which is the window id first
holding the requested buffer.

Regards,
Chip

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