> Chaps,
>
> Check this out - going from emacs to vim, (again) as emacs' keybindings
> are a pain on a mac book pro.
>
> There must be a way to have vim create a scratch buffer on start up. At
> the moment am using this -
>
> map <Leader>a :new scratch.foo<cr>
>
> which works but... would be nice to have this automated.
>
>
When you start Vim without a file name, it starts up with an empty
[NoName] buffer. You can then give it any name you want, for instance
:saveas scratch.foo
which will save it to disk (as a zero-length file, if you haven't yet
added anything in it). Or if you don't want to ever save it, just keep
it as [NoName], then you don't even have to rename it. To edit an
existing file in a different window, use
:new foo.txt
(read-write) or
:sview bar.txt
(read-only), in both cases optionally prefixed by :tab if you want to
open it in a new tab page. When you're finished with the [NoName]
buffer, use :q! to quit it without saving. (Of course, if no other
non-help buffer is open in Vim at the time, your Vim session will
terminate.)
Best regards,
Tony.
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