Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Re: :e handles one file

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Tue, August 23, 2011 10:02 am, Tom wrote:
> > Scripting solutions aside, I thought the mailinglist would be a good
> > place to talk with developers of vim (or policy makers) on their view
> > on this. Do they post here?
>
> In the end, you need to talk to Bram about it. He decides.
>
> My guess is, that this is some vi compatibility thing and since vi- and
> backwards compatibility is very important to Bram, I think it is very
> unlikely to change. Especially, since alternative solutions have been
> mentioned.

Yep. :e is used everywhere, we don't want to change its behavior.

You can just get used to :n instead. Or write a user command if that
isn't exactly what you want.

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