Re: Buffer name changed after :edit command

On 09/16/2012 04:18 PM, Timothy Madden wrote:
> Hello
>
> In some situation if I try to edit a file like with
> :edit plugin/script.vim
> I may end up with a buffer name like '../.vim/plugin/script.vim'
>
> Note though two paths are equivalent, assuming the current directory is
> named ".vim", still the buffer names are not the same in a literal sense.
>
> This will happen when I already have the file opened (or listed) with
> the long name (../.vim/plugin/script.vim), then I try to :edit it in a
> different window with the short name.
>
> In my script I would like to use :MkVimball command plugin from the
> standard vimball plugin, and if I ran into this problem than MkVimball
> will create for example a file like ../../src/vim/plugin/scriptname.vim
> in the vimball archive. Even if the filename I pass to MkVimball really
> is the right one, plugin/scriptname.vim.

I find that Vim will modify the arguments so as to match existing
buffers or previous arguments. Thus

:args ../dir/script.vim script.vim

becomes:

:args
../dir/script.vim ../dir/script.vim

That is, the second argument is modified to match the first one. The
same thing happens on the command line, too.

Is there a way to prevent this ?

Thank you,
Timothy Madden

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