Re: :buffer command, #, $

On Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:40:44 PM UTC+2, David Fishburn wrote:
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> :buffer # works.
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> :buffer $ does not, but it may be good to make it work.
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> Reverse (:#buffer and :$buffer) should not work. VimL syntax is already far too complicated for the purpose it is used. Handling # or $ specially for a :buffer command will make it even more complicated.
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> Note: everything that goes before the command is range. Range is transformed into line numbers before command is processed. Thus it does not receive information about an exact string that expanded into specific line number.
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> Thanks for the answers guys. So the buffer 691 makes sense now, since I was editing a file that was 691 lines at the time I executed:
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> E93: More than one match for $
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> So in this case, it would be nice to go to the last buffer, essentially special casing the {bufname} partial match when it is just the $.

Consider.

:bf[irst]
:bl[ast]

Short, easy to remember. What's not to like?

Best,

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