:buffer command, #, $

Vim 7.4.52

I frequently use the :buffer command to change buffers.

The ":buffer partial_name" is really handy.

But if I know the buffer I will often simply use:

:1b

:5b

That got me thinking, I didn't know the buffer number, but it was the last buffer I opened.  So I tried:

:$b

E86: Buffer 48 does not exist

:ls!

  1  h   "\Training_1_14\Exercise_1_SimpleForm.html" line 5

  2  h   "\Training_1_14\Exercise_0_setup.html" line 13

  3 %a   "test.html"                    line 8

  4  h   "DataBind.html"                line 9

  5  h-  "[BufExplorer]"                line 7

  6 #h   "~\ProgramFiles32\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf" line 626

  7  h   "\Training_1_14\Exercise_2_MultipleAreas.html" line 5

  8u h-  "help.txt"                     line 0

  9  h   "\Training_1_14\Exercise_3_CoreFunctions.html" line 5

 10u a-  "windows.txt"                  line 0

Strange how 48 came along.

httpd.conf" 691 lines --91%--

:$b

E86: Buffer 691 does not exist

:#b

E488: Trailing characters

:^b

E492: Not an editor command: ^b

Most likely I have hit a bug here, given the output, the buffer number and the similarity it has to previous data displayed.

Just a simple question, does it make sense to expect the usual buffer arguments to work for :buffer?

The same ones accepted for bufnr()?

:echo bufnr("$")

13

:echo bufnr("#")

6

TIA,

David

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