Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Re: How to quickly move to a specific buffer?

Since no one mentioned this:

You can use ':b<buffer number>' to move to a specific buffer.
When I forget which buffer is which number, I execute ':ls' and then I
do ':b2' for buffer number 2, ':b 1' for the first buffer, etc

On 14/12/2022 03:09, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I typically use :bn and :bp to move between buffers, but I have five
> buffers open on my current project, which requires a heck of a lot of
> keystrokes to move to a specific buffer. So I'd like a command to bring
> up a list of buffers so I can chose a specific one.
>
> I've looked up :h buffers and can't find anything. Is there a way I
> could do this?
>
> Theoretically I could use the gvim menu system to do this, but it
> involves taking my hands off home position to use the arrow keys, and
> also, Alt+b is a difficult hotkey, so I'd much rather have some sort of
> Vim command to do it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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>

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