Bug#482776: NetRW exhibits strange behavior with 'set hidden'

[James Vega]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 08:00:46PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> Charles,
> 
> When a user has "set hidden", there is odd behavior when browsing
> directories.
> 
>   vim .
>   :ls!
>   1 #h   "~/"                           line 1
>   2u%a-  "[Scratch]"                    line 8
>   " Vim is displaying buffer 2
>   :bd
>   " The command succeeds but to the user nothing has changed
>   :ls!
>   1u%a-  "/home/jamessan"               line 8
>   2u  -  "[No Name]"                    line 1
>   " Now buffer 1 is being displayed

The above is working with v125.

>   mkdir -p foo/bar
>   vim foo/bar
>   :ls!
>   1 #h   "foo/bar"                      line 1
>   2u%a-  "[Scratch]"                    line 8
>   " Vim is displaying buffer 2
>   :bd
>   " The command succeeds but to the user nothing has changed
>   :ls!
>   1 #h   "foo/bar"                      line 1
>   2u  -  "[No Name]"                    line 1
>   3u%a-  "[Scratch]"                    line 8
>   " A new buffer has been created
>   :b 1
>   " Let's try looking at the original buffer
>   :ls!
>   1 #h   "foo/bar"                      line 1
>   2u  -  "[No Name]"                    line 1
>   3u  -  "[No Name]"                    line 1
>   4u%a-  "[Scratch]"                    line 8
>   " Yet another new buffer has been created instead of switching to buffer 1

The above is still working as described.  Another data point is that
deleting buffer 1 via ":1bd" stops the continually respawning buffer
behavior.

> Everything works fine, though, if you "vim foo".  The buffer presented
> to the user is buffer 1 and deleting it does leave you in a new blank
> buffer.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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