A couple of questions

[antono]

On Thu 16 Feb 2012 02:05:48 PM FET, Keshav Kini wrote:

 > > In vim, when there are multiple buffers but one window, :q will quit
 > > vim; the same way evil does. When there are multiple windows (or
 > > splits), :q will quit selected one. Again, evil does the same. Hoping
 > > I got you correctly :)
 > 
 > Hmm. By "multiple buffers but one window", do you mean when you supply
 > multiple filenames to vim on the command line, and then use :next and
 > :previous to move between them? I wouldn't have thought that corresponds
 > to the way emacs can have multiple buffers open concurrently, especially
 > since vim actually closes the current file when you use :next or :prev,
 > unlike what happens in emacs when you select a different buffer.
 >
 > It seems to me that emacs with its buffers is a lot more similar to how
 > vim works when you use ":tabedit" to open a new file and use [count]gt
 > and [count]gT to switch between them. And :q does indeed close a single
 > tab and not close vim entirely, when multiple tabs are open.
 
 Check out ":help buffers" in vim :)
 Vim has buffers similar to emacs (hovewer much less usable ui for
 navigation). You can create new buffer with :edit /tmp/file.txt and
 list buffers with :buffers. And :q quits vim even if you have several
 open buffers. So evil is perfect here :)