Re: [vile] multiple [unnamed] buffers

[dickey]

Quoting address@hidden:

> How does one create multiple [unnamed] buffers that are not associated with a
> file?  For instance sometimes I'd like to split a window with the new window
> being an [unnamed] buffer that I can chose to write to a file or just kill
> when I'm done with it.

you can and you can't.  Buffer names are unique (there's nothing magic
about the "[unnamed]" anyway).  But if you do ":e foo" where "foo" does
not already correspond to a file to be loaded, then that's only in memory
until (or if) you write to a file.  I use temporary buffers mostly for
reading the output from a command, e.g., ":e !ls -lrt".  Each of those
stays in memory until discarded.