What is the purpose of `vl`?

[eblume]

Hi @nmasur , I hope you are well! I have another question about your config.

What is the purpose of this vl alias?

nvim -c 'normal! `0' -c 'bdelete 1'

I understand (I think) that "nvim -c 'normal! `0'" means "open vim to the last edited position", which is cool enough. What does bdelete 1 mean here though? I understand from :help bdelete that it's something to do with closing an open buffer, but from my own testing I seem to generally not be working in buffers starting from 1 - it's actually kind of curious, I haven't ever had much cause to work with :ls in vim and so I hadn't noticed the behavior before but it seems to retain old cached buffer numbers for files, is this related to the way you set up nvim backup and swap?

Thanks again!

[nmasur]

Hey @eblume,

This is a quirky one, and I think it's due to the fact that I have the bufferline.nvim plugin installed, which shows buffers as a tab bar at the top of the Neovim window.

Whenever I open Neovim, it defaults to an empty buffer. With the -c 'normal! `0' command it will then jump to the last edited position of the most recent file, but it will leave open the empty buffer as [No Name]:

So by adding -c 'bdelete 1', we kill the first empty buffer and only get the file we want.

[eblume]

Thanks, that explains it! I've disabled bufferline in my build, so I don't even see the other buffer being left 'open'.

Appreciated as always!