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With the experience I now have with Vim, this is actually the better answer—using buffers and :bn and :bp are better suited for what I was trying to accomplish, and you also answered the exact question I asked (:e, :argadd).

Wildcard
– Wildcard

2016-09-09 02:12:22 +00:00
Commented Sep 9, 2016 at 2:12
@Wildcard the arglist is a subset of the buffer list. whilst it technically represents the files that were passed as arguments from the command line when vim was started, its mostly used when you want to scope an action to a specific set of files, such as a vimgrep search or search and replace etc

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– the_velour_fog

2017-05-14 11:44:38 +00:00
Commented May 14, 2017 at 11:44

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