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- [Instructor] Let's open some files.

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Vim tools.txt.

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And then :e new.txt and then :e and sleep.txt.

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To view the current list of buffers,

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use :ls and then enter.

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You can move between buffers with :bn and enter.

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:bp and enter to move to the previous buffer.

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This will rotate between files.

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To find out the name of current file,

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you can use Control + G and you will see below

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on the status line the name of the file.

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To move to a specific buffer,

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you can do :b space and then the file name tools.txt.

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You can use :b space and then Tab

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and Vim will help you with a list of buffers.

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If you're stuck with a prefix,

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Vim will match only the buffers that start with that prefix.

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So :b space T and then Tab

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will bring us tools, and then enter to select the buffer.

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If you look at the list of buffer

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with :ls and enter you will see

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there is a number for every buffer.

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You can switch to a buffer by its number, :b and 2.

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I find this handy when the list

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of buffers is big and many of them share a common prefix.