Vim – Jeff's Blog

Most editors, like VSCode, use tabs and windows system. A tab usually means an opened file, and when we close it, the file goes away. Vim use buffers, windows and tabs, and they are different from most editors. Buffer First, let’s look at buffers in vim. A buffer is the in-memory text of a file. When we open a file in vim, it creates a buffer in memory. And what in this buffer is the file’s content. When we edit the file, we edit the buffer. Let’s try to edit a file named file1: vim file1 Vim creates a new buffer for file1 in memory. When we type :q to quit vim, the buffer will be cleared and there will be no file file1 stored on disk because we didn’t write anything to the buffer.…