Buffer, quickfix windows, :Ack - does this work together?

Gave this talk on the 5th @vimberlin meetup @LAUNCH/CO on the 27th of September 2012.

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1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pastorfuture/2829852159/
2. Buffers vs. Tabs (And Windows?)
3. A buffer is the in-memory text of a file. A window is a viewport on a buffer. A tab page is a collection of windows.
4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/318947873/
5. - Buffers opens multiple files - Windows are for the purpose of splitting the workspace and displaying multiple files - Tabs are a different layout of windows of ALL of your existing buffers
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/37prime/3836700346/
7. ✔ :buffers (:ls) – show all opened buffers ✔ :bd N – delete buffer with number N ✔ :ball – display all buffers in windows ✔ :b <name-of-buffer><TAB> - try it out ✔ :bn :bp :bf :bl next previous first last
8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariplus/6750780529/
9. ✔ % - buffer in the current window ✔ # - the alternate buffer (the file you edited last) ✔ :b# - to jump between active and previous ✔ a - active buffer (loaded and visible in the current window ✔ u - unlisted buffer (e.g. help file) ✔ h - hidden buffer
10. Buffer options (change the behavior of a buffer)
11. ✔ bufhidden: what happens when the buffer is no longer displayed in a window hide => hide the buffer (like minimizing window) unload => clear everything delete => closes the tab wipe => clear and delete from buffer list
12. ✔ buftype: what kind of a buffer this window is nofile => not related to a file (tmp register) nowrite => buffer will not be written (used for error window) acwrite => buffer will always be written with BufWriteCmd quickfix => contains list of errors help => useful help command
13. ✔ swapfile: alternative to buffers (good for great files) ✔ buflisted: buffer shows up in the buffer list
14. Example: directory buffer :setlocal buftype=nowrite :setlocal bufhidden=delete :setlocal noswapfile
15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariplus/6750780529/
16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C Idea came from Manx's Aztec C compiler Save the error message from the compiler in a file and use Vim to jump to the errors by one
17. ✔ :ccl - close the quickfix window ✔ :lcl - close the window showing the "location list" for the current window
18. :Ack (just uses :quickfix buffer)