<abuf> and doautocmd

[co...@coot.me]

Hello Vim_Dev,

I have an autocommand:

au BufReadCmd ssh://* s:sshBufReadCmd(expand("<abuf>"))

When I run `doautocmd BufReadCmd ssh://somefile` from another buffer, `expand("<abuf>")` is expanded to the buffer number of the current buffer rather than the buffer on which I want to execute the autocommand. Is this a bug or a feature?

Best regards,
Marcin Szamotulski

[Bram Moolenaar]

> I have an autocommand:
>
> au BufReadCmd ssh://* s:sshBufReadCmd(expand("<abuf>"))
>
> When I run `doautocmd BufReadCmd ssh://somefile` from another buffer,
> `expand("<abuf>")` is expanded to the buffer number of the current
> buffer rather than the buffer on which I want to execute the
> autocommand. Is this a bug or a feature?

The BufReadCmd event is used for filling the current buffer with the
text you want. You should first open another buffer before using
"doautocmd BufReadCmd".

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