:buffer command should behave like :tabopen if the buffer can't be found

[canndrew]

Issue type:

• Feature request

Version:

Vimperator: 3.16.0 (created: 2017/02/01 00:55:15) Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0

Description:

Whenever I want to switch to a page I have to stop and think: do I already have this page open? If yes, then I hit b to start finding it. If not, then I hit t to start opening it. When I guess wrong (which I do nearly half the time), then I either have to hit escape, hit t and type everything again, or I end up with two copies of the same page open. I'd rather avoid all this if I could.

Expected behavior:

Ideally, I'd like to be able to hit b, start typing, and if the buffer list comes up blank just hit enter to open a new tab. If I really don't want to open a new tab for some reason I could just hit escape to abort.

I think this would be a pure improvement. I'm aware that there was an earlier issue for this, however I don't agree with the conclusion that this should be handled by a plugin rather than just being the default behavior. Is there a strong reason why people would not want this behavior from the :buffer command?

[pietrodito]

+1

[dset0x]

I'm used to using t no matter which of the two actions I wish to achieve. This way, even if I've forgotten about the open buffer, I will see it at the bottom of the list and may shift-tab to it.