My list of actions:
e xx.txt e xx2.txt "in a different window change xx.txt :b#
At this point I would like vim to tell me that the buffer has changed, but to not load new contents into the buffer. Note: I do not have autoread set.
Below is a list of my options.
:set --- Options --- expandtab ignorecase scroll=13 tabstop=4 filetype=text laststatus=3 shiftwidth=4 title helplang=en nomodeline smartcase ttyfast history=50 ruler syntax=text ttymouse=xterm2 backspace=indent,eol,start fileencoding=utf-8 fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1 printoptions=paper:letter runtimepath=~/.vim,/var/lib/vim/addons,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/ vim73,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/var/lib/vim/addons/after,~/.vim/after suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg ,.inx,.out,.toc tags=../tags,./tags,tags;