From 1b5760f1a142a88b2df82963dc09ed3f60a9461e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Coste <frrrwww@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:09:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] delete buffer if needed when creating a scratch buffer

---
 src/commands.cc | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/commands.cc b/src/commands.cc
index 68f7bdfd..15409b08 100644
--- a/src/commands.cc
+++ b/src/commands.cc
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ void edit(const CommandParameters& params, Context& context)
     if (not buffer)
     {
         if (parser.has_option("scratch"))
+        {
+            BufferManager::instance().delete_buffer_if_exists(name);
             buffer = new Buffer(name, Buffer::Flags::None);
+        }
         else if (parser.has_option("fifo"))
             buffer = open_fifo(name, parser.option_value("fifo"), context);
         else