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bug: do not set `buftype` when startup

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the issue by starting nvim without arguments and running :set bt while the dashboard is shown. Trace the dashboard startup entry point and verify the dashboard buffer reports buftype=nofile instead of an empty value.

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Description

Describe the bug
when startup with dashboard, the buftype of dashboard is empty, meas it is a normal buffer, it may cause issues with other plugins.

To Reproduce

  1. nvim without arg
  2. :set bt print buftype=

Expected behavior
:set bt should print buftype=nofile

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Lua
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