Monday, November 4, 2013

Re: Why is this VimLeave autocommand causing 'E749: empty buffer' ?

On Wednesday, 30 October, 2013 at 21:11:21 GMT, Thiago de Arruda wrote:
>I'm trying to setup vim to save all files when it receives SIGTERM, here's the relevant vim command:
>
> au VimLeave * if v:dying | wa | endif
>
>This should write all buffers when vim exits. From another terminal if I kill vim with a modified buffer I get the following error:
>
> Vim: Caught deadly signal TERM
> Vim: preserving files...
> Error detected while processing VimLeave Auto commands for "*":Vim: Finished.
>
> E749: empty buffer
>
>If I kill vim without modifying any buffers it doesn't report any error.
>
>Does anyone knows why this is happening or how to fix it(or another workaround for my problem: saving all files when vim receives SIGTERM)

At first glance it looks like you want wa! instead of wa.

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