E749: empty buffer with vimdiff startup commands

Hello all,

I've hit a small issue today. The following sequence always stops a few seconds on 'E749: empty buffer' before displaying the diffs. Calling '1bufdo set ma' afterwards does not trigger the error.

echo "base text" > base
echo "branch a" > local
echo "branch b" > remote
echo "branch a" > merged
vimdiff -f -d -c 'wincmd J' -c 'bufdo set noma' -c '1bufdo set ma' merged local base remote

Does anyone has an idea about why this is happening and how I can fix it?

My guess is that '-c' happens after the first file is loaded (according to vimdiff --help) but, I suppose, somewhere before local, base and remote are fully loaded. Am I right?

I'm trying to make the 4-way split in 'git mergetool' properly answer to 'dp' from one of the top windows. After reading the help, I'm trying to automatically set the local, remote and base files as non-modifiable so that the remaining (merged) buffer becomes the default 'dp' target. If there is a better solution than what I'm doing, I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks a bunch,
François-Xavier

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