Re: silent+redraw E749: Empty buffer

On Thursday, October 2, 2014 8:26:27 PM UTC-5, dza wrote:
> Hello.I have a simple combination of silent/redraw
>
> command! -nargs=1 Silent
> \ | exe 'silent !'.<q-args>
> \ | execute ':redraw!'
>
> If I put
> exe 'silent !'.<q-args> | exe ':redraw!'
>
> Manually it works fine.
>
> But if I run the command I created in an empty buffer I get:
>
> E749: Empty buffer.
>
> What is the explanation behind that ? Does silent/redraw require buffer input somehow ?
>

When I try sourcing the script as written, I get errors, because of the first '|' which is not only unnecessary but actually incorrect.

When I remove that character and try the command, on either an empty buffer or a file buffer, I see it working just fine without errors.

Note you can also just use redraw! instead of exe ":redraw!".

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