Re: autocmd! followed by

2017-08-20 21:53 GMT+03:00 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com>:
> Am 19.08.2017 um 08:17 schrieb Lifepillar:
>>
>> It seems impossible to have autocmd! followed by another command, i.e.:
>>
>> autocmd! some_group | <whatever I put here is ignored>
>>
>> According to `:help autocmd`, autocmd may be followed by another command
>> when the '|' appears before {cmd}. This does not seem to be the case for
>> autocmd!. Is that intentional?
>
>
> Help says "this works":
> :augroup mine | au! BufRead | augroup END
>
> but it doesn't (augroup "mine" still active afterwards), thus it can't be
> intentional and you found a bug.
>
> Also not working:
> :augroup mine | au! BufRead *| augroup END
> " `*|' is taken as autocmd-{pat}, `augroup END' becomes {cmd}
>
> :augroup mine | au! BufRead * | augroup END
> " uses `| augroup END' for {cmd}
>
> Weird that it went unnoticed for so long, probably because most people
> instead use
> :au! mine BufRead
>
> I think Vim should make anything after `:au' part of the command.
> `:au' is already listed under `:h :bar' without further notice.

I second this, there already are at least five variants of handling
command separator (bar), comment start (double quote) and escaping
characters. Let's not make rules surrounding bar/dquote/backslash even
more weird by adding an exception.

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