Re: How to autosave files when terminal is closed

Hi Dennis,

Are you asking for an event which fires when you close the terminal within Vim — opened with :term — or the terminal window that's housing Vim?

If it's the later, I wonder if SigUSR1 may help here? — where SigUSR1 is the interrupt your terminal sends to Vim in the event that it's being closed impromptu — disclaimer: I haven't tried this; I'm just inferring from the docs — :h autocmd-events

If you want to autosave, there's a nifty battle-tested Vim plugin — vim-auto-save — which I've entrusted to doing this for me. 


Best,

Igbanam.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 6:42 AM Dennis Nezic <dennisn@dennisn.mooo.com> wrote:

"au VimLeavePre * w" only works when I exit vim with something like
":q!" but not if I close my terminal window.

Error detected while processing VimLeavePre Autocommands for "*":
E749: Empty buffer

VimLeave[Pre] is being called, but the buffer is not saved, probably
because it's closed before that event is triggered. Is there another
event that gets triggered during the closing sequence that will allow
me to autosave, or another way to do this?

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