Re: How to autosave files when terminal is closed

SigUSR1 didn't work. I wonder why SigTERM isn't in autocmd-events.

That plugin is a bit overkill (vim already stores unsaved changes in
swap files), and hooks into events like CursorHold (cursor inactivity)
and CompleteDone.

Why isn't this possible in VimLeavePre (if not VimLeave)? :|

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:16:55 +0000, Owajigbanam Ogbuluijah wrote:
> 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 <https://github.com/vim-scripts/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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