James McCoy wrote on Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 23:33:22 -0500: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 08:57:27AM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > > > "E676: No matching autocommands for acwrite buffer" > > > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > > > "E382: Cannot write, 'buftype' option is set" > > Hmm. I think :saveas should be successful here, but the 'nofile' > setting should be transfered to the alternate buffer that gets created. > “:saveas foo” should really act like a short-cut for “:w foo” and “:e > foo”.
I neglected to mention that ":w foobar" at that point gives E382; that's why I named that particular error as "what I expected to see". So, more explicitly, what I "expected" was that :saveas would fail the same way :w fails at that point. That expectation is consistent with your "shortcut" viewpoint, but not with your expectation that :saveas succeed at that point. I note that ":saveas! foobar" fails as well. Perhaps ":saveas" should fail with E382 and ":saveas!" succeed?
