Hi Gary, On 3/6/07, Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I open a new window, read into it the results of a grep command, e.g.,:r !grep -nH somepattern somefileset and then try to use that buffer as a quickfix list or location list with either the :cb or :lb commands, respectively, I get E37: No write since last change (add ! to override) If I then try to add ! to the :cb or :lb commands, I get E477: No ! allowed It seems to me that the :cb and :lb commands are missing the ability to handle a !. The most recent version of vim I had to verify this with was 7.0.178.
You can try using the ":cgetbuffer" and ":lgetbuffer" commands. These commands will not automatically jump to the first error. - Yegappan
