Hi,
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Yegappan Lakshmanan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 2:22 AM, FocusedWolf <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> The following auto-command is giving me much grief:
>>
>> augroup Open_QuickFix_On_Every_Tab
>> au!
>> autocmd TabEnter * cwindow
>> augroup END
>>
>> The issue exists on Gvim for windows and on Linux. Untested on macvim, but
>> later i can test this if relevant.
>>
>> Attached is a minimal .vimrc to demonstrate the issue (read the top of the
>> .vimrc for bug-recreation instructions). Also attached is a set of text
>> files which can be used to demonstrate the issue but you can use any
>> directory with multiple text files which you have viewing privileges for.
>>
>> Summary of the issue:
>>
>> You will be executing a ":GrepFiles" command (defined in the .vimrc) which
>> will run vimgrep on the test files and when you hold down the arrow keys
>> (which will be mapped to cycle through the QuickFix-window-vimgrep search
>> results) that the TabEnter autocommand will get triggered everytime a search
>> result gets opened in a new tab.
>>
>>
>> The :cwindow command that gets executed during the TabEnter event will
>> strangely open an additional window on every tab, in addition to the
>> QuickFix window. This oddly created window seems to like displaying the
>> previous-tabs-buffer.
>>
>
> When a new tab is created, the TabEnter autocmd is executed after creating
> a new window. It is not expected that the autocmd will change the current
> window. As the ":cwindow" command creates a new window (quickfix) and
> changes the current window, you are seeing the above problem.
>
> You can fix this problem, by using the following function:
>
> function! s:OpenQfWindow()
> cwindow
> if &buftype == 'quickfix'
> wincmd p
> endif
> endfunction
>
> augroup Open_QuickFix_On_Every_Tab
> au!
> autocmd TabEnter * call s:OpenQfWindow()
> augroup END
>
If you are using Vim 8.0, then you can use the TabNew autocmd instead
of the TabEnter autocmd and simplify the above code as shown below:
function! s:OpenQfWindow()
cwindow
wincmd p
endfunction
augroup Open_QuickFix_On_Every_Tab
au!
autocmd TabNew * call s:OpenQfWindow()
augroup END
- Yegappan
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