On Thu, October 13, 2011 1:39 am, Tim Chase wrote: > On 10/12/11 16:56, Dan Wierenga wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Tim >> Chase<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'd like to tell Vim that, for certain filespecs (likely via >>> an autocmd), I don't want to see this message and that YES, >>> I do want to always overwrite the file. >> >> I think the autoread option is what you're after. >> >> :help 'autoread' > > I tried tinkering with this setting but didn't have any success > with your suggestion: > > bash$ vim existing.txt > :set autoread > :$put='a last line' > > (over in a second parallel terminal window, issue "touch > existing.txt") > > :w > (gives the WARNING in the Subject, same with ":w!"). > > Same goes for trying to set 'noautoread' instead of 'autoread'.
Try setting 'buftype' to a non-empty value, maybe acwrite. That shouldn't trigger that warning, but might have other unintended side effects (and the help strongly advises, not to mess with that option.) regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
