On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:13:21PM -0800, suan wrote:
> Is there a way to call :update <some other file name> such that you can
> tell whether there actually were changes and that the file was written?
> I'd like to perform an action each time the current buffer changes (without
> explicitly saving to the current file), but presently calling :update
> <other file name> seems like a black hole as there's no way to know whether
> anything was written or not.
> I've tried treating update as a function by doing things like `echo
> update`, but it seems that it behaves differently from a function and it
> errors...
it sounds as if you need a function that tests &modified --
something like
function! MySave()
if &modified
write some-other-name
echo 'i just wrote' some-other-name
endif
endfunction
hth,
sc
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