On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 08:57:27AM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> The following sequence of commands:
>
> rm foobar
> vim -i NONE -u NONE -N
> :set buftype=nofile
> :saveas foobar
Easily reproduced. Thanks.
> * 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”.
>
> * Further information:
>
> There is no cause for an error message concerning an 'acwrite' buffer,
> since no acwrite buffer is involved. Using ":w" at that point produces
> E382; I assume that's what the ":saveas" should result in, too.
>
> I am not sure whether it's simply a misphrased error messages, a wrong
> codepath being taken ('acwrite' instead of 'nofile'), or something else.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
> -- Package-specific info:
>
> [ I've reproduced this in sid but writing the bug report on jessie, so
> snipped the host OS information. ]
>
--
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
