tag 529087 wontfix thanks On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:09:49PM +0200, Francesco Poli (t1000) wrote: > This option could be named "--drop-empty" or something like that. > It would work as follows: when vim (or view, or ...) is started with > this option, any newly created buffer
A buffer is created for every file you tell Vim to open, regardless of whether the file exists on disk yet or whether the file has any contents. > is checked and automatically closed if found to be empty. > > This way, my use of View as a pager would automatically exit (with > 0 exit status, of course, because nothing went wrong) when the output > of some_command is empty: > > $ some_command | view --drop-empty - > > [snip] > This could be useful when you want to edit already existing files, > without creating new ones, and you do *not* know in advance which > files exist (among the ones of a given list). Vim notifies you that the buffer doesn't have a corresponding file on disk already. > Could this new feature be implemented? > Please forward this feature request to upstream, if appropriate. The feature is of marginal use and can be achieved through scripting. Tagging the bug as wontfix. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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