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created November 17, 2011 · complexity basic · version 7.0

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The correct way to avoid jumping to errors after :make is simply to add a '!', i.e. execute :make! instead of :make

One of my largest annoyances with Vim is the great Quickfix, in particular the auto-jump. The reasons for this do not matter, but I wanted to disable it really bad. It took me several months to figure out how to do it, and the end-result still feels like a hack.

The code for this

Put the following in your vimrc:

autocmd QuickFixCmpPost * call setqflist([])

What this does is quite inhumane: it deletes the quickfix-list. I am still looking for a way to disable the `jump' without deleting the list.

Use case

Obviously, quickfix is a sacred thing, and should never be disabled. To figure out why I would still want to, read the following.

I use Vim to edit TeX-files, and want to know about boxing errors (underfull, overfull) so that I can fix those. In very few cases, however, I can not fix it, because I am quoting an exercise from a book for my homework. But, everytime I type ':make', it jumps to the boxing error, and I lost where I am.

Comments

I fail to see any reason why one would use :make at all, if one wasn't interested in using quickfix. Can you enlighten me? Without the quickfix list, you get no feedback in Vim about the :make results.

For your immediate problem, just add a '!'. I.e., instead of :make, type :make!. This suppresses the automatic jump to the first error.

For vimgrep, etc., there are other ways to avoid the jump.

A couple commands don't let you avoid the jump. The cscope commands don't have an option to avoid the jump, and neither does :cfile. However, a much better solution to deleting the quickfix list, would be to simply jump back to where you were. I think there's an ex command to do it, but failing that, just an :execute "normal! \<C-O>" should do the trick. --Fritzophrenic 17:54, November 17, 2011 (UTC)

One case where it is really annoying is with the location-list (similar to quickfix window). If you include a file via \input, it will pop up to tell you that you included a file! It gets really annoying when you have 2 split windows, each with location-list windows, and it looks like you are editing from the other side of a mail box slit. If you close the window, it reappears after you save it. Pukster 11:33, February 17, 2012 (UTC)

If the quickfix list is automatically appearing whenever you save a file, that means you have a plugin which automatically runs :make followed by :copen or similar on a save. Check the plugin's documentation to see if there is a way to disable it, or edit the plugin to remove the automatic :copen, or and/or add a '!' to the :make command as suggested. --Fritzophrenic 16:55, February 17, 2012 (UTC)

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 I fail to see any reason why one would use :make at all, if one wasn't interested in using quickfix. Can you enlighten me? Without the quickfix list, you get no feedback in Vim about the :make results.
-For your immediate problem, just add a '!'. I.e., instead of <tt>:make</tt>, type <tt>:make!</tt>. This suppresses the automatic jump to the first error.
+For your immediate problem, just add a '!'. I.e., instead of <code>:make</code>, type <code>:make!</code>. This suppresses the automatic jump to the first error.
 For vimgrep, etc., there are other ways to avoid the jump.
-A couple commands don't let you avoid the jump. The cscope commands don't have an option to avoid the jump, and neither does <tt>:cfile</tt>. However, a much better solution to deleting the quickfix list, would be to simply jump back to where you were. I think there's an ex command to do it, but failing that, just an :execute "normal! \<C-O>" should do the trick. --[[User:Fritzophrenic|Fritzophrenic]] 17:54, November 17, 2011 (UTC)
+A couple commands don't let you avoid the jump. The cscope commands don't have an option to avoid the jump, and neither does <code>:cfile</code>. However, a much better solution to deleting the quickfix list, would be to simply jump back to where you were. I think there's an ex command to do it, but failing that, just an :execute "normal! \<C-O>" should do the trick. --[[User:Fritzophrenic|Fritzophrenic]] 17:54, November 17, 2011 (UTC)
 :One case where it is really annoying is with the location-list (similar to quickfix window). If you include a file via \input, it will pop up to tell you that you included a file! It gets '''really''' annoying when you have 2 split windows, each with location-list windows, and it looks like you are editing from the other side of a mail box slit. If you close the window, it reappears after you save it. [[User:Pukster|Pukster]] 11:33, February 17, 2012 (UTC)