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James Klein
James Klein

Reputation: 612

Disable vim E211: File no longer available

After switching git branches, any files that existed on my previous branch raise an E211: File "path/to/file.txt" no longer available warning. I already know that and I find it very annoying that I'm warned about it every time I change the tab or pane that I'm focused on. Especially if I need to close 8 panes of files that no longer exist.

Is there any way to disable this warning or make it something that does not require any input to continue?

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Upvotes: 12

Views: 889

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172598

You can tweak Vim's default behavior via the :help FileChangedShell event.

This autocommand is triggered for each changed file. [...] If a FileChangedShell autocommand is present the warning message and prompt is not given.

Unfortunately, by defining an :autocmd (e.g. invoking a no-op like an empty :execute), you'll lose all the default functionality, and would have to re-implement parts of it (without the message on deletion) by inspecing v:fcs_reason. If the sledgehammer approach is fine for you, this will do:

:autocmd FileChangedShell * execute

Instead of *, you could enumerate all of your Git working copies, to make this a bit more targeted.

Upvotes: 4

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