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Asked: 2026-06-09T05:14:30+00:00

I’m having trouble saving a file in vim. After I save it, the window

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I’m having trouble saving a file in vim. After I save it, the window becomes empty, as if it lost the file. The title on the tab reads

_highlight.sass, in `box-shadow`

The file does save with the changes I’ve made. But it’s annoying having to reopen it every time. Saving other files does work fine. It’s only this one file, and I don’t know why.

Here are the file contents
https://gist.github.com/0f29da34719075bdc686

I found that opening two tabs of the file, saving one makes the tab not go empty when I save it. But it does lose syntax highlighting.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are likely to have some weird autocommand (or, more likely, bug in plugin(s) which help you work with sass (if I understood correctly) file) on BufWrite(Pre|Cmd|Post)? event. Try doing

    debug w

    and do s<CR> then <CR> <CR> <CR> until you see what causes the issue. After you got it verbose autocmd [group] [Event [pattern]] will help you determine where it was defined.

    If you are familiar with debugging, there is also n<CR> which stands for next (s<CR> is step). May be useful to do s<CR> once (until you should see the first autocommand then), then n<CR> <CR> <CR> … Plain <CR> repeats previous debug action if debugging command was what you ran previously.

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