Question

I’m using Syntastic plugin. I have some files with some errors (Warnings) that I can’t change. When I have a file opened with error messages, and I quit the file(buffer) pressing :q, the error messages are still visible(another buffer), so I have to press :q twice to completely exit when editing a file.

So, how do I press :q just once with a file with a buffer containing my file and another buffer (location list) containing Syntastic errors? I’ve searched a little bit and the command to close the location list is :lcl.

When I exit a buffer with :q, if the location list for that buffer is active, I want to close it with the location list within, calling :lcl. I’m reading some autocmd BufLeave and BufWinLeave and trying to create a mapping for this, but I cant know the difference between the two. Can someone help me?

Remembering, :w, :q, :q!, :wq should all work as intended.

Answer 1

As lcl work even if there is no error window you can map q to lcl and q

cnoremap q<cr> \|lcl\|q<cr>

As suggested an abbreviation seems better

cabbrev q lcl\|q

(note the \ before |, without it does the abbreviation then quit )