Question

in vim, when I use

:make

the output of make is displayed in a “external” window, I don’t like this and I use this map

 nnoremap <leader>m :w <bar> make<CR><CR><CR>:copen<CR>

but, in some case the output of make is

 make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

how I can add a autoclose to copen when the copen have make: Nothing to be done for all. ?

Answer 1

You can check the contents of the quickfix list via getqflist(). Then, I would only conditionally open the quickfix window if the first line does not match the text you don’t want to see:

nnoremap <leader>m :w <bar> make<CR><CR><CR>
\:if get(get(getqflist(), 0, {}), 'text', '') !~# 'Nothing to be done' <Bar> 
\  copen <Bar>
\endif<CR>

The access via get() avoids errors when the list is empty.

You could also always open the list, and then use :cclose in the conditional, if that better fits your needs.