Question

On running:

vim /tmp/blah
:q
echo $?

I get an exit status of 1. This is breaking various things including Git. If I run vim without my vimrc:

vim -u NONE /tmp/blah
:q
echo $?

I get an exit status of 0. I use Pathogen so this also effectively disables plugins. Does anyone have a suggestion for efficiently determining the cause of the exit status? I’m aware of running Vim verbosely and logging to a file. Should I be looking for something specific in this file?

If there is a method of finding the exact line that determines the exit status I would love to know of it as searching around didn’t turn much up.

Answer 1

Finally found this command in help: :cq[uit]. So after you do verbose logging, search for \<cq\%[uit]\>.

Update: There are also methods to alter the exit status using vim compiled with some interpreters support: at least, the following works:

python import sys
python sys.exit(1)
" (same for python3)

perl exit 1

I do not know other languages enough to write here examples of code that would quit vim with different exit status. Note also that such commands inside files sourced using :pyfile, :rubyfile and other :*file should also work, as well as this code in a modules not distributed with plugin.

I think the most efficient way here at this point is disabling plugins until you find the source of the problem.