Automatically quit vim if NERDTree is last and only buffer

vim nerdtree
g33kz0r picture g33kz0r · Jan 14, 2010 · Viewed 20.1k times · Source

I have the following in my .vimrc:

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" Open NERDTree by default
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autocmd VimEnter * NERDTree
autocmd VimEnter * wincmd p

So,

% vim file.txt

opens NERDTree and focuses the cursor in the file.txt buffer. I make my edits, and hit :q on the buffer, and I'm left with . . . NERDTree. This is annoying.

I could use :qa to close all buffers, and exit vim, but I'm used to the :q trope. So I'm wondering if there's a way to detect that the only remaining buffer is NERDTree, and "unify" the two buffers, for purposes of :q

Edit

Ask and ye shall receive: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree/issues#issue/21

Answer

Andrew picture Andrew · Nov 30, 2010

A script to do exactly this has been posted on the NERDTree issue list. Checkout issue-21 on GitHub for nerdtree.

This leads to the single line command for your vimrc here:

autocmd bufenter * if (winnr("$") == 1 && exists("b:NERDTree") && b:NERDTree.isTabTree()) | q | endif

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