Vim command-line just say 'saved' upon save

Question

In Vim, at the the bottom. There is statusline.

And below it there is, I think, the command line.

When I press save, this command line, displays something like:

"index" 160 lines, 2097 characters written

But I don't want it to display this.

I would only like it to display something like:

Saved.

How do I do that?

So far, relying on the [+] marker in the statusline to show unsaved modifications has served me well. — Friedrich, Nov 15 at 12:32

Vivian De Smedt · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-20 10:51:41Z

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You could use the BufWriteCmd to override the write operation:

augroup OverrideWrite
autocmd!
autocmd! BufWriteCmd * silent w | echo 'Saved'
augroup END

answered Nov 14 at 17:26

Vivian De Smedt

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I would much prefer to see w written out as write, especially in example code.
– D. Ben Knoble ♦
Nov 14 at 19:44
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Also, you're missing handling all the stuff in :help Cmd-event. Probably just using BufWritePost to echo a message suffices.
– D. Ben Knoble ♦
Nov 14 at 19:45
@D.BenKnoble, I have tried BufWritePost but I ended to have both messages instead of only the desired Saved.
– Vivian De Smedt
Nov 14 at 19:59
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I still think you're missing a lot of details for BufWriteCmd to work correctly, and this probably breaks plugins that use it.
– D. Ben Knoble ♦
Nov 14 at 21:16
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I have updated the solution to avoid that problem :-)
– Vivian De Smedt
Nov 20 at 10:52

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