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Autocommand is executed multiple times on filetype
The reason is that every time you switch to a *.py buffer its filetype is set and a new autocommand BufWrite is added to the stack.
Then when you write the buffer all the autocommand BufWrite are ...
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How to set autocmd for files without a filetype?
I'm assuming you don't want these autocmds to run on every file without a filetype and that there's some condition for when it should execute.
The built-in way to detect extensionless files is ...
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Create autocmd for downloaded files (filename contains spaces and incrementing numbers)?
setfiletype doesn't work if something else (like vim's ftdetect) already set a filetype
That's the whole purpose of this command and is documented on the relevant help page. When multiple patterns ...
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How to exclude filetype in autocmd using Neovim's Lua API?
Ok, so I came up with a workaround, which I'm not entirely satisfied with, since it doesn't make my intentions as clear. But it does now behave as I want it to. The workaround is to wrap the vim.wo ...
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How to detect netrw directory listing from autocommand?
Thanks to Matt's answer I realised I couldn't detect a netrw directory listing in a BufEnter autocommand (unless the code is running from an after directory).
So I switched to using a Filetype netrw ...
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How to detect netrw directory listing from autocommand?
Obviously, netrw intercepts BufEnter itself to set the things up. So upon first BufEnter it depends on which autocmd was registered first: yours or netrw's one. As you want to go after netrw you can ...
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