Prevent Vim's autocmd from running on write just once

Question

I have the following line in my .vimrc to automatically beautify js files after I save them:

autocmd BufWritePost *.js :call JsBeautify()

I want this 99% of the time, but sometimes I just want to write without having this function called. Is there an easy way to do that?

Boletus

Answer 1

I guess you're looking for :noa.

Usage:

:noa w

Excerpt from help:

:noautocmd :noa

To disable autocommands for just one command use the ":noautocmd" command modifier. This will set 'eventignore' to "all" for the duration of the following command. Example:

:noautocmd w fname.gz

This will write the file without triggering the autocommands defined by the gzip plugin.

Fete