Use Autosave in Vim using no plugin?

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How to autosave in Vim using no plugin?

I have found the following post:

which gives the following answer:

autocmd TextChanged,TextChangedI <buffer> silent write

which works perfectly except that when I put that in my .vimrc it doesn't work, so how can I put that line in my .vimrc such that it works everytime I open Vim ?

EDIT: It seems putting that line in .vimrc works WHEN I DON'T USE A SESSION !

So I will rephrase my question:

How can I get the above work in combination with mksession to open preconfigured session in Vim using vim -S ?

you problem cannot be reproduced. with the line in vimrc, autosave works. — Kent, Mar 09 '20 at 13:43
You need `*` instead of ``, but have a look at the autowrite option — D. Ben Knoble, Mar 09 '20 at 14:20
Be aware that vim creates swapfiles which would allow you to restore unsaved changes. This may or may not solve your usecase without a hard autosave. — Doktor OSwaldo, Mar 10 '20 at 08:36

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '20 at 09:20

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As stated in the comments by D. Ben Knoble, you need to use * instead of <buffer>:

autocmd TextChanged,TextChangedI * silent write

answered Mar 10 '20 at 09:20

wfehr

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