Ale: Auto-close the error list

[chauncey-garrett]

Is there anything similar to https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic/pull/126?

That is, a way to automatically close the error window when closing buffers.

What I currently experience is that I can open a file that contains lint errors, the error window appears, then I close that file but am left with the error window of the now closed file.

[w0rp]

Feel free to create a PR for this if you can figure it out.

[Christian-Gibbons]

It looks like this can be accomplished, assuming you are using the loclist rather than quickfix, with an autocommand like this:

autocmd QuitPre * if empty(&bt) | lclose | endif

I'll put together a pull request that piggybacks on the QuitPre autocmd that ale already has.

[w0rp]

I updated the documentation to tell people how to write an autocmd command to do this, so you can copy and paste that into vimrc or wherever to do this.