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Introduce a feature to automatically close the quickfix window after a configurable delay when there are no errors or warnings

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing how asyncrun or asynctasks opens and updates the quickfix window when a task finishes successfully. Identify the existing configuration conventions and completion path, then verify that a configurable delay closes the window only when there are no errors or warnings and still leaves the completion message readable.

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Description

For example, if I am editing a single-file project (C++ source code) and upon running Asyncrun on it, there are no errors or warnings and the build completed successfully, then after a certain user-configurable delay, I would like the quickfix window to disappear automatically.

I know I can do :ccl[ose], but it quickly becomes tedious. Instead, I just want the quickfix window to be open for just enough time to comfortably read that [finished in x seconds] and then just get out of my way.

Can asyncrun or asynctasks somehow incorporate this?

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