You can avoid using autocmd BufRead *.java ... commands by using filetype plugins. See :help filetype. These files will be sourced only when opening a source file of the corresponding file type. Wondering if others are having luck with the quickfix stuff on Win2000? Almost everything works except going to the error after building. I can do :clist to get all errors and the ant printout exists but all javac stuff is missing, which means it is filtering javac comments/errors but not returning them to buffer. Any pointers? Try the following: That is, it will work in functions like this: :compiler ant