Even though the answer is right there in [help :make], for some reason people ask this question somewhat frequently, and after all you're looking on the Internet to find the answer right now, aren't you? The correct way to avoid jumping to errors after :make is simply to add a '!', i.e. execute :make! instead of :make. As a side note, the :vimgrep command also uses the quickfix list, and does not use '!' to avoid jumping, but you can add the 'j' flag to the search to accomplish the same thing.