How to exit neovim on Close if Neogit was the only buffer?

[t184256]

Most of the time, I want to use neogit as if it was a standalone command-line TUI tool and not a vim plugin. Fire it up with ng, close it with a q.

I can start it fine with an alias to nvim '+lua require("neogit").open({kind="replace"})', but the experience of quitting it is suboptimal: I press q, stare at a blank buffer in surprise and reach out for a :q<CR> to actually quit.

I suspected that the buffer that's annoying me is an empty buffer that you get when you execute nvim standaline, so I attempted closing it with
nvim '+lua require("neogit").open({kind="replace"})' '+bdelete 1'. It no longer shows up in :buffers, but when I q, here it is again, annoying me. Same with +bwipeout 1.

How can I execute neogit in a way that q will make it quit neovim entirely if there was no other buffer open?

I've seen that in a similar case the advice was to hook into events in order to implement autoclosing, but I don't see a closing event to hook into.

[CKolkey]

There's not an event for that, but you could probably use a regular autocmd on something like QuitPre to check. Just stick it in the NeogitStatus ftplugin file.

[t184256]

Sorry, still doesn't click for me.

• QuitPre doesn't seem to be relevant
• When I hook to anything else, like, BufEnter, and iterate over buffers, I don't know how do discern me pressing q from me, say, entering a file with <cr>

[t184256]

nvim '+lua require("neogit").open({kind="replace"})' '+lua vim.api.nvim_buf_set_keymap(0, "n", "q", "<cmd>q<cr>", {})' seems to work, though I don't know how ugly is that

[CKolkey]

Seems fine if it works :) I overload q to close other things if they are open before closing the status buffer, but thats pretty minor.