patch 8.0.0177: BufEnter autocommand not fired for a directory commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/e13b9afe1283f5ae43232b5992372a0eb570666c Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Jan 13 22:01:02 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0177: BufEnter autocommand not fired for a directory Problem: When opening a buffer on a directory and inside a try/catch then the BufEnter event is not triggered. Solution: Return NOTDONE from readfile() for a directory and deal with the three possible return values. (Justin M. Keyes, closes #1375, closes #1353)

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!