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)

--- a/src/ex_cmds.c
+++ b/src/ex_cmds.c
@@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ do_filter(
 	if (otmp != NULL)
 	{
 	    if (readfile(otmp, NULL, line2, (linenr_T)0, (linenr_T)MAXLNUM,
-						    eap, READ_FILTER) == FAIL)
+						    eap, READ_FILTER) != OK)
 	    {
 #if defined(FEAT_AUTOCMD) && defined(FEAT_EVAL)
 		if (!aborting())