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I've seen the post Magit: Auto-refresh “magit-status”, and tarsius recommends the same method from the Magit manual to set magit-after-save-refresh-status to non-nil to the after-save-hook:

(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'magit-after-save-refresh-status t)

This is a great solution when a Magit buffer is available. However, if this setting causes some noisy warnings when saving a file when a Magit buffer is not available:

run-hooks: Symbol’s function definition is void: magit-after-save-refresh-status

How can I get around this such that this setting is active only when there is a Magit buffer available?

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The problem isn't that no Magit buffer exists but rather that Magit has not even been loaded. The result is that Symbol’s function definition is void: magit-after-save-refresh-status.

So you have to delay adding this function to the hook until it actually exists, like so:

(with-eval-after-load 'magit-mode
  (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'magit-after-save-refresh-status t))
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  • Thank you! @tarsius, I see you're a maintainer of magit – could the config snippet here be amended to this?
    – jidicula
    Commented Mar 23, 2020 at 22:34

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