Autommands - Implemented as a plugin

[codri]

Autocommands are essential for my vim workflow.
Is it possible to recreate them with a plugin?

[ghost]

There are already some hooks that does the same thing. At the moment there are a very few.

You can see them at Lua API for in-process extension of the REAME.

[codri]

I've had a look at the list. Can't find the events for a file : open/save/close.
I used autocommands to run some tools on save, there doesn't seem to be an event for file save.

Copied from documentation:

events hooks:

• start()
• quit()
• win_open(win)
• win_close(win)
• theme_change(name)

[ghost]

This would have been convenient indeed... Maybe it is not a lot to add: In the C source code, right after opening a file, make a call to a lua function using the lua C API.

[martanne]

Hi, the following 3 additional events are now exposed through the Lua API:

• file_open(file)
• file_save(file)
• file_close(file)

Is this good enough for your purpose? The "plugin" interface is still rather young, suggestions for API improvements can also be posted to issue #292.

Note that with the current design the event handlers are executed synchronously, meaning the editor core will block until your event handler terminates. This might change at some point with the introduction of a proper RPC interface #59.

[codri]

@martanne yes. it looks good. will give it a try to make something like autocommands with lua. will keep in mind about the issue #292 .