Re: Executing vimfunctions in background
Chuck Mason wrote: Well, that sample 'myFunc' was just that- a sample. Imagine now, that it doesn't depend on cursor location but on a daemon running on your system. Chuck There are also the CursorHold and CursorHoldI autocommands (q.v.), which are triggered _once_ when the keyboard has been idle for 'updatetime' milliseconds (4000 by default). Best regards, Tony. -- The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert. -- D. Letterman
RE: Executing vimfunctions in background
Doc states, Not re-triggered until the user has pressed a key (i.e. doesn't fire every 'updatetime' ms if you leave Vim to make some coffee. :) So this isn't going to work. How do I put in a feature request for an autocmd that is trigged every 'repeattime' repeatedly? Chuck -Original Message- From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:42 PM To: Chuck Mason Cc: Yakov Lerner; vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Executing vimfunctions in background Chuck Mason wrote: Well, that sample 'myFunc' was just that- a sample. Imagine now, that it doesn't depend on cursor location but on a daemon running on your system. Chuck There are also the CursorHold and CursorHoldI autocommands (q.v.), which are triggered _once_ when the keyboard has been idle for 'updatetime' milliseconds (4000 by default). Best regards, Tony. -- The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert. -- D. Letterman
RE: Executing vimfunctions in background
Mr. Yikihiro Nakadaira supplied the following to the list a couple months ago. SNIP In Vim7 feedkeys() can be used. autocmd CursorHold * call Timer() function! Timer() echo strftime(%c) let K_IGNORE = \x80\xFD\x35internal key code that is ignored call feedkeys(K_IGNORE) endfunction /SNIP ... this pretty much simulates a timed event when you leave the keyboard and let vim run. Between this and CursorMoved perhaps you can accomplish what you want -dan On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Chuck Mason wrote: Doc states, Not re-triggered until the user has pressed a key (i.e. doesn't fire every 'updatetime' ms if you leave Vim to make some coffee. :) So this isn't going to work. How do I put in a feature request for an autocmd that is trigged every 'repeattime' repeatedly? Chuck -Original Message- From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:42 PM To: Chuck Mason Cc: Yakov Lerner; vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Executing vimfunctions in background Chuck Mason wrote: Well, that sample 'myFunc' was just that- a sample. Imagine now, that it doesn't depend on cursor location but on a daemon running on your system. Chuck There are also the CursorHold and CursorHoldI autocommands (q.v.), which are triggered _once_ when the keyboard has been idle for 'updatetime' milliseconds (4000 by default). Best regards, Tony. -- The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert. -- D. Letterman
Executing vimfunctions in background
I'm interested in writing a plugin that could run in the background as I do some work in a buffer. For instance I have a function that appends a line to :copen. I would like to run it in the background continuously. How could I do this and continue working in the foreground? func myFunc() while 1 exe caddexpr expand(%) . : . line(.) . : . getline(.) exe sleep 5 endwhile endfunc how do I launch myFunc() to run continuously in the background? Chuck
Re: Executing vimfunctions in background
On 4/3/07, Chuck Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in writing a plugin that could run in the background as I do some work in a buffer. For instance I have a function that appends a line to :copen. I would like to run it in the background continuously. How could I do this and continue working in the foreground? func myFunc() while 1 exe caddexpr expand(%) . : . line(.) . : . getline(.) exe sleep 5 endwhile endfunc how do I launch myFunc() to run continuously in the background? Chuhk, You probably want to give the 'au CursorMoved' autocommand a try for this task. Such tasks are normally solved with autocommands in vim. See: :help au :hep CursorMoved Good luck Yakov
RE: Executing vimfunctions in background
Yes and no- I think this would work in certain situations, but of course what happens when I don't move the cursor? Actually, why isn't there a Timer autocommand? :) Feature request? -Original Message- From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:05 AM To: Chuck Mason Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Executing vimfunctions in background On 4/3/07, Chuck Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in writing a plugin that could run in the background as I do some work in a buffer. For instance I have a function that appends a line to :copen. I would like to run it in the background continuously. How could I do this and continue working in the foreground? func myFunc() while 1 exe caddexpr expand(%) . : . line(.) . : . getline(.) exe sleep 5 endwhile endfunc how do I launch myFunc() to run continuously in the background? Chuhk, You probably want to give the 'au CursorMoved' autocommand a try for this task. Such tasks are normally solved with autocommands in vim. See: :help au :hep CursorMoved Good luck Yakov
Re: Executing vimfunctions in background
On 4/3/07, Chuck Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and no- I think this would work in certain situations, but of course what happens when I don't move the cursor? If you didn't move the cursor -- then why would you add the same position to the quicfix list again and again ? What's the point ? How is adding same position again and again (seems meaningless to me) better than reacting to cursor motion ? Yakov Actually, why isn't there a Timer autocommand? :) Feature request? -Original Message- From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:05 AM To: Chuck Mason Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Executing vimfunctions in background On 4/3/07, Chuck Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in writing a plugin that could run in the background as I do some work in a buffer. For instance I have a function that appends a line to :copen. I would like to run it in the background continuously. How could I do this and continue working in the foreground? func myFunc() while 1 exe caddexpr expand(%) . : . line(.) . : . getline(.) exe sleep 5 endwhile endfunc how do I launch myFunc() to run continuously in the background? Chuhk, You probably want to give the 'au CursorMoved' autocommand a try for this task. Such tasks are normally solved with autocommands in vim. See: :help au :hep CursorMoved Good luck Yakov
RE: Executing vimfunctions in background
Well, that sample 'myFunc' was just that- a sample. Imagine now, that it doesn't depend on cursor location but on a daemon running on your system. Chuck -Original Message- From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:44 PM To: Chuck Mason Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Executing vimfunctions in background On 4/3/07, Chuck Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and no- I think this would work in certain situations, but of course what happens when I don't move the cursor? If you didn't move the cursor -- then why would you add the same position to the quicfix list again and again ? What's the point ? How is adding same position again and again (seems meaningless to me) better than reacting to cursor motion ? Yakov Actually, why isn't there a Timer autocommand? :) Feature request? -Original Message- From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:05 AM To: Chuck Mason Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Executing vimfunctions in background On 4/3/07, Chuck Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in writing a plugin that could run in the background as I do some work in a buffer. For instance I have a function that appends a line to :copen. I would like to run it in the background continuously. How could I do this and continue working in the foreground? func myFunc() while 1 exe caddexpr expand(%) . : . line(.) . : . getline(.) exe sleep 5 endwhile endfunc how do I launch myFunc() to run continuously in the background? Chuhk, You probably want to give the 'au CursorMoved' autocommand a try for this task. Such tasks are normally solved with autocommands in vim. See: :help au :hep CursorMoved Good luck Yakov
