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
