Halim, Salman wrote:
You can have something happen on multiples of CursorHold and CursorHoldI
by doing something like this (untested):
:let g:flag = 0
:au CursorHoldI * if g:flag == 1 | doSomething | let g:flag = 0 | else |
let g:flag += 1 | endif
The 'doSomething' bit should only happen every other CursorHoldI firing.
You could change the if condition to work off a higher number if you
want.
I have a (relatively) complicated function called LongEnough that return
true/false if it has either been sufficiently long since the last time
it was called or if it has been called quite frequently. Useful if you
want to execute something either every 5 seconds or every 3 calls, for
example. I can share it if it'll help.
Salman.
I've always been told that CursorHold doesn't fire again if you don't hit the
keys after it has fired, and that CursorHoldI is "just like CursorHold but for
Insert mode".
Here's a testcase:
set laststatus=2
hi StatusLine ctermbg=green ctermfg=white guibg=red guifg=black
let s:statuslineflag = 0
function ToggleStatusLine()
if s:statuslineflag
hi StatusLine ctermbg=black ctermbg=white guibg=red guifg=black
else
hi StatusLine ctermbg=green ctermfg=white guibg=green guifg=white
endif
let s:statuslineflag = ! s:statuslineflag
endfunction
augroup togglestatus
au! CursorHold,CursorHoldI * call ToggleStatusLine()
augroup END
With this code, does the active status line start blinking every 4 seconds
when you stop banging at keys? In my version of Vim, it doesn't (instead, it
changes colour once after 4 seconds of inactivity, and then not again until I
hit a key); and that means that (with the code you showed) you can't both
"save your work after 4 seconds of inactivity" and (let's say) "stop input
mode after 12 seconds of inactivity" even though the latter is a multiple of
the former.
... Nice visual effect; I'm gonna move it into my colour scheme.
See
:help CursorHold
:help CursorHoldI
:help 'updatetime'
Best regards,
Tony.
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