According to the documentation for gs:
go to sleep for N seconds (default 1)
Thus you can put Vim to sleep for 10 seconds using 10gs. What is a good use case for this command?
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Short answer: None. That is, I believe it is a waste to map the easily accessible keys gs to sleep.
With that said, I often use the the :sleep command when I do testing and debugging of vimscript files. So the command itself is not useless. But when I do use it, I use it as part of a vimscript. After ~15 years of using Vim, I have never used gs to make Vim sleep.
answered Jul 4, 2017 at 6:50
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1Can you please elaborate, when can
:sleepbe useful for testing or debugging of vimscript files. Maybe just one example. Commented Jul 5, 2017 at 20:12 -
2Two examples: Example 1 and example 2. Both examples use
sleepto ensure that some backgrounded processes finish properly before continuing execution. In the last example, I have automated a test of some vimtex commands, andsleepis handy here also to give some time to inspect output before continuing execution. Commented Jul 6, 2017 at 8:18
I’ve used it in macros. For instance, if there’s an asynchronous task (like format on save) that needs to complete before the rest of your macro continues, you can throw a 1gs in there, it’ll get saved to your macro, and it will pause there for 1 second before it continues
