I'm trying to make autocommands that will run only when the buffer is a man page (:Man) but I can't get the right pattern as i'm not too familiar with regexp and globs. here's what i've tried so far:
autocmd! BufEnter *man://* call Myfunc()
autocmd! BufEnter [^man://]* call Myfunc()
but nothing seems to work. any alternatives are okay too
From what I have tested this works:
function! Test()
echom "entering man buffer " . expand('%')
endfunction
autocmd! BufEnter man://* call Test()
vim --noplugin -u test.vim but It seems not working.. any idea?
– John Fred Fadrigalan
Mar 12 at 11:29
new man://test(1) but not using the :Man test command.
– John Fred Fadrigalan
Mar 12 at 12:23
:Man ls the autocommand doesn't work but if I use :Man again it works. I would say that maybe :Man sets the filename after the BufEnter event is triggered. Depending on what you want to do maybe you can use another autocommand event.
– statox♦
Mar 12 at 12:43
It's probably better to use a FileType buffer. The problem with BufEnter is that the buffer may not yet be fully set up when it's run; I also don't think it's run for new buffers.
I'm also not entirely sure if I follow where you go the man:// pattern from? I don't see that in the source? And using bufname('') gives me /home/martin/ls.~, not man://...?
At any rate, something like this should work as you expect:
autocmd! FileType man call Myfunc()
