Questions tagged [async]
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How to use "FocusGained" to stop my cursor from moving
I tend to use GVim a lot. Very frequently, I'll click on some other window and then when I click on vim to regain focus, my cursor will end up in some random location depending on where I clicked. I ...
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Running a command Async in Neovim
As far as I know, Neovim enables running a command async, without blocking the user. I was told this is also enabled in Vim 8.
But I couldn't find examples of how to run a command asynchronously. ...
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How to start an async function in Vim 8?
I've known that Vim 8 provides us an async mechanism job_start so that we can start a command asynchronously and get its return with the help of channel.
However, it seems that job_start can only ...
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How to async run vimscript system calls
I have a vimscript function which uses a combination of vimscript functions and also some calls to :call system(). The vimscript and the system() calls can be 5-10 seconds slow, during which time, Vim ...
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Neovim rplugin: why does vim.async_call(print, "msg") not echo?
In a traditional :python3 plugin, I can call print("msg") to echo a message.
In a remote plugin function, I expect that calling vim.async_call(print, "msg") would do the same thing,...
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Neovim: How to start developing python plugins which run long-blocking code?
EDIT2: A user suggested that I may be going about this in a fundamentally wrong way, in particular in that I am not using remote (new-style) plugins and am trying to use async python code where it ...
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Simple Asynchronous function call in Neovim (defer_fn or timer_start ?)
I'm trying to create a very simple shortcut that saves the buffer and cleans the writing message after a second.
nmap <silent> <leader>w :w<CR>:sleep 1<CR>:echo ""<...
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Vim Script: How to pass Varargs to a lambda in timer_start
I'm configuring my vim with Vim Script.
I have set my own custom grep function as below:
function! CustomGrepCore(...)
if a:0 == 0
" do something
else if a:0 == 1
" ...
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What is the proper way to use the async mechanism: timer_start
I just started to use Vim 8 and I'm trying to figure out how to use the async mechanism: timer_start.
As my understanding, timer_start allows us to run a job asynchronously and repeatly.
I have two ...
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How to build nvim to has_perl?
I am on macOS. My ultimate goal is to speed up dbext.vim and I found the page mentioned DBI which depends on has('perl').
So I'd like to know how to build Neovim to have Perl enabled... Now I am ...
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How to pass a string as stdin to a job?
I have a shell command which reads from stdin, processes the input, and writes to stdout. To call it synchronously from vim I can do system('mycommand', data) where data is some string my vimscript ...
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Can't echo messages from inside async functions
CASE 1:
Have your autocmd command be setup like this:
autocmd User ALELintPost call SayHello() " ALELintPost is async
And your SayHello function set up like this
function! SayHello() abort
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How to get git branch information supplied by vim-fugitive asynchronously for my statusline?
I can directly use the following approach to get the git branch information:
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let l:git = "%6*%{exists('g:loaded_fugitive')?fugitive#statusline():''}%*"
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If so, it can cause a delay to the ...
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How to execute global/substitution command asynchronously?
With the release of vim 8, I was wondering if there is a way to execute :s or :g asynchronously.
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Is there an ideal / idiomatic way to debug running plugins?
I sometimes have plugs stop working — in my case, mostly using async lookups with Unite. When this happens, I would like to see what is happening and look into how to configure around it, or make a ...
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async_job patch in Kaoryia's gVim (windows)
Kaoryia's gVim builds for Win32/64 come with a number of extra, non-official patches enabled.
Some of them are pretty clear: :set charspace=-1, for example, will tighten the space between characters;...
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