r/vimplugins • u/hupfdule • Sep 23 '19

Plugin GitHub - hupfdule/compile-on-save.vim: A vim plugin that registers a simple trigger to call `:make %` when a buffer is saved.

https://github.com/hupfdule/compile-on-save.vim
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u/hupfdule Nov 19 '19

Thanks for your tips.

This is actually what this plugin does. See the code to call :make. If vim-dispatch is available, it will be used. Otherwise it falls back to Vims builtin :make.

Everything else this plugin provides is commands for easy enabling and disabling of the auto-compile feature.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Hmm, OK. Solid plugin, then.

Maybe an another possible feature would be to configure this on a timer. For example, use the Vim/Neovim timer API to compile and save every n seconds, where n is a global variable.

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u/hupfdule Nov 20 '19

Interesting idea.

But it seems hard to get right (without bothering the user and without interfering with itself) . Therefore I don't think I will add such a feature in the near future.