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kana / vim-submode

Vim plugin: Create your own submodes
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2467
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Setup and teardown functions #16

Open LFDM opened 10 years ago

LFDM commented 10 years ago

Feature proposal mentioned in #13

To build really powerful submodes it would be nice to be able to register setup and teardown functions that get called on_entering and on_leaving. I know that especially the setup part can be achieved with a workaround (defining a rhs command in the enter_with function), but that's a little hacky, as I am pretty sure you didn't intend this feature to work this way. I assume it would be enough to implement two dictionaries where the submode's name is the key and the value is an array of funcrefs to be called in the respective parts. Possible use cases would be to activate/deactivate different highlightings or opening/closing a split window that holds additional information you could use during your submode's activity etc etc.

kana commented 10 years ago

Since enter_with has an optional {rhs}. When are setup functions called? Before {rhs}? After {rhs}? It depends on purposes. So we have to support both.

LFDM commented 10 years ago

I always think of the optional {rhs} as the first command that should be called INSIDE the submode. Taking a pseudo-example

submode movement enter_with '<esc> j', '5j'
submode movement map 'j', '5j'

5j is the rhs here, which is also the regular submode mapping for j, which I already want to be called when I trigger the submode.

A setup function would be called before it, before the rhs is executed, as it just sets up the submode. What purpose do you have in mind for calling it after the rhs?