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Make a Vim plugin that calls a bash script.

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You could presumably add something like the following to your vimrc:

autocmd BufWrite /etc/httpd/conf/* !restart_apache.sh

So that each time you save a file in the apache conf dir, vim executes your restart_apache.sh. You'd have to work out your permissions and what not.

I personally do not know of a script that manages these types of actions for you.

Randy Morris 2010-06-09 18:33:02

It's a little more complex, that's why I want to understand the concept. I have a Plone project in /home/personal/cvs/PROJECTNAME. There's a Zope process (Python) running with this string (PROJECTNAME) attached. I would like to, after saving *.py files inside this PROJECTNAME hierarchy, call a script that restarts a process that has this same project name.

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS 2010-06-09 18:37:38

Something like "autocmd BufWrite /home/personal/cvs/*/*.py !sh <afile>:p:h:t"? ":p:h:t" takes the name of the parent directory.

Jaime Soriano 2010-06-09 19:02:42

@Jaime Soriano: it seens powerful, but I couldn't understand your line... :( Can you explain in details? Thanks for your suggestion tough...

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS 2010-06-14 20:27:21

This line defines an automatic action to be executed on every write on files whose path matches with "/home/personal/cvs/*/*.py". The action is "!sh <afile>:p:h:t", that runs with sh the script with the name of the parent directory. ":p:h:t" are modifiers over the name of the saved file (<afile>), ":p:h" takes the full path of the directory and ":t" the tail (the last component). You can also check the documentation for that: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/cmdline.html#:_%:

Jaime Soriano 2010-06-15 09:01:14

Thanks for the link and explanation, Jaime.

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS 2010-07-09 13:41:22

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