Re: Problem calling python script from BufWritePost

On 07/10/2011 05:01 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, AK wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a ftdetect script defined like this:
>>
>> au BufNewFile,BufRead *.vtobu setf vimtobu
>>
>> augroup VimTobu
>> au!
>> au BufWritePost vimtobu call VimTobu("save")
>> au BufWritePost vimtobu echo 'SAVED!'
>> augroup END
>
> :au BufWritePost vimtobu {etc...}
>
> will only fire for filenames that match 'vimtobu'. That's not a
> filetype; it's a filename pattern. See:
>
> :help :au
> :help autocmd-patterns
>
> (One exception I know of to "{pat} is a filename" is the 'FileType'
> event, where {pat} is a filetype.)
>
> For your case, the following should work:
>
> augroup VimTobu
> au!
> au BufWritePost * if &ft == 'vimtobu' | call VimTobu("save") | endif
> au BufWritePost * if &ft == 'vimtobu' | echo 'SAVED!' | endif
> augroup END
>

Thanks so much, that worked great. For some reason I was
completely certain filetype also worked.. No idea where
I picked that up.

-ak

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