Re: autommand to be executed on saving of a specific filetype

On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:12:49 PM UTC-4, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-10-15, FlashBurn wrote:
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> > I need to execute a function on certain file types (say c and
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> > make) when they are saved. I understand that autocmd is involved
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> > somehow but I can't figure it out.
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> > I need something like this
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> > autocmd BufWritePreFileType c,make :call MyFunction()
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> >
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> > Any help is appreciated.
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> There are two ways I can think of off-hand to do that. One is this:
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> au BufWritePre * if &ft == "c" || &ft == "make" | call MyFunction() | endif
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> which you can put in your ~/.vimrc. The other is this:
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> au BufWritePre <buffer> call MyFunction()
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> which you would put in the files (on Unix)
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> ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim and ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/make.vim.
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> Regards,
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> Gary

Thanks Gary. I think I will use a first approach.

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