Re: calling vimscript in background in current VIM instance

On Do, 05 Apr 2018, Ni Va wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to make Vim's current instance be able to monitor itself.
>
> 1. On VimEnter, autocmd launch main entry
> 2. main tries to job_start gvim executable that launch the monitoring func but it fails
>
> Why ?
>
> Thank you
> NiVa
>
>
> This is the autoload/foo.vim code:
>
> let s:vimexe = fnamemodify($vimruntime.'/gvim.exe',':p:h:gs?/?\\?')
> let s:startmonitoring = "Start Timer to Autokill"
>
> fun! autokill#main() "{{{
> echomsg s:startmonitoring
> echomsg job_start(s:startmonitoring.' -c "call autokill#monitoring()"')

You are trying to start `Start Timer to Autokill`. That does not make
any sense. use v:progpath or v:progname

Best,
Christian
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-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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