autocmd

Every time the program has some output available, it will trigger an autocmd to let you process it.

Actually, you would use an ftplugin or autocmd to:set keywordprg=ri only when ft=ruby, which is what the ruby.vim files do.

It's doubtful that it will ever run Vim plugins or read your.vimrc (particularly because it will not support things like autocmd or VimL).

The original patch Tarruda tried to get merged into Vim provided asynchronous commands in pure Vimscript (through a new kind of event for autocmd).

Then you can have an autocmd for CursorHold that calls select().

<CR> should be a normal mode command of course!) autocmd BufEnter *.rb normal <CR> (doesn't work) (oh!

What if we want to include multiple statements in an autocmd?

It spawns process or create socket connection in background and clients have access to it as a resource object from which client can read data during CursorMoved and CursorMovedI autocmd events.

I have function LispOpts() inoremap [ ( inoremap ] ) inoremap ( [ inoremap ) ] endfunction autocmd FileType scheme call LispOpts() autocmd FileType lisp call LispOpts() in my vimrc, which gains me all the ease-of-typing I really want.

Eventually we find out about autocmd, by luck.

Primarily by having these in my.vimrc: autocmd FileType text set textwidth=75 autocmd FileType text set formatoptions+=a autocmd FileType text set formatoptions+=w explanation: - formatoptions+=a: auto-format as you insert text, which means it will (basically) automatically insert a newline once you've typed 'textwidth' number of characters on your line.

When Vim is inactive, I can attach a function in a CursorHold autocmd event which would consists of loop that reads from the resource object and sleeps for a small interval after that.

"Let's say on entering a ruby file we want to press enter":h autocmd (reading) autocmd BufEnter *.rb <CR> (doesn't work) (thinking) (oh!

I remember,:normal only accepts ^M!) autocmd BufEnter *.rb normal ^M "change the background color" (look at how it's done in a random colorscheme):hi Normal guibg=#0066ff "how to set guicursor":h guicursor What do you want to do with your guicursor if not setting its color and/or shape and/or blinking behavior?