Execute filetype specific commands

Allows easily binding a single key for multiple filetypes to execute different actions.

Why?

With vim it's quite annoying to map a single key to do different actions according to the current filetype.

Its possible using autocmd, but that will get old fast. Especially if you are dealing with multiple languages.

This plugin allows users to define execute commands as a dictionary.

Install

I recommend using a plugin manager to do the grunt work for you. If for some reason, you do not want to use any of them, then unzip the contents of the .zip file to your ~/.vim directory.

Usage

Define filetype specific commands using g:execute_ft_commands

let g:execute_ft_commands = {
  \'<filetype>': { '<command type>': '<command>'}
\}

Patterns:

{file} will be replaced as fullpath of the file

calling ExecuteByFt with the command type will execute the specific command for that filetype. Simple stuff.

Example

let g:execute_ft_commands = { 
  \'javascript': { 'all': 'Dispatch npm test', 'single': 'Dispatch npm test -- {file}' },
  \'ruby': { 'all': 'Rake spec test', 'single': 'Rake spec SPEC={file}' }
\}

map <silent> \a :call ExecuteByFT("all")<CR>
map <silent> \t :call ExecuteByFT("single")<CR>
map <silent> \\ :call ExecuteByFtLast()<CR>

Commands

ExecuteByFT(<type>) - execute filetype command by its type
ExecuteFtLast() - execute the last command

kirstein / vim-execute-ft