ZSH Hooks
Usage
# Define a new hook that can be added to
hooks-define-hook <hook_variable_name>
# Run all functions added to the hook
hooks-run-hook <hook_variable_name>
# adds function to hook
#
# Options:
# -d remove from hook
# -D remove with pattern
#
# Everything else accepted by add-zsh-hook works... because it's the same
hooks-add-hook [ops] <hook_variable_name> <function>
As a more concrete example:
my-finish-function(){echo "zle line finished"}
hooks-add-hook zle_line_finish_hook my-finish-function
Note how _hook
is appended to the function name, and all -
characters are replaced with _
.
To define custom hooks, do something like this:
hooks-define-hook myhook
myfunc(){
echo running myfunc
}
hooks-add-hook myhook_hook myfunc
# then in whatever function you want the hook to run:
hooks-run-hook myhook_hook
Why is _hook
appended to the name? Because I clearly wasn't thinking straight when I made that API.
What??
That's right. hooks-add-hook
is shamelessly taken from add-zsh-hook
, and modified to be able to run on user defined hooks.
Why is this important?
Because ZSH has defined certain magic functions such as zle-line-init
and zle-keymap-select
that, if defined are run, but which can only have one definition.
The answer: define it to be a function that simply runs a hook.
So this plugin provides:
zle_line_init_hook
- these functions run on line init!zle_keymap_select_hook
- these functions run when you switch your keymap!- similar to the previous two, all of the other special functions documented here, except the history one, due to a bug.
$ZSH_CUR_KEYMAP
- this variable is set on line init/keymap change!
Why?
Plugin authors might want to use this functionality, but if they do it will conflict with what end-users do. This can solve that problem. Basically this is made to be a dependency for other plugins.
Install
zinit
zinit load zsh-hooks/zsh-hooks
zgen
zgen load zsh-hooks/zsh-hooks
zplug
zplug zsh-hooks/zsh-hooks
antigen
antigen bundle zsh-hooks/zsh-hooks