job.nvim

job manager for neovim

• Installation
• Usage
• APIs
• Self-Promotion

Installation

using nvim-plug

require("plug").add({
	{
		"wsdjeg/job.nvim",
	},
})

Usage

example:

local job = require('job')
local function on_exit(id, code, single)
    print('job ' .. id .. ' exit code:' .. code .. ' single:' .. single)
end

local cmd = { 'echo', 'hello world' }
local jobid1 = job.start(cmd, {
    on_stdout = function(id, data)
        vim.print(data)
    end,
    on_exit = on_exit,
})

vim.print(string.format('jobid is %s', jobid1))

local jobid = job.start({ 'cat' }, {
    on_stdout = function(id, data)
        vim.print(data)
    end,
    on_exit = function(id, code, single)
        print('job ' .. id .. ' exit code:' .. code .. ' single:' .. single)
    end,
})

job.send(jobid, { 'hello' })

job.chanclose(jobid, 'stdin')

output:

jobid is 43
{ "hello world" }
job 43 exit code:0 single:0
{ "hello" }
job 44 exit code:0 single:0

APIs

function	description
job.start(cmd, opt)	start a new job
job.stop(jobid, signal)	stop the job with signal
job.send(jobid, data)	send data to specific job
job.chanclose(jobid, std)	close channel of a job

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