NVIM-ASCRIPT

Run async python script easily without using neovim's rplugin or job feature explicitly.

Motivation

To be honest, I don't like neovim's UpdateRemotePlugins, and sometims I just want a small fragment of python/ruby code to be run async.

Installation

Assuming you're using vim-plug

Plug 'roxma/nvim-ascript'

Usage

python3 << EOF
def greet(name):
    import vim
    from time import time
    t = time()
    # delay for about 3s
    while t + 3 >= time():
        pass
    vim.command("echo 'hi %s'" % name)
EOF

call ascript#py3call('greet', 'roxma')

Warning: Neovim's python script host uses greenlet, but it should still be considered single-threaded. So there're chances that it will interfere with other plugins using :python or python3 feature, and then block the ui. Be careful with long run jobs.

Functions

Recommended:

• ascript#py3call(fn, ...)
• ascript#pycall(fn, ...)

Suger missing in nvim's standard functions, note that these are not async functions.

• script#py3call(fn, ...)
• script#pycall(fn, ...)

Others:

• ascript#py3(script)
• ascript#py(script)
• ascript#ruby(script)