alexherbo2/auto-pairs.kak

Installation quesiton

m-kru opened this issue · 3 comments

m-kru commented

In the installation section you mention about 2 options:

  1. Add auto-pairs.kak to your autoload

or

  1. source it manually.

Which one is done by require-module auto-pairs?

What does the opposite option look like?

alexherbo2 commented

If you add auto-pairs.kak repository to your autoload, the files will be sourced by Kakoune at startup. You can also use the source command to load the file manually.

The file defines a module that you have to require in your kakrc once sourced.

m-kru commented

That is a lot of steps.

  1. Place in autoload to be sourced,
  2. require-module to do something (I do not know what as it already has been sourced),
  3. auto-pairs-enable

Do you know why 1 and 2 are two distinct steps. At first glance it looks like they could be merged.

alexherbo2 commented

Scripts define modules, but do nothing.

Source and require are separated to not introduce loading order issues, e.g. with plugins having dependencies.

When required, the module lets you acceed the commands, it does not install hooks, mappings, etc. You use the enable commands, etc. for that.