Help getting simple plugin working

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Help getting simple plugin working

gblock0 opened this issue 9 years ago · 14 comments

I'm new to developing neovim plugins and I'm trying get a simple node plugin working, but when I run :UpdateRemotePlugins it throws this error:

Here is my plugin:

/* globals plugin, debug */
'use strict';

debug('In plugin');
var fmt = require('util').format,
    numCalls = 0;

function incrementCalls() {
    if ( numCalls === 5 ) {
        debug('too many calls');
    }
    numCalls++;
}

plugin.command('testCmd', {
    range: '',   // Line 16
    nargs: '*'
}, function (nvim, args, range) {
    debug('in testCmd');
    incrementCalls();
    nvim.commandOutput( fmt('Test cmd press: ', numCalls, ' times. ', range) );
});

You can find the rest of the project at neovim-autoformat.

I try to run :testCmd in nvim and it gives me the E492: Not an editor command: testCmd error.

Eventually I would like to have this run a shell command when a nvim : command is sent, but this plugin doesn't seem like it's even getting loaded properly.

nvim version:

NVIM 0.1.0 (compiled Nov  1 2015 16:15:29)
Commit: v0.1.0
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
Compilation: /usr/local/Library/ENV/4.3/clang -Wconversion -O2 -g -DDISABLE_LOG -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fdiagnostics-color=auto -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/build/config -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/src -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/deps-build/usr/include -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/deps-build/usr/include -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/deps-build/usr/include/luajit-2.0 -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/deps-build/usr/include -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/deps-build/usr/include -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/deps-build/usr/include -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/deps-build/usr/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/include -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/build/src/nvim/auto -I/tmp/neovim20151101-33169-32i8gt/build/include
Compiled by gregoryblock@Geebs

Optional features included (+) or not (-): +acl   +iconv    +jemalloc
For differences from Vim, see :help vim-differences

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/Cellar/neovim/HEAD/share/nvim"

Nothing in the $NEOVIM_JS_DEBUG file and just this in my ~/.nvimlog:

2015/08/16 10:35:09 [info @ main_loop:558] 71322 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/08/16 10:35:21 [info @ main_loop:558] 71366 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/08/16 10:43:44 [info @ main_loop:558] 72402 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/08/16 10:44:04 [info @ main_loop:558] 72557 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/08/16 10:45:45 [info @ main_loop:558] 72910 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/08/16 10:46:07 [info @ main_loop:558] 74787 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/08/16 10:50:47 [info @ main_loop:558] 76445 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/08/16 10:51:03 [info @ main_loop:558] 78304 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:46:19 [info @ main_loop:558] 20212 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:46:37 [info @ main_loop:558] 20334 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:46:42 [info @ main_loop:558] 20415 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:46:50 [info @ main_loop:558] 20476 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:48:28 [info @ main_loop:558] 20883 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:49:28 [info @ main_loop:558] 21111 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:52:51 [info @ main_loop:558] 21906 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:54:20 [info @ main_loop:558] 22553 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/10/31 17:54:55 [info @ main_loop:558] 22786 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/11/01 13:41:43 [info @ main_loop:558] 89297 - Starting Neovim main loop.
2015/11/01 13:44:25 [info @ main_loop:558] 89749 - Starting Neovim main loop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2015-11-09T13:15:06.000Z

Once I get back developing the infrastructure for remote plugins, I will look for a plan to removing the requirement for running :UpdateRemotePlugins, make things a little bit more automatic.

Answer 2 · 2015-11-09T15:38:03.000Z

@tarruda Sounds great!

While you are working on that, is there any advice you can give to help me get this working?

Answer 3 · 2015-11-10T10:33:17.000Z

@gblock0 The message suggests that the connection was closed due to an error, which I guess is caused by the lowercase command your plugin defines(vim/nvim only accept uppercase names for user-defined commands and functions).

Answer 4 · 2015-11-17T01:26:32.000Z

@gblock0 did changing the command name to uppercase solve your issue?

Answer 5 · 2015-11-17T17:59:17.000Z

No it did not.

Answer 6 · 2015-11-17T18:43:03.000Z

I think that the problem is that you want commandOutput to send nvim the output of TestCmd, but what it actually does is asks nvim to execute a command (e.g. w) and return the output (e.g. "main.js" 25L, 507C written).

If you want to display an output message, try using nvim.commandOutput('echo "output!"')!

Answer 7 · 2015-11-18T22:30:46.000Z

I changed it to:

plugin.command('TestCmd', {
    range: '',   // Line 16
    nargs: '*'
}, function (nvim) {
    nvim.commandOutput( 'w' );
});

but I am still getting the same error.

Answer 8 · 2015-11-18T23:23:17.000Z

Weird. Your plugin works perfectly on my end. Perhaps you could try updating to the most recent version of Neovim? Otherwise, could you please paste the contents of .init.vim-rplugin~ (or ~/..nvim-rplugin~ if you haven't updated recently) after running :UpdateRemotePlugins?

Answer 9 · 2015-11-19T15:58:12.000Z

I just updated Neovim with homebrew and it seems to be the same version. Where would the init.vim-rplugin~ file be? I don't see it in my home directory and I can't find it in the neovim homebrew folder.

Answer 10 · 2015-11-19T17:39:47.000Z

Try taking a look in ~/.config/nvim!

Answer 11 · 2015-11-19T18:19:10.000Z

I had checked there but forgot to add -a to the command...derp. Here is the output:

" node plugins


" python3 plugins
call remote#host#RegisterPlugin('python3', '/Users/gregoryblock/.config/nvim/plugged/vim-markdown-composer/rplugin/python3/markdown_composer.py', [
      \ {'sync': 0, 'name': 'ComposerOpen', 'type': 'command', 'opts': {}},
      \ {'sync': 0, 'name': 'ComposerPort', 'type': 'command', 'opts': {}},
      \ {'sync': 0, 'name': 'ComposerStart', 'type': 'command', 'opts': {}},
      \ {'sync': 0, 'name': 'CursorHold,CursorHoldI,CursorMoved,CursorMovedI', 'type': 'autocmd', 'opts': {'pattern': '*.md,*.mkd,*.markdown'}},
      \ {'sync': 1, 'name': 'ComposerUpdate', 'type': 'command', 'opts': {}},
      \ {'sync': 1, 'name': 'FileType', 'type': 'autocmd', 'opts': {'pattern': 'markdown'}},
     \ ])


" python plugins

Answer 12 · 2015-11-19T18:22:24.000Z

Okay, my questions then are 1) whether you've installed this repo as a plugin and 2) whether you've done npm install inside of it.

Answer 13 · 2015-11-19T18:37:30.000Z

I am using vim-plug and this is the line in my init.vim for this plugin Plug '~/neovim-autoformat'. I have tried running :PlugInstall and then :UpdateRemotePlugins. Doesn't me getting remote/host: node host registered plugins ['main.js'] mean the plugin is trying to install?
I was not aware that I was supposed to run npm install inside the plugin. Does my plugin need to be aware of node-host even though Neovim is? Currently I do not have a package.json insde my plugin.

Answer 14 · 2015-11-19T18:40:22.000Z

I did run npm install in the node-host plugin folder when I first installed it.

The path to my plugins is: ~/.config/nvim/plugged, not sure if that matters. Maybe I'm not installing the plugin correctly with vim-plug?

I just changed it to look at my repo, installed it the normal way, and I am still getting the error on :UpdateRemotePlugins