auto-run-script

Overview

Autorun-script executes after a file is saved if the buffer and mode meet predetermined requirements. It searches for a script, default name is run-script.sh, within the current directory and any parent above it up to a limit set by the user. After finding the script the script is executed asynchronously with arguments provided via settings or the default argument of the file extension.

Execution Order

Which script and what args are executed depend on the hiearchy of settings. When the script is called a message will be displayed in the message echo area. And the message will be prefixed to indicate which setting is being used.

Example: BUF:autoscript: <path-to-script> <args>.

The hiearchy of settings and their messeage prefix is as follows:

Setting	Prefix	Example
Buffer	BUFF:
File Path	PATH:
Major-Mode	MODE:
System Wide	SYS:

Argument Variables

Currently arguments can have variables of the nature {date} or {file} and so on. These variables will be replaced with the appropriate value prior to calling the script.

Variable Name	Replace Value
"date"	(format-time-string "%d.%m.%Y")
"datetime"	(format-time-string "%d.%m.%Y:%H:%M:%S")
"time"	(format-time-string "%H:%M:%S:%6N")
"path"	(buffer-file-name)
"file"	(file-name-base (buffer-file-name))
"ext"	(file-name-extension (buffer-file-name))
"dir"	current directory

Customize

Run M-x customize-group RET autorun-script RET or set the variables.

;; Autorun Script File
(setq autorun-script-name "script-name.sh/bat")

;; Set active state. Note: executing `autorun-script-run`
;; runs the script regardless of active states
(setq autorun-script-active t)

;; Set whether or not the script response should be returned
;; to the buffer `*autorun-script-response*`.
(setq autorun-script-response-on t)

;; Set major-modes that autorun-script will run under.
(setq autorun-script-alist '('mode-name 'mode-name2 ...etc))

TODO:

• Enable changing system wide args
• Enable changing system wide script name
• Enable changing buffer args
• Enable changing buffer script name
• Enable changing mode args
• Enable changing mode script name
• Path Args
• Path Script Name
• Add basic arg variables
• Add user customizable variables
• Add variable escaping so that {date} etc will be based as arguments and not replaced
• Consider saving all settings via {defcustom} to keep values between sessions