Re: Is it possible to run formatter before saving?

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:47:37 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.general
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Op 30-04-2021 om 00:00 schreef Stepan Bujnak:
> I'm writing a lot of Go code. When editing a Go file in nano, I would like to run
> `goimports -w` which automatically formats the code right before saving. I can do
> that by binding it to a key combination, but I'm interested whether it would be
> possible to run the formatter automatically after pressing ^S or ^X and before
> saving the file.

Your question is a bit confusing: ^S saves the file, but you want to run
the formatter /after/ that but before saving the file???

Anyway, how about creating a little script that first runs /bin/nano on
all arguments, and then checks each argument in turn and runs whatever
on it when it is a Go file?  Then alias nano to this script and presto.

If instead you want ^S to format the buffer before saving it to disk,
then you need to rebind things.  Say 'bind M-5 savefile main',  and
'bind ^S "^[f^[5" main' (where ^[ is a literal escape), which causes
^S to act as if you pressed M-f followed by M-5.

Benno

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