Re: Is it possible to run formatter before saving?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 4:47 PM Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Yes, this is exactly what I wanted and it works like a charm. Thank you.


>
> Benno
>
>