Notify.vim

Rationale

This plugin is intended to be used by with other plugins that do background jobs and wants to notify the user about the success of a specific job. See the #Examples section for use cases.

Implemented notification emitters

• osascript (Mac OSX)
• notify-send (Ubuntu)

Installation

Using Vundle

Add to your plugins

Plugin 'gianarb/notify.vim'

Usage

Send a notification

Using the emitNotification function

call notify#emitNotification('Title', 'Body')

Using the command

:Notify title content

From command line

vim +Notify\ title\ body +qall

Examples

Automatic ctags with notification when completed

Dependencies

• tpope/vim-dispatch (execute commands asynchronously)

Add to your vimrc

function! GenerateCtags()
   Dispatch! ctags -R && vim +Notify\ "Horray"\ "Ctags\ updated" +qall
endfunction
au BufWritePost *.c,*.cpp,*.h,*.php call GenerateCtags()