feedkeys not working?

[nosami]

Hi,

I am having trouble getting feedkeys to work. Not sure if it's an issue with the vspec plugin or if I am doing something wrong (My vimscript is pretty weak)

Here's an example :-

  it 'completes abcde'
    put! = 'abc'  
    call feedkeys("Ade\<esc>")
        sleep
    Expect getline(1) == 'abcde'
  end

Output :-

# Expected getline(1) == 'abcde'
#       Actual value: 'abc'
#     Expected value: 'abcde'

[kana]

You have to use :normal instead of feedkeys().

feedkeys() only pushes characters into the input queue. When Vim becomes idle and the input queue is not empty, Vim will take a character from the input queue and processes it as if user typed the character. And Vim will never be idle while running a test script, because Vim is always busy to execute each line in the test script.

While :normal {command} directly executes Normal mode {command}. This is the proper way to emulate Normal mode commands in a test script in most situations.

[nosami]

Thanks for the reply! That makes sense, but what I'm actually trying to do though is simulate triggering omnicomplete with <c-x><c-o> in insert mode. I don't think that's possible using :normal ?

[kana]

Try :execute 'normal!' "a\<C-x>\<C-o>".

[nosami]

I can't get that to work. Even if I try just :normal "a\<C-x>\<C-o>" manually (with quotes), it doesn't seem to do anything. I tried a bunch of different variations.

If I remove the quotes, then is inserted into the document. call feedkeys() does what I want (if I invoke it manually), I understand your explanation for why it won't work in a script though.

Thanks for your help. Maybe it's not possible.

[kana]

Don't remove :execute! Try :execute 'normal!' "a\<C-x>\<C-o>".

[nosami]

I should have mentioned, I tried that first of all before I started trying to change the command. It has no effect.

[nosami]

This doesn't seem to be a vspec issue. Feel free to close.

Thanks anyway!

[kana]

I confirmed :normal can invoke omni completion with the following steps:

filetype plugin on

describe ':normal'
  before
    enew!
    setfiletype html
  end

  it 'can invoke omni completion'
    execute 'normal!' "a<div i\<C-x>\<C-o>"
    Expect getline(1) ==# '<div id="'
  end
end

[kana]

If you still have troubles, please paste the actual test script you wrote. I couldn't give a proper advice without it.

[nosami]

Your script works for me too. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it!

I need to dig around a bit more to see what I'm doing wrong in my script.

[kana]

I added notes on how to emulate user input into the document.
Since vspec runs a test script with a plain Vim like vim -u NONE -i NONE -N, plugins and filetype plugins are not loaded by default. So that I think the core problem you encountered that you didn't write :filetype plugin on in test scripts. You succeeded to trigger omni completion, but the current buffer didn't have filetype, so nothing happened.