I’m just starting to delve into Sublime’s Plugin API, as I am trying to create a new plugin for my needs.
My question is if there is a way to make an EventListener fire only when the focused view uses a specific syntax.
I know that I could use
view.settings().get("syntax")but I’m afraid this will not scale on the long run, if someone has many views opened
Thank you!
Just use it ! It scales because the event will likely fire for the current view, not for all the views at the same time.
Working on
view.settings().get("syntax")is just fine.
Another idea would be to use the associated scope that the syntax defines and match a selector on that. It’s more flexible in that you can match multiple syntaxes with a single selector and it’s easily expanded. Here are some links to work with:
docs.sublimetext.info/en/sublime … tml#scopes
github.com/SublimeText/AAAPacka … #L112-L115
docs.sublimetext.info/en/sublime … h_selector
And here is an example usage:
github.com/FichteFoll/CSScheme/ … #L224-L238