Is there anyway to hook into vim’s file save action to have it automatically write a log file the name of any file that has been changed?
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Is there anyway to hook into vim’s file save action to have it automatically write a log file the name of any file that has been changed?
Yes, there is. It’s a feature called autocommands. Type
:help :autocmdto access the documentation. You probably want something like this:You can use
%as a placeholder for the current file name.