Alias to sequences of commands

[luisdavim]

Hi,

Would it be possible to have one alias to execute a sequence of commands?
For example, I have the following aliases:

aliasCommand 'w',
  orig: 'core:save'
aliasCommand 'q',
  orig: 'core:close'

and I would like to have:

aliasCommand 'wq',
  orig: 'core:save&core:close'

Thanks

[hurrymaplelad]

Sounds cool to me! PR welcome. I'd pass in the sequence of commands in an array, like:

aliasCommand 'wq',
  orig: ['core:save', 'core:close']

[luisdavim]

Pull request created :)

[luisdavim]

Hi,

Did you had a chance to take a look at my PR #3 ?
I've been using a version of the plugin with my changes and it does work as intended.
You can see some examples of how I've been using it here: https://github.com/luisdavim/dotfiles/blob/master/files/atom/init.coffee

Thanks

[hurrymaplelad]

Took a look just now, thanks for the PR! Add an example to the Readme and I'll get it merged.

[luisdavim]

Thanks, Sure I'll add it
I'll add the test part if I'm able to figure it out.

Luis

[hurrymaplelad]

After digging a little deeper, looks like this direction is in conflict with Atom core's stance on composing commands.

Details here: #3 (comment)

I'd want to see a pretty compelling case before taking a different stance. Sorry for not surfacing the concern sooner...

[luisdavim]

Thanks, Sure I'll add it
I'll add the test part if I'm able to figure it out.

Luis

[luisdavim]

I've only seen your second comment now.
The solution I've implemented has been working for me for now. But you are right, this can result in flaky behaviour.

I'll make some investigation to check if I can translate existing commands back into API calls and then create the composited command the way described here.