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I'm working on improving my .vimrc, and I want to have command inside of it that depends upon whether it is night or day. I'd like to have something like the following in the end:
if isNightTime
" do something
else
" some other thing
endif
What's the best way to go about this?
Jonathan Sterling
Posted 2011-04-03T18:45:48.927
Reputation: 213
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Using the strftime() funtion is probably the best approach. If you are satsified with one-hour resolution, you could do something like this:
let hour = strftime("%H")
if 6 <= hour && hour < 18
" do daytime stuff
else
" do nighttime stuff
endif
See
:help strftime()
and the strftime man page.
garyjohn
Posted 2011-04-03T18:45:48.927
Reputation: 29 085
1Have you seen
:help time-functions? – Raimondi – 2011-04-03T19:15:35.537Guess I hadn't seen that. I'm sorry for bothering folks before I'd sufficiently studied the documentation! – Jonathan Sterling – 2011-04-03T23:04:07.870
1I didn't mean it that way, Vim's help can be a bit difficult to work with at first, that's why I pointed that page to you ;) – Raimondi – 2011-04-04T03:55:56.417
Didn't take any offense! :) Thanks, everyone, for being so helpful. – Jonathan Sterling – 2011-04-04T04:39:04.943
Just out of curiosity, what are you doing that requires this type of switch? Is it related to a colorscheme? – Matt Alexander – 2011-05-03T16:15:48.847
@mattalexx Yeah, I'm using the Solarized colorscheme, which has dark and light variants.
– Jonathan Sterling – 2011-05-03T17:54:20.437