🧶 auto-save.nvim

Automatically save your changes in NeoVim

 

📋 Features

• automatically save your changes so the world doesn't collapse
• highly customizable:
  • conditionals to assert whether to save or not
  • execution message (it can be dimmed and personalized)
  • events that trigger auto-save
• debounce the save with a delay
• multiple callbacks
• automatically clean the message area

 

📚 Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.5.0

 

📦 Installation

Install the plugin with your favourite package manager:

Lazy.nvim

{
	"okuuva/auto-save.nvim",
	cmd = "ASToggle", -- optional for lazy loading on command
	event = { "InsertLeave", "TextChanged" } -- optional for lazy loading on trigger events
	opts = {
		-- your config goes here
		-- or just leave it empty :)
	},
},

Packer.nvim

use({
	"okuuva/auto-save.nvim",
	config = function()
		 require("auto-save").setup {
			-- your config goes here
			-- or just leave it empty :)
		 }
	end,
})

vim-plug

Plug 'okuuva/auto-save.nvim'
lua << EOF
	require("auto-save").setup {
		-- your config goes here
		-- or just leave it empty :)
	}
EOF

 

⚙️ Configuration

auto-save comes with the following defaults:

{
	enabled = true, -- start auto-save when the plugin is loaded (i.e. when your package manager loads it)
	execution_message = {
		enabled = true,
		message = function() -- message to print on save
			return ("AutoSave: saved at " .. vim.fn.strftime("%H:%M:%S"))
		end,
		dim = 0.18, -- dim the color of `message`
		cleaning_interval = 1250, -- (milliseconds) automatically clean MsgArea after displaying `message`. See :h MsgArea
	},
	trigger_events = {"InsertLeave", "TextChanged"}, -- vim events that trigger auto-save. See :h events
	-- function that determines whether to save the current buffer or not
	-- return true: if buffer is ok to be saved
	-- return false: if it's not ok to be saved
	condition = function(buf)
		local fn = vim.fn
		local utils = require("auto-save.utils.data")

		if
			fn.getbufvar(buf, "&modifiable") == 1 and
			utils.not_in(fn.getbufvar(buf, "&filetype"), {}) then
			return true -- met condition(s), can save
		end
		return false -- can't save
	end,
	write_all_buffers = false, -- write all buffers when the current one meets `condition`
	debounce_delay = 135, -- saves the file at most every `debounce_delay` milliseconds
	callbacks = { -- functions to be executed at different intervals
		enabling = nil, -- ran when enabling auto-save
		disabling = nil, -- ran when disabling auto-save
		before_asserting_save = nil, -- ran before checking `condition`
		before_saving = nil, -- ran before doing the actual save
		after_saving = nil -- ran after doing the actual save
	}
}

Additionally you may want to set up a key mapping to toggle auto-save:

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("n", "<leader>n", ":ASToggle<CR>", {})

or as part of the lazy.nvim plugin spec:

{
	"okuuva/auto-save.nvim",
	keys = {
		{ "<leader>n", ":ASToggle<CR>", desc = "Toggle auto-save" },
	},
	...
},

 

🪴 Usage

Besides running auto-save at startup (if you have enabled = true in your config), you may as well:

• ASToggle: toggle auto-save

 

🤝 Contributing

• All pull requests are welcome.
• If you encounter bugs please open an issue.

👋 Acknowledgements

This plugin wouldn't exist without Pocco81's work on the original.