README.md

acme-focused-file

This is a fork/rewrite of fhs's acmefocused which uses a simple text file instead of a socket. Made because the original acmefocused wasn't working for me.

Setup and installation

You can install acme-focused-file by running the following commands

$ git clone https://github.com/arturfabriciohahaedgy/acme-focused-file.git
$ cd acme-focused-file
$ go install

Usage

To just generate the file and check the current window you can use it like this:

$ acme & # Your acme startup script
$ acme-focused &
$ cat /tmp/acme-focused
   2 # Window id

As shown, by default acme-focused writes to /tmp/, creating the file /tmp/acme-focused.

You can also pass a parameter to acme-focused which will determine the folder where it will store the file. For an example, like this:

$ acme &
$ acme-focused $XDG_CACHE_HOME &
$ cat $XDG_CACHE_HOME/acme-focused
   1 # Window id

Issues

Since acme-focused-file works by writing acme's $winid every two seconds to a temporary file, it isn't exactly the most optimal way to check the window's id. Feel free to make a fork or a PR request with changes to the source code which you think would make the program better.

Credits and Acknowledgments

• fhs's acmefocused and acme-lsp, where a part of the source code was borrowed and modified from.