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• Workflow when adding new Operation
• Workflow when development in vmp-plugin

Workflow when adding new Operation

1. open Atom in dev mode like atom -d .
2. define operator/motion/text-object class. (e.g. eadd NewOperator class in operator.js)
3. execute vim-mode-plus:reload-with-dependencies then execute vim-mode-plus:write-command-table-and-file-table-to-disk
4. execute vim-mode-plus:reload-with-dependencies
5. Check behavior via executing vim-mode-plus:new-operator from command-palette.
6. Define appropriate keymap if necessary.

Step 3 is necessary only when you define operator first time. So you can skip step 3 when modifying code without changing class name in following development.

So if you keymap f7 to vim-mode-plus:reload-with-dependencies command in your keymap.cson.

'atom-text-editor.vim-mode-plus.normal-mode:not(.narrow-editor)':
  'f7': 'vim-mode-plus:reload-with-dependencies'

You can reload code by just hitting f7 while interactive/incremental development.

Workflow when development in vmp-plugin

To accelerate your dev of vmp-plugin, you can hot-reload vmp and vmp-plugin by vim-mode-plus:reload-with-dependencies.

First, open your config.cson and add your vmp-plugin pkg name in your devReloadPackages.

  "vim-mode-plus":
    devReloadPackages: [
      "vim-mode-plus-move-selected-text"
      "narrow"
      "quick-highlight"
    ]

Then start development with following workflow!

1. open Atom in dev mode like atom -d .
2. define operator/motion/text-object class. (e.g. eadd NewOperator class in operator.js)
3. execute vim-mode-plus:reload-with-dependencies
4. Check behavior via executing vim-mode-plus:new-operator from command-palette.
5. Define appropriate keymap if necessary.

Why? reloading vmp is required?

vmp-plugin use vmp's service which is provided by vmp. Reloading just vmp-plugin only is not necessary to refresh service-link between provider(vmp) and consumer(vmp-plugin).