Use set -ga @plugin instead of manually parsing the conf?!

[blueyed]

I've wondered why set -g @plugin is used, which then needs to get parsed manually from the config (

tpm/scripts/helpers/plugin_functions.sh

Lines 40 to 47 in 620f06c

	tpm_plugins_list_helper() {
	# lists plugins from @tpm_plugins option
	echo "$(tmux start-server\; show-option -gqv "$tpm_plugins_variable_name")"
	# read set -g @plugin "tmux-plugins/tmux-example-plugin" entries
	_tmux_conf_contents "full" |
	awk '/^ *set(-option)? +-g +@plugin/ { gsub(/'\''/,""); gsub(/'\"'/,""); print $4 }'
	}

), and not just set -ga @plugin (or set -ga @plugins) so that the @plugin/@plugins var could be used as-is then.

(I am not using tpm myself, but came here via christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator#123).

[blueyed]

Oh, that's possible with @tpm_plugins, right?

[ashb]

This also break my set up -- I don't have a ~/.tmux.conf -- instead I have tmux aliased to tmux -f /Users/ash/etc/tmux/tmux.conf so tpm won't load any of my plugins.

[ashb]

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm/blob/master/docs/tpm_not_working.md and #57.

In summary: cos for when it works this syntax is nicer. And as for -ga: it doesn't seem to work on "custom" fields:

$ tmux set -g @plugin 'foo'; tmux show-option -g @plugin; tmux set -ga @plugin 'foo2'; tmux show-option -g @plugin;
@plugin "foo"
@plugin "foo2"

[bruno-]

As @ashb said, tmux does not accept the -a flag for user options (the ones starting with @).

I've asked about this on a mailing list a while ago and tmux maintainers were not interested in adding this one 😞

[bruno-]

Btw yes, if tmux had this feature, we would not have to custom-parse .tmux.conf in order to have nicer syntax.

[augustobmoura]

BTW tmux added this feature a long time ago tmux/tmux#533 and the command returns it correctly now:

$ tmux set -g @plugin 'foo'; tmux show-option -g @plugin; tmux set -ga @plugin 'foo2'; tmux show-option -g @plugin;
@plugin "foo"
@plugin "foofoo2"

Anyway we getting this behind a flag? maybe set -g @tpm_use_append true and plugin setting like set -ga @plugin ':repo/plugin'?

My tmux script is splitted and is really difficult to get plugins working in different files

[FranklinYu]

@augustobmoura See #85 for follow-up on this issue.