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patch 8.2.1054: not so easy to pass a lua function to Vim Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/801ab069341c8652680d63c174530fd4feb2911e Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jun 25 19:27:56 2020 +0200 patch 8.2.1054: not so easy to pass a lua function to Vim Problem: Not so easy to pass a lua function to Vim. Solution: Convert a Lua function and closure to a Vim funcref. (Prabir Shrestha, closes #6246)
author Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
date Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:30:21 +0200
parents 74e3316c1d5a
children 08e284594211
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--- a/runtime/doc/if_lua.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/if_lua.txt
@@ -333,6 +333,14 @@ Examples:
 	:lua l = d.len -- assign d as 'self'
 	:lua print(l())
 <
+Lua functions and closures are automatically converted to a Vim |Funcref| and
+can be accessed in Vim scripts.  Example:
+>
+	lua <<EOF
+	vim.fn.timer_start(1000, function(timer)
+	    print('timer callback')
+	end)
+	EOF
 
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