Calling a function from a plugin, from another plugin

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I have just created a very basic first neovim plugin ( decorated yank ).

I’d like to extend it to include a repository link, which I’d normally do with vim-fugitives :GitBrowse!.

Is there a way for my plugin to call GitBrowse! from the vim-fugitive plugin, so I can get the link without needing to replicate all of the work of that plugin?

Thanks in advance.

2

You can check check what the GBrowse command actually calling and call it from your code.

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I did try that but calling the underlying fugitive#BrowseCommand doesn’t seem to work. print(vim.fn.exists("*fugitive#BrowseCommand")) returns 0 which indicates it isn’t callable, right?

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Since it’s an autoloaded function it doesn’t exists until you call it. You can try pcall to catch if the function call failed

local ok, _ = pcall(vim.fn['fugitive#BrowseCommand'], ...)

if not ok then
  print("error")
end
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ahh ok, thank you :slight_smile: I appreciate the help