[QUESTION]: hook gives different results when the same keystrokes are splitted to two execute-keys. Why?

[VKondakoff]

Question

Hi!

While experimenting with Kakoune I created a one-line hook to modify the text in *scratch* buffer which appears automatically when you start kak without parameters.
Here is the text:

*** this is a *scratch* buffer which won't be automatically saved ***
*** use it for notes or open a file buffer with the :edit command ***

For testing purposes I'm replacing the *** with yyy.
Here is the hook:

hook global BufCreate '^\*scratch\*$' %{
  execute-keys -buffer *scratch* '%s\*\*\*<ret>cyyy<esc>'
}

Everything works as expected. Here is the output:

But if I split execute-keys into two lines, the output is different and wrong:

hook global BufCreate '^\*scratch\*$' %{
  execute-keys -buffer *scratch* '%s\*\*\*<ret>'
  execute-keys -buffer *scratch* 'cyyy<esc>'
}

Output:

Why this happens?

[krobelus]

the -buffer switch makes it run in a draft context so selections etc. won't escape. See also clippy's comments on :execute-keys

[VKondakoff]

Got it. Thank you, closing the issue.