Hoodospel functions¶

type arg :EXISTS

If entity of the given type exists pushes one to the stack. Otherwise pushes zero. Possible types:

Type	Description
file	File. VimL implementation checks file for being readable.
directory	Directory.
command	Executable. I.e. `command false :EXISTS` checks whether there is `false` command somewhere in `$PATH`.

:CURRENT_DIRECTORY

Pushes full path to the current directory to the stack.

:SEPARATOR

Pushes directory separator to the stack (i.e. / on *nix systems and \ on windows).

str... separator numargs :JOIN

Joins given strings using given separator and pushes result to the stack. Function with variable number of arguments:

abc
def / 3 :JOIN

will push abc/def to the stack, just like

{ abc def
/ } :JOIN

will.

:PLATFORM

Pushes name of the platform hoodospel is running on. Possible outputs: qnx, vms, os2, amiga, beos, mac, windows, unix, other.

:OS_NAME

Pushes less specific name of the platform hoodospel is running on. Possible outputs: posix, nt, os2, other.

str :SHELL_SPLIT

Pops one value from the stack, splits it on unescaped spaces, unescapes (replaces all \. with .) and pops resulting values back onto the stack.