"post-install-hook" doesn't run on activate

[dbarnett]

The help says

Hook              Case ~
post-install      After successfully installing a plugin using 
                  |:ActivateAddons| or running |:RunInstallHooks|.

but post-install-hook commands seem to only be run after :InstallAddons, and only if the addon wasn't already installed.

Is this a bug in the code or documentation?

[dbarnett]

If "post-install-hook" really is only intended to run after successful plugin installation, it would be extremely handy to add a "post-activate-hook" that runs on activate.

I'm from the google/maktaba team and I discovered that VAM and the addon-info.json spec would be brilliant for managing plugins built on maktaba. maktaba does some initialization of its own for newly-activated plugins, and a "post-activate-hook" would allow us to kick off that initialization.

[ZyX-I]

This hook must not run on :InstallAddons. It should be run on :ActivateAddons if and only if plugin is going to be installed as stated in documentation.

Post activate hook will not be added. :ActivateAddons does little more then modifying runtimepath setting if vim has not already fully started and sources plugin files if vim has already started (see :h startup, search for has("vim_starting")). Thus most likely hook will be run in wrong time. We can add a hook that will run either on VimEnter event or after plugin files were sourced (if they are sourced by VAM), but we cannot add a hook that is run just after plugin files were sourced.

Wondering what initialization do you need that has to be run on each plugin activation.

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If you want to say that after calling vam#ActivateAddons or :ActivateAddons hook does not run then please provide an example (i.e. a plugin which has hook definition, but this hook is not run; and exactly how did you install and activate it). If you want to add a new hook you should open a separate issue.

[dbarnett]

I guess I misspoke when I mentioned :InstallAddons. I wasn't able to trigger it on a plugin I was working on locally since it was on my filesystem and always considered already "installed". I was trying to figure out how it worked reading the code.

Filed a separate feature request for "post-activate-hook" at #142.