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@@ -4309,21 +4309,24 @@ jobstart({cmd}[, {opts}]) {Nvim} *jobstart()*
with 'shell' or 'shellcmdflag' options. The above call is
only written to show the idea, one needs to perform unquoting
and do split taking quotes into account.
- If passed, {opts} must be a dictionary with any of the
- following keys:
- - on_stdout: stdout event handler
- - on_stderr: stderr event handler
- - on_exit: exit event handler
- - pty: If set, the job will be connected to a new pseudo
- terminal, and the job streams are connected to the master
- file descriptor.
- - width: Width of the terminal screen(only if pty is set)
- - height: Height of the terminal screen(only if pty is set)
- - TERM: $TERM environment variable(only if pty is set)
- - detach: Detach the job process from the nvim process. The
- process won't get killed when nvim exists. If the process
- dies before nvim exits, on_exit will still be invoked.
- This option is only allowed for non-pty jobs.
+
+ {opts} is a dictionary with these keys:
+ on_stdout: stdout event handler
+ on_stderr: stderr event handler
+ on_exit : exit event handler
+ cwd : Working directory of the job; defaults to
+ |current-directory|.
+ pty : If set, the job will be connected to a new pseudo
+ terminal, and the job streams are connected to
+ the master file descriptor.
+ width : (pty only) Width of the terminal screen
+ height : (pty only) Height of the terminal screen
+ TERM : (pty only) $TERM environment variable
+ detach : (non-pty only) Detach the job process from the
+ nvim process. The process will not get killed
+ when nvim exits. If the process dies before
+ nvim exits, on_exit will still be invoked.
+
Either funcrefs or function names can be passed as event
handlers. The {opts} object is also used as the "self"
argument for the callback, so the caller may pass arbitrary