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emit

NAME

emit − emit - Emit a generic event

emit - Emit a generic event

Synopsis
emit EVENT_NAME [ARGUMENTS...]

Description
emit
emits, or fires, an event. Events are delivered to, or caught by, special functions called event handlers. The arguments are passed to the event handlers as function arguments.

Example
The following code first defines an event handler for the generic event named ’test_event’, and then emits an event of that type.

function event_test --on-event test_event
echo event test: $argv
end

emit test_event something

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