Matt Wozniski wrote:
> Oops, accidentally sent this to Bram off-list.
>
> Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > Matt Wozniski wrote:
> >
> >> Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Any comments on adding the ":unsilent" command modifier?
> >>
> >> Maybe we could add
> >> a :msgonly modifier that behaves like :silent but does add to the
> >> message history?
> >
> > The message history is to store displayed messages. Â If a message isn't
> > displayed then it should not be in the history.
> >
> > If you want to log some things to see what your plugin is doing you can
> > use a global List and append to that.
>
> It just seems that it would be nicer if each plugin didn't need to
> roll its own ad-hoc logging solution. Â When something goes wrong, a
> lot of experienced vim users will instinctively check :messages to see
> if an error managed to slip by them unnoticed, so the message history
> seems like an intuitive place to do logging. Â It not only would save
> plugin authors the need to roll their own logging solution, but would
> save plugin users from having to learn which plugins do provide their
> own logging, and learning how to view the log for each.
>
> It's not something I feel terribly strongly about one way or the
> other, but I definitely think that extending the message history from
> it's current definition to "A list of messages that can give you
> insight about what happened recently" would be more useful.
Look at the stuff that Charles Campbell made.
I don't think that "uniform logging" will help, really. I mean, what's
simpler than:
let g:mylog = []
...
call add(g:mylog, "I did something!")
...
echo g:mylog
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