Hello,
I've been trying to get notifications from Vim on when the contents
of
buffer(s) change. I've encountered the following problems:
1. Trying to use autocmd you don't always have the right events you
can
use as hooks to be notified of changes. For example, you can hook a
callback to
vim -w or -W records all the keystrokes entered in Vim. If running on
an xterm or another terminal that supports requesting the terminal
version, vim will do so, and process the resulting version response to
set a few options. In the process of doing so, it ends up recording
three extra bytes at
Hi all,
A bug has been reported to Launchpad (quite a while back in fact) at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/137854 and also to
Debian at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379612 but
there doesn't appear to have been anything done with it, therefore I
would like
Hello,
I've been trying to get notifications from Vim on when the contents of
buffer(s) change. I've encountered the following problems:
1. Trying to use autocmd you don't always have the right events you can
use as hooks to be notified of changes. For example, you can hook a
callback to
On 29-Dec-2010 13:44, Yaron Hirsch wrote:
Hello,
I've been trying to get notifications from Vim on when the contents of
buffer(s) change. I've encountered the following problems:
(...)
Why do you need this? What is your use case (and is it related to text editing,
or already going beyond it
The purpose is to analyse parts of the text dynamically as they're
being changed.
As I mentioned above, it can be done but pretty inefficiently and
there are the limitations I mentioned. I was wondering if there were
good ways to do this.
I'm not trying to do anything that's outside of the
I'm interested in trying my hand at implementing this. I'm new to vim-dev,
so if anyone has any advice or reading material I should review, I'd
appreciate it :)
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