On 2/15/08, Milan Vancura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you both you, Chip and Erik, for your answers. I didn't know about > :redir. (it was really my first vim script :-) ) However it still seems to > be a > hack instead of a clean solution, probably quite slow for interactive > usage. > For example I can't imagine using this workaround in a code called from > cursormove event, like nick wanted to have. > > I'm not sure how frequent is the usage of signs today, but if they are to > be > used more frequently, new functions for handling them (and using that > functions > in mksession) would be a good idea (including a possibility to clear signs > in > one file/buffer). Do you agree?
I think that allowing the user to interact with signs in a more granular way (similar to what we have with regards to the quickfix/location lists) would be a good thing. BTW: open folds after vertical diffsplit looks (visually) very similar to > signs > but :sign list shows nothing. Interesting... Why two so similar mechanisms > were > developped? > I can think of one reason they would be implemented as two separate features: you wouldn't want your signs to go away if you turned on folding. -- Erik Falor Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
