Jordan Lewis wrote:
> My name is Jordan Lewis, and I am applying to Vim for Google's Summer > of Code this year. I am a first year student at the University of > Chicago (and a Vim addict). I am planning to work on some of the items > in todo.txt like the ideas page suggests, and I wanted to get some > opinions on the ones that I've been looking at (I don't intend to > necessarily work on all of these items, or these items exclusively). > > 1. Undo tree improvements > * Implement visual representation suggested by Damian Conway. This is a "nice to have" feature. > * Undo persistence - save a representation of the tree to a file on or > before exit This would be really nice. But it's very likely too much work for the SoC. Especially because it must work very reliably. > * Pattern search - incremental search of undo tree for full text of each > operation - this could be fairly easily done by wrapping the existing > search function to search the right parts of the undo file You mean that you search for a pattern in the undo information, and then jump to the situation where it's found? It's possible and not too complicated (using the functionality of :earlier and :later. But not an important feature. > 2. Scrolling > * Add scrolling that doesn't move the cursor, as in the scroll bar in GUI > applications - this would serve as an automatic mark. movement would > spring the view back to where the cursor was, and you could choose to > move the cursor to the current view with a command. This would also be > usable (and helpful) in visual mode selection That sounds like a nice item for the SoC. > * Implement Rimon Barr's suggestion of scrolling marks - save the current > cursor position to '- on a scroll or jump operation if there has been > editing between it and the last one. Similar to the previous one. A bit more difficult to decide how it works exactly. > Are these good items to work on? Any and all feedback is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jordan Lewis -- "Hit any key to continue" is a lie. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
