Ramel Eshed wrote:
> Hi Bram,
>
> On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 10:24:49 PM UTC+3, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > There has been a request that when adding items to the quickfix list, no
> > buffer is created to hold the file name.
> >
> > The reason is that when there are many different file names this causes
> > the buffer list to get very long, which then causes various operations
> > to become slow. Including finding the buffer for a file name.
> >
> > Instead of using a buffer, where the file name is stored, and then using
> > the buffer number, the file name itself could be remembered.
> >
> > Since there are so many quickfix commands, adding a flag to every one of
> > them would be creating quite a mess. We could add an option, but
> > that has the danger of forgetting to reset the option after the
> > operation. And it requires three more statements (save current value,
> > set the option, restore th option). So I was thinking of using a command
> > modifier:
> >
> > :usefname caddexpr {expr}
> >
> > How about that?
> >
> Sounds good. Maybe we could also have an option only for search
> commands like :grep since this mode is most useful there? (Actually,
> this was one of the reasons which convinced me that quickfix is not
> the right tool to use for searches. See
> https://github.com/ramele/agrep).
What is called quickfix is what grew out of the actual quickfix feature
on the Amiga. Now it's everything related to a list of locations with
various extra bells and whistles. I would not want to duplicate code
and commands to have a separate list of search results.
> > Storing the file name instead of a buffer number has a few
> > disadvantages:
> > - When inserting or deleting lines in the file the position of the
> > quickfix items is not adjusted.
> > - Using more memory to store a copy of the file name.
> > - Changing directory can make the file name invalid. We could store the
> > full path, but creating that also adds overhead. Hmm, perhaps we
> > could store the full path the moment the directory is changed.
>
> Can't we just save the original working directory used when the
> quickfix list was created and use it when jumping to files stored with
> a relative path?
That's the same as turning the file name into a full name. Not sure how
much overhead this has. Anyway, doing it just before changing directory
is probably not too difficult.
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