On 9 July 2016, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Lcd wrote:
>
> > > > On 7 July 2016, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> > > I don't understand. What does "access to a buffer" mean?
> >
> > Syntastic is a sort of generalised compiler set, it runs
> > external compilers, and shows the results in a loclist. Except it
> > does a lot more than just open the loclist: it places signs, adds
> > highlighting patterns, shows errors in balloons, shows the nearest
> > error, and so on. There is some bookkeeping involved, and syntastic
> > needs actual buffers to set local options, local variables, place
> > signs, munge error messages according to context, check that error
> > lines are not outside the file, and the like. Could all that be
> > done starting from filenames? Probably, with a rewrite from scratch
> > of the core. Somebody else might even take up that task some day.
> >
> > > Anyway, the idea was that this is only used for specific purposes
> > > where a buffer is not needed, e.g. a list of matches for "grep".
> >
> > The point is, there will be two kinds of loclists: "rich" ones
> > (with buffers), and "poor" ones (with filenames). Syntastic would
> > need to deal with both.
>
> I don't see the problem. If syntastic wants to do something that
> requires a buffer, then it opens that buffer. The only difference is
> that the buffer is created later, not when the item is added to the
> quickfix list.
As I said, doing that would involve rewriting the core from scratch.
Admitting for the sake of the argument that rewriting wouldn't be a
problem, let's say there's a file "example.c" that's mentioned in the
list of errors, and I want to place a sign in it. The file is not open,
how would I do that? Let's say I open the file and place the sign.
Would jumping to the file from the loclist re-use my buffer?
/lcd
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