Hi,

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:37 AM Paul Jolly <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is your feature request related something that is currently hard to do? 
> Please describe.
>
> Per https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/aW2buOgZ6qI/fpxkp-V8AQAJ
>
> In https://github.com/leitzler/govim (master branch) Pontus is adding support 
> to govim for signs that correspond to quickfix entries.
>
> This is done by calling sign_place/sign_unplace as required to get the signs 
> for a buffer in the correct state.
>
> If there are lots of errors in a file, then there can be a large number of 
> calls to sign_place/sign_unplace made by govim in rapid succession.
>
> Describe the solution you'd like
>
> A function:
>
> sign_setlist({bfnr}, {list} [, {action}])
>
> that sets the signs for buffer {bufnr} to {list}. {action} is similar to 
> setqflist in that the caller can specify whether to create, replace or add to 
> existing signs.
>
> Describe alternatives you've considered
>
> The only apparent alternative at the moment is to call sign_getplaced and 
> then make the necessary calls to sign_place/sign_unplace; over a channel this 
> becomes expensive.
>
> Additional context
>
> n/a

The support for this has now been merged in patch 8.1.1682.
Let me know if there are any issues with the functionality.

- Yegappan

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