On 2022-04-25, Lifepillar <lifepil...@lifepillar.me> wrote: > I am looking into parsing a list of strings with an errorformat to > create a quicklist or location list out of it. Currently, I am doing it > as follows: > > let efm = "%f:%l:%m" > let what = getqflist({"lines": ["foo:3:bar"], "efm": efm}) > call setloclist(0, what.items) > echo what.items[0] > > This sets the quickfix list as expected (is there a better way?). But > when I look at `what.items[0]`, I cannot find an item corresponding to > %f (`foo` in the example). Yet setloclist() sets it. Where is that > information stored?
Ah, I see: you get the filename from the buffer's number. A new buffer is created for `foo` is one does not already exist. And when no filename is parsed from the errorformat, bufnr is 0. Neat! Life. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/t45qkt%24sb3%241%40ciao.gmane.io.