On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 at 6:20pm, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
> Hi Hari,
>
> On 10/22/06, Hari Krishna Dara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I see functions for creating new unlisted buffers (bufnr() with {create}
> > option), and for reading the lines from the buffer using getbufline(),
> > all without having to change the current buffer, but I don't see a
> > setbufline() so there is no way to set the lines without having to
> > switch to it. Is there a reason to leave this circle incomplete?
> >
>
> Yes. I had a patch for the setbufline() function last year. There were
> several problems with it. So it was not included in Vim7 and only
> the getbufline() function was included.
>
> The setbufline() function worked only for loaded buffers. The undo
> history was not updated correctly.
>
> But I agree that it will be good to have the setbufline() function.
>
> - Yegappan
Nice, so it will be included at some point after resolving these issues.
--
Thanks,
Hari
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