On 2/14/08, Milan Vancura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. there is no way to clear all signs in one file - strange
I'll get to this in a second... 2. there are no internal functions to work with signs - get a list of them > etc. > > for example as far as I understand it, ':sign list' is completely > unusable in > scripts > > Not exactly; :redir => s:signs :silent sign place :redir END Now the output of the ':sign place' command is redirected into the variable s:signs, which you can parse through with the built-in regex functions. It is perhaps not as clean as it would be with internal functions, but certainly do-able. After setting up the redirection, you'll want to execute the command with :silent, so that the output isn't also copied to the screen, forcing the user to tap through several "Press ENTER" prompts. Knowing this, you may now programatically remove all signs found in a single file. 3. mksession does not stores signs (probably the result of point 2) This is unfortunate. Although, if you see a need for such functionality, you could write a plugin that wraps the :mksession command, and uses the redirection mentioned above to add code to the session file which would replace all signs upon loading of the session. 4. minor one: re-definition of some sign has no immediate effect, one must > redraw screen > This is the case with many operations that change things on the display; it is common in Vim scripts to finish a function with a :redraw to make sure everything is ready for the user to see. This way, you can efficiently do many screen-updating commands and delay expensive redraws until the end. Read all about it: :help lazyredraw Hope this helps -- Erik Falor Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
