On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 6:47:33 AM UTC-6, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Philippe Vaucher wrote: > > > On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 4:13:31 PM UTC+1, Björn Linse wrote: > > > For the record, a version of this was merged into neovim: > > > https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4304 > > > > Hehe, I just noticed that! > > > > Thanks :-) > > > > Sooooo reguarding vim, 6 years ago this was put in the TODO in the "As > > soon as possible" section. Today this patch still sits there... > > maybe... just maybe... is there some kind of problems with the patch > > submission process? *wink wink* > > I don't recall anyone asking for this feature in the past six years. > If there was a discussion about how this is useful for more than one > user, it would have been moved up in the todo list. > > Including just every patch available leads to a mess. Also, > autocommands are a clumsy mechanism, thus I hesitate to add more of it. > > I had a brief look at the comments, and it appears the functionality > would be better done with some kind of callback. >
Aren't autocmds basically Vim's way of doing callbacks? I don't personally feel the need for one, but I know many people would like a "yank ring" style of plugin or other sort of clipboard management which this patch would enable. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
