Hi Bram, On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yegappan wrote: > >> >> Currently the job_info() function returns information about a specific job >> >> and there is no function available to return information about all the >> >> jobs. >> >> The attached patch modifies the job_info() function to return information >> >> about all the jobs in a List when an argument is not supplied. >> > >> > I thought it might be better to get a list of all jobs, but then what >> > else can someone do with that list than loop over the items to get their >> > info? Still, from the entries that job_info() returns it should be >> > possible to get the job object itself. >> >> Do you think returning a list of Job objects instead of information about >> the jobs will be useful? > > As I tried to mention: If you get a list of job objects, what can you do > with them? I suppose you would call job_info() on each, there isn't > much else you can do without knowing what job object is doing what. > So we might as well do what you did, let job_info() return the list. > This will allocate more memory at once, but that's probably not > relevant. > >> > It's still difficult to recognize a specific job. It was mentioned >> > before to add the command that was used to start the job. Only then >> > does it make sense to get the list. >> >> Should we modify the job_T structure to include the command used >> to start a job? > > Yes. It was asked for in context of starting a terminal. My reply was > that getting the command of the job running in the terminal is not > specific for the terminal but for the job. >
I am attaching a patch that saves the command line arguments used to start a job. The job_info() function returns these arguments as a List in "cmd". Without any arguments, the job_info() function returns a List of jobs. - Yegappan -- -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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