Hi,
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:47 AM 'Andy Wokula' via vim_dev
<vim_dev@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Am 18.09.2019 um 17:18 schrieb Yegappan Lakshmanan:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Currently the following Vim built-in functions are available to get
> > information about individual marks: getpos(), line() and col().
> >
> > But we don't have a function to get the list of marks placed in a
> > buffer or the list of global marks (similar to the list displayed by
> > the :marks command).
> >
> > What do you think about adding a getmarks() function that returns
> > the list of global marks or the list of marks placed in a buffer?
>
> What do you mean by "a buffer" -- "the current buffer" or "any given buffer"?
>
This function will return the local marks for any given buffer.
- Yegappan
>
> Getting global marks or marks of the current buffer is trivial
>
> :echo filter(split('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', '\m'), 'line("''". v:val) >=
> 1')
> :echo filter(split('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', '\m'), 'line("''". v:val) >=
> 1')
> " (some other special marks omitted)
>
> but I wouldn't know how to get marks from any given buffer without
> making that buffer current. Anyway I'm not sure if I ever asked for
> the local marks of a non-current buffer.
>
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