I don't use `:marks` in any of my plugins, but if I did, I would _much_
prefer a function returning them as a list/dict than having to parse the
output of exectute( 'marks' )
So +1 to this, and +1 to adding one for popups too.
On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 4:52:27 PM UTC+1, yega...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Currently we have the line(), col(), virtcol() and getpos() functions
> to get the position of a particular mark. But we don't have a
> function to get the list of local/global marks (information displayed
> by the :marks command). A plugin needs to call the above functions
> in a loop for various supported local/global marks to create this list.
> What do you think about adding a getmarklist() function which will
> return the List of placed global/local marks? The help text for this
> function
> is below.
>
> We have similar functions for returning the following:
>
> argument list: argv()
> buffers in a tabpage: tabpagebuflist()
> buffers: getbufinfo()
> change list: getchangelist()
> jump list: getjumplist()
> location list: getloclist()
> matches: getmatches()
> quickfix list: getqflist()
> signs: sign_getdefined(), sign_getplaced()
> tabpages: gettabinfo()
> tags: taglist()
> terminals: term_list()
> timers: timer_info()
> windows: getwininfo()
>
> Thanks,
> Yegappan
>
> ======================================================
> getmarklist([{expr}]
> Returns a |List| with information about the global marks or
> the
> local marks placed in a buffer. |mark|
>
> The optional {expr} argument specifies a buffer. For the use
> of {expr}, see |bufname()|. If specified, returns the
> local marks defined in buffer {expr}. If the {expr} argument
> is not supplied, then returns information about all the
> global
> marks.
>
> Each item in the retuned List is a |Dict| with the
> following:
> name - name of the mark prefixed by "'"
> pos - a |List| with the position of the mark:
> [bufnum, lnum, col, off]
> Refer to |getpos()| for more information.
> file - file name
>
> Refer to |getpos()| for getting information about a specific
> mark.
>
>
>
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