Re: virtual marking

On Oct 19, 11:56 pm, Xavier de Gaye <xdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Yegappan Lakshmanan
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> <yegapp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Xavier de Gaye <xdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:00 AM, sinbad wrote:
> >> > i want to be able to mark locations in files with some text (marking-
> >> > text) of my choice.
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> >> You can use a temporary file to store your marks and the quickfix
> >> window to navigate through them. For example source the script listed
> >> below and mark a location with:
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> >>    :Mark some text
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> >> Display the quickfix window with:
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> >>    :Getmarks
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> >> Xavier
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> >> Les Chemins de Lokoti:http://lokoti.alwaysdata.net
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> >> ===========================================================
> >> let s:tmpfile = tempname()
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> >> " mark a location in a file with some text
> >> function! s:mark(text)
> >>    try
> >>        let l:lines = readfile(s:tmpfile)
> >>    catch /.*/
> >>        let l:lines = []
> >>    endtry
> >>    let l:lines += [bufname("%") . ":" . line(".") . ":" . a:text]
> >>    call writefile(l:lines, s:tmpfile)
> >> endfunction
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> >> " open the quickfix window
> >> function! s:cwindow()
> >>    let l:gp=&gp
> >>    let l:gfm=&gfm
> >>    let l:gp = "set gp=cat\\ " . s:tmpfile
> >>    exe l:gp
> >>    set gfm=%f:%l:%m
> >>    grep
> >>    let &gp=l:gp
> >>    let &gfm=l:gfm
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> > Instead of using the above lines, you can simply use the following:
> >     exe "cfile " . s:tmpfile
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> > - Yegappan
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> >>    cwindow
> >> endfunction
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> >> command! -bar -nargs=1 Mark call s:mark(<f-args>)
> >> command! -bar Getmarks call s:cwindow()
> >> ===========================================================
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> Thanks.
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> Xavier
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> Les Chemins de Lokoti:http://lokoti.alwaysdata.net

thanks all. It makes sense. I will try this out.

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