Re: Scripting with Python, capturing command output and using signs

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I thought I was getting my point across in my original message but I obviously wasn't!

I have workarounds for retrieving a sign by ID and getting the output of running a command, it's just that both of these aren't optimal and I wanted to know whether there were currently better options. I'm not looking to use a plugin to make things easier, I was just interested in Vim internals.

Thanks


On Friday, January 25, 2013 4:26:01 PM UTC, MarcWeber wrote:
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14502710/query-position-of-sign-in-vim-with-sign-id/14503016
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> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14504403/capture-output-of-vim-command-in-python/14506534
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> eventually have a look at vim-addon-signs. You pass a list of
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> file,line,sign_type to a function, and the plugin does everything else.
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> Its you keeping a list of signs the way you want, just making the script
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> update everything else. Maybe it just solves your problem.
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> The sign interface is broken by design, because two scripts could be
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> using the same sign numbers by accident.
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> > vim.command('redir => myvar')
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> > vim.command('silent sign place')
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> > vim.command('redir END')
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> > output = vim.eval('myvar')
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> > Is this the best way of doing it or am I missing something?
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> Talk about what you want to do. Such as
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> - I want to debug python code within vim
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> - I want to get XY, and I think redir is the nicest way to get what I
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> want like this, do you see a shorter way?
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> Other than that it looks like you know how to read :h signs - if a
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> feature is not listed there it might not exist.
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> Marc Weber

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