Re: saving code browsing history

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:52:18 AM UTC-7, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:32:49 AM UTC-5, Asis Hallab wrote:
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> > 2012/10/31 happyFace <happyface...@gmail.com>
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> > > I have been using vim for sometime now but I am completely new to writing
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> > > vim plugins. I would like to write a plugin that record all the file
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> > > locations we jump to (with tags or cscope symbols) and save them in a file.
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> > > So that we can later review the "code browsing session" and be able to
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> > > conveniently revisit the same tags we browsed.
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> > Vim already has that feature. It's called the jumplist.
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> > Couldn't be better explained than by Drew Neil:
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> > http://vimcasts.org/episodes/using-the-changelist-and-jumplist/
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> > There is also a switch to make Vim save its history. 
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> > So after restarting it, you still have your old jumplist.
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> > You can set it in your vimrc, unfortunately I can't remember it right now..
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> Vim saves the jumplist in the .viminfo file, if the "'" included by default in
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> the 'viminfo' option is still present.
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> However, the .viminfo file may not be as persistent a storage location as you
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> might like. Additionally, according to the help only 100 jumps are stored in the
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> list, and each window has its own jump list. The :jumps command will list out
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> the current jump list (presumably for the current window). Potentially you could
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> use :redir to capture and parse the output of this command and store it to a
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> file of your choosing. I don't see any functions to get the jumplist in a
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> script, but perhaps I just missed them.
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> Actually, rather than parsing the output of :jumps, it is probably better to set
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> 'viminfo' to the desired setting, use the :wviminfo command with a file
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> argument, then restore 'viminfo'.
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> I don't know of a better way to accomplish your task than using the jump list,
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> even with the caveats I mention above. Hopefully 100 jumps will be sufficient
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> for you.

Thanks guys!

:jumps is great. I struggled a bit with getting ctrl-o, ctrl-i to work. I would type those but nothing happens. I finally found a workaround without quite understanding the cause of the problem.

I use gnome terminal where I set "telnet -E dev-server-name" as a command to be automatically executed when a terminal is launched. I set that in the terminal profile.

I use -E to force telnet not to recognize any escape character, otherwise, ctrl-] will close the telnet session instead of jumping to the tag definition in a vim session. Somehow, this was causing ctrl-o, ctrl-i not to function at all.

If I set "telnet dev-server-name" instead of "telnet -E dev-server-name", then ctrl-o, ctrl-i work fine.

What makes this even more difficult to understand is that if I ssh to the development server and then telnet -E to the same server, ctrl-o, ctrl-i works fine in a vim session!

Only if I use telnet -E ** and ** I set it in the gnome terminal profile to be launched when a terminal is launched do I hit the problem of ctrl-o, ctrl-i not working in a vim session.

Anyway, I have a workaround. Just wanted to share that in case someone hits the same problem.

ES

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