Re: Building the quickfix window from VimL

On Friday, October 10, 2014 3:31:24 PM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote:
> 7.4.1-466  Windows 7 32 bit
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> I have a plugin with formats some code.
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> But in order to format it, it has to parse it.
> During the parsing, it can report errors.
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> I want to basically open the quickfix window and give the usual output you would usually supply with a :make.
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> [snip]
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> Here are the actual commands I am executing:
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> setlocal nowrap
> setlocal noswapfile
> setlocal nonumber
> setlocal bufhidden=wipe
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> setlocal errorformat=%f,%l,%c,%m
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> setlocal filetype=qf
> <paste the text>
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> myfile.txt,3,134,some error message
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> setlocal nomodified
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> Do I just have the errorformat wrong (it is a pretty simple one in this case), which is stopping this from working or something else?
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I think you actually need to use :cfile, :lfile, or similar to actually parse the file into a quickfix list.

> Also, assuming I get my new buffer to turn into a quickfix window properly, when I hit enter on the line, the filename is "myfile.txt" does Vim just look for an already open buffer with that name and switch to it or do I have to link this new quickfix buffer to my already open buffer?
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What to do when Enter is pressed depends on the 'switchbuf' option setting. Either a new buffer will be opened with the file, or an existing buffer will be used.

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