Re: quickfix information

Hi,

I am reviving an old thread.

On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 5:04:20 AM UTC-7, herm...@free.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did not expect that many reactions. This is nice. Thank you all for
> your interest in the matter.
>
> > > Ah, but as long as you are OK with that information showing up in
> > > the title, if you can set w:quickfix_title to an arbitrary string,
> > > then you *can* store arbitrary data associated with a given
> > > quickfix list.
> >
> > Being able to save "ancillary" data in quickfix lists / loclists as
> > the OP suggests would be quite useful too. Then w:quickfix_title
> > could be saved there, and that would be easier to implement than
> > keeping track of updates to w:quickfix_title.
>
> Indeed, having "ancillary" data would be much more easier to use.
> Storing several variables in the w:quickfix_title wouldn't very
> practical. Actually, I want to export several buffer-local variables
> to the quickfix buffer. I use some of them to conceal part of the
> generated error messages, other like &l:tags are required to be able
> to jump on definition/declaration from identifiers found in the error
> messages, &l:makeprg will be needed in order to have :make compile the
> same thing, others variables (like project and compilation mode) will
> be displayed in the status(air)line, etc.
>

Patch 8.0.0590 added support for adding context information to the quickfix
and location lists. You can now use the setqflist() and getqflist() commands
to set and get context information.

- Yegappan

>
> Moreover, I've experienced some odd behaviours regarding the
> w:quickfix_title -- as it's automatically set to things like
> "setqflist()".
>
> [I can't really comment on the other internal ways of handling
> quickfix data]
>
>
> Thus, I take notice so far that there is no neat way to store
> variables along with a quickfix list. An optional data field would do
> the trick. I guess it would be more expensive than what I need, but it
> would do the trick.
>
> Thank you all anyway.
>
> I'll try to override the meaning of "nr" field for my needs.
>
>
> --
> Luc Hermitte
> https://github.com/LucHermitte

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