[PATCH]: ':marks' implementation

Mon Feb 3 13:51:47 CET 2014

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Frank Fischer
<frank-fischer at shadow-soft.de> wrote:
> Thanks. I'm not sure if your implementation does the same as Vim's.
> AFAIK only capital letters denote global marks and the :marks command
> should only show those marks that are accessible from the current
> buffer, i.e. local marks set in the current buffer and global marks.

Yes, you are correct; Vim indeed displays only buffer specific marks.
Looks like I overlooked documentation, but also ':help :marks' in Vim
is pretty shy about details.

> Your implementation collects all marks from all buffers. This means if
> one has a large number of open buffers then the list would be cluttered
> with a lot of marks that are local to each buffer, e.g. the '^' mark.
> Furthermore you do not show global marks at all.

True.

> I've adapted your patch accordingly and hope it does the right thing.
> But please check again and change whatever you like ;)

Just applied and works perfectly! +1 to go.

> You may even consider to support the (optional) ex argument (using
> (interactive "<a>"), which restricts the list of marks to be shown.

Ahh yes, that will make :marks 100% Vim compatible. Can you please add
it, just to reduce this patch noise? In case you are busy, I'll send
fixed code.

> Best regards,
> Frank

Best,
Sanel