[slim-vim] Text properties for Vim?

[Larry Clapp]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:15:58AM -0700, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> Any thoughts on all this?  Is synAttr etc good enough for what I
> want?  How about the s-expr style encoding?

I think synAttr would be fine, given of course an appropriate syntax
file.  If the debug window ever gets really big we might have to
revisit this; Vim syntax highlighting can be slow on long / wide
files.

I don't really care for the sexpr-style encoding, as you've described
it.  If synAttr doesn't work out, I'd rather you stored attributes in
some external-to-the-buffer Lisp datastructure.  I'd expect the
debug-window interaction to be highly stylized (i.e. no arbitrary
editing commands allowed), so keeping track of what the buffer looks
like shouldn't be too hard.

-- Larry