[slim-vim] Text properties for Vim?

[Brad Beveridge]

On 27/06/06, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
> 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.

I have 2 problems with the synAttr idea, though I don't know how valid they are
1) I don't know how to write syntax files
2) I don't know how specific syntax files can get.

For example the restart numbering and the backtrace info will look
similar (I think), and be of the form
[x] : String

Ideally, getting the synAttr anywhere on that line will return X.
Plus, although there is syntax I don't want it coloured.  Are syntax
files flexible enough for this, or is it an uphill battle.

As for storing buffer meta-data outside the text, I agree that this is
viable & for the stuff I am doing it is quite possibly the easiest way
to go too.  But I figured that if we could do this nicely it might be
useful going forward.
Of course, the other thing I can do is look at the whole line the
cursor is actually on and try to determine what to do based on that
context, that might also me easy.

Cheers
Brad