From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Tracking buffer positions across time, without markers (was Re: PL support)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 16:44:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDnm53b6Rk+4Q14mJCOBtDXq6aH3wT-X5jpiTvJRbXLu0kXuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7f6b855-2ba9-746c-bdcc-5385b57f8a0d@gmail.com>
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:33 PM Clément Pit-Claudel
<cpitclaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/05/2020 11.16, João Távora wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 3:18 PM Clément Pit-Claudel
> > <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, eactly, that's what I meant when I wrote "Visual Studio has a nice API for this: there is a way to snapshot a buffer, and to translate positions between two snapshots. In my example, this allows you to translate 0:3 in the original buffer to 7:10 in the new one."
> >
> > Well, if I understand correctly, you can still do this with markers.
> > You just need to register, somehow, somewher, at the time you
> > make the request to the server that "3" means "that marker there".
> > Then recover this information. In the worse case, this means this
> > means a table of markers that is as the number of positions in the
> > buffer, which is probably a performance no-no :-(
>
> Indeed :(
Of course, the smart way is to use the buffer-undo-list. Now I
understand Stefan's suggestion. You should be able to record
the value of the variable buffer-undo-list into a variable
at the time you make the request. Then you need a function
that, given that value OLD-BUL, a buffer position OLD, the new
value of buffer-undo-list NEW-BUL and a thing called X, gives
you the current buffer position NEW where a marker of type X would
have ended up if it had been set at OLD. This is a nice elisp exercise,
good for unit-testing with ert. If you post it to emacs-help or reddit
someone maybe someone will do the hard work for you (maybe
a change from the general theme of indignation).
João
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-11 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-09 19:47 Tracking buffer positions across time, without markers (was Re: PL support) Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-09 21:38 ` João Távora
2020-05-09 22:22 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-09 23:26 ` João Távora
2020-05-10 3:45 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-10 4:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-10 19:27 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-10 19:42 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-10 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-10 20:52 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-11 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 15:03 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-11 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 3:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 0:17 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-05-11 14:18 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-11 15:16 ` João Távora
2020-05-11 15:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-11 15:44 ` João Távora [this message]
2020-05-11 16:02 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-11 16:11 ` João Távora
2020-05-11 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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