[Vimprobable-users] Editor patch, revised

[Markus D. <msd...@ar...>]

Hi,

I've taken Hannes' patch for the external editor and changed it to
emply the handler mechanism.  Basically, you say

handler vimprobableedit vim -gf %s

in your vimprobablerc, and when hitting ^t in a text field, you'll
get a gvim window.

This also fixes a bug in which the ":" protocol separator did not get
stripped from the argument in open_handler (but frankly, that code is
extremely spooky -- does anyone actually understand what all the temp
magic is supposed to do?).

One "architectural" question: I'm potentially emitting quit a bit of
diagnostics -- is give_feedback the right function for this?  Should
I do something else yet?

If people are happy with the way this works, I'd go ahead and
document it (plus probable bug fixing); I guess the vim -gf shold be
a builtin default, shouldn't it?


While I'm here:  I'd like to add a toggle syntax for boolean flags,
probably along the lines of vim{perator}'s set inv{option}; this is
to support stuff like

map <C-S> set invscripts

or so.  Would anyone consider this feature bloat?


Even more featurecreepy would be to have indicators of script and
proxy in the status line (little S and P chars at the very right, I'd
guess).  Are their any strong feelings about that?

Cheers,

         Markus