[RFC] vim plugin rewrite II

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Sun Jan 15 07:34:08 PST 2012


On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:15:07 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:54:43 +0100, anton at khirnov.net wrote:
> > 
> > The advantages over current vim client are still the following:
> > * sending and displaying/saving attachments
> > * much better unicode support
> > * tag name and search commands completion
> > * proper representation of the thread structure
> > * easier to extend thanks to python's massive standard library
> > 
> > Please comment.
> 
> Hi Anton;
> 
> I'm not a vim user, so I probably can't say anything very helpful, but
> it does sound like some nice improvements.  Hopefully one of our vim
> front-end users can comment a bit more.  One thing I wondered about is
> if your version is still completely synchronous, with the resulting
> problems dealing with large (say, more than 10000 messages) search
> results?
> 

Yes, it's still synchronous. I suppose making it asynchronous shouldn't
be all that hard, i just never found enough time and motivation for that
(it was never a huge problem here).

-- 
Anton Khirnov


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