[RFC] vim plugin rewrite II

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Mon Jan 16 11:04:47 PST 2012


On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:34:59 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:34:08 +0100, Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> My understanding was that vim was not actually capable of loading files
> asynchronously.  That would be very interesting if it was.
> 

It should be possible to run the query in a separate python thread which
would write the results into the vim buffer.

-- 
Anton Khirnov


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