annotation trouble

[janezz55]

I'd like to annotate some code with my annotations and the existing plugins do not fulfill my requirements. I'd like to:

- paint the annotated code with a different color,

- make a popup (like balloon help) when hovering over the annotated code.

How to hack these features into vim? Would I need to fork vim and hack some code into it? Maybe using vim itself as a plugin editor in my application would do the trick?

[Christian Brabandt]

On Sa, 07 Dez 2019, janezz55 wrote:

> I'd like to annotate some code with my annotations and the existing plugins do not
> fulfill my requirements. I'd like to:
>
> - paint the annotated code with a different color,
> - make a popup (like balloon help) when hovering over the annotated code.
>
> How to hack these features into vim? Would I need to fork vim and hack some code into
> it?

This should be possible with a custom plugin. No need for forking Vim
and hack the C source. Have a look at the new popup feature and using
text_properties (or syntax highlighting) for the annotated code.

> Maybe using vim itself as a plugin editor in my application would
> do the trick?

I don't understand that sentence.

Best,
Christian
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[janezz55 .]

What source files/docs should I look at in the repository? What
language would the plugin be written in?

As for using vim as an editor. This is what vim was meant to do, edit.
But, while we have QScintilla, we don't have a QVim component to embed
in our applications.

V V pon., 9. dec. 2019 ob 21:42 je oseba Christian Brabandt
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[Christian Brabandt]

On Mo, 09 Dez 2019, janezz55 . wrote:

> What source files/docs should I look at in the repository? What
> language would the plugin be written in?

Vimscript and check the help for popup and syntax highlighting.

> As for using vim as an editor. This is what vim was meant to do, edit.
> But, while we have QScintilla, we don't have a QVim component to embed
> in our applications.

Yes, Vim is an application, not easily embeddable. You can try out
neovim, that allows to embed using the --embed argument.

Best,
Christian
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