vim_signature.vim`¶

Enforce vim script implementation to reduce ambiguities and improve robustness:

scriptversion 4

This replaces my custom info/warn/error sign code with [1-3] markers, which is basically just a convenience because I’m really used to the icons. See this commit for the original idea, although it has changed massively before we made it here.

Note

Key values are from a US <S-[digit]>, and do not change when using other layouts1.

for [s:k, s:v] in items({'!': ['info', 'Todo'], '@': 'warning',
\                        '#': 'error'})
    if type(s:v) is v:t_list
        let [s:icon, s:hl] = [s:v[0], s:v[1]]
    else
        let s:icon = s:v
        let s:hl = misc#title_word(s:v) .. 'MSG'
    endif
    unlet s:v
    execute printf(
    \   'sign define ' ..
    \   'Signature_%s_SignatureMarkerText_SignatureMarkerLine ' ..
    \   'icon=%s%s.png text=%s texthl=%s',
    \   s:k, expand('~/.vim/icons/'), s:icon,
    \   toupper(s:icon[0] .. s:icon[0]), s:hl)
endfor

See also

misc#title_word()

Todo

This could use fancy colourful emojis both as a replacement for the textual notes, but also for the icons. For example:

Current	Replacement
`II`	💡 `U+1F4A1`
`WW`	⚠ `U+26A0`
`EE`	⛔ `U+26D4`

There is the not-so-minor-issue of dealing with old terminals that can’t display emoji, or display them poorly when their cells are non-uniform in size.

Footnotes

1: I know I’ll forget the origin of the keys by the next time I open this file.

localcfg/plugins/vim_signature.vim¶

`localcfg/plugins/vim_signature.vim`¶