Re: [vile] Getting search result at top of screen - possible?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:40:57AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:29:16PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > > Is it possible to get the result of a search in vile to appear at the
> > > top of the screen rather than in the middle?
> > >
> > > I am using vile as a file viewer looking for the start of the block
> > > that I want to see by calling it as:-
> > >
> > >     vile -s <string> <file>
> > >
> > > but this means I have to scroll the page up a few lines to see as much
> > > of the 'useful' text as I can with the <string> at the top.
> >
> > You could write a macro - since last fall's changes, "-s" is just a
> > wrapper for one of vile's built-in commands.  Then inside the macro,
> > you can manipulate the view as you want.
> That sounds like a reasonable way to do it, what command is "-s" a
> wrapper for - or have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick?

That's search-forward (reading from the main.c patch in 9.5l).

I kept (barring bugs...) compatibility with the various options,
but mapped them into the internal command parsing rather than to
the lower-level functions that carry out the commands.  Then I
added the -c option (and extended "+") to allow "any" number of
commands to be passed.  That's the commands you'd put in a script -
so macros can also be referenced.

The reason for the command-line changes was so that I could pass
line- and column-numbers to a macro for wingrep.

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