On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM, nicolas. pouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excerpts from Gwern Branwen's message of Thu Nov 27 22:50:31 +0100 2008: >> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Gwern Branwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote: >> >>> setBufferContents doesn't seem to exist. At least, recursive grep >> >>> can't find anything but setBuffer. >> >> >> >> OK, so I found two ways to do this: >> >> >> >>> setBufferContents :: (MonadEditor m) => String -> m BufferRef >> >>> setBufferContents article = withEditor $ stringToNewBuffer "Ireader >> >>> article" (B.fromString article) >> > >> > You can use the replaceBufferContent function that I pointed to. >> > >> >> [Attempts to read the buffer contents into a String] >> > >> >> We really need to make this stuff easier. I vote that we start by >> >> adding some basic primitives like a getCurrentBuffer :: YiM String... >> > >> > It's not difficult if you know where to look. Reading Yi.Buffer.HighLevel >> > would help you here. In general all the buffer-manipulation API are in >> > the BufferM monad. You can lift it to YiM by using withBuffer. The function >> > will then operate on the current buffer. >> >> I looked at HighLevel many times; I didn't find it very helpful. For >> example, the simplest way to write a getBufferContents seems to be >> something like this: >> >> > getBufferContents :: BufferM String >> > getBufferContents = do topB >> > str <- liftM unlines $ whileB (liftM not $ atEof) >> > (readLnB) >> > return str >> >> (And I suspect this is less than optimal - presumably this would not >> respect the user's current position?) > > Look at Yi.Buffer.Normal > > getBufferContents = regionOfB Document >
Actually I typed this in my previous message but I deleted it during edits. I did not mean to be riddling, sorry. And thanks Nicolas! -- JP --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
