in the text will move the cursor to the first character after
the text, or the last character of the line.
A negative "id" will be chosen and is returned. Once a
+ Any Tab in the text will be changed to a space (Rationale:
+ otherwise the size of the text is difficult to compute).
property with "text" has been added for a buffer then using a
negative "id" for any other property will give an error:
*E1293*
call prop_type_add('otherprop', #{highlight: 'Search'})
call prop_type_add('moreprop', #{highlight: 'DiffAdd'})
call prop_add(1, 18, #{type: 'someprop', text: 'SOME '})
- call prop_add(1, 38, #{type: 'otherprop', text: 'OTHER '})
+ call prop_add(1, 38, #{type: 'otherprop', text: "OTHER\t"})
call prop_add(1, 69, #{type: 'moreprop', text: 'MORE '})
redraw
normal $
call prop_type_add('afterprop', #{highlight: 'Search'})
call prop_type_add('belowprop', #{highlight: 'DiffAdd'})
call prop_add(1, 0, #{type: 'rightprop', text: ' RIGHT ', text_align: 'right'})
- call prop_add(1, 0, #{type: 'afterprop', text: ' AFTER ', text_align: 'after'})
+ call prop_add(1, 0, #{type: 'afterprop', text: "\tAFTER\t", text_align: 'after'})
call prop_add(1, 0, #{type: 'belowprop', text: ' BELOW ', text_align: 'below'})
call setline(2, 'Last line.')
if (text != NULL)
{
- garray_T *gap = &buf->b_textprop_text;
+ garray_T *gap = &buf->b_textprop_text;
+ char_u *p;
// double check we got the right ID
if (-id - 1 != gap->ga_len)
if (ga_grow(gap, 1) == FAIL)
goto theend;
((char_u **)gap->ga_data)[gap->ga_len++] = text;
+
+ // change any Tab to a Space to make it simpler to compute the size
+ for (p = text; *p != NUL; MB_PTR_ADV(p))
+ if (*p == TAB)
+ *p = ' ';
text = NULL;
}