RPC call to scroll to search text (scroll syncing)

[davidmarkclements]

here's the idea:

1. I create a very light weight plugin for my editor (vi, sublime text, emacs, atom, whatever)
2. all the plugin does is vmd scroll-to <current text buffer> either on save, or perhaps when the text buffer changes, or perhaps polling - where <current text buffer> is literally the text being displayed by the editor
3. vmd renders the text buffer to html, and searches for that html, if there's a match then scroll to the beginning of the text

This is easier than trying to exactly co-ordinate scroll positions between an editor and the vmd window, and would make editor plugin creation trivial

Only consideration could be how heavy this is - probably not that heavy, how big is a text buffer, couple of hundred bytes?

[maxkueng]

Vim already supports the Netbeans protocol out-of-the-box. I never dove deeply in to this but I think it allows accessing Vim's buffers and receiving events from it. I believe it would be possible to get the cursor position end even rerender vmd as you type (without saving first) and also scrolling to the right position.

Forgive me if I'm talking bullshit. I haven't actually investigated this. It's just what I remember having read a while ago.

If this Netbeans stuff works, however, it might be possible to support other editors as well if they have a Netbeans plugin.