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authorPeter Odding <peter@peterodding.com>2013-05-19 13:51:34 +0200
committerPeter Odding <peter@peterodding.com>2013-05-19 13:51:34 +0200
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Add g:easytags_updatetime_warn option, improve documentation (issue #47)
Issue #47 on GitHub: https://github.com/xolox/vim-easytags/issues/47
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@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@ Contents ~
6. The |g:easytags_always_enabled| option
7. The |g:easytags_on_cursorhold| option
8. The |g:easytags_updatetime_min| option
- 9. The |g:easytags_auto_update| option
- 10. The |g:easytags_auto_highlight| option
- 11. The |g:easytags_autorecurse| option
- 12. The |g:easytags_include_members| option
- 13. The |g:easytags_resolve_links| option
- 14. The |g:easytags_suppress_ctags_warning| option
- 15. The |g:easytags_ignored_syntax_groups| option
+ 9. The |g:easytags_updatetime_warn| option
+ 10. The |g:easytags_auto_update| option
+ 11. The |g:easytags_auto_highlight| option
+ 12. The |g:easytags_autorecurse| option
+ 13. The |g:easytags_include_members| option
+ 14. The |g:easytags_resolve_links| option
+ 15. The |g:easytags_suppress_ctags_warning| option
+ 16. The |g:easytags_ignored_syntax_groups| option
5. Faster syntax highlighting using Python |easytags-faster-syntax-highlighting-using-python|
1. The |g:easytags_python_enabled| option
2. The |g:easytags_python_script| option
@@ -291,17 +292,43 @@ your |vimrc| script.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:easytags_updatetime_min* option
-Vim has a setting which influences how often the plug-in is automatically
-executed. When this setting is too low, the plug-in can break. For this reason
-the plug-in compensates by keeping track of when it was last executed. You'll
-get one warning when the plug-in first notices the low value, after that it
-will shut up. The default value of this option is 4000 milliseconds (4
-seconds).
-
-If you really want the plug-in to be executed more than once every 4 seconds
-you can lower the minimum acceptable updatetime by setting this option (as the
-number of milliseconds) however note that subsecond granularity is not
-supported.
+Vim's |'updatetime'| option controls how often the easytags plug-in is
+automatically executed. A lot of popular Vim plug-ins manipulate this option
+to control how often they are called. Unfortunately some of those plug-ins set
+|'updatetime'| to a very low value (less than a second) and this can break the
+easytags plug-in.
+
+Because of this the easytags plug-in compensates by keeping track of when it
+was last executed. You'll get one warning when the plug-in first notices a
+very low value of |'updatetime'|, after that the plug-in will shut up (until you
+restart Vim) and simply compensate by not executing until its time has come.
+If you want to silence the warning message forever, see the |g:easytags_updatetime_warn|
+option.
+
+The default value of Vim's 'updatetime (see |'updatetime'|) option and the
+|g:easytags_updatetime_min| option is 4000 milliseconds (4 seconds).
+
+If you know what you're doing and you really want the easytags plug-in to be
+executed more than once every 4 seconds you can lower the minimum acceptable
+updatetime by setting |g:easytags_updatetime_min| to the number of
+milliseconds (an integer).
+
+Note that although |g:easytags_updatetime_min| counts in milliseconds, the
+easytags plug-in does not support subsecond granularity because it is limited
+by Vim's |localtime()| function which has one-second resolution.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+The *g:easytags_updatetime_warn* option
+
+Since the easytags plug-in now compensates for low |'updatetime'| values (see
+the |g:easytags_updatetime_min| option above) the warning message shown by the
+easytags plug-in has become kind of redundant (and probably annoying?). For
+now it can be completely disabled by setting |g:easytags_updatetime_warn| to 0
+(false).
+
+When the feature that compensates for low |'updatetime'| values has proven to be
+a reliable workaround I will probably remove the warning message and the
+|g:easytags_updatetime_warn| option.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:easytags_auto_update* option