It makes the most sense to sort the global bookmarks list just before
rendering them in the NERDTree window. Since Vim's sort function is fast
and stable, and since users are very unlikely to have a number of
bookmarks that is too large, we can sort before rendering without
concern for the negligible performance penalty.
This has two benefits:
1. Users can change their sort settings and have them take effect
on the next render or refresh.
2. As mentioned, code duplication is avoided.
Sorting the list of user bookmarks requires care to ensure that Vim's
builtin sort function is called correctly. Previously, this function was
called incorrectly. This is why the sorting of bookmarks never worked.
The offending functions have been removed here and replaced with
"s:Bookmark.CompareBookmarksByName". To understand the necessity for
this change, read ":h sort()" for the requirements of the function
reference argument (esp., note that it must return -1, 0, or 1).
In addition to fixing this problem, the new comparison function will
inspect the "g:NERDTreeBookmarksSort" setting to determine whether
case-sensitivity is preferred in the sort. The documentation has been
modified to accurately reflect this adjustment. The change is also made
in such a way as not to break any existing configurations.
Fixes#361 ("My bookmarks aren't sorted").
The trailing fold markers in "bookmark.vim" varied in how far they were
from the end of the line. This created an unpleasant visual effect when
folding was in use.
So :bprev was failing to jump back to the right buffer. I dont fully
understand this yet, but I'm fairly sure this is because there is a
magic <directory> buffer that we delete when creating a wintree :-/
Anyway, we are explicitly storing the prev buffer again - and updating
it when reusing treewins. It's worky, but there may be a superior way...
Some will have a "NERDTree" buffer variable and others will not. In the
ones that do, getbufvar will return a dictionary. getbufvar will return
an empty string from the other buffers. When looping through the buffers,
let will throw an error if nt already exists and is a different type than
what is trying to be put into it. This easily can be illustrated by these
two statements:
:let x = ""
:let x = {}
E706: Variable type mismatch for: x
This commit gets rid of the variable before setting it so that the
mismatch cannot occur.
