feat: ":restart [cmd]" can run commands #35045

Problem:
Not easy for a user to tell ":restart" to "run this command(s) after restarting".

Solution:
All ":restart" args following the optional +cmd arg are treated as a big cmdline that is passed as a "-c" CLI arg when restarting nvim.
This commit is contained in:
Sathya Pramodh
2025-08-03 11:20:45 +05:30
committed by GitHub
parent 39e402caa5
commit 78f4994627
5 changed files with 87 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -286,15 +286,31 @@ bool remote_ui_restart(uint64_t channel_id, Error *err)
assert(argc > 0);
Array argv = arena_array(&arena, (size_t)argc + 1);
bool had_minmin = false;
bool skipping_minc = false; // Skip -c <cmd> from argv.
bool first_minc = true; // Avoid skipping the first -c <cmd> from argv.
TV_LIST_ITER_CONST(l, li, {
const char *arg = tv_get_string(TV_LIST_ITEM_TV(li));
if (argv.size > 0 && !had_minmin && strequal(arg, "--")) {
had_minmin = true;
skipping_minc = false;
}
// Exclude --embed/--headless from `argv`, as the client may start the server in a
bool startswith_min = strlen(arg) > 0 && arg[0] == '-';
bool startswith_minmin = strlen(arg) > 1 && arg[0] == '-' && arg[1] == '-';
if (skipping_minc && (startswith_min || startswith_minmin)) {
skipping_minc = false;
}
if (!had_minmin && !skipping_minc && strequal(arg, "-c")) {
if (!first_minc) {
skipping_minc = true;
continue;
}
first_minc = false;
}
// Exclude --embed/--headless/-c <cmd> from `argv`, as the client may start the server in a
// different way than how the server was originally started.
// Eg: 'nvim -c foo -c bar --embed --headless -- example.txt' would be parsed as { 'nvim', '-c', 'foo', '--', 'example.txt' }.
if (argv.size == 0 || had_minmin
|| (!strequal(arg, "--embed") && !strequal(arg, "--headless"))) {
|| (!strequal(arg, "--embed") && !strequal(arg, "--headless") && !skipping_minc)) {
ADD_C(argv, CSTR_AS_OBJ(arg));
}
});