Problem: Progress reports use plain `nvim_echo()` with manually
constructed messages and populate history on every call.
Solution: Use `nvim_echo()` with newly added `kind=progress` which (at
least for now) is meant to be a unified interface for showing progress
report. Also save in history only first and last progress report
messages.
Problem: filetype: .inc file detection can be improved
Solution: Update filetype detection for Pascal and BitBake code
(Martin Schwan).
Fix the detection of .inc files containing Pascal and BitBake code:
- the concatenated string, merged from three lines, only contains one
beginning and the pattern "^" would not match as expected. Use a range()
loop to iterate each line string individually. This way, the pattern "^"
works for beginning of lines.
- improve BitBake include file detection by also matching forward-slashes
"/" in variable names and assignment operators with a dot ".=" and "=.".
Valid examples, which should match, are:
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-yocto"
MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "qemuall:"
BBPATH .= ":${LAYERDIR}"
- parse twenty instead of just three lines, to accommodate for potential
comments at the beginning of files
closes: vim/vim#182029fd1a657d2
Co-authored-by: Martin Schwan <m.schwan@phytec.de>
- Problem: It's not clear for new plugin developers that `:help` uses
a help-tags file for searching the docs, generated by `:helptags`.
- Solution: Hint to the |:helptags| docs for regenerating the tags
file for their freshly written documentation.
Co-authored-by: Yochem van Rosmalen <git@yochem.nl>
Problem: filetype: vivado journal/log files are not recognized
Solution: Detect vivado*.{jou,log} as tcl filetype (Wu Zhenyu).
closes: vim/vim#181919a6cafdc1c
Also fix missing anchor in the pattern from the port of patch 9.1.1602.
Co-authored-by: Wu, Zhenyu <wuzhenyu@ustc.edu>
This change does the following to the M4 syntax script:
- In M4 there are no "strings" in the usual sense. Instead, M4 has
quotes, but the text inside a quoted region is rescanned just like
outside, and quotes can be nested.
- The old m4String region was misleading and removed. A new m4Quoted
region reflects proper quoting semantics.
- Removed a duplicate highlight rule.
- Fixed a typo in a highlight group name (m4builtin → m4Builtin).
- Added a reference link to the POSIX M4 specification.
- Removed outdated maintainer URL.
closes: vim/vim#18192f165798184
Co-authored-by: Damien Lejay <damien@lejay.be>
Problem:
insert-mode ctrl-r input is treated like raw user input, which is almost
never useful. This means any newlines in the input are affected by
autoindent, etc., which is:
- slow
- usually breaks the formatting of the input
Solution:
- ctrl-r should be treated like a paste, not user-input.
- does not affect `<c-r>=`, so `<c-r>=@x` can still be used to get the
old behavior.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
No support is provided or planned for language recognition
in code snippets of documentation comments. Requesting to
load arbitrary syntax plugins with the aid of the concerned
variable is therefore wasteful in general and erroneous when
paired languages ":syn-include" one another without taking
steps to manage circularity.
related: vim/vim#17308
related: vim/vim#17220closes: vim/vim#1817271149dfec5
Co-authored-by: Aliaksei Budavei <0x000c70@gmail.com>
Problem:
The default progress message doesn't account for
message-status. Also, the title and percent sections don't get written
to history. And progress percent is hard to find with variable length messages.
Solution:
Apply highlighting on Title based on status. And sync the formated msg
in history too. Also updates the default progress message format to
{title}: {percent}% msg
Problem:
The callback passed to `vim.wait` cannot return results directly, it
must set upvalues or globals.
local rv1, rv2, rv3
local ok = vim.wait(200, function()
rv1, rv2, rv3 = 'a', 42, { ok = { 'yes' } }
return true
end)
Solution:
Let the callback return values after the first "status" result.
local ok, rv1, rv2, rv3 = vim.wait(200, function()
return true, 'a', 42, { ok = { 'yes' } }
end)
Problem: filetype: fvwm2m4 files are no longer recognized
(after 9.1.1687).
Solution: Add a special case in m4 filetype detection (zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#181465355e81868
Co-authored-by: Damien Lejay <damien@lejay.be>
These versions have exited their standard support term as of
- bullseye: 2024-08-14
- focal: 2025-05
- oracular: 2025-07-10
closes: vim/vim#18134b760062897
Co-authored-by: James McCoy <jamessan@jamessan.com>
Problem:
`msg_show` has "progress" info (title, status, percent) which is not presented
by default.
Solution:
Format TUI messages as `{title}: {msg}...{percent}%`. This also gets sent to UI.
- With specific formatting sent to UI we can remove the `progress` item from
`msg_show` event. It can be added if needed in the future. Also, having
a default presentation makes the feature more useful.
- For `vim._extui` we just need to implement the replace-msg-with-same-id
behavior.
- If any UI/plugin wants to do anything fancier, they can handle the `Progress`
event.
tmux-direct is functionally the same as tmux-256color, except it
directly reports 24-bit color and how to set them (setaf/setab)
via ncurses 6.x's extended terminfo format.
Problem:
Hover response of MarkedString[] where the first element contains a
language identifier treated as empty.
Solution:
Fix empty check to handle case of MarkedString[] where the first element
is a pair of a language and value.
Problem:
Nvim does not have a core concept for indicating "progress" of
long-running tasks. The LspProgress event is specific to LSP.
Solution:
- `nvim_echo` can emit `kind="progress"` messages.
- Emits a `Progress` event.
- Includes new fields (id, status, percent) in the `msg_show` ui-event.
- The UI is expected to overwrite any message having the same id.
- Messages have a globally unique ID.
- `nvim_echo` returns the message ID.
- `nvim_echo(… {id=…})` updates existing messages.
Example:
local grp = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("Msg", {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('Progress', {
pattern={"term"},
group = grp,
callback = function(ev)
print(string.format('event fired: %s', vim.inspect(ev))..'\n')
end
})
-- require('vim._extui').enable({enable=true, msg={target='msg', timeout=1000}})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', percent=80, status='running', title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
local id = vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', status='running', percent=10, title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', percent=20, status = 'running', title='find tests'})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='running', percent=70})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'complete'}}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='success', percent=100, title="find tests"})
Followups:
- Integrate with 'statusline' by listening to the Progress autocmd event.
- Integrate progress ui-event with `vim._extui`.
