Problem:
Mouse popup menus (right-click context menus) do not respect the
'pumborder' option and could overflow screen boundaries when borders
were enabled near the edge.
Solution:
- Remove the mouse menu exclusion from border rendering.
- Add boundary check to shift menu left when border would exceed screen
width, ensuring complete visibility of menu content and borders.
vim-patch:9.2.0174: diff: inline word-diffs can be fragmented
Problem: When using 'diffopt=inline:word', lines were excessively
fragmented with punctuation creating separate highlight
blocks, making it harder to read the diffs.
Solution: Added 'diff_refine_inline_word_highlight()' to merge
adjacent diff blocks that are separated by small gaps of
non-word characters (up to 5 bytes by default) (HarshK97).
When using inline:word diff mode, adjacent changed words separated by
punctuation or whitespace are now merged into a single highlight block
if the gap between them contains fewer than 5 non-word characters.
This creates more readable diffs and closely matches GitHub's own diff
display.
closes: vim/vim#1909842c6686c78
Problem:
No way to disable progress messages in cmdline message area. If
a third-party plugin handles Progress events + messages, the user may
not want the "redundant" progress displayed in the cmdline message area.
Solution:
Support "progress:c" entry in 'messageopts' option.
Problem:
`K` in help files may fail in some noisy text. Example:
(`fun(config: vim.lsp.ClientConfig): boolean`)
^cursor
Solution:
- `:help!` (bang, no args) activates DWIM behavior: tries `<cWORD>`,
then trims punctuation until a valid tag is found.
- Set `keywordprg=:help!` by default.
- Does not affect `CTRL-]`, that is still fully "tags" based.
Problem:
In aec3d7915c Vim changed prompt-buffers
to respect 'modified' so the termdebug plugin can "control closing the
window". But for most use-cases (REPL, shell, AI "chat", …),
prompt-buffers are in practice always "modified", and no way to "save"
them, so *implicitly* setting 'modified' is noisy and annoying.
Solution:
Don't implicitly set 'modified' when a prompt-buffer is updated.
Plugins/users can still explicitly set 'modified', which will then
trigger the "E37: No write since last change" warning.
Problem:
When a terminal process exits, "[Process Exited]" text is added
to the buffer contents.
Solution:
- Return `exitcode` field from `nvim_get_chan_info`.
- Show it in the default 'statusline'.
- Show exitcode as virtual text in the terminal buffer.
Problem: cannot display tabs for indentation
Solution: Add the "leadtab" value to the 'listchars' option to
distinguish between tabs used for indentation and tabs used
for alignment (HarshK97).
closes: vim/vim#190948526d32647
Co-authored-by: HarshK97 <harshkapse1234@gmail.com>
Problem: Not possible to know when a session will be loaded.
Solution: Add the SessionLoadPre autocommand (Colin Kennedy).
fixes: vim/vim#19084closes: vim/vim#193061c0d468d72
Co-authored-by: Colin Kennedy <colinvfx@gmail.com>
Problem: after #33036, an error from evaluating 'statusline' clears it and
doesn't draw the statusline. (causing glitchy redraws)
Solution: use the default value instead. If 'stl' is somehow ever empty, still
call redraw_custom_statusline to at least draw an empty statusline.
Ideally our default 'stl' shouldn't itself error too! :-)
Also adjust some prior screen:expect()s to avoid immediate success warnings.
Problem:
Some UI clients break if space follows the comma in 'guifont' items.
Also the new 'guifont' default may cause problems if none of the fonts are found.
Solution:
Remove trailing whitespace.
Add a "monospace" fallback which `fontconfig` can resolve on *nix systems.
**Problem:** No easy way to stack highlight groups #35806.
**Solution:** Add a way to specify a new statusline chunk with a
highlight group that inherits from previous highlight attributes.
Also applies to tabline, etc.
In particular, also mention the difference between the regex atom \k and
what Vim considers for a word character.
closes: vim/vim#186889e456e52df
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem:
Temporary files from /tmp/ and /private/ paths clutter :oldfiles list.
Additionally, the documented Windows default (rA:,rB:) was never applied
due to a missing platform condition.
Solution:
Drop platform-specific shada differences and default to excluding
/tmp/ and /private/ paths.
Problem: No event is triggered before creating a window.
(Sergey Vlasov)
Solution: Add the WinNewPre event (Sergey Vlasov)
fixes: vim/vim#10635closes: vim/vim#127611f47db75fd
Not sure if this should be triggered before creating a floating window,
as its use case is related to window layout.
Co-authored-by: Sergey Vlasov <sergey@vlasov.me>
Problem: 'fsync' option cannot be set per buffer
Solution: Make 'fsync' option global-local
(glepnir)
closes: vim/vim#190194d5b303726
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem:
Current options for powershell and pwsh had mistakes and rationale
behind them was not clear.
Solution:
Update the suggested options by splitting up powershell and pwsh, as
well as ensuring that all options work and rationale is documented and
discussed.
Problem: diff: missing diff size limit for xdiff
Solution: Impose file size limit for internal diff (xdiff)
(Yee Cheng Chin).
Git imposes a hard cap on file size for content that it passes to xdiff
(added to Git in dcd1742e56e, defined in xdiff-interface.h), due to
integer overflow concerns in xdiff. Vim doesn't specify such a limit
right now, which means it's possible for a user to diff a large file
(1GB+) and trigger these overflow issues.
Add the same size limit (1GB minus 1MB) to Vim and simply throws an
error when Vim encounters files larger than said limit. For now, reuse
the same error message regarding internal diff failures. There is no
need to add the same limit for external diff as it's up to each tool to
error check their input to decide what is appropriate or not.
closes: vim/vim#188914af6d9755c
Co-authored-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Problem: completion: complete_match() Vim script function and
'isexpand' option are not that useful and confusing
(after v9.1.1341)
Solution: Remove function and option and clean up code and documentation
(Girish Palya).
complete_match() and 'isexpand' add no real functionality to Vim. They
duplicate what `strridx()` already does, yet pretend to be part of the
completion system. They have nothing to do with the completion mechanism.
* `f_complete_match()` in `insexpand.c` does not call any completion code.
It’s just a `STRNCMP()` wrapper with fluff logic.
* `'isexpand'` exists only as a proxy argument to that function.
It does nothing on its own and amounts to misuse of a new option.
The following Vim script function can be used to implement the same
functionality:
```vim
func CompleteMatch(triggers, sep=',')
let line = getline('.')->strpart(0, col('.') - 1)
let result = []
for trig in split(a:triggers, a:sep)
let idx = strridx(line, trig)
if l:idx >= 0
call add(result, [idx + 1, trig])
endif
endfor
return result
endfunc
```
related: vim/vim#16716fixes: vim/vim#18563closes: vim/vim#18790cbcbff8712
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem: completion: 'completefuzzycollect' option is too obscure
Solution: Deprecate the option, but don't error out for existing scripts,
behave like 'completefuzzycollect' is set when fuzzy
completion is enabled (Girish Palya).
fixes: vim/vim#18498closes: vim/vim#1878833fbfe003c
Remove this option completely, as it's introduced in Nvim v0.12 cycle.
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Add "Environment variables are expanded |:set_env|" documentation to
options that have the P_EXPAND flag but were missing this note.
Updated options:
- 'cdpath'
- 'dictionary'
- 'mkspellmem'
- 'packpath'
- 'runtimepath'
- 'spellfile'
- 'spellsuggest'
- 'thesaurus'
- 'ttytype'
- 'undodir'
- 'verbosefile'
- 'viewdir'
- 'viminfofile'
These options support environment variable expansion in their values
(e.g., $HOME, $USER) but the documentation didn't explicitly mention
this capability. This brings their documentation in line with other
options like backupdir, directory, and makeprg that already include
this note.
closes: vim/vim#187912190036c8c
Co-authored-by: Alex Plate <AlexPl292@gmail.com>
Problem:
- Exposing the raw config as table is a pattern not seen anywhere else
in the Nvim codebase.
- Old spellfile.vim docs still available, no new documentation
Solution:
- Exposing a `config()` function that both acts as "getter" and "setter"
is a much more common idiom (e.g. vim.lsp, vim.diagnostic).
- Add new documentation and link old docs to |spellfile.lua| instead of
|spellfile.vim|.
Use double sentence spacing and wrap lines at 'textwidth'. Code
examples and tables were not wrapped unless this had already been done
locally.
closes: vim/vim#18453c58f91c035
Fix incorrect docs in :h ModeChanged.
Cherry-pick :h bufnr() changes from patch 8.1.2080.
Co-authored-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Problem:
1. Setting `pumborder=+,+,+,+,+,+,+,+` failed to render the custom
border characters correctly. The issue occurred in `parse_winborder()`
where it incorrectly used `p_winborder` instead of the `border_opt`
parameter when the option value didn't contain commas.
2. In `pum_redraw()`, calling `parse_border_style()` directly with the
option string failed to parse comma-separated border characters.
3. Missing documentation for PmenuShadow and PmenuShadowThrough
highlight groups used by the shadow border style.
4. Coverity reports CID 631420: passing WinConfig (480 bytes) by value
in `grid_draw_border()`.
5. crash when using `shadow` value on pumborder.
Solution:
1. Fix `parse_winborder()` to use `border_opt` parameter consistently,
ensuring the correct option value is parsed regardless of which
option (winborder/pumborder) is being set.
2. Update `pum_redraw()` to call `parse_winborder()` instead of
`parse_border_style()`, properly handling both predefined styles
and custom comma-separated border characters.
3. Add documentation for PmenuShadow (blended shadow areas) and
PmenuShadowThrough (see-through corners) highlight groups.
4. Change `grid_draw_border()` to accept WinConfig by pointer.
5. When the "shadow" style is used, no additional row and column offset
is applied, and the border width is reduced.
Problem:
Popup menu cannot have a border.
Solution:
Support 'pumborder' option.
Generalize `win_redr_border` to `grid_redr_border`,
which redraws border for window grid and pum grid.
Problem: Cannot configure the inner foldlevel indicator for the
foldcolumn
Solution: Add "foldinner" suboption value to the 'fillchar' option
(Maria José Solano).
closes: vim/vim#183651a691afd27
Co-authored-by: Maria José Solano <majosolano99@gmail.com>
