Problem:
The magic globals `it`, `describe`, etc., are more trouble than they are
worth.
- Hooking into `after_each` requires `getfenv()` hacks.
- They confuse luals/emmylua, because the top-level `.luarc.json` isn't
merged with `test/.luarc.json` (apparently a luals limitation?)
- They totally defeat discoverability because the user just has to
"know" about the various magic symbols.
So they harm DX, which means they serve no purpose at all.
Solution:
- Expose the test API from `testutil`, so tests can call `t.it()`,
`t.describe()`, etc., in the conventional way.
- Drop `getfenv()` hacks.
- Drop the `setfenv()` injection in `load_chunk`.
- Drop `test/_meta.lua`.
Problem:
No lint for strtol().
Solution:
Add lint, and update existing usages.
Callers that previously got a (garbage) large positive value:
- `indent.c`: use getdigits() (intmax, no int truncation) with def=1 so
overflow/too-large values stay positive and fall through to the
existing "too big" check (E475).
- `file_search.c`: use getdigits() with def=255 so overflow/too-large
values keep the "max expand" (else) branch.
The other conversions (api/command.c, eval/window.c, highlight_group.c,
tui/tui.c) only diverge on pathological overflow inputs where strtol's
result was already garbage and the observable outcome is unchanged.
Problem:
`clint.py` is the last python in our codebase, and beyond that it needs
some cleanup. And it lacks tests, so modifying it can be painful.
Also, we need a way to add ad-hoc lint rules for *Lua*, so it will help
to have our ad-hoc rules for C in the same language (the scripts may
share functions/techniques): https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/28372
Solution:
- convert to `clint.lua` (mostly AI-generated, but it now has test
coverage, unlike `clint.py`)
- drop rules that are no longer needed:
- "readability/multiline_string"
- technially still relevant, but very uncommon so doesn't really matter.
- "--line-length"
- Not used in the old clint.py, nor the new clint.lua.
- "comment whitespace" check
- It is enforced by uncrustify.
- "TODO" check
- The `-google-readability-function-size` clang-tidy rule enforces
"TODO(user)" format. (It was already enabled long ago.)
