This is how Nvim behaves when the "abstract_ui" termcap is activated:
- No data is written/read to stdout/stdin by default.
- Instead of sending data to stdout, ui_write will parse the termcap codes
and invoke dispatch functions in the ui.c module.
- The dispatch functions will forward the calls to all attached UI
instances(each UI instance is an implementation of the UI layer and is
registered with ui_attach).
- Like with the "builtin_gui" termcap, "abstract_ui" does not contain any key
sequences. Instead, vim key strings(<cr>, <esc>, etc) are parsed directly by
input_enqueue and the translated strings are pushed to the input buffer.
With this new input model, its not possible to send mouse events yet. Thats
because mouse sequence parsing happens in term.c/check_termcodes which must
return early when "abstract_ui" is activated.
Also:
- Remove NO_CONSOLE_INPUT/NO_CONSULE preprocessor conditionals
- Remove ctrl_c_interrupts variable, check for mapped_ctrl_c directly in
process_interrupts()
- Move ui_inchar profiling to input_poll which is where Nvim blocks for input.
Two new functions, `event_enable_deferred()`/`event_disable_deferred()` have to
be called by code that is capable of handling asynchronicity. User-dialog states
like "press ENTER to continue" or the swap file confirmation no longer will
generate K_EVENT.
- Remove all *_set_defer methods and the 'defer' flag from rstream/jobs
- Added {signal,rstream,job}_event_source functions. Each return a pointer that
represent the event source for the object in question(For signals, a static
pointer is returned)
- Added a 'source' field to the Event struct, which is set to the appropriate
value by the code that created the event.
- Added a 'sources' parameter to `event_poll`. It should point to a
NULL-terminated array of event sources that will be used to decide which
events should be processed immediately
- Added a 'source_override' parameter to `rstream_new`. This was required to use
jobs as event sources of RStream instances(When "focusing" on a job, for
example).
- Extracted `process_from` static function from `event_process`.
- Remove 'defer' parameter from `event_process`, which now operates only on
deferred events.
- Refactor `channel_send_call` to use the new lock mechanism
What changed in a single sentence: Code that calls `event_poll` have to specify
which event sources should NOT be deferred. This change was necessary for a
number of reasons:
- To fix a bug where due to race conditions, a client request
could end in the deferred queue in the middle of a `channel_send_call`
invocation, resulting in a deadlock since the client process would never
receive a response, and channel_send_call would never return because
the client would still be waiting for the response.
- To handle "event locking" correctly in recursive `channel_send_call`
invocations when the frames are waiting for responses from different
clients. Not much of an issue now since there's only a python client, but
could break things later.
- To simplify the process of implementing synchronous functions that depend on
asynchronous events.
`-Wstrict-prototypes` warn if a function is declared or defined without
specifying the argument types.
This warning disallow function prototypes with empty parameter list.
In C, a function declared with an empty parameter list accepts an
arbitrary number of arguments when being called. This is for historic
reasons; originally, C functions didn't have prototypes, as C evolved
from B, a typeless language. When prototypes were added, the original
typeless declarations were left in the language for backwards
compatibility.
Instead we should provide `void` in argument list to state
that function doesn't have arguments.
Also this warning disallow declaring type of the parameters after the
parentheses because Neovim header generator produce no declarations for
old-stlyle prototypes: it expects to find `{` after prototype.
- The 'stripdecls.py' script replaces declarations in all headers by includes to
generated headers.
`ag '#\s*if(?!ndef NEOVIM_).*((?!#\s*endif).*\n)*#ifdef INCLUDE_GENERATED'`
was used for this.
- Add and integrate gendeclarations.lua into the build system to generate the
required includes.
- Add -Wno-unused-function
- Made a bunch of old-style definitions ANSI
This adds a requirement: all type and structure definitions must be present
before INCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS-protected include.
Warning: mch_expandpath (path.h.generated.h) was moved manually. So far it is
the only exception.
Problem: Now that nvim/strings.h is correctly namespaced, an issue
that had been masked until now arises:
When compiling, we get a lot of errors because of everywhere
the functions in nvim/strings.h are used, there's no include
to import them.
But, how could this compile and work previously, then? It
turns out that:
- In every such case, we are also including vim.h, which in
turn includes os_unix_defs.h.
- os_unix_defs.h includes <string.h> and also <strings.h> in
some systems (e.g. OSX).
- Build had been modified previously to (even when importing
system headers), prefer equally-named local ones. That was
in fact done as a previous attempt to solve the same issue
we are trying to solve another way now.
So, we were including our "strings.h" as a side-effect of
including <strings.h> through "vim.h" --> "os_unix_defs.h".
Solution: Correctly include "nvim/strings.h" in every file needing it.
Move files from src/ to src/nvim/.
- src/nvim/ becomes the new root dir for nvim executable sources.
- src/libnvim/ is planned to become root dir of the neovim library.
