Problem: Looking up an Ex command is a bit slow.
Solution: Instead of just using the first letter, also use the second letter
to skip ahead in the list of commands. Generate the table with a
Perl script. (Dominique Pelle, closesvim/vim#1589)
e5e0fbcd42
Problem: When 'hlsearch' is set and matching with the last search pattern
is very slow, Vim becomes unusable. Cannot quit search by
pressing CTRL-C.
Solution: When the search times out set a flag and don't try again. Check
for timeout and CTRL-C in NFA loop that adds states.
fbd0b0af68
wp->w_height_inner now contains the "inner" size, regardless if the
window has been drawn yet or not. It should be used instead of
wp->w_grid.Rows, for stuff that is not directly related to accessing
the allocated grid memory, such like cursor movement and terminal size
Problem: It is not so easy to write a script that works with both Python 2 and Python 3, even when the Python code works with both.
Solution: Add 'pyxversion', :pyx, etc. (Marc Weber, Ken Takata)
f42dd3c390
Avoid clearing the screen in most situations. NOT_VALID should be
equivalent to CLEAR unless some external force messed up the terminal,
for these situations <c-l> and :mode will still clear the screen.
Also eliminate some obsolete code in screen.c, that dealt with that in
vim drawing window 1 can mess up window 2, but this never happens in
nvim.
But what about slow terminals? There is two common meanings in which
a terminal is said to be "slow":
Most commonly (and in the sense of vim:s nottyfast) it means low
bandwidth for sending bytes from nvim to the terminal. If the screen is
very similar before and after the update_screen(CLEAR) this change
should reduce bandwidth. If the screen is quite different, but there is
no new regions of contiguous whitespace, clearing doesn't reduce
bandwidth significantly. If the new screen contains a lot of whitespace,
it will depend of if vsplits are used or not: as long as there is no
vsplits, ce is used to cheaply clear the rest of the line, so
full-screen clear is not needed to reduce bandwith. However a left
vsplit currently needs to be padded with whitespace all the way to the
separator. It is possible ec (clear N chars) can be used to reduce
bandwidth here if this is a problem. (All of this assumes that one
doesn't set Normal guibg=... on a non-BCE terminal, if you do you are
doomed regardless of this change).
Slow can also mean that drawing pixels on the screen is slow. E-ink
screens is a recent example. Avoiding clearing and redrawing the
unchanged part of the screen will always improve performance in these
cases.
clang scan-build noticed that find_command() may bitmask `eap->flags`.
cmd_can_preview() only uses `ea.cmdidx`, but let's fix the warning...
Found by clang scan-build 5.0
Problem: Weird autocmd may cause arglist to be changed recursively.
Solution: Prevent recursively changing the argument list. (Christian
Brabandt, closesvim/vim#2472)
9e33efd152
Vim :! may "mess up the screen" because of e.g. switching between cooked
mode, but Nvim just uses pipes. So maybe we can avoid these
redraw_later_clear() CYA calls.
Problem: Vim becomes unusable after opening new window in BufWritePre
event.
Solution: Call not_exiting(). (Martin Tournoij, closesvim/vim#2205)
Also for "2q" when a help window is open. Add a test.
2c33d7bb69
Problem: Completion for user names does not work if a prefix is also a full
matching name. (Nazri Ramliy)
Solution: Accept both full and partial matches. (Dominique Pelle)
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