For compatibility the following things are done:
1. Items with type greater then greatest type are ignored when reading and
copied when writing.
2. Registers with unknown name are ignored when reading and blindly copied when
writing.
3. Registers with unknown type are ignored when reading and merged as usual when
writing.
4. Local and global marks with unknown names are ignored when reading. When
writing global marks are blindly copied and local marks are also blindly
copied, but only if file they are attached to fits in the `'N` limit defined
in &shada. Unknown local mark’s timestamp is also taken into account when
calculating which files exactly should fit into this limit.
5. History items with unknown type are ignored when reading and blindly copied
when writing.
6. Unknown keys found in register, local marks, global marks, changes, jumps and
search pattern entries are read to additional_data Dictionary and dumped (of
course, unless any of these elements were not overwritten later). It
obviously works only for values conversible to Object type.
7. Additional elements found in replacement string and history entries are read
to additional_elements Array and dumped (same: only if they were not
overwritten later). Again this works only for elements conversible to Object
type.
8. Additional elements found in variable entries are simply ignored when
reading. When writing *new* variables they will be preserved during merging,
but that’s all. Variable values dumped from current NeoVim session never have
additional elements.
What works:
1. ShaDa file dumping: header, registers, jump list, history, search patterns,
substitute strings, variables.
2. ShaDa file reading: registers, global marks, variables.
Most was not tested.
TODO:
1. Merging.
2. Reading history, local marks, jump and buffer lists.
3. Documentation update.
4. Converting some data from &encoding.
5. Safer variant of dumping viminfo (dump to temporary file then rename).
6. Removing old viminfo code (currently masked with `#if 0` in a ShaDa file for
reference).
We already use wrappers for allocation, the new `xfree` function is the
equivalent for deallocation and provides a way to fully replace the malloc
implementation used by Neovim.
This commit pulls the some environment-variable handling functions out of
misc1.c and in to os/env.c. Previously submited as #1231, this is the start of
a patch series that does that work based on a more up-to-date master branch.
Major tasks accomplished:
- move functions and fix includes
- fix clint/clang analysis warnings
- correct documentation comments
- Removed term.c, term.h and term_defs.h
- Tests for T_* values were removed. screen.c was simplified as a
consequence(the best strategy for drawing is implemented in the UI layer)
- Redraw functions now call ui.c functions directly. Updates are flushed with
`ui_flush()`
- Removed all termcap options(they now return empty strings for compatibility)
- &term/&ttybuiltin options return a constant value(nvim)
- &t_Co is still available, but it mirrors t_colors directly
- Remove cursor tracking from screen.c and the `screen_start` function. Now the
UI is expected to maintain cursor state across any call, and reset it when
resized.
- Remove unused code
Regarding dict_lookup() in eval.c: both definitions are the same, the
only difference being the spacing between the indirection operator and
the indentation level.
Problem : getdigits() currently returns a long, but at most places,
return value is casted (unsafely) into an int. Making casts
safe would introduce a lot of fuss in the form of assertions
checking for limits.
Note : We cannot just change return type to int, because, at some
places, legitimate long values are used. For example, in
diff.c, for line numbers.
Solution : Introduce new functions:
- get_digits() : Gets an intmax_t from a string.
- get_int_digits() : Wrapper for ints.
- get_long_digits() : Wrapper for longs.
And replace getdigits() invocations by the appropiate
wrapper invocations.
Problem : Out-of-bounds-write to a buffer.
Diagnostic : False positive.
Diagnostic : Suggested error location is under isupper(c) condition,
which makes suggested error impossible. Coverity just fails
to take isupper() postcondition into account.
Resolution : Assert isupper() postcondition.
Problem : Out-of-bounds read from a buffer.
Diagnostic : False positive.
Rationale : Suggested error path implies isupper(*str) being true,
which makes error vanish. Coverity just fails to take into
account isupper() postcondition.
Resolution : Assert isupper() postcondition.
- 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.
