Problem: The cursor shape is changed to indicate when it is behind an
unfocused floating window (since a2b92a5e). This behavior
cannot be controlled by a floating window that doesn't want
to dim the cursor.
Solution: Assign a zindex-offset of 50 to the zindex of the current
window. To not dim the cursor when creating a floating window
on top of the current window one can assign the zindex
accordingly.
Problem:
- Not obvious which _meta/ are generated and which should be edited
manually.
- The require guard (`error('Cannot require a meta file')`) is not
consistently present in all meta files.
Solution:
- Update headers.
- Add require() guard to all meta files.
- Rename generated meta files with `.gen.lua`.
Problem:
- Lots of redundant text in options docs for "not allowed in
a modeline", even though we already have a flag that indicates that.
- `deny_in_modelines` is an old vestigial flag only used by 'encoding'
(which never changes).
Solution:
- Generate docs based on the `secure` flag.
- Remove the `deny_in_modelines` flag (`kOptFlagNoML`).
Problem:
Neovim's Node.js provider does not support the Bun package manager.
PR #26829 attempted to add this but used a hardcoded path and was abandoned.
Solution:
- Use `bun pm bin -g` to dynamically locate the global binary directory.
- Update `health.lua` to recognize bun installations.
Problem: vim.lsp.util.show_document insert mode is unable
to set the cursor after the target character position if the target character
is at end of line.
Solution: Move cursor after the target character (in append position)
in this case.
Problem: _get_and_set_name edits the name for the whole group,
thus only one client per group gets the didOpen message.
Solution: move the logic to _changetracking and loop over every
client per group.
Problem:
If `'keywordprg'` begins with `:`, `3K` turns the count into an Ex
range. Commands that don't support that then fail. Vim passes the count
as the first arg (see #19436, vim/vim#10745).
Solution:
Pass `[count]` as the first arg for `'keywordprg'`.
Problem: hlgroup2dict passes &ns_id to ns_get_hl twice. The first call
(link=true) sets *ns_hl = 0 when link_global is set, so the second call
and the sg_cleared guard both see ns_id == 0 and bail out. The group is
silently dropped from the result.
Solution: use a temporary copy of ns_id for each ns_get_hl call so the
original value is preserved.
Problem:
On Git versions 2.13..2.26 there is a bug that prevents using
`stash --message`.
Solution:
Use the full `stash push --message` form to avoid that bug.
Problem: hover/signature callback lacked consistency checks, so slow LSP servers
could open a float after the cursor had already moved away.
Solution: guard the callback with buf validity, buf version, and cursor
position checks before opening the float. Also fix table capacity calculation.
Problem:
When a new textDocument/codeLens response arrives with unresolved lenses,
on_win clears the existing codelens row before codeLens/resolve
completes. This causes the displayed codelens text to flicker while
typing.
Solution:
Keep the current virtual lines if any of the refreshed lenses are still
unresolved. Clear the old virtual lines only when the line no longer has
lenses or all its lenses are resolved.
A trade-off is that the user may temporarily see outdated codelenses.
However, that's preferable to spamming updates on every refresh.
AI-assisted: Codex
Problem: If the lockfile points to the revision that is not on disk, the
`:checkhealth vim.pack` suggests to run `vim.pack.update()`. Although
usually it should resolve the problem, it is not always the case: like
if the state on disk is already the latest available.
Solution: Add an extra suggestion with a more drastic measure by
manually removing `rev` field from the lockfile for it to be repaired
after the `:restart`.
Problem:
`vim.lsp.buf.definition`/`vim.lsp.buf.declaration` use the same underlying code
via `get_locations`, whereas `vim.lsp.buf.reference` does not. This is because
`buf.reference` does not perform a jump when there is only one item.
Solution:
In #38510, I simplified the jump logic using `:cfirst`, so they can now share
code more easily. Additionally, this PR enables `buf.definition` to display the
corresponding qflist name.
Problem:
`:help dev-name-common` states that "buf" should be used instead of
"buffer" but there are cases where buffer is mentioned in the lua API.
Solution:
- Rename occurrences of "buffer" to "buf" for consistency with the
documentation.
- Support (but deprecate) "buffer" for backwards compatibility.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Problem:
Since 2f6d1d3c88, `apply_text_edits`
unconditionally sets `buflisted=true`, causing spurious BufDelete events
if plugins restore the original 'buflisted' state on unlisted buffers:
65ef6cec1c/src/nvim/option.c (L2159-L2169)
Solution:
- Don't set 'buflisted' in `apply_text_edits`. Set it more narrowly, in
`apply_workspace_edit` where the semantics requires affected buffers
to be visible to the user.
- Also skip setting 'buflisted' if it would not be changed, to avoid
redundant `OptionSet` events.
Problem: nvim_exec_autocmds() documentation incorrectly describes the default
for "pattern" as *, when it's actually the current file name (like :doautocmd).
Solution: correct it. Add a test.
Problem:
The current LSP diagnostic implementation can't differ between a pull
diagnostic with no identifier and a set of diagnostics provided via push
diagnostics.
"Anonymous pull providers" are expected by the protocol https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#diagnosticOptions
, depending on how the capability was registered:
- Dynamic registrations have an identifier.
- Static registrations will not.
Solution:
Restore the `is_pull` argument removed in
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/37938, keeping the identifier of
pull diagnostic collections.
Problem: vim.VersionRange had no __eq metamethod, so comparing 2 distinct
but same value instances always returned false. In vim.pack.add this caused
redundant lockfile rewrites, even when the resulting lockfile content was
unchanged.
Solution: Add __eq metamethod on vim.VersionRange
Problem:
`:checkhealth vim.lsp` validates configured filetypes against
`getcompletion('', 'filetype')`. This only reflects runtime support
files.
This causes false warnings in `:checkhealth vim.lsp` for configured
filetypes that are known to the Lua filetype registry, including
values added with `vim.filetype.add()` and built-in registry-only
filetypes.
Solution:
Build the healthcheck's known-filetype set from both
`getcompletion('', 'filetype')` and `vim.filetype.inspect()`.
Problem:
`vim.Range` and `vim.Pos` have signature mismatches on the docs of some functions.
Solution:
Split the "module" functions from the "class" functions (just like it's done in other modules like `vim.version`) and regenerate the docs.
Problem: When Neovim is built with Zig, `:checkhealth` falsely reports
"Non-optimized debug build" for release builds. The extraction regex
stops at the first space, and the validation regex only lists CMake
build type names.
Solution: Fix the extraction regex to capture the full build type string
and add Zig optimization levels (ReleaseFast, ReleaseSafe, ReleaseSmall)
to the validation regex.
AI-assisted: Claude Code
Problem: No way of inspecting the (user-added) filetype detection rules.
Solution: Add `vim.filetype.inspect()` returning copies of the internal
`extension`, `filename`, `pattern` tables. Due to the dynamic nature of
filetype detection, this will in general not allow getting the list of
known filetypes, but at least one can see if a given extension is known.
Problem: `buf` is optional even though its needed to perform conversions
and the ordering of `(buf, row, col)` is not consistent.
Solution: make `buf` mandatory on `vim.range` and `vim.pos` and enforce
the `buf, row, col` ordering
Problem: Commands that rely on Git may need its version to perform more
targeted actions (like decide which arguments are safe to use).
For performance, computing this version is delayed up until it is
needed (like to not compute on regular startup), but not done before
every Git operation (as it is too much and can be done better).
This requires storing the Git version in a variable which is currently
initiated via `vim.version.parse()` call (most probably because it was
easier to handle Lua types this way).
However, the problem is that this results in sourcing `vim.version`
and computing `vim.version.parse` on every startup even if no Git
operation would be done.
Solution: Don't call `vim.version.parse()` during `require('vim.pack')`
and ensure its more precise lazy computation.
Problem:
Running `:Open` on an open buffer does not run `vim.ui.open()` on that file, requiring the user to type `:Open %`. This is inconsistent with most other vim commands which accept files, which default to the current buffer's file.
Solution:
Default to the current file when `:Open` is used without arguments.
Problem:
Apparently vim.SystemCompleted.stdout can also be nil, even without a
custom stdout handler. (Although the docs can be interpreted otherwise).
Solution:
Explicitly check for nil and set the result body to an empty string if
stdout was nil.
