The `buffer` option remains functional but is now undocumented.
Providing both will raise an error. Since providing `buf` was disallowed
before, there is no code that will break due to using `buffer` alongside
`buf`.
Problem:
Default statusline doesn't show progress status.
Solution:
- Provide `vim.ui.progress_status()`.
- Include it in the default 'statusline'.
How it works:
Status text summarizes "running" progress messages.
- If none: returns empty string
- If one running item: "title: percent%"
- If multiple running items: "Progress: N items avg-percent%"
Problem:
Mouse popup menus (right-click context menus) do not respect the
'pumborder' option and could overflow screen boundaries when borders
were enabled near the edge.
Solution:
- Remove the mouse menu exclusion from border rendering.
- Add boundary check to shift menu left when border would exceed screen
width, ensuring complete visibility of menu content and borders.
vim-patch:9.2.0174: diff: inline word-diffs can be fragmented
Problem: When using 'diffopt=inline:word', lines were excessively
fragmented with punctuation creating separate highlight
blocks, making it harder to read the diffs.
Solution: Added 'diff_refine_inline_word_highlight()' to merge
adjacent diff blocks that are separated by small gaps of
non-word characters (up to 5 bytes by default) (HarshK97).
When using inline:word diff mode, adjacent changed words separated by
punctuation or whitespace are now merged into a single highlight block
if the gap between them contains fewer than 5 non-word characters.
This creates more readable diffs and closely matches GitHub's own diff
display.
closes: vim/vim#1909842c6686c78
Problem:
The 'android' and 'termux' feature flags have been shipped in the
downstream neovim/neovim-nightly package for 5+ years but were never
properly documented in the downstream patch.
Solution:
Upstream the 'android' and 'termux' feature flags into Neovim as
decoupled feature flags, this enables the 'android' feature in
particular to be available independently of the 'termux' feature
for builds of Neovim against the Android NDK, but not including
the Termux NDK patchset.
Co-authored-by: Lethal Lisa <43791059+lethal-lisa@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: shadmansaleh <13149513+shadmansaleh@users.noreply.github.com>
Problem:
No way to disable progress messages in cmdline message area. If
a third-party plugin handles Progress events + messages, the user may
not want the "redundant" progress displayed in the cmdline message area.
Solution:
Support "progress:c" entry in 'messageopts' option.
Problem: nvim_open_tabpage's "enter" argument is optional, which is inconsistent
with nvim_open_win.
Solution: make it a (non-optional) positional argument, like nvim_open_win.
Also change "enter"'s description to be more like nvim_open_win's doc.
Problem: "after" in nvim_open_tabpage is inconsistent with how a count works
with :tab, :tabnew, etc. Plus, the name "after" implies it's inserted after that
number.
Solution: internally offset by 1. Allow negative numbers to mean after current.
Hmm, should we even reserve sentinels for after current? Callers can probably
just use nil...
- Cleanup, remove redundant comments, add more tests.
- Enhance win_new_tabpage rather than create a new function for !enter, and use
a different approach that minimizes side-effects. Return the tabpage_T * and
first win_T * it allocated.
- Disallow during textlock, like other APIs that open windows.
- Remove existing win_alloc_firstwin error handling from win_new_tabpage; it's
not needed, and looks incorrect. (enter_tabpage is called for curtab, which is
not the old tabpage! Plus newtp is not freed)
- Fix checks after creating the tabpage:
- Don't fail if buf wasn't set successfully; the tab page may still be valid
regardless. Set buffer like nvim_open_win, possibly blocking Enter/Leave
events. (except BufWinEnter)
- tp_curwin may not be the initial window opened by win_new_tabpage. Use the
win_T * it returns instead, which is the real first window it allocated,
regardless of autocmd shenanigans.
- Properly check whether tab page was freed; it may have also been freed
before win_set_buf. Plus, it may not be safe to read its handle!
Problem:
`K` in help files may fail in some noisy text. Example:
(`fun(config: vim.lsp.ClientConfig): boolean`)
^cursor
Solution:
- `:help!` (bang, no args) activates DWIM behavior: tries `<cWORD>`,
then trims punctuation until a valid tag is found.
- Set `keywordprg=:help!` by default.
- Does not affect `CTRL-]`, that is still fully "tags" based.
Problem: only possible to move floats between tabpages if relative=win, which
has the restrictive effect of also anchoring it to the target window.
Solution: allow "win" without "relative" or "split"/"vertical". Only assume
missing "win" is 0 if relative=win is given to maintain that behaviour. (or when
configuring a new window)
Also add an error when attempting to change a split into a float that's in
another tabpage, as this isn't actually supported yet. (until the next commit)
Maybe this could do with some bikeshedding. Unclear if "win" should require
"relative" to be given, like with "row"/"col"; this can be annoying though as
specifying "relative" requires other fields to be given too.
Problem:
In aec3d7915c Vim changed prompt-buffers
to respect 'modified' so the termdebug plugin can "control closing the
window". But for most use-cases (REPL, shell, AI "chat", …),
prompt-buffers are in practice always "modified", and no way to "save"
them, so *implicitly* setting 'modified' is noisy and annoying.
Solution:
Don't implicitly set 'modified' when a prompt-buffer is updated.
Plugins/users can still explicitly set 'modified', which will then
trigger the "E37: No write since last change" warning.
Problem:
When a terminal process exits, "[Process Exited]" text is added
to the buffer contents.
Solution:
- Return `exitcode` field from `nvim_get_chan_info`.
- Show it in the default 'statusline'.
- Show exitcode as virtual text in the terminal buffer.
Problem:
There is an inconsistency between extmarks/highlights regarding the
`end_col` param.
Solution:
Allow end_col=-1 to mean "end of line" (if strict=false).
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Problem: nvim_win_get_config() does not return a window's "style".
Solution: always include it, and document `style=""`.
Always included so it can be used reciprocally with nvim_open_win() or
nvim_win_set_config(). (otherwise the config of a window with kWinStyleUnused
will not unset the kWinStyleMinimal style of another window if passed to
nvim_win_set_config, for example)
Problem: cannot display tabs for indentation
Solution: Add the "leadtab" value to the 'listchars' option to
distinguish between tabs used for indentation and tabs used
for alignment (HarshK97).
closes: vim/vim#190948526d32647
Co-authored-by: HarshK97 <harshkapse1234@gmail.com>
Problem: Not possible to know when a session will be loaded.
Solution: Add the SessionLoadPre autocommand (Colin Kennedy).
fixes: vim/vim#19084closes: vim/vim#193061c0d468d72
Co-authored-by: Colin Kennedy <colinvfx@gmail.com>
Problem:
- `:args` and `argv()` can change after startup.
- `v:arg` includes options/commands, not just files.
- Plugins (e.g. Oil) may rewrite directory args.
Solution:
- New read-only var `v:argf`: snapshot of file/dir args at startup.
- Unaffected by `:args` or plugins.
- Unlike `v:argv`, excludes options/commands.
- Paths are resolved to absolute paths when possible
Example:
nvim file1.txt dir1 file2.txt
:echo v:argf
" ['/home/user/project/file1.txt', '/home/user/project/dir1', '/home/user/project/file2.txt']
Problem: after #33036, an error from evaluating 'statusline' clears it and
doesn't draw the statusline. (causing glitchy redraws)
Solution: use the default value instead. If 'stl' is somehow ever empty, still
call redraw_custom_statusline to at least draw an empty statusline.
Ideally our default 'stl' shouldn't itself error too! :-)
Also adjust some prior screen:expect()s to avoid immediate success warnings.
Problem:
TUI does not support several standard SGR text attributes:
- dim/faint (SGR 2)
- blink (SGR 5)
- conceal (SGR 8)
- overline (SGR 53)
This means that when a program running in the embedded terminal emits
one of these escape codes, we drop it and don't surface it to the
outer terminal.
Solution:
- Add support for those attributes.
- Also add corresponding flags to `nvim_set_hl` opts, so users can set
these attributes in highlight groups.
- refactor(highlight): widen `HlAttrFlags` from `int16_t` to `int32_t`
Widen the `rgb_ae_attr` and `cterm_ae_attr` fields in HlAttrs from
int16_t to int32_t to make room for new highlight attribute flags,
since there was only one spare bit left.
- The C flag is named HL_CONCEALED to avoid colliding with the
existing HL_CONCEAL in syntax.h (which is a syntax group flag, not
an SGR attribute).
- Also note that libvterm doesn't currently support the dim and overline
attributes, so e.g. `printf '\e[2mThis should be dim\n'` and `printf
'\e[53mThis should have an overline\n'` are still not rendered
correctly when run from the embedded terminal.
Problem:
Some UI clients break if space follows the comma in 'guifont' items.
Also the new 'guifont' default may cause problems if none of the fonts are found.
Solution:
Remove trailing whitespace.
Add a "monospace" fallback which `fontconfig` can resolve on *nix systems.
Problem: items() does not work for Blobs
Solution: Extend items() to support Blob
(Yegappan Lakshmanan).
closes: vim/vim#18080da34f84847
Co-authored-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
**Problem:** No easy way to stack highlight groups #35806.
**Solution:** Add a way to specify a new statusline chunk with a
highlight group that inherits from previous highlight attributes.
Also applies to tabline, etc.
Problem:
`vim.json.decode()` could not parse JSONC (JSON with Comments)
extension, which is commonly used in configuration files.
Solution:
Introduce an `skip_comments` option, which is disabled by default. When
enabled, allows JavaScript-style comments within JSON data.
Problem: cterm field in Dict(highlight) is declared as Union(Integer, String)
but it actually expects a Dict(highlight_cterm).
Solution: change cterm type to DictAs(highlight__cterm) and simplify the
handling in dict2hlattrs since type validation and empty array compat are
already handled by api_dict_to_keydict.
In particular, also mention the difference between the regex atom \k and
what Vim considers for a word character.
closes: vim/vim#186889e456e52df
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: The following strchar functions have incorrect types:
strcharlen() - Currently any. Always returns an integer, including on
error
strcharpart() - The skipcc annotation does not specify that 0 and 1 are
valid. These inputs are required for vimscript usage. The current
return type is any, even though the function returns an empty string
on error
strchars() - The skipcc annotation does not specify that 0 and 1 are
valid
Solution: Update the problem types.
Problem: In eval.lua, setcharsearch() has an incorrect param type,
causing Lua_Ls to display an error when a valid table is passed.
While getcharsearch correctly states that it returns a table, the type
is non-specific about the contents.
Solution: Update eval.lua with the correct types.
