Problem:
On "arm clang unittest" CI job, `make unittest` sometimes fails with
lots of these messages:
FAILED test/unit/testutil.lua @ 773: ...
test/unit/testutil.lua:773:
test/unit/testutil.lua:297: declaration specifier expected near '_Static_assert' at line 429
exit code: 256
stack traceback:
test/unit/testutil.lua:773: in function 'itp_parent'
test/unit/testutil.lua:811: in function <test/unit/testutil.lua:801>
Solution:
Update filter_complex_blocks.
Problem:
61e99217e6 replaced usages of `vim.fn`. This duplicates non-trivial
logic and may have introduced bugs like 38e38d1b40.
Later on, b02eeb6a72 graduated `fnamemodify` to `fast`, so avoiding it
in `vim.fs` is no longer necessary.
Solution:
Use `vim.fn` to deduplicate `vim.fs.dirname()` and `vim.fs.basename()`.
Note: the "nvim -l" test-runner switch from the original PR (#30483) is
already done by 9432e6c1e2 (#39676).
Problem:
Many color schemes assume the Comment hl group is dim text and use it
for secondary text, decorations, or parts of UI. This is true for many
color schemes but not all.
Solution:
Introducing a new highlight group with a more specific meaning, similar
to Underlined or Ignore.
The new group links to Comment by default so the behavior is unchanged
for color schemes that don't define it.
vim-patch:fbec828c7 CI: Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates
vim-patch:852f4f43c runtime(doc): Fix manpage typo in description of '--ttyfail'
vim-patch:9.2.0472: popup: column jitters when scrolled outside viewport
vim-patch:9.2.0474: MS-Windows: hard to tell which Visual Studio version was selected with MSVC
vim-patch:78302b7b4 translation(it): Update Italian manpage
vim-patch:9.2.0477: popup: leftover content after popup_free under layout change
vim-patch:9.2.0478: channel: redundant str/length assignments in channel_part_info()
vim-patch:9.2.0460: did_set_shellpipe_redir() in wrong file
vim-patch:9.0.2153: no support to build on OpenVMS
vim-patch:9.2.0290: Amiga: no support for AmigaOS 3.x
Problem:
The Lua test harness still ran through standalone -ll mode, so tests
depended on the low-level Lua path instead of the regular Nvim Lua
environment. That also meant os.exit() coverage had to carry an ASAN
workaround because Lua's raw process exit skipped Nvim teardown and let
LeakSanitizer interfere with the observed exit code.
Solution:
Run the harness and related fixtures with nvim -l. Patch os.exit() in
the main Lua state to exit through getout(), so scripts observe normal
Nvim shutdown while standalone -ll remains available for generator-style
scripts. As a consequence, the startup test can assert os.exit() without
disabling leak detection.
AI-assisted: Codex
Problem: Expected text for interactive marks is in a separate json file
from the tutor file. When the tutor file is updated, line numbers
(potentially many) have to be updated in the json file. This is a
burden for maintenance and automatic testing.
Solution: Put the expected text inline in the tutor file, marked
with `[[]]`. Parse and remove the comments before opening the tutor
file so extmarks can be applied.
Problem: Pasting ". register without TextPut* autocommands breaks
subsequent TextPut* autocommands (after 9.2.0470).
Solution: Only decrement add_last_insert if it has been incremented
(zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#20192a70b7a85af
Problem: No way to hook into put commands
(yochem)
Solution: Introduce TextPutPre and TextPutPost autocommands
(Foxe Chen).
fixes: vim/vim#18701closes: vim/vim#20144e0781bd5bf
Co-authored-by: Foxe Chen <chen.foxe@gmail.com>
Problem: vim.ui_attach() callback for nvim_echo() call that spoofs an
internal message kind is executed in fast context.
Solution: Set msg_show callback |api-fast| context dynamically at
external message callsites, and for internal list_cmd",
"progress" and "shell*" messages.
Problem:
When using prompt_appendbuf with multi-element list,
the first item is concated and rest replace the prompt instead of
inserting the lines before the prompt.
Solution:
Concat first element with replace_buf and insert the rest of the list
with set_buffer_lines.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Slusny <slusnucky@gmail.com>
Problem: the bookmarks list can have duplicate entries, more often
in win32 (due to mixed slashes and capitalization) and when
g:netrw_keepdir=0 (which could introduce relative paths).
Duplicate entries could be: C:\foo\BAR\baz.file
c:\foo\bar\baz.file
c:/foo\BAR/baz.file
BAR/baz.file
Solution: Normalize the paths and make sure they are always absolute
(J. Paulo Seibt).
closes: vim/vim#2019474019bea8c
Co-authored-by: J. Paulo Seibt <jpseibt@gmail.com>
Problem: evalvars_init() copies each vimvar's name into di_key at
startup and runtime-checks that the name fits in
DICTITEM16_KEY_LEN, even though all names are known at
compile time.
Solution: Embed the name in di_key via the VV_NAME macro so the
initialization happens at compile time. Drop the
runtime length check and the STRCPY loop (John Marriott).
closes: vim/vim#201851b65cfbac5
Co-authored-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Problem: - "bufwrite" message identifier is encoded in the message ID
of a "progress" kind message (since ff68fd6b); UI2 does not
allow routing by message ID.
- No documented way to set a default message target for all
but a few kinds (without copying all of |ui-messages| kinds
to cfg.msg.targets).
- A user adding a message route for the documented empty ""
kind can result in unexpected behavior.
- Showing duplicate message (x) indicator in msg and cmd
targets simultaneously is unsupported.
- Manually triggering CursorMoved autocommand to add matchparen
highlighting in the cmdline.
Solution: - Match cfg.msg.targets keys as Lua pattern to a message ID.
- Recognize "default" as key in cfg.msg.targets, drop the
undocumented cfg.msg.target field.
- Don't try to get configured target for "" message kind/trigger.
- Maintain msg indicator virtual text for the cmd and msg target.
- Add matchparen highlighting by directly calling the Lua module
(possible since b813c7e0).
Problem: 'title' is updated when changing the name of a non-current
buffer with nvim_buf_set_name().
Solution: Set RedrawingDisabled when renaming the buffer.
Problem: Message redirection column for captured output is not reset
after :echon since (4260f73, e63346df).
Solution: Ensure msg_ext_append is set before the kind with :echon.
Problem:
The `:checkhealth` buffer uses the help syntax, so help tag links (e.g.
`|clipboard|`) are highlighted like they are in help buffers. However,
unlike in help buffers, `CTRL-]` doesn't jump to the relevant help file.
I expect that if the `:checkhealth` buffer looks like a help buffer,
then it should behave like one where it makes sense. This comment from
/r/neovim suggests that this was the intention:
https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/5ghv3r/see_clipboard_how/dascnry/.
Solution:
Set `'tags'` in `checkhealth` buffers so that `:tag` and friends look
for tags in the help tags files.
CI currently uses clang-tidy 20, but this affects local builds
and CI is going to be upgraded sooner or later.
Some remaining systematic issues:
- clang-tidy warns agains any atoi() or atol() usage (because of no
error handling)
- functions which takes (char *fmt, char *only_string_arg) and expect
fmt to contain exactly one "%s" usage.
- error: initializing non-local variable with non-const expression depending on
uninitialized non-local variable (cppcoreguidelines-interfaces-global-init)
This is a much worse problem in C++ (hence C++ core guidelines) where
initialization is intermingled with arbitrary code execution. I
"think" in plain C, the linker will either resolve all these
deterministically or barf an error. But with some restructuring
we could make all static initialization actually static..
Problem: some functions can be run from the sandbox
Solution: Block them, so they are not accessible from a modeline
(q1uf3ng)
closes: vim/vim#19975fcc4276db3
Co-authored-by: q1uf3ng <q1uf3ng@protone.me>
This feature might be a little silly and niche, but it is very useful
for _my_ workflow (and open source is about mee)
An issue which is never present on high quality RELEASE builds, but
might occur on Debug builds is that the Nvim server crashes
on some error in your unfinished PR code. If you compile your debug
builds with sanitizers enabled, as you should, the ASAN/UBSAN runtime
will print some useful info about your mistake to stderr or a log file,
such as a stack trace. This can be used to jump to the error in the
code.
This allows the nvim server to install a signal hander in the ui client,
which can load this log file in a good safe version of nvim and parse it
using 'errorformat'
This is inspired by the "press ENTER" free workflow of ui2 and applies
it beyond the lifetime cycle of the nvim instance.
example config:
```lua
local asan = vim.env.ASAN_OPTIONS
if asan ~= nil and string.match(asan, "log_path=/tmp/nvim_asan") then
local myname = "/tmp/nvim_asan."..vim.uv.getpid()
local args = {"--embed", "-n", "+set efm=%+A%*[^/]%f:%l:%c", "+silent cfile "..myname, "+silent cfirst", "+silent copen"}
vim.api.nvim__set_restart_on_crash("nvim", args)
end
```
and run your debug nvim like so
ASAN_OPTIONS=handle_abort=1,handle_sigill=1,log_path=/tmp/nvim_asan ./build/bin/nvim
Problem: runtime(netrw): bookmarking directory uses current dir
Solution: Correctly handle netrw actual directory (J. Paulo Seibt)
fixes: vim/vim#10481closes: vim/vim#20169ec76ac620b
Co-authored-by: J. Paulo Seibt <jpseibt@gmail.com>
Problem:
Regression from c822a2657c: `vim.wait(0)` does not call `loop_poll`,
so `vim.wait(1)` is needed to "yield" from Lua.
Solution:
- Ensure that `vim._core.loop_poll()` is always called, even when `time=0`.
- Document how to interrupt Lua code (ctrl-c).
ref https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/6800
Problem:
Currently, it only supports sending requests using the current cursor position as a parameter.
Solution:
Support sending requests using arbitrary positions.
Problem: <Esc> in a Select-mode tabstop leaves the session and highlight active.
CursorMoved isn’t triggered since the cursor doesn’t move.
Solution: use ModeChanged (s:n) instead. Defer with vim.schedule() to avoid transient
s:n from jump().
Problem:
When using the default `lua_ls` config from nvim-lspconfig, the following info message gets printed:
```
LSP[lua_ls] Too large file: src/nvim/eval.lua skipped. The currently set size limit is: 500 KB, and the file size is: 511.133 KB.
```
Solution:
Set `workspace.preloadFileSize` to 1000 KB instead of the default 500 KB.
Problem: The four pointer-resolution loops in u_read_undo() lack
an i != j guard, so a header whose uh_next.seq equals
its own uh_seq resolves uh_next.ptr to itself. On
buffer close, u_freeheader() sees uhp->uh_next.ptr !=
NULL and skips updating b_u_oldhead, so u_blockfree()
dereferences the freed header on the next iteration.
The same pattern applies to uh_prev, uh_alt_next and
uh_alt_prev. A crafted .un~ file in the same directory
as a text file can trigger the use-after-free and
subsequent double-free when the buffer is closed.
(Daniel Cervera)
Solution: Add an i != j guard to each of the four resolution
loops, matching the guard already present in the
duplicate-detection loop above.
closes: vim/vim#20168
Supported by AI
4f610f07b7
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: The default match limit of 256 can be too low for realistic
use cases, but was necessary to guard against catastrophic
performance cliffs.
Solution: Performance cliffs were fixed in upstream tree-sitter 0.27+,
so remove the fallback limit to return unlimited matches by default.
Problem: #39625 retained `matchparen.vim` as a shim that sources the new
`matchparen.lua` entrypoint, which is redundant since Lua runtime/plugin
files are sourced automatically and incurs startuptime cost solely for
the sake of not touching the tests.
Solution: Remove the shim and `source` the Lua plugin in directly in
tests.
