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.
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: 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: 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: - "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:
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.
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: 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.
Problem: Crash with invalid shellredir/shellpipe value
(bfredl)
Solution: Validate the option and allow only a single "%s".
fixes: vim/vim#20157closes: vim/vim#2015984ae09dd79
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: 'findfunc' only allows extra info for cmdline completion, not
for actually finding files (Maxim Kim, after 9.2.0451).
Solution: Handle returning a list of dicts when actually finding files.
Also fix crash on NULL string (zeertzjq).
fixes: vim/vim#20163closes: vim/vim#201649694ff58fe
Problem: 'findfunc' can't return extra info for cmdline completion
(Maxim Kim).
Solution: Handle 'findfunc' return value in cmdline completion like that
of "customlist" functions (zeertzjq).
fixes: vim/vim#20155closes: vim/vim#2015858124789aa
Problem: Trying to execute code action on an active plugin without
updates leads to nothing. It is more useful if code actions "do
something" on a bigger portion of the confirm buffer.
Solution: Suggest "delete" code action even for active plugins. Trying
to execute it will first show a confirmation buffer with relevant
warning of why this might be not a good idea. Confirming will delete
a plugin.
Problem:
- Empty ranges have different `<`, `<=`, `has` and `intersect` semantics compared to regular ranges.
- `to_inclusive_pos` assumes that the end position of a range is exclusive, which is not true for empty ranges
Solution:
Special case empty ranges in these operations.
Problem:
`builtin_types.lua` seems to be about vimfn (aka "eval", aka
"vimscript", …) specifically, whereas `builtin.lua` is about the Lua
stdlib.
Solution:
Rename it to `vimfn_types.lua`, to align with `vimfn.gen.lua`.
Problem:
Linter missed backtick and double-quote keynames in the quasi-keyset of
the `nvim_create_user_command` docstring.
Solution:
Update the linter to check backtick-surrounded and quote-surrounded key
names.
Problem:
When showing the :connect menu, it is useful to know which servers
are most-recently active. But we don't have a good way to detect that.
Solution:
- Introduce `v:useractive`.
- Include this timestamp in `serverlist({info=true})`.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Szymon Wilczek <swilczek.lx@gmail.com>
Problem:
For a given position, it is not easy to compare which of several other positions is closest to it.
Solution:
Add support for converting `vim.Pos` to a buffer byte offset.
This allows for sorting, e.g:
```lua
table.sort(positions, function(pos1, pos2)
return pos1:to_offset() < pos2:to_offset()
end
```
Or a binary search, e.g:
```lua
vim.list.bisect(positions, pos, { key = function(pos) return pos:to_offset() end })
```
Problem: Internal progress messages use the "nvim" source (since
ff68fd6b), plugins shouldn't be allowed to set the progress
message source to "nvim". The message ID used for internal
progress messages is not identifiable as such.
Solution: Disallow setting opts->source to "nvim" with nvim_echo().
Refactor msg_progress() and callees to bypass nvim_echo().
Prepend message id for internal progress messages with "nvim.".
Improve the vim.iter annotations with richer generics that track element and
tuple types through iterator pipelines, including multi-value stages and
list-specific methods.
Extend the LuaCATS parser and vimdoc generator so those richer generic classes
and overloads round-trip into the generated help. These annotations are only
supported by EmmyLua, so LuaLS still uses a broader fallback in _meta.lua.
AI-assisted: Codex
Problem: Entering the pager fails if <ESC> is remapped to :fclose by user.
Solution: Avoid executing mappings with nvim_feedkeys() that closes expanded cmdline.
