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: - "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).
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:
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: 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 })
```
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.
Problem:
UI tools and orchestration engines need more context than just raw
socket addresses from serverlist(). Without knowing if a server belongs
to the current instance or knowing its PID, UIs cannot display
meaningful options to users.
Solution:
- Added the `info=v:true` option to `serverlist()`.
- When `info` is requested, it implies `peer=true` and returns a list of
dictionaries (defined as `vim.ServerInfo`) with `addr`, `pid` and
`own`.
- Uses an RPC request to `getpid()` across the socket to fetch the
peer's actual process ID.
Signed-off-by: Szymon Wilczek <swilczek.lx@gmail.com>
Problem:
Can't get a command's description from nvim_get_commands when
cmd is string.
Solution:
Returns "desc" field in nvim_get_commands.
`definition` is now empty when cmd is function type.
Problem:
When using `vim.list.unique` or `vim.list.bisect`, if the `key` function is
complex, it can degrade performance, because it is invoked on every comparison
Solution:
The `key` interface convention is designed specifically to address this issue;
performance can be improved by memoizing its results.
Also added the shorthand use of the field name string as the key.
Problem:
Nested workspace capabilities like workspace.fileOperations.didCreate and
workspace.textDocumentContent are not handled consistently for dynamic and
static registration provider lookup.
Solution:
Generate explicit registration-provider mappings from the LSP metadata and use
them when registering and querying capabilities. Add coverage for dynamic and
static nested workspace registrations.
Problem:
`diagnostic.status` only follows the `config.status.format` setting to determine how to display diagnostic signs. However, `signs` can actually also be configured via `config.signs.text`.
Solution:
If the user has set symbols via `config.status.format`, let that determine the content of `signs`; otherwise, use `config.signs.text` for display.
TODO: drop support `type(config.status.format) == 'table'`; users should just configure `config.signs.text` directly.
