Problem: completion: autocompletion can be improved
Solution: Add support for "longest" and "preinsert" in 'autocomplete';
add preinserted() (Girish Palya)
* Add support for "longest" in 'completeopt' when 'autocomplete'
is enabled. (Note: the cursor position does not change automatically
when 'autocomplete' is enabled.)
* Add support for "preinsert" when 'autocomplete' is enabled. Ensure
"preinsert" works the same with and without 'autocomplete'
* introduce the preinserted() Vim script function, useful for defining
custom key mappings.
fixes: vim/vim#18314closes: vim/vim#18387c05335082a
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem: The ops.c file is too big.
Solution: Move code for dealing with registers to a new file. (Yegappan
Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#4982)
4aea03eb87
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: completion: 'autocomplete' cannot be enabled per buffer
(Tomasz N)
Solution: Make 'autocomplete' global or local to buffer (Girish Palya)
fixes: vim/vim#18320closes: vim/vim#183330208b3e80a
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem: complete: preinsert does not work well with preinsert
Solution: Make "preinsert" completeopt value work with autocompletion
(Girish Palya)
This change extends Insert mode autocompletion so that 'preinsert' also
works when 'autocomplete' is enabled.
Try: `:set ac cot=preinsert`
See `:help 'cot'` for more details.
closes: vim/vim#18213fa6fd41a94
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem:
insert-mode ctrl-r input is treated like raw user input, which is almost
never useful. This means any newlines in the input are affected by
autoindent, etc., which is:
- slow
- usually breaks the formatting of the input
Solution:
- ctrl-r should be treated like a paste, not user-input.
- does not affect `<c-r>=`, so `<c-r>=@x` can still be used to get the
old behavior.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
These are not needed after #35129 but making uncrustify still play nice
with them was a bit tricky.
Unfortunately `uncrustify --update-config-with-doc` breaks strings
with backslashes. This issue has been reported upstream,
and in the meanwhile auto-update on every single run has been disabled.
Problem: cannot perform autocompletion
Solution: Add the 'autocomplete' option value
(Girish Palya)
This change introduces the 'autocomplete' ('ac') boolean option to
enable automatic popup menu completion during insert mode. When enabled,
Vim shows a completion menu as you type, similar to pressing |i\_CTRL-N|
manually. The items are collected from sources defined in the
'complete' option.
To ensure responsiveness, this feature uses a time-sliced strategy:
- Sources earlier in the 'complete' list are given more time.
- If a source exceeds its allocated timeout, it is interrupted.
- The next source is then started with a reduced timeout (exponentially
decayed).
- A small minimum ensures every source still gets a brief chance to
contribute.
The feature is fully compatible with other |i_CTRL-X| completion modes,
which can temporarily suspend automatic completion when triggered.
See :help 'autocomplete' and :help ins-autocompletion for more details.
To try it out, use :set ac
You should see a popup menu appear automatically with suggestions. This
works seamlessly across:
- Large files (multi-gigabyte size)
- Massive codebases (:argadd thousands of .c or .h files)
- Large dictionaries via the `k` option
- Slow or blocking LSP servers or user-defined 'completefunc'
Despite potential slowness in sources, the menu remains fast,
responsive, and useful.
Compatibility: This mode is fully compatible with existing completion
methods. You can still invoke any CTRL-X based completion (e.g.,
CTRL-X CTRL-F for filenames) at any time (CTRL-X temporarily
suspends 'autocomplete'). To specifically use i_CTRL-N, dismiss the
current popup by pressing CTRL-E first.
---
How it works
To keep completion snappy under all conditions, autocompletion uses a
decaying time-sliced algorithm:
- Starts with an initial timeout (80ms).
- If a source does not complete within the timeout, it's interrupted and
the timeout is halved for the next source.
- This continues recursively until a minimum timeout (5ms) is reached.
- All sources are given a chance, but slower ones are de-prioritized
quickly.
Most of the time, matches are computed well within the initial window.
---
Implementation details
- Completion logic is mostly triggered in `edit.c` and handled in
insexpand.c.
- Uses existing inc_compl_check_keys() mechanism, so no new polling
hooks are needed.
- The completion system already checks for user input periodically; it
now also checks for timer expiry.
---
Design notes
- The menu doesn't continuously update after it's shown to prevent
visual distraction (due to resizing) and ensure the internal list
stays synchronized with the displayed menu.
- The 'complete' option determines priority—sources listed earlier get
more time.
- The exponential time-decay mechanism prevents indefinite collection,
contributing to low CPU usage and a minimal memory footprint.
- Timeout values are intentionally not configurable—this system is
optimized to "just work" out of the box. If autocompletion feels slow,
it typically indicates a deeper performance bottleneck (e.g., a slow
custom function not using `complete_check()`) rather than a
configuration issue.
---
Performance
Based on testing, the total roundtrip time for completion is generally
under 200ms. For common usage, it often responds in under 50ms on an
average laptop, which falls within the "feels instantaneous" category
(sub-100ms) for perceived user experience.
| Upper Bound (ms) | Perceived UX
|----------------- |-------------
| <100 ms | Excellent; instantaneous
| <200 ms | Good; snappy
| >300 ms | Noticeable lag
| >500 ms | Sluggish/Broken
---
Why this belongs in core:
- Minimal and focused implementation, tightly integrated with existing
Insert-mode completion logic.
- Zero reliance on autocommands and external scripting.
- Makes full use of Vim’s highly composable 'complete' infrastructure
while avoiding the complexity of plugin-based solutions.
- Gives users C native autocompletion with excellent responsiveness and
no configuration overhead.
- Adds a key UX functionality in a simple, performant, and Vim-like way.
closes: vim/vim#17812af9a7a04f1
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem: The indent.c file is a bit big.
Solution: Move C-indent code a a new cindent.c file. Move other
indent-related code to indent.c. (Yegappan Lakshmanan,
closesvim/vim#5031)
14c01f8348
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Ignore functionality is not separated.
Solution: Move indent functionality into a new file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan,
closesvim/vim#3886)
4b47162cce
----
Partial port of v8.1.2127 by porting directly to indent_c.c,
not indent.c.
----
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem:
Not easy to get user-input in prompt-buffer before the user submits the
input. Under the current system user/plugin needs to read the buffer
contents, figure out where the prompt is, then extract the text.
Solution:
- Add prompt_getinput().
- Extract prompt text extraction logic to a separate function
Problem:
Cannot enter multiline prompts in a buftype=prompt buffer.
Solution:
- Support shift+enter (`<s-enter>`) to start a new line in the prompt.
- Pasting multiline text via OS paste, clipboard, "xp, etc.
- A/I in editable region works as usual.
- i/a/A/I outside of editable region moves cursor to end of current
prompt.
- Support undo/redo in prompt buffer.
- Support o/O in prompt buffer.
- Expose prompt location as `':` mark.
Problem: Screen may be updated by a msg_showcmd event before '"' is
cleared from the screen with register insertion.
Solution: Emit the msg_showcmd event before clearing the '"'.
Problem: potential buffer underflow in insertchar()
Solution: verify that end_len is larger than zero
(jinyaoguo)
When parsing the end-comment leader, end_len can be zero if
copy_option_part() writes no characters. The existing check
unconditionally accessed lead_end[end_len-1], causing potential
underflow when end_len == 0.
This change adds an end_len > 0 guard to ensure we only index lead_end
if there is at least one character.
closes: vim/vim#1747682a96e3dc0
Co-authored-by: jinyaoguo <guo846@purdue.edu>
Problem: not easily possible to complete from register content
Solution: add register-completion submode using i_CTRL-X_CTRL-R
(glepnir)
closes: vim/vim#173540546068aae
Problem: 'showmode' ext_messages state is not cleared after insert_expand mode.
Solution: Replace empty message with more idiomatic way to clear the showmode.
Problem: too many strlen() calls in indent.c
Solution: refactor indent.c slightly and remove strlen() calls
(John Marriott)
closes: vim/vim#17156eac45c558e
Co-authored-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Problem:
When doing paste operation mouse code tries to figure out it it is
dealing with a multi-line register by calling yank_register_mline(),
which fetches register data and checks its type. Later the code calls
either do_put() or insert_reg() which fetch register data again. This is
unnoticeable when working with internal neovim registers, but starts
hurting when dealing with clipboards, especially remote one (forwarded X
or socket tunnel or similar).
Solution:
Change yank_register_mline() to also return pointer to the
register structure prepared for pasting, and insert_reg() to accept
such register pointer and use it if it is supplied. do_put() already
has support for accepting a register structure to be used for pasting.
Fixes#33493
Problem: When switching to another window or tab page while the
completion menu is active, the menu stays visible, although it
belongs to the previous window/tab page context (Evgeni
Chasnovski).
Solution: Track the window and tab page where completion started. Detect
changes in the main editing loop and cancel completion mode if
the current window or tab page differs from where completion
started.
fixes: vim/vim#17090closes: vim/vim#17101cf7f01252f
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem: string length wrong in get_last_inserted_save()
(after v9.1.1222)
Solution: when removing trailing ESC, also decrease the string length
(Christ van Willegen)
closes: vim/vim#16961583f5aee96
Co-authored-by: Christ van Willegen <cvwillegen@gmail.com>
Problem: Wrong cursor position and '^' mark when leaving Insert mode
just after 'autoindent' and cursor on last char of line.
Solution: Don't move cursor to NUL when it wasn't moved to the left
(zeertzjq).
fixes: vim/vim#15581
related: neovim/neovim#30165neovim/neovim#32943closes: vim/vim#16922a3a7d10bfb
Problem: using wrong length for last inserted string
(Christ van Willegen, after v9.1.1212)
Solution: use the correct length in get_last_insert_save(), make
get_last_insert() return a string_T (John Marriott)
closes: vim/vim#169218ac0f73eb1
N/A patches:
vim-patch:9.1.1129: missing out-of-memory test in buf_write()
vim-patch:9.1.1218: missing out-of-memory check in filepath.c
Co-authored-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Problem: Pasting the '.' register multiple times may work incorrectly
when the last insert starts with Ctrl-D and ends with '0'.
(after 9.1.1212)
Solution: Restore the missing assignment (zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#1690861b3544424
Problem: too many strlen() calls in edit.c
Solution: refactor edit.c and remove strlen() calls
(John Marriott)
This commit attempts to make edit.c more efficient by:
- in truncate_spaces() pass in the length of the string.
- return a string_T from get_last_insert(), so that the length of the
string is available to the caller.
- refactor stuff_insert():
- replace calls to stuffReadbuff() (which calls STRLEN() on it's
string argument) with stuffReadbuffLen() (which gets the length of
it's string argument passed in).
- replace call to vim_strrchr() which searches from the start of the
string with a loop which searches from end of the string to find the
last ESC character.
- change get_last_insert_save() to call get_last_insert() to get the
last_insert string (the logic is in one place).
closes: vim/vim#1686334954972c2
Co-authored-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Problem: using global variable for get_insert()/get_lambda_name()
(after v9.1.1151)
Solution: let the functions return a string_T object instead
(Yee Cheng Chin)
In vim/vim#16720, `get_insert()` was modified to store a string length in a
global variable to be queried immediately by another `get_insert_len()`
function, which is somewhat fragile. Instead, just have the function
itself return a `string_T` object instead. Also do the same for
`get_lambda_name()` which has similar issues.
closes: vim/vim#167750b5fe42071
Co-authored-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Problem: The 'preinsert' feature requires Ctrl-Y to confirm insertion,
but Ctrl-Y only works when the popup menu (pum) is displayed.
Without enforcing this dependency, it could lead to confusing
behavior or non-functional features.
Solution: Modify ins_compl_has_preinsert() to check for both 'menu' and
'menuone' flags when 'preinsert' is set. Update documentation
to clarify this requirement. This avoids adding complex
conditional behaviors. (glepnir)
fixes: vim/vim#16728closes: vim/vim#16753a2c5559f29
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem: too many strlen() calls in getchar.c
Solution: store last inserted and recorded lengths,
add functions to retrieve those and use those
functions (John Marriott)
closes: vim/vim#16720d3c4b7e946
Co-authored-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Problem: ins_str() is inefficient by calling STRLLEN()
Solution: refactor ins_str() to take a length argument
and let all callers provide the correct length
when calling ins_str() (John Marriott)
closes: vim/vim#16711f4b36417e8
Co-authored-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Problem: when 'completeopt' is set to preinsert the preinserted text is
not cleared when adding new leader (Yee Cheng Chin)
Solution: add a condition to delete preinsert text in edit function
(glepnir)
closes: vim/vim#1667252fd867f5e
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem: Vim doesn't highlight to be inserted text when completing
Solution: Add support for the "preinsert" 'completeopt' value
(glepnir)
Support automatically inserting the currently selected candidate word
that does not belong to the latter part of the leader.
fixes: vim/vim#3433closes: vim/vim#16403edd4ac3e89
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem: When completion leader changes, text that might be reinserted
immediately after is deleted. This unnecessarily affects
extmarks. #31387 restored the original extmarks but that
prevents end_right_gravity marks from growing.
Solution: Avoid deleting leader text that will be reinserted.
Problem: Option metadata like list of valid values for an option and
option flags are not listed in the `options.lua` file and are instead
manually defined in C, which means option metadata is split between
several places.
Solution: Put metadata such as list of valid values for an option and
option flags in `options.lua`, and autogenerate the corresponding C
variables and enums.
Supersedes #28659
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
- Fixes 'autoindent' being applied during redo.
- Makes redoing a large paste significantly faster.
- Stores pasted text in the register being recorded.
Fix#28561
Problem: inserting with a count is inefficient
Solution: Disable calculation of the cursor position and topline, if a
count has been used (Ken Takata)
Optimize insertion when using :normal 10000ix.
This patch optimizes the insertion with a large count (e.g. `:normal
10000ix`).
It seems that calculation of the cursor position for a long line is slow
and it takes O(n^2). Disable the calculation if not needed.
Before:
```
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 10000ix' -cq!
real 0m1.879s
user 0m1.328s
sys 0m0.139s
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 20000ix' -cq!
real 0m5.574s
user 0m5.421s
sys 0m0.093s
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 40000ix' -cq!
real 0m23.588s
user 0m23.187s
sys 0m0.140s
```
After:
```
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 10000ix' -cq!
real 0m0.187s
user 0m0.046s
sys 0m0.093s
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 20000ix' -cq!
real 0m0.217s
user 0m0.046s
sys 0m0.108s
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 40000ix' -cq!
real 0m0.278s
user 0m0.093s
sys 0m0.140s
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 80000ix' -cq!
real 0m0.494s
user 0m0.311s
sys 0m0.140s
$ time ./vim --clean -c 'normal 160000ix' -cq!
real 0m1.302s
user 0m1.140s
sys 0m0.094s
```
closes: vim/vim#1558809b80d23cf
Co-authored-by: Ken Takata <kentkt@csc.jp>
Use the grapheme break algorithm from utf8proc to support grapheme
clusters from recent unicode versions.
Handle variant selector VS16 turning some codepoints into double-width
emoji. This means we need to use ptr2cells rather than char2cells when
possible.
Problem:
Variables are often assigned multiple places in common patterns.
Solution:
Replace these common patterns with different patterns that reduce the
number of assignments.
Use `MAX` and `MIN`:
```c
if (x < y) {
x = y;
}
// -->
x = MAX(x, y);
```
```c
if (x > y) {
x = y;
}
// -->
x = MIN(x, y);
```
Use ternary:
```c
int a;
if (cond) {
a = b;
} els {
a = c;
}
// -->
int a = cond ? b : c;
```
Problem: Cursor moves beyond start of a folded range at the end of a buffer.
Solution: Move cursor to start of fold when going beyond end of buffer.
Check that cursor moved to detect FAIL in outer cursor function.
(Luuk van Baal)
dc373d456b
