Problem:
POSIX-compatible Ex-mode requires special-cases all over the codebase to
match various quirks that don't actually matter to users.
- The main utility of *interactive* Ex-mode is its REPL behavior, and
that can be achieved with `cmdwin`, which also gains extra UX
benefits.
- The main utility of *non-interactive* `nvim -es` is for shell
scripting, where Ex-mode quirks are mostly unhelpful (e.g. the
"Entering Ex mode" message).
Solution:
- Reimplement *interactive* Ex-mode as a "persistent, insert-mode
cmdwin" in Lua.
- "nvim -e/-E" is simply an alias to "gQ".
- Reframe *non-interactive* Ex-mode (`nvim -es`) as "script mode".
- Drop POSIX Ex-mode quirks.
Improvements:
- "nvim -V1 -es" output ends with a final newline!
- "nvim -V1 -es" no longer shows the "Entering Ex mode" msg. (This was
pointless noise, unwanted for scripting purposes.)
- stdin is no longer typeahead. Scripts (":lua io.read()") can read
stdin as data.
- Empty line is a no-op: a stray blank line no longer moves the cursor
(deviates from POSIX ex "+1"), no longer exits 1 at EOF (E501).
Preserved behavior:
- cursor starts at "$"
- mode()=="cv" (for non-interactive)
- multiline commands (:append/:function/heredoc pull continuation lines)
- bare-range print
- :print=>stdout
- -V1=>stderr
- CRLF input
- continue-after-error and exit codes
Dropped (regressed) POSIX behavior (non-interactive):
- Event loop only ticks while/between commands, not while blocked
waiting for a stdin line.
- ":g/pat/visual...Q"
- input()/getchar()/":s/x/y/c" no longer consume stdin lines as
answers: Nvim stops at end-of-input, skipping the rest of the script,
exit 0. Use ":lua io.read()" instead.
- If users care about this they should use interactive Ex-mode (`gQ`).
- ":@r" stops at end of the register instead of continuing to read
cmdline input from stdin.
Problem: Deeply nested regexp groups can cause uncontrolled recursion
in the regexp compiler and exhaust the C stack.
Solution: Limit recursive regexp parsing depth in both the backtracking
and NFA compilers (lipengyu)
closes: vim/vim#20731a79cd6bfc3
Co-authored-by: lipengyu <lipengyu@kylinos.cn>
Problem:
Insert-mode globals are scattered.
Solution:
Group them into one struct. Besides improving readability and
discoverability, this greatly helps with save/restore of an insert-mode
session.
Problem:
- `edit.c` is an unnecessarily misleading and less-discoverable name
than `insert.c`.
- Numerous insert-mode related things are named with a `ins_` prefix.
- There is already a `insexpand.c` module...
Solution:
Rename `edit.c` => `insert.c`.
Problem:
`getchar.c` is a quirky name and doesn't align with our existing
`os/input.c` and `tui/input.c` modules, which encompass the same topic
at different layers.
Solution:
Rename `getchar.c` => `input.c` for discoverability.
Introduce `dialog.c` for functionality related to showing confirm
prompts, dialogs, etc.
Problem: Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B at more prompt not working with kitty
keyboard protocol or modifyOtherKeys (after v9.1.1849).
Solution: Call merge_modifyOtherKeys() in get_keystroke() (zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#185586622dc2ded
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: Since 48e2a736, prompt messages are handled by an actual
active cmdline, resulting in `State` no longer being equal
to `MODE_CONFIRM` which is used in some places. E.g. to
specify the current `mode()` or to re-emit a confirm message.
Solution: Replace `MODE_CONFIRM` with a new `MODE_CMDLINE` sub-mode when
`ccline.one_key/mouse_used` is set. Use it to avoid clearing
mouse_used prompt messages, and to re-emit one_key messages
(when ext_messages is inactive, for which this is unnecessary).
Problem: Prompts are emitted as messages events, where cmdline events
are more appropriate. The user input is also emitted as
message events in fast context, so cannot be displayed with
vim.ui_attach().
Solution: Prompt for user input through cmdline prompts.
Problem: Highlight group id is not propagated to the end of the message call
stack, where ext_messages are emitted.
Solution: Refactor message functions to pass along highlight group id
instead of attr id.
Problem:
The name `os_inchar` (from Vim's old `mch_inchar`) is ambiguous:
"inchar" sounds like it could be reading or enqueuing (setting) input.
Its docstring is also ambiguous.
Solution:
- Rename `os_inchar` to `input_get`.
- Write some mf'ing docstrings.
- Add assert() in TRY_READ().
Problem: overflow detection not accurate when adding digits
Solution: Use a helper function
Use a helper function to better detect overflows before adding integer
digits to a long or an integer variable respectively. Signal the
overflow to the caller function.
closes: vim/vim#1353922cbc8a4e1
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Remove `export` pramgas from defs headers as it causes IWYU to believe
that the definitions from the defs headers comes from main header, which
is not what we really want.
Problem: [security]: overflow in get_number
Solution: Return 0 when the count gets too large
[security]: overflow in get_number
When using the z= command, we may overflow the count with values larger
than MAX_INT. So verify that we do not overflow and in case when an
overflow is detected, simply return 0
73b2d3790c
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
We already have an extensive suite of static analysis tools we use,
which causes a fair bit of redundancy as we get duplicate warnings. PVS
is also prone to give false warnings which creates a lot of work to
identify and disable.
long is 32 bits on windows, while it is 64 bits on other architectures.
This makes the type suboptimal for a codebase meant to be
cross-platform. Replace it with more appropriate integer types.
Problem: Various white space and cosmetic mistakes.
Solution: Change spaces to tabs, improve comments.
6ed545e797
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Allow Include What You Use to remove unnecessary includes and only
include what is necessary. This helps with reducing compilation times
and makes it easier to visualise which dependencies are actually
required.
Work on https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/549, but doesn't close
it since this only works fully for .c files and not headers.
Problem: Clearing screen causes flicker.
Solution: Do not clear but redraw in more cases. Add () to "wait_return".
13608d851a
Only 2 lines of actual code change.
Problem: The mode #defines are not clearly named.
Solution: Prepend MODE_. Renumber them to put the mapped modes first.
249591057b
A hunk from the patch depends on patch 8.2.4861, which hasn't been
ported yet, but that should be easy to notice.
