Give embeders a chance to set up nvim, by processing a request before
startup. This allows an external UI to show messages and prompts from
--cmd and buffer loading (e.g. swap files)
closes#8362
Vim's code calls `call_shell` directly from `get_system_output_as_rettv`
whereas in Nvim this function has been rewritten to not call `call_shell` but to call
`os_system` via `do_os_system`, losing the support for profiling and verbose.
Changing the code to call `call_shell` from `get_system_output_as_rettv`
seems to be too complicated to be worth it on the current version of the
code. So this commit duplicates the relevant code.
Avoid a hot loop in retry(), there's no need to retry more than 50/s.
Also use luv.sleep() to implement sleep() instead of spinning the
event-loop, so events are not silently discarded.
cmd.exe (shell) is faster and more reliable than powershell (.NET frontend).
It's best for short and basic tests that don't require non-trivial scripting.
cmd.exe doesn't support sleep so use powershell's Start-Sleep as substitute.
Infinite timeout results in hangs which waste time. If some test needs
longer than 10s to wait for a message, it should specify the timeout
explicitly.
It was added in the parent commit, but ended up not being used. And
I can't think of a case where it will be used: instead we would probably
want to generalize expect_msg_seq() if necessary.
Implement nvim_command_output with `execute({cmd},"silent")`.
Behavior changes:
- does not provoke any hit-enter prompt
- no longer prepends a newline char
- does not capture some noise (like the "[New File]" message, see the
change to tabnewentered_spec.lua)
Technically ("bug-for-bug") this a breaking change. But the previous
behavior of nvim_command_output meant that it probably wasn't used for
anything outside of tests.
Also remove the undocumented `v:command_output` variable which was
a hack introduced only for the purposes of nvim_command_output.
closes#7726
ci: install nodejs 8 in Appveyor, Travis
provider: check node version for debug support
Resolve https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/7577#issuecomment-350590592 for Unix.
provider: test if nodejs in ci supports --inspect-brk
nodejs host for neovim requires nodejs 6+ to work properly.
nodejs 6.12+ or 7.6+ is required for debug support via `node --inspect-brk`.
provider: run cli.js of nodejs host directly
npm shims are useless because the user cannot set node to debug mode via
--inspect-brk. This is problematic on Windows which use batchfiles and
shell scripts to compensate for not supporting shebang.
The patch uses `npm root -g` to get the absolute path of the global npm
modules. If that fails, then the user did not install neovim npm package
globally. Use that absolute path to find `neovim/bin/cli.js`, which is
what the npm shim actually runs with node. glob() is for a simple file
check in case bin/ is removed because the npm shims are ignored now.
Since "builtin" terminfo definitions were implemented (7cbf52db1b),
the decisions made by tui.c and terminfo.c are more relevant. Exposing
that decision in the 'term' option helps with troubleshooting.
Also: remove code that allowed setting t_Co. `:set t_Co=…` has never
worked; the highlight_spec test asserting that nvim_set_option('t_Co')
_does_ work makes no sense, and should not have worked.
Asynchronous API functions are served immediately, which means pending
input could change the state of Nvim shortly after an async API function
result is returned.
nvim_get_mode() is different:
- If RPCs are known to be blocked, it responds immediately (without
flushing the input/event queue)
- else it is handled just-in-time before waiting for input, after
pending input was processed. This makes the result more reliable
(but not perfect).
Internally this is handled as a special case, but _semantically_ nothing
has changed: API users never know when input flushes, so this internal
special-case doesn't violate that. As far as API users are concerned,
nvim_get_mode() is just another asynchronous API function.
In all cases nvim_get_mode() never blocks for more than the time it
takes to flush the input/event queue (~µs).
Note: This doesn't address #6166; nvim_get_mode() will provoke #6166 if
e.g. `d` is operator-pending.
Closes#6159
Lua has too many pitfalls here:
- os.execute() requires shell-escaping
- os.execute() has breaking changes between Lua 5.1 and 5.2
- No native way in Lua to handle "readonly" etc. on Windows
Hope this will make people using feed_command less likely: this hides bugs.
Already found at least two:
1. msgpackparse() will show internal error: hash_add() in case of duplicate
keys, though it will still work correctly. Currently silenced.
2. ttimeoutlen was spelled incorrectly, resulting in option not being set when
expected. Test was still functioning somehow though. Currently fixed.
