Problem: filetype: fvwm2m4 files are no longer recognized
(after 9.1.1687).
Solution: Add a special case in m4 filetype detection (zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#181465355e81868
Co-authored-by: Damien Lejay <damien@lejay.be>
These versions have exited their standard support term as of
- bullseye: 2024-08-14
- focal: 2025-05
- oracular: 2025-07-10
closes: vim/vim#18134b760062897
Co-authored-by: James McCoy <jamessan@jamessan.com>
Problem:
`msg_show` has "progress" info (title, status, percent) which is not presented
by default.
Solution:
Format TUI messages as `{title}: {msg}...{percent}%`. This also gets sent to UI.
- With specific formatting sent to UI we can remove the `progress` item from
`msg_show` event. It can be added if needed in the future. Also, having
a default presentation makes the feature more useful.
- For `vim._extui` we just need to implement the replace-msg-with-same-id
behavior.
- If any UI/plugin wants to do anything fancier, they can handle the `Progress`
event.
tmux-direct is functionally the same as tmux-256color, except it
directly reports 24-bit color and how to set them (setaf/setab)
via ncurses 6.x's extended terminfo format.
Problem:
Hover response of MarkedString[] where the first element contains a
language identifier treated as empty.
Solution:
Fix empty check to handle case of MarkedString[] where the first element
is a pair of a language and value.
Problem:
Nvim does not have a core concept for indicating "progress" of
long-running tasks. The LspProgress event is specific to LSP.
Solution:
- `nvim_echo` can emit `kind="progress"` messages.
- Emits a `Progress` event.
- Includes new fields (id, status, percent) in the `msg_show` ui-event.
- The UI is expected to overwrite any message having the same id.
- Messages have a globally unique ID.
- `nvim_echo` returns the message ID.
- `nvim_echo(… {id=…})` updates existing messages.
Example:
local grp = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("Msg", {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('Progress', {
pattern={"term"},
group = grp,
callback = function(ev)
print(string.format('event fired: %s', vim.inspect(ev))..'\n')
end
})
-- require('vim._extui').enable({enable=true, msg={target='msg', timeout=1000}})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', percent=80, status='running', title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
local id = vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', status='running', percent=10, title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', percent=20, status = 'running', title='find tests'})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='running', percent=70})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'complete'}}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='success', percent=100, title="find tests"})
Followups:
- Integrate with 'statusline' by listening to the Progress autocmd event.
- Integrate progress ui-event with `vim._extui`.
bash 5.3 (released July 2025) added support for ${ cmd;} and
${|cmd;} style command substitution, which is similar (but not
identical) to ksh/mksh.
closes: vim/vim#18084e06d81fe67
Co-authored-by: Kevin Pulo <kevin.pulo@mongodb.com>
Problem: completion: not possible to delay the autcompletion
Solution: add the 'autocompletedelay' option value (Girish Palya).
This patch introduces a new global option 'autocompletedelay'/'acl' that
specifies the delay, in milliseconds, before the autocomplete menu
appears after typing.
When set to a non-zero value, Vim waits for the specified time before
showing the completion popup, allowing users to reduce distraction from
rapid suggestion pop-ups or to fine-tune the responsiveness of
completion.
The default value is 0, which preserves the current immediate-popup
behavior.
closes: vim/vim#17960a09b1604d4
N/A patch: vim-patch:9.1.1641: a few compiler warnings are output
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
addDirectoryArg with a source dir is not enough to depend on changes
to invidiual files. as a workaround, mark this step as having
side-effects (always being run) for now.
Problem: Some use cases might lead to `vim.pack.add()` failing to
`:packadd` a plugin because of missing entry in 'packpath'. Like with
`nvim --clean` or manually setting `$XDG_DATA_HOME` during startup.
Solution: Document it. A more proactive approach can be ensuring correct
'packpath' entry, but it is currently somewhat verbose to do (due to
having to adjust for Windows using `\` in 'packpath' entries).
