Highlight f-string replacement fields, including
- Comments
- Debugging flags
- Conversion fields
- Format specifications
- Delimiters
Syntax inside fields will be addressed in a separate commit.
related: vim/vim#10734
related: vim/vim#14033closes: vim/vim#17784a94a0555d9
Co-authored-by: Rob B <github@0x7e.net>
Class and function definitions previously shared a single highlight
group (pythonFunction). This change gives classes their own highlight
group (pythonClass) that's linked to Structure.
closes: vim/vim#1785648b7eb1ceb
Co-authored-by: Jon Parise <jon@indelible.org>
This brings the upstream files to commit 9dc3bd3 (ftplugin: escape Vim
special characters when opening docs, 2025-08-09). Note that not all
upstream files are included.
closes: vim/vim#179567270a5a843
Co-authored-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Problem: Patch v9.1.1432 causes performance regressions
Solution: Revert "patch 9.1.1432: GTK GUI: Buffer menu does not handle
unicode correctly" (Yee Cheng Chin).
This reverts commit 08896dd330c6dc8324618fde482db968e6f71088.
The previous change to support Unicode characters properly in the
buffers menu resorted to removing all buffer menus and re-add the
buffers after doing a sort, per each buffer addition. This was quite
slow because if Vim is trying to load in multiple buffers at once (e.g.
when loading a session) this scales in O(n^2) and Vim can freeze for
dozens of seconds when adding a few hundred buffers.
related: vim/vim#17405
related: vim/vim#17928fixes: vim/vim#17897cda0d17f59
Co-authored-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Problem: diff format erroneously detected
(Tomáš Janoušek)
Solution: Make the regex to detect normal diff format a bit stricter,
while at it, fix wrong test content from patch v9.1.1606
fixes: vim/vim#17946887b4981e7
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: No way to skip install confirmation in `add()`. Having install
confirmation by default is a more secure design. However, users are
usually aware of the fact that plugin will be installed and there is
currently no way to skip confirmation.
Plus it can introduce inconvenience on the clean config initialization
if it is modularized with many `vim.pack.add()` calls (leads to
confirming installation many times in a row).
Solution: Add `opts.confirm` option that can skip install confirmation.
Problem: No way to have full control over how plugin is loaded.
Although `:packadd!` has small side effects (only adds plugin
directory to 'runtimepath'; and maybe its 'after/' subdirectory), it
still has side effects. For example, 'plugin/' directories are still
loaded during startup (as part of `:h load-plugins`).
Solution: Allow function `opts.load` that has full control over how
plugin is loaded.
Problem: the `load=true` in `vim.pack.add()` means that `:packadd` is
executed even during startup. This leads to force source of 'plugin/',
which breaks the intended loading order (`:h load-plugins`) and
results into sourcing them twice. This also makes it ignore
`--noplugin` argument.
Using `:packadd!` during startup is more appropriate, while `:packadd`
afterwards is still more favorable to actually force 'plugin/' source
(as there is no pre-defined mechanism that will load them later).
Solution: have `load=false` default during startup, `true` - afterwards.
Problem: filetype: a few more files are not recognized
Solution: guess Mail, Info and Terminfo files by its content
(lacygoill)
closes: vim/vim#17880eb2aebeb79
Co-authored-by: lacygoill <lacygoill@lacygoill.me>
Problem: When the parameter debug=msg is set and the command :option is
entered, error E94 will be displayed.
Solution: Add a check for the existence of the buffer before getting the
buffer number “option-window”.
Reproduce:
vim --clean -c "set debug=msg" -c "option"
Error detected while processing command line..script D:\Programs\Vim\vim91\optwin.vim:
line 9: E94: No matching buffer for option-window
closes: vim/vim#179273be4ad76df
Co-authored-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Using a snippet like:
${1:name} :: ${2}\n${1:name} ${3}= ${4:undefined}${0}
The text for `${1:name}` stopped syncing if the completion popup menu
showed up. E.g. typing `par` where the `a` triggered completion resulted
in:
pat ::
pa = undefined
Instead of:
pat ::
pat = undefined
Problem: Vim's help file doesn't have any syntax for comments, but
'comments' and 'commentstring' are still set in the help
buffer.
Solution: Unset 'comments' and 'cms' in help buffer
closes: vim/vim#17889adfea9b4e6
Problem: diff: using diff anchors with hidden buffers fails silently
Solution: Give specific error message for diff anchors when using hidden
buffers (Yee Cheng Chin).
Diff anchors currently will fail to parse if a buffer used for diff'ing
is hidden. Previously it would just fail as the code assumes it would
not happen normally, but this is actually possible to do if `closeoff`
and `hideoff` are not set in diffopt. Git's default diff tool "vimdiff3"
also takes advantage of this.
This fix this properly would require the `{address}` parser to be
smarter about whether a particular address relies on window position or
not (e.g. the `'.` address requires an active window, but `'a` or `1234`
do not). Since hidden diff buffers seem relatively niche, just provide a
better error message / documentation for now. This could be improved
later if there's a demand for it.
related: vim/vim#17615closes: vim/vim#17904cad3b2421d
Co-authored-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
- Add delimiter between function signature and documentation, matching hover formatting
- Show title only if there are multiple clients or multiple signatures
- Avoid duplicating the title inside the window if it's already shown in the border
The '?' needs to be escaped, because the autocommand is using
file-patterns (glob like) and not a regex). See :h file-pattern
closes: vim/vim#17890f7deb815b0
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem: make_floating_popup_options only shows when opts.border is explicitly set, ignoring global winborder setting
Solution: check both opts.border and vim.o.winborder when determining whether to show title
The cursor movement autocommand can not detect when the final tabstop $0
is directly adjacent to another tabstop, which prevents ending the
snippet session. The fix is an early return when jumping.
Problem:
Previously, 'null' value in LSP responses were decoded as 'nil'.
This caused ambiguity for fields typed as '? | null' and led to
loss of explicit 'null' values, particularly in 'data' parameters.
Solution:
Decode all JSON 'null' values as 'vim.NIL' and adjust handling
where needed. This better aligns with the LSP specification,
where 'null' and absent fields are distinct, and 'null' should
not be used to represent missing values.
This also enables proper validation of response messages to
ensure that exactly one of 'result' or 'error' is present, as
required by the JSON-RPC specification.
Platform specific options are cringe and should either be fixed or
deleted.
In this case, the platform difference can trivially be implemented
using a conditional default value. If the user overrides the value,
then it is because the user wants that value, regardless of the
corporation who manufactured the OS that the user is running.
Possible alternative: delete the option by making it always on.
Problem:
Not easy for a user to tell ":restart" to "run this command(s) after restarting".
Solution:
All ":restart" args following the optional +cmd arg are treated as a big cmdline that is passed as a "-c" CLI arg when restarting nvim.
Problem:
Generated docs sections are ordered randomly. This matters when showing
an outline or table of contents (e.g. `gO`).
Solution:
Specify which sections have an intentional ordering; sort the rest by
name.
Add complete_check() to ccomplete completion script to avoid UI hangs
and keep Vim responsive as ccomplete can be slow on huge files.
closes: vim/vim#178263add0d5e75
vim-patch:44309b9: runtime(ccomplete): return partial results on complete_check()
closes: vim/vim#1783844309b9d08
Co-authored-by: Maxim Kim <habamax@gmail.com>
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>
