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:
Regression from c822a2657c: `vim.wait(0)` does not call `loop_poll`,
so `vim.wait(1)` is needed to "yield" from Lua.
Solution:
- Ensure that `vim._core.loop_poll()` is always called, even when `time=0`.
- Document how to interrupt Lua code (ctrl-c).
ref https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/6800
Problem:
- Choosing a new EXX error code is tedious.
- It's possible to accidentally use an EXX error code for different
purposes.
Solution:
Add a lint check which requires EXX error codes to have a :help tag.
This also avoids duplicates because `make doc` does `:helptags ++t doc`
which fails if duplicates are found.
Problem:
If `'keywordprg'` begins with `:`, `3K` turns the count into an Ex
range. Commands that don't support that then fail. Vim passes the count
as the first arg (see #19436, vim/vim#10745).
Solution:
Pass `[count]` as the first arg for `'keywordprg'`.
- :retab! line 1 and line 4 (main page heading).
- Use four columns whitespace before "by [Author]" in the user manual
heading to match the reference manual formatting.
- double space headings.
closes: vim/vim#18648542746521f
Co-authored-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Use double sentence spacing and wrap lines at 'textwidth'. Code
examples and tables were not wrapped unless this had already been done
locally.
closes: vim/vim#18453c58f91c035
Fix incorrect docs in :h ModeChanged.
Cherry-pick :h bufnr() changes from patch 8.1.2080.
Co-authored-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
E749 is given when :print (with any range) is issued on an empty buffer,
like the one you get with :new or :enew. Furthermore, due to Vi
compatibility :| is a synonym.
As a result, mappings intended to include a <bar> separator (esp. in the
case of boolean or "||") between commands can generate E749 on startup
when placed in a vimrc if the bars are not properly encoded or escaped.
[1]. Document this failure mode and synonym near the generated error,
and cross link with :help :bar. Note that one must read or scroll quite
a bit to find the mention of :| behaving like :print!
[1]: https://vi.stackexchange.com/q/46625/10604closes: vim/vim#17173187df69fd1
Co-authored-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Problem:
`yx` uses "y" prefix, which shadows a builtin operator.
Solution:
Use `g=` (in the form of `g==` currently), drawing from precedent of
CTRL-= and 'tpope/vim-scriptease'.
Problem: :sleep! not hiding the cursor is an arbitrary difference from
Vim without obvious justification, and Vim's behavior isn't
easily achievable in Nvim.
Solution: Make :sleep! hide the cursor while sleeping.
Ref:
6a01b3fcc3b5c0ade437
Problem: Some runtime files no longer spark joy.
Solution: Kondo the place up.
Still sparks _some_ joy (moved to new `runtime/scripts` folder):
* `macros/less.*`
* `mswin.vim`
* `tools/emoji_list.lua`
No longer sparks joy (removed):
* `macmap.vim` (gvimrc file; not useful in Nvim)
* `tools/check_colors.vim` (no longer useful with new default colorscheme and treesitter)
* `macros/editexisting.vim` (throws error on current Nvim)
* `macros/justify.vim` (obsolete shim for `packadd! justify`)
* `macros/matchit.vim` (same)
* `macros/shellmenu.vim` (same)
* `macros/swapmous.vim` (same)
Problem: Cannot filter the history
Solution: Implement :filter :history
closes: vim/vim#1483542a5b5a6d0
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Currently comment detection, addition, and removal are done
by matching 'commentstring' exactly. This has the downside when users
want to add comment markers with space (like with `-- %s`
commentstring) but also be able to uncomment lines that do not contain
space (like `--aaa`).
Solution: Use the following approach:
- Line is commented if it matches 'commentstring' with trimmed parts.
- Adding comment is 100% relying on 'commentstring' parts (as is now).
- Removing comment is first trying exact 'commentstring' parts with
fallback on trying its trimmed parts.
Experimental and subject to future changes.
Add a way to redraw certain elements that are not redrawn while Nvim is waiting
for input, or currently have no API to do so. This API covers all that can be
done with the :redraw* commands, in addition to the following new features:
- Immediately move the cursor to a (non-current) window.
- Target a specific window or buffer to mark for redraw.
- Mark a buffer range for redraw (replaces nvim__buf_redraw_range()).
- Redraw the 'statuscolumn'.
This actually won't cause "duplicate tag" errors if plugins have tags of
the same name, because E154 is only given for duplicate tags in the same
directory.
Without those tags, trying to use :h for these mappings jumps to other
places, because there are matches with higher score.
Design
- Enable commenting support only through `gc` mappings for simplicity.
No ability to configure, no Lua module, no user commands. Yet.
- Overall implementation is a simplified version of 'mini.comment'
module of 'echasnovski/mini.nvim' adapted to be a better suit for
core. It basically means reducing code paths which use only specific
fixed set of plugin config.
All used options are default except `pad_comment_parts = false`. This
means that 'commentstring' option is used as is without forcing single
space inner padding.
As 'tpope/vim-commentary' was considered for inclusion earlier, here is
a quick summary of how this commit differs from it:
- **User-facing features**. Both implement similar user-facing mappings.
This commit does not include `gcu` which is essentially a `gcgc`.
There are no commands, events, or configuration in this commit.
- **Size**. Both have reasonably comparable number of lines of code,
while this commit has more comments in tricky areas.
- **Maintainability**. This commit has (purely subjectively) better
readability, tests, and Lua types.
- **Configurability**. This commit has no user configuration, while
'vim-commentary' has some (partially as a counter-measure to possibly
modifying 'commentstring' option).
- **Extra features**:
- This commit supports tree-sitter by computing `'commentstring'`
option under cursor, which can matter in presence of tree-sitter
injected languages.
- This commit comments blank lines while 'tpope/vim-commentary' does
not. At the same time, blank lines are not taken into account when
deciding the toggle action.
- This commit has much better speed on larger chunks of lines (like
above 1000). This is thanks to using `nvim_buf_set_lines()` to set
all new lines at once, and not with `vim.fn.setline()`.
---
Rejected experiment: move vim.ui.open() to vim.env.open()
Problem:
`vim.ui` is where user-interface "providers" live, which can be
overridden. It would also be useful to have a "providers" namespace for
platform-specific features such as "open", clipboard, python, and the other
providers listed in `:help providers`. We could overload `vim.ui` to
serve that purpose as the single "providers" namespace, but
`vim.ui.nodejs()` for example seems awkward.
Solution:
`vim.env` currently has too narrow of a purpose. Overload it to also be
a namespace for `vim.env.open`.
diff --git a/runtime/lua/vim/_meta.lua b/runtime/lua/vim/_meta.lua
index 913f1fe20348..17d05ff37595 100644
--- a/runtime/lua/vim/_meta.lua
+++ b/runtime/lua/vim/_meta.lua
@@ -37,8 +37,28 @@ local options_info = setmetatable({}, {
end,
})
-vim.env = setmetatable({}, {
- __index = function(_, k)
+vim.env = setmetatable({
+ open = setmetatable({}, {
+ __call = function(_, uri)
+ print('xxxxx'..uri)
+ return true
+ end,
+ __tostring = function()
+ local v = vim.fn.getenv('open')
+ if v == vim.NIL then
+ return nil
+ end
+ return v
+ end,
+ })
+ },
+ {
+ __index = function(t, k, ...)
+ if k == 'open' then
+ error()
+ -- vim.print({...})
+ -- return rawget(t, k)
+ end
local v = vim.fn.getenv(k)
if v == vim.NIL then
return nil
existing behavior of
:=
and
:[range]=
are unchanged. `|` is still allowed with this usage.
However,
:=p
and similar are changed in a way which could be construed as a breaking
change. Allowing |ex-flags| for := in the first place was a mistake as
any form of := DOES NOT MOVE THE CURSOR. So it would print one line number
and then print a completely different line contents after that.
Neovim already removed `evim` (or any similar flags). The 'insertmode'
option is a weird remnant, so get rid of it.
The 'insertmode' option is replaced with a script that closely emulates
the option. This script is documented at :help 'insertmode'
Update runtime files.
a2baa73d1d
Cherry-pick tabpage.txt changes from patch 8.2.1413.
Skip digraph functions: included in #17440.
Skip many error codes as they haven't been ported yet.
