Problem: using win_viewport for implementing smooth scrolling in an external
UI might run into problems when winbar or borders is used, as there is
no indication that the entire grid is not used for scrolled buffer text.
Solution: add `win_viewport_margins` event.
When an embedded Nvim instance changes its current directory a "chdir"
UI event is emitted. Attached UIs can use this information however they
wish. In the TUI it is used to synchronize the cwd of the TUI process
with the cwd of the embedded Nvim process.
If nvim exited with nonzero status this is for one of the two reasons
- `:cquit` was invoked. This is used by users and plugins to communicate
a result, like a nonzero status will fail a `git commit` operation
- There was an internal error or deadly signal. in this case an error
message was likely written to stderr or to the screen.
In the latter case, the error message was often hidden by the TUI
exiting altscreen mode, which erases all visible terminal text.
This change prevents this in the latter case, while still cleaning up
the terminal properly when `:cquit` was deliberatily invoked.
Other cleanup like exiting mouse mode and raw mode is still done.
scroll_delta contains how much the top line of a window moved since the
last time win_viewport was emitted. It is expected to be used to
implement smooth scrolling. For this purpose it only counts "virtual" or
"displayed" so folds should count as one line. Because of this it
adds extra information that cannot be computed from the topline
parameter.
Fixes#19227
- The defined interface for the UI is only the RPC protocol. The original
UI interface as an array of function pointers fill no function.
- On the server, all the UI:s are all RPC channels.
- ui.c is only used on the server.
- The compositor is a preprocessing step for single-grid UI:s
- on the client, ui_client and tui talk directly to each other
- we still do module separation, as ui_client.c could form the basis
of a libnvim client module later.
Items for later PR:s
- vim.ui_attach is still an unhappy child, reconsider based on plugin experience.
- the flags in ui_events.in.h are still a mess. Can be simplified now.
- UX for remote attachment needs more work.
- startup for client can be simplified further (think of the millisecs we can save)
Note for external UIs: Nvim can now emit multiple "redraw" event batches
before a final "flush" event is received. To retain existing behavior,
clients should make sure to update visible state at an explicit "flush"
event, not just the end of a "redraw" batch of event.
* Get rid of copy_object() blizzard in the auto-generated ui_event layer
* Special case "grid_line" by encoding screen state directly to
msgpack events with no intermediate API events.
* Get rid of the arcane notion of referring to the screen as the "shell"
* Array and Dictionary are kvec_t:s, so define them as such.
* Allow kvec_t:s, such as Arrays and Dictionaries, to be allocated with
a predetermined size within an arena.
* Eliminate redundant capacity checking when filling such kvec_t:s
with values.
* Add buffer information to tabline_update
Most terminal implementations of the tabline display buffer and tab
information. Many neovim-qt users disable GuiTabline because it lacks
functionality provided in the terminal implementation.
The tabline_update event should include buffer information too, so client GUIs
can display rich useful tabs.
add proper msg_set_pos event, delet win_scroll_over_*
make compositor click through unfocusable grids
add MsgArea attribute for the message/cmdline area, and add docs and tests
Initially we will use this for the popupmenu, floating windows will
follow soon
NB: writedelay + compositor is weird, we need more flexible
redraw introspection.
Add ext_newgrid and ext_hlstate extensions. These use predefined
highlights and line-segment based updates, for efficiency and
simplicity.. The ext_hlstate extension in addition allows semantic
identification of builtin and syntax highlights.
Reimplement the old char-based updates in the remote UI layer, for
compatibility. For the moment, this is still the default. The bulitin
TUI uses the new line-based protocol.
cmdline uses curwin cursor position when ext_cmdline is active.
Make HlAttr contain highlighting state for both color modes (cterm and rgb).
This allows us to implement termguicolors completely in the TUI.
Simplify some logic duplicated between ui.c and screen.c. Also avoid
some superfluous highlighting reset events.
