Problem: Consecutive "msg_show" events stemming from an `:echon`
command are supposed to be appended without a newline, this
information is not encoded in the "msg_show" event.
Solution: Add an "append" parameter to the "msg_show" event that is set
to true to indicate the message should not start on a new line.
Considered alternative: Emit a newline for the common case instead at the
start of a new message. That way UIs can more closely follow the logic
as it is implemented for the message grid currently. This would be a
breaking change. The "append" parameter seems OK.
Problem: Extui does not route messages emitted as a result of a typed
command to the "more" window.
Command message leading shell messages is missing a kind.
Messages not routed to 'cmdheight' area after it was 0.
Solution: Route messages that were emitted in the same event loop as an
entered command to the "more" window. Also append multiple
messages in an already open more-window.
Assign it the `shell_cmd` kind.
Change message position when 'cmdheight' changes from 0.
Problem:
"make lintdoc" is not validating vimdoc (:help) tags.
Solution:
- Call `lang_tree:parse()` to init the parser.
- Load netrw 🤢 explicitly, since it was moved to `pack/dist/opt/`.
- Fix invalid help tags.
Problem: Messages preceding a `cmdline_show->prompt` event can not be
distinguished as such when receiving the event. (But since
`msg_show` handlers should be scheduled, one can already check
whether a prompt is active when displaying the message.)
Solution: Rather than add a new kind again, use the `confirm` kind.
Could be seen as slightly misleading where it is more of
a choice rather than a confirmation, but that already applies
to `confirm()` as well...
This was kept for a while as it was a useful short hand and initially
matched what highlights what actually properly implemented. But now
|vim.hl.range()| is a better high-level shorthand with full support for
native multi-line ranges.
Problem: Prompts are emitted as messages events, where cmdline events
are more appropriate. The user input is also emitted as
message events in fast context, so cannot be displayed with
vim.ui_attach().
Solution: Prompt for user input through cmdline prompts.
Problem: Unable to tell what highlight the prompt part of a
cmdline_show event should have, and whether cmdline_hide was
emitted after aborting.
Solution: Add additional arguments hl_id to cmdline_show, and abort to
cmdline_hide.
- Problem: cannot replace the initial bufwrite message (from `filemess`) by the final one (`"test.lua" [New] 0L, 0B written`), when using `vim.ui_attach`.
- Solution: add kind to both messages.
Problem: Separate message emitted for each newline present in Lua
print() arguments.
Solution: Make msg_multiline() handle NUL bytes. Refactor print() to use
msg_multiline(). Refactor vim.print() to use print().
Problem: Ext_messages chunks only contain the highlight attr id, which
is not very useful for vim.ui_attach() consumers.
Solotion: Add highlight group id to message chunks, which can easily be
used to highlight text in the TUI through nvim_buf_set_extmark():
hl_group = synIDattr(id, "name").
Problem:
The default builtin UI client does not declare its client info. This
reduces discoverability and makes it difficult for plugins to identify
the UI.
Solution:
- Call nvim_set_client_info after attaching, as recommended by `:help dev-ui`.
- Also set the "pid" field.
- Also change `ui_active()` to return a count. Not directly relevant to
this commit, but will be useful later.
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.
Extmarks can contain URLs which can then be drawn in any supporting UI.
In the TUI, for example, URLs are "drawn" by emitting the OSC 8 control
sequence to the TTY. On terminals which support the OSC 8 sequence this
will create clickable hyperlinks.
URLs are treated as inline highlights in the decoration subsystem, so
are included in the `DecorSignHighlight` structure. However, unlike
other inline highlights they use allocated memory which must be freed,
so they set the `ext` flag in `DecorInline` so that their lifetimes are
managed along with other allocated memory like virtual text.
The decoration subsystem then adds the URLs as a new highlight
attribute. The highlight subsystem maintains a set of unique URLs to
avoid duplicating allocations for the same string. To attach a URL to an
existing highlight attribute we call `hl_add_url` which finds the URL in
the set (allocating and adding it if it does not exist) and sets the
`url` highlight attribute to the index of the URL in the set (using an
index helps keep the size of the `HlAttrs` struct small).
This has the potential to lead to an increase in highlight attributes
if a URL is used over a range that contains many different highlight
attributes, because now each existing attribute must be combined with
the URL. In practice, however, URLs typically span a range containing a
single highlight (e.g. link text in Markdown), so this is likely just a
pathological edge case.
When a new highlight attribute is defined with a URL it is copied to all
attached UIs with the `hl_attr_define` UI event. The TUI manages its own
set of URLs (just like the highlight subsystem) to minimize allocations.
The TUI keeps track of which URL is "active" for the cell it is
printing. If no URL is active and a cell containing a URL is printed,
the opening OSC 8 sequence is emitted and that URL becomes the actively
tracked URL. If the cursor is moved while in the middle of a URL span,
we emit the terminating OSC sequence to prevent the hyperlink from
spanning multiple lines.
This does not support nested hyperlinks, but that is a rare (and,
frankly, bizarre) use case. If a valid use case for nested hyperlinks
ever presents itself we can address that issue then.
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.
Problem:
Sometimes, when nvim sends the `win_viewport` event, for example when scrolling
with visible folds on the screen, it reports the `scroll_delta` value one batch
into "future". So when the client application is trying to show the new viewport
it's not yet updated, resulting in temporary corruption / screen flickering.
For more details see #23609, and starting from [this comment](
https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1790#issuecomment-1518697747) in
https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/1790,, where the issue was first
detected. Note that some of the conclusions in those are not fully accurate, but
the general observations are.
Solution:
When there are pending updates to a Window, delay the `win_viewport` UI event
until the updates are sent. This ensures that there's no flush between sending
the viewport and updating of the lines corresponding to the new viewport.
Document the existing viewport behaviour (for cases where there are no
extra flushes), give a hint about how applications can deal with the slightly
surprising behaviour of the viewport event being sent after the updates.
Fixes https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/23609
Co-authored by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Co-authored by: Steven Todd McIntyre II <114119064+stmii@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored by: nobe4 <nobe4@users.noreply.github.com>
- docs: mention --luadev-mod to run with lua runtime files
When changing a lua file in the ./runtime folder, a new contributor
might expect changes to be applied to the built Neovim binary.
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
