Problem: completion: no support for "noinsert" with 'wildmode' and
commandline completion
Solution: Add "noinsert" value to the 'wildmode' option, mirroring
'completeopt' "noinsert" behaviour (glepnir).
fixes: vim/vim#16551closes: vim/vim#20080af494af5ff
Problem:
When running nvim on a remote machine over SSH, if there is high ping,
then bg detection may not complete in time. This results in a warning
every time nvim is started. #38648
Solution:
Restore 'ttyfast' option and allow it to control whether or not bg
detection is performed. Because this is during startup and before any
user config or commands, we use the environment variable
`NVIM_NOTTYFAST` to allow disabling `ttyfast` during initialization.
Problem: Cannot apply 'scrolloff' context lines at end of file
Solution: Add the 'scrolloffpad' option to keep 'scrolloff' context even
when at the end of the file (McAuley Penney).
closes: vim/vim#19040a414630393
Co-authored-by: McAuley Penney <jacobmpenney@gmail.com>
Problem:
- Unable to "pin" a window to prevent closing without specifically
being targeted.
- :fclose closes hidden windows (even before visible windows).
Solution:
- Add 'winpinned' window-local option. When set, window is skipped by
:fclose and :only. Pin the ui2 cmdline window (which should always be
visible), so that it is not closed by :only/fclose.
- Skip over hidden (and pinned) windows with :fclose.
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem: Documentation based on patches is outdated.
Solution: Add changes to documentation in a patch.
853886722c
Trailing space was removed in later patches.
Also fix a few more misplaced error numbers from #8155.
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
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:
- Lots of redundant text in options docs for "not allowed in
a modeline", even though we already have a flag that indicates that.
- `deny_in_modelines` is an old vestigial flag only used by 'encoding'
(which never changes).
Solution:
- Generate docs based on the `secure` flag.
- Remove the `deny_in_modelines` flag (`kOptFlagNoML`).
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'`.
- Don't go over 78 columns.
- Change the first "and" to "or", as "or" is used below.
- Change "takes one" to "switches", as "one" may be mistaken as
referring to the command instead of the user.
- Use backticks in :h 'autowriteall' like in :h 'autowrite'.
closes: vim/vim#19859af58a9f5e9
Problem: tests: test_modeline.vim fails (after v9.2.0276)
Solution: Rewrite the tests to use the existing s:modeline_fails()
function, update documentation (zeertzjq).
8c8772c6b3
Problem: Option handling for key:value suboptions is limited
Solution: Improve :set+=, :set-= and :set^= for options that use
"key:value" pairs (Hirohito Higashi)
For comma-separated options with P_COLON (e.g., diffopt, listchars,
fillchars), :set += -= ^= now processes each comma-separated item
individually instead of treating the whole value as a single string.
For :set += and :set ^=:
- A "key:value" item where the key already exists with a different value:
the old item is replaced.
- An exact duplicate item is left unchanged.
- A new item is appended (+=) or prepended (^=).
For :set -=:
- A "key:value" or "key:" item removes by key match regardless of value.
- A non-colon item removes by exact match.
This also handles multiple non-colon items (e.g., :set
diffopt-=filler,internal) by processing each item individually, making
the behavior order-independent.
Previously, :set += simply appended the value, causing duplicate keys to
accumulate.
fixes: vim/vim#18495closes: vim/vim#19783e2f4e18437
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Problem:
Mouse popup menus (right-click context menus) do not respect the
'pumborder' option and could overflow screen boundaries when borders
were enabled near the edge.
Solution:
- Remove the mouse menu exclusion from border rendering.
- Add boundary check to shift menu left when border would exceed screen
width, ensuring complete visibility of menu content and borders.
vim-patch:9.2.0174: diff: inline word-diffs can be fragmented
Problem: When using 'diffopt=inline:word', lines were excessively
fragmented with punctuation creating separate highlight
blocks, making it harder to read the diffs.
Solution: Added 'diff_refine_inline_word_highlight()' to merge
adjacent diff blocks that are separated by small gaps of
non-word characters (up to 5 bytes by default) (HarshK97).
When using inline:word diff mode, adjacent changed words separated by
punctuation or whitespace are now merged into a single highlight block
if the gap between them contains fewer than 5 non-word characters.
This creates more readable diffs and closely matches GitHub's own diff
display.
closes: vim/vim#1909842c6686c78
Problem:
No way to disable progress messages in cmdline message area. If
a third-party plugin handles Progress events + messages, the user may
not want the "redundant" progress displayed in the cmdline message area.
Solution:
Support "progress:c" entry in 'messageopts' option.
Problem:
`K` in help files may fail in some noisy text. Example:
(`fun(config: vim.lsp.ClientConfig): boolean`)
^cursor
Solution:
- `:help!` (bang, no args) activates DWIM behavior: tries `<cWORD>`,
then trims punctuation until a valid tag is found.
- Set `keywordprg=:help!` by default.
- Does not affect `CTRL-]`, that is still fully "tags" based.
Problem:
In aec3d7915c Vim changed prompt-buffers
to respect 'modified' so the termdebug plugin can "control closing the
window". But for most use-cases (REPL, shell, AI "chat", …),
prompt-buffers are in practice always "modified", and no way to "save"
them, so *implicitly* setting 'modified' is noisy and annoying.
Solution:
Don't implicitly set 'modified' when a prompt-buffer is updated.
Plugins/users can still explicitly set 'modified', which will then
trigger the "E37: No write since last change" warning.
Problem: cannot display tabs for indentation
Solution: Add the "leadtab" value to the 'listchars' option to
distinguish between tabs used for indentation and tabs used
for alignment (HarshK97).
closes: vim/vim#190948526d32647
Co-authored-by: HarshK97 <harshkapse1234@gmail.com>
Problem: Not possible to know when a session will be loaded.
Solution: Add the SessionLoadPre autocommand (Colin Kennedy).
fixes: vim/vim#19084closes: vim/vim#193061c0d468d72
Co-authored-by: Colin Kennedy <colinvfx@gmail.com>
Problem: after #33036, an error from evaluating 'statusline' clears it and
doesn't draw the statusline. (causing glitchy redraws)
Solution: use the default value instead. If 'stl' is somehow ever empty, still
call redraw_custom_statusline to at least draw an empty statusline.
Ideally our default 'stl' shouldn't itself error too! :-)
Also adjust some prior screen:expect()s to avoid immediate success warnings.
Problem:
Some UI clients break if space follows the comma in 'guifont' items.
Also the new 'guifont' default may cause problems if none of the fonts are found.
Solution:
Remove trailing whitespace.
Add a "monospace" fallback which `fontconfig` can resolve on *nix systems.
**Problem:** No easy way to stack highlight groups #35806.
**Solution:** Add a way to specify a new statusline chunk with a
highlight group that inherits from previous highlight attributes.
Also applies to tabline, etc.
In particular, also mention the difference between the regex atom \k and
what Vim considers for a word character.
closes: vim/vim#186889e456e52df
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem:
Temporary files from /tmp/ and /private/ paths clutter :oldfiles list.
Additionally, the documented Windows default (rA:,rB:) was never applied
due to a missing platform condition.
Solution:
Drop platform-specific shada differences and default to excluding
/tmp/ and /private/ paths.
Problem: No event is triggered before creating a window.
(Sergey Vlasov)
Solution: Add the WinNewPre event (Sergey Vlasov)
fixes: vim/vim#10635closes: vim/vim#127611f47db75fd
Not sure if this should be triggered before creating a floating window,
as its use case is related to window layout.
Co-authored-by: Sergey Vlasov <sergey@vlasov.me>
