Problem: 'cursorlineopt' "screenline" isn't redrawn when moving cursor
and then using line("w0") and :retab that does nothing.
Solution: Call redraw_for_cursorcolumn() when setting a valid w_virtcol
(zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#18506a084914361
These are not needed after #35129 but making uncrustify still play nice
with them was a bit tricky.
Unfortunately `uncrustify --update-config-with-doc` breaks strings
with backslashes. This issue has been reported upstream,
and in the meanwhile auto-update on every single run has been disabled.
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>
Problem: 'smoothscroll' gets stuck with 'listchars' "eol".
Solution: Count size of 'listchars' "eol" in line size when scrolling.
(zeertzjq)
related: neovim/neovim#32405closes: vim/vim#166272c47ab8fcd
When a terminal application running inside the terminal emulator sets
the cursor shape or blink status of the cursor, update the cursor in the
parent terminal to match.
This removes the "virtual cursor" that has been in use by the terminal
emulator since the beginning. The original rationale for using the
virtual cursor was to avoid having to support additional UI methods to
change the cursor color for other (non-TUI) UIs, instead relying on the
TermCursor and TermCursorNC highlight groups.
The TermCursor highlight group is now used in the default 'guicursor'
value, which has a new entry for Terminal mode. However, the
TermCursorNC highlight group is no longer supported: since terminal
windows now use the real cursor, when the window is not focused there is
no cursor displayed in the window at all, so there is nothing to
highlight. Users can still use the StatusLineTermNC highlight group to
differentiate non-focused terminal windows.
BREAKING CHANGE: The TermCursorNC highlight group is no longer supported.
Problem: Option metadata like list of valid values for an option and
option flags are not listed in the `options.lua` file and are instead
manually defined in C, which means option metadata is split between
several places.
Solution: Put metadata such as list of valid values for an option and
option flags in `options.lua`, and autogenerate the corresponding C
variables and enums.
Supersedes #28659
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem:
Variables are often assigned multiple places in common patterns.
Solution:
Replace these common patterns with different patterns that reduce the
number of assignments.
Use `MAX` and `MIN`:
```c
if (x < y) {
x = y;
}
// -->
x = MAX(x, y);
```
```c
if (x > y) {
x = y;
}
// -->
x = MIN(x, y);
```
Use ternary:
```c
int a;
if (cond) {
a = b;
} els {
a = c;
}
// -->
int a = cond ? b : c;
```
Problem: More code can use ml_get_buf_len() instead of STRLEN().
Solution: Change more STRLEN() calls to ml_get_buf_len(). Also do not
set ml_line_textlen in ml_replace_len() if "has_props" is set,
because "len_arg" also includes the size of text properties in
that case. (zeertzjq)
closes: vim/vim#1418394b7c3233e
A lot of functions in move.c only worked for curwin, alternatively
took a `wp` arg but still only work if that happens to be curwin.
Refactor those that are needed for update_topline(wp) to work
for any window.
fixes#27723fixes#27720
Problem: too many STRLEN calls when getting a memline
Solution: Optimize calls to STRLEN(), add a few functions in memline.c
that return the byte length instead of relying on STRLEN()
(John Marriott)
closes: vim/vim#1405202d7a6c6cf
Cherry-pick line break changes from patch 8.1.0226.
Cherry-pick ml_line_len from patch 8.1.0579.
Cherry-pick test_comments.vim change from patch 9.1.0153.
Co-authored-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Remove `export` pramgas from defs headers as it causes IWYU to believe
that the definitions from the defs headers comes from main header, which
is not what we really want.
Problem: [security]: FPE in adjust_plines_for_skipcol
Solution: don't divide by zero, return zero
Prevent a floating point exception when calculating w_skipcol (which can
happen with a small window when the number option is set and cpo+=n).
Add a test to verify
cb0b99f067
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
We already have an extensive suite of static analysis tools we use,
which causes a fair bit of redundancy as we get duplicate warnings. PVS
is also prone to give false warnings which creates a lot of work to
identify and disable.
- Move vimoption_T to option.h
- option_defs.h is for option-related types
- option_vars.h corresponds to Vim's option.h
- option_defs.h and option_vars.h don't include each other
Problem: Normal mode "gM", "gj", "gk" commands behave incorrectly with
virtual text.
Solution: Use linetabsize() instead of linetabsize_str().
closes: vim/vim#12909d809c0a903
Most of the messy things when changing a non-current buffer is
not about the buffer, it is about windows. In particular, it is about
`curwin`.
When editing a non-current buffer which is displayed in some other
window in the current tabpage, one such window will be "borrowed" as the
curwin. But this means if two or more non-current windows displayed the buffers,
one of them will be treated differenty. this is not desirable.
In particular, with nvim_buf_set_text, cursor _column_ position was only
corrected for one single window. Two new tests are added: the test
with just one non-current window passes, but the one with two didn't.
Two corresponding such tests were also added for nvim_buf_set_lines.
This already worked correctly on master, but make sure this is
well-tested for future refactors.
Also, nvim_create_buf no longer invokes autocmds just because you happened
to use `scratch=true`. No option value was changed, therefore OptionSet
must not be fired.
ml_get_buf() takes a third parameters to indicate whether the
caller wants to mutate the memline data in place. However
the vast majority of the call sites is using this function
just to specify a buffer but without any mutation. This makes
it harder to grep for the places which actually perform mutation.
Solution: Remove the bool param from ml_get_buf(). it now works
like ml_get() except for a non-current buffer. Add a new
ml_get_buf_mut() function for the mutating use-case, which can
be grepped along with the other ml_replace() etc functions which
can modify the memline.
Problem: Setting w_leftcol and handling side effects is confusing.
Solution: Use a function to set w_leftcol() and handle side effects.
0c34d56264
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: 'scrolloff' does not work well with 'smoothscroll'.
Solution: Make positioning the cursor a bit better. Rename functions.
c9121f798f
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Allow Include What You Use to remove unnecessary includes and only
include what is necessary. This helps with reducing compilation times
and makes it easier to visualise which dependencies are actually
required.
Work on https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/549, but doesn't close
it since this only works fully for .c files and not headers.
This is a refactor extracted from vim-patch 9.0.0067: cannot show virtual text
The logic for inline virtual text is going to be different in nvim than
text property based text in vim, but this refactor is still useful,
as calculation of displayed linesize is going to be stateful in a
similar way.
Problem: The screen.c file is much too big.
Solution: Split it in three parts. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#4943)
7528d1f6b5
This is an approximation vim-patch 8.1.2057. Applying the patch directly
isn't feasible since our version of screen.c has diverged too much,
however we still introduce drawscreen.c and drawline.c:
- screen.c is now a much smaller file used for low level screen functions
- drawline.c contains everything needed for win_line()
- drawscreen.c contains everything needed for update_screen()
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Problem: The mode #defines are not clearly named.
Solution: Prepend MODE_. Renumber them to put the mapped modes first.
249591057b
A hunk from the patch depends on patch 8.2.4861, which hasn't been
ported yet, but that should be easy to notice.
