Problem:
man -w echoes any existent file back unchanged. :Man rejected all such
paths, so :Man /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1 failed even for real man pages.
Solution:
Accept an echoed path when it looks like a man page (.../man1/foo.1).
Problem:
A mapping that ends mid-operation (`nnoremap ,D d`) emits a content-free
"mapping" atom plus a `pending` field, and the "continuation" motion
arrives as a sibling atom. Consumers must stitch the two together (which
has broken cases, e.g. Insert-opening mappings (",i") lose their session
entirely).
- ",i": the session atom is dropped bc the mapping RHS is consumed
before the session starts (typebuf_maplen()==0), so
atom_is_user_input()=false.
- ":normal"-in-opfunc: the opfunc internal "v..y" session (a) became
kVatomTyped just because the deferred composite was open, masking the
real operator capture via atom_captures, and (b) its nested frames
re-derived the outer redo.
- "Motion" based on `moved=true`, has false negatives.
- `CmdAtom.remap` is unnecessary, and clutters the docs/usage.
Solution:
- Introduce `frame_id` to identify CmdFrames.
- Classify `type=motion` better, via `NV_MOTION` flag on the `nv_cmds` table.
- Drop `CmdAtom.pending`, `CmdAtom.remap`.
- Defer atom_composite_end() at the clock edge while an operator is
pending, Visual is active, or `restart_edit` is set: the composite
keeps collecting, so the continuation is captured in the mapping atom.
- ",i": Now an open composite counts as user input.
- ":normal"-in-opfunc: Now handled correctly.
- `remap` is now decided by `composite.payload || 0 subatoms`.
atom_payload_mark() records the read the resolution never captures.
- `toplevel` is now decided by `CmdFrame.parent == NULL`.
before/after:
INPUT BEFORE AFTER
---------------------------------------------------------------------
,D w {mapping lhs=,D pending=operator} {operator lhs=,Dw keys=dw}
+ {operator keys=dw}
ysiw" {mapping lhs=ys pending=operator} {operator lhs=ysiw" keys=g@iw"}
+ {operator lhs=g@iw"}
,v d {mapping pending=visual} {visual lhs=,vd keys=viwd}
+ {visual lhs=viwd}
,i XY<Esc> {normal keys=i lhs=,iXY<Esc>} {insert keys=1iXY<Esc> text=XY}
Problem:
On Windows, vim.ui.open() passes URLs to `cmd.exe /c start`. cmd.exe
treats `&` as a command separator, so query strings are truncated.
Solution:
Caret-escape `&|<>^%!` in URIs when the open handler is cmd.exe.
Problem: wrong end_row when copying extmarks to the pager buffer when expanding
a message. Results in incorrect highlights or errors such as "invalid `end_col`
out of range".
Solution: don't forget to offset end_row by srow, as is already done for the
copied lines and extmark rows.
Problem:
Empty string is falsy, so the spec's label fallback applies, but there only checks
for nil. An empty filterText drops the item, an empty sortText sorts it
first, and an empty insertText leaves the word empty.
Solution:
Treat empty string as unset.
Problem:
- `lhs` is not fully realized. E.g. for a "payload" mapping
`lhs` omits the `getchar()` payload during a mapping (vim-surround
`ds'` reports `lhs="ds"`). This means plugins like vim-repeat are
still needed...
- The "delta" fields of a CmdAtom are calculated too late.
- `<abuf>` and `changed` check whatever (wrong) buffer a command
(":bnext") might land in.
- CTRL-W_w between two windows on the same buffer reports type="motion".
Solution:
- `CmdOrigin` samples (buf/win/cursor/changedtick) at each "scope" entry
(CmdFrame, composite, Visual session, insert session).
- `dd<C-w>l` reports `changed=true` for the buffer it edited, regardless
of where the cursor ends up.
- New fields:
- `pos`: cursor position at command start.
- `moved`: indicates whether the cursor moved (in same buffer).
- `undoseq`: undo state at settlement.
- lhs now includes the payload: "ds)" reports lhs="ds)" instead of "ds".
- Easy for users to "replay" any atom.
- Rename: type "command" => "normal", "ex" => "excmd"; `arg` => `cmdarg`
- Drop `cascade` field (no reason to expose it)
Remove the note about "this function is called only once per :find
command invocation".
fixes: vim/vim#21062bce3eb1fae
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem:
Flaky test:
RUN T1158 nvim.zip reports an incorrect archive password: 11092.84 ms FAIL
The prompt is detected only if the pty output *ends* with "password: ",
but a read may return the prompt plus following bytes.
Solution:
- Match anywhere in the output since the last password was sent. The
buffer is cleared before each send, so won't match stale text.
- Assert on the reported message, so a failure shows what was reported.
Problem:
With the addition of the `:help al` text object, you can now easily
format the whole buffer with `gqal`. However, `vim.lsp.formatexpr` only
uses `textDocument/rangeFormatting` which some language servers (like
gopls) don't support.
Solution:
- Fall back to `textDocument/formatting` if the whole buffer is being formatted
and the server doesn't support `textDocument/rangeFormatting`.
- In theory, these two methods should return the same response if the whole
buffer is being formatted, but I preserved the existing behaviour of
prioritising `textDocument/rangeFormatting` in case that does not hold (i.e.
LS bug).
- Also: `vim.lsp.formatexpr` had no tests at all, so actually add tests for it.
Problem:
`vim.fs.slug()` does not handle URIs like `term://foo//123:bash`,
so callers (e.g. terminal persistence) must strip the scheme before
calling `slug()`.
Solution:
Detect `scheme://` from the raw input before `normalize()` and
replace it with a `=uri-<scheme>-` prefix.
Problem:
Directory listing entries cannot be customized (filtered, reordered).
Listings are read by a BufReadCmd, which suppresses BufReadPost, so they
are the only buffers with no post-read event to hook.
Solution:
Introduce a post-render User autocmd `DirReadPost`, marking the dir
buffer writable for the duration and before the cursor is placed, so
handlers can sort or filter it with ordinary commands. Document common
recipes
Problem:
There is no unified notion of a "user action".
Vim processes input by one-char-at-a-time, and mostly throws away any
hints it might gather about the user's action, with one exception: it
stores the last _edit_ action (the "redo buffer", encoded as
unstructured `["x][v][count]body` bytes).
Plugins can only observe individual keys (vim.on_key) and high-level
effects (TextChanged, CursorMoved).
Solution:
- Users can subscribe to `CmdAtom` events to handle any user action.
- Event is deferred; handlers cannot cancel or interfere with user
actions.
- Capture `CmdSpec` from the normal/insert/visual subsystems.
- typeahead/readahead stay unstructured (`buffheader_T`): they are key
streams, not commands.
- the redo/record buffers become `StringBuilder`: fewer
allocations/copies.
- Repurpose the input/redo engine to accept `CmdSpec` objects.
"atom": one repeatable unit of user input, as a resolved (post-mapping)
keysequence plus structured fields. Only user actions, not `:normal`,
API calls, or non-"t" `feedkeys`.
BREAKING: dot-repeat of an Insert session, replays the entire session
including cursor-moves (:help ins-repeat).
BREAKING: dot-repeat of a Visual operation, replays the selection
instead of operating on a fixed-size region.
Problem:
vim.diagnostic.set() defers extmark position computation for an
unloaded buffer via a once=true BufRead autocmd, registering a new one
on every call without replacing the previous one. Each pending autocmd
also retains that call's diagnostics.
Solution:
Instead of registering an autocmd per set() call, register a single
static BufRead autocmd that computes positions from the diagnostic
cache for any buffer with cached diagnostics when it is read. This
removes the per-call registration entirely (nothing left to
accumulate) and means diagnostics cleared while the buffer was
unloaded no longer produce stale extmarks.
Problem:
After #40270, events are no longer emitted from the automatic background
detection. This applies not just during startup, but also if the user
manually changes the background of their terminal.
Solution:
Set the background as normal, assuming that a normal terminal will
respond within 100 ms. Change test to match expected behavior:
- BG set during startup won't trigger user autocmds since it runs before
any user config
- If the terminal takes longer than 100 ms to respond to initial OSC 11,
it does trigger the OptionSet, but it is triggered through the normal
path to ensure values like v:option_new are set #38551
- BG change after startup still triggers autocmds #41146
Problem: The reuse_client predicate does not pass the target buffer,
preventing decisions from being truly made per buffer.
Solution: Pass the target buffer.
Problem:
`:terminal` does not respect the invocation-time CWD.
This wasn't noticeable with `:lcd` because the window-local CWD gets
applied to the new terminal buffer. But it is noticeable with `:bcd`.
Solution:
Specify `cwd` in the job spec.
Problem:
- buf-local CWD scope is lower priority than :lcd, which is weird.
```
win > buf > tab > global
```
- No way to clear current CWD at a given scope.
Solution:
- Rerrange scope precedence to:
```
buf > win > tab > global
```
- Introduce "bang" variants (`:bcd!`/`:lcd!`/`:tcd!`) which clears the
local CWD for the given scope.
Problem:
- Explicit `:bcd` (etc.) persists from `nvim_buf_call()` but not from an
autocmd handler targeting a hidden buf (`LspAttach`, `TermRequest`, …),
which needs a `vim.schedule()` workaround.
- `vim._with()` is supposed to work as a "sandbox", discarding
side-effects, but it leaks CWD changes: `:lcd` from a `win` context,
any chdir from a visible-buffer context.
Solution:
- Explicit :cd/:tcd/:bcd during a temp context persists by default.
- "Ambient" directory changes ('autochdir', existing win-local CWD,
etc.) are still undone, as before.
- Add `kCtxKeepDirs`: snapshot/restore the target's full CWD state
(w/b/tp-local, global, cwd). Used by `vim._with()` and `'inccommand'`,
which must not leak state.
`opts.plain=true` does not expand tildes in addition to environment
variables, unlike `opts.expand_env=false`.
`opts.expand_env=false` is soft-deprecated.
- Avoid shared state. Pass `focus` to set_pos()/expand_msg() instead of
a shared `pager_focus` flag: the flag is only cleared when set_pos()
actually enters the pager, so ":messages" from inside the pager left
it set.
- pager_shown(): the pager window is invalid after leaving it with "q".
- Reuse pager_shown() in expand_msg().
Problem: A message emitted while a previous expanded message is still
visible opens the pager and enters it, moving focus away from
the buffer window without an explicit request (#41061).
Solution: Only enter the pager when it was explicitly requested ("g<",
:messages, or entered from the expanded cmdline). An unfocused
pager is dismissed by the cmdline key handler, which stays armed
across the cmdline and no longer dismisses on non-typed keys
(#39221).
Problem:
During insert-mode / replace-mode, `autowrite` may trigger. If it does, the
cursor position can shift due to the automatic removal of trailing spaces on the
current line. When I resume typing, the space between the last word and the new
word is suddenly gone.
Solution:
Disable the "remove trailing spaces" handler during Insert (or a similar) mode.
Autosave logic is not affected.
Problem:
Several subsystems need to derive a short, filesystem-safe identifier from an
arbitrary path, and each reinvents it ad-hoc:
- `'undodir'` and `swapfiles` encode the full path into a single filename, which
may exceed filesystem length-limits.
- `:connect ssh://` needs the SSH ControlPath socket name to stay under the
104-byte `sun_path` limit on macOS; today the path overflows it.
- the upcoming :terminal state dir.
- arbitrary plugin purposes.
Solution:
Provide `vim.fs.slug()`, which generates a bounded, one-way filename from an
arbitrary string. The input is normalized so equivalent paths produce the
same result. An 8-char hash is appended for uniqueness
Problem:
Buffer-local CWD (:bcd) is "sticky", similar to window-local CWD (:lcd).
But this contradicts one of its main benefits: per-buffer "project root"
for LSP, OSC7.
Other problems:
- A buffer created with :edit/:enew/:new silently inherits b_localdir
(and b_prevdir) from the previous buffer.
- curbuf_reusable() refuses to recycle a scratch buffer that has
`b_localdir`.
- After :new/:vnew/:tabnew the CWD sticks to previous buffer's
`b_localdir` even though the new curbuf has none, so :new is not
equivalent to ":split | enew", and getcwd() disagrees with
haslocaldir().
- Requires "which buffer spawned this buffer" semantics that no other
buffer-local state has.
Solution:
Drop sticky/inherit behavior of buffer-local CWD (:bcd).
- do_ecmd: always apply the new curbuf's dir (`fix_current_dir`), like
`do_autochdir` already does. :tabnew from a :bcd buffer now reverts to
global CWD (and fires DirChanged), same as :tabnew from a :lcd window.
- curbuf_reusable(): recycling a scratch buffer frees its b_localdir.
To get sticky/inherit behavior of CWD, use `:lcd`.
Problem:
No way to set a buffer-local directory.
Use-cases:
- "Root dir" for LSP (and the "project" concept).
- `:terminal` OSC 7
Solution:
Add `:bcd` command.
- Extend `getcwd()` to take a third arg; `getcwd(-1, -1, bunfr)` returns
the buffer-local working directory.
- Buffer-local directories have less priority than window-local
ones, and more priority than tab-local ones.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Problem:
The default 'ruler' is implemented in C instead of the 'statusline' DSL.
Solution:
Replace the C implementation with a default 'rulerformat' expression.
This is a continuation of #1248 and #33036.
Advantages:
- configuration is more discoverable, the default being a useful example
- users and plugins can augment the default
- code reuse and less C code to maintain
- ui2: due to the use of an item group with `minwid`, it can expand
instead of truncating when the content gets too long, which is
particularly useful for locales with long translations of Top/Bot/All
Implementation details:
As is the case for 'statusline', when trying to set 'rulerformat' to an
empty string, the default expression is restored instead, mimicking how
previously the default C implementation would have been activated.
Just like before, `:set rulerformat=` and `:set rulerformat&` have the
same effect, and the ruler is disabled with `:set noruler`.
The default expression uses an item group with `%=`, unlike the fallback
in the previous default statusline `%-14.(%l,%c%V%) %P`, because the
total width and how it is configured is immediately clear without
documentation, it is a more useful pattern in general that works when
both sides have flexible width, and it also works for vim, which is
useful for configuration sharing/reuse.
A truncation marker `%<` is added at the end to mimic how at small
screen widths, the scroll percentage would disappear first, so that the
cursor position can remain fully visible.
BREAKING CHANGES:
- `&rulerformat` can no longer be set to an empty string
- ui2: the default ruler is no longer of fixed width, but can expand
- at very small screen widths (< 36 columns)
- ui2: it will no longer try to shrink white-space before truncating
- it truncates gradually from the right, whereas previously, the
scroll percentage would disappear all at once
- l10n can no longer add a space after the comma between line and column
(this was only done for one language: Ukrainian)
Problem:
Client:_get_registrations() errors if a documentSelector pattern is not
a valid glob (e.g. "**/**.dart" from dartls). The error discards
already-matched registrations and propagates to supports_method() and
the client/registerCapability handler, disabling capabilities unrelated
to the offending pattern.
Solution:
Skip invalid globs. Treat them as non-matching, and log once per client.
(Similar approach was taken for filewatcher globs: 4d9e5acfb5)
