No support is provided or planned for language recognition
in code snippets of documentation comments. Requesting to
load arbitrary syntax plugins with the aid of the concerned
variable is therefore wasteful in general and erroneous when
paired languages ":syn-include" one another without taking
steps to manage circularity.
related: vim/vim#17308
related: vim/vim#17220closes: vim/vim#1817271149dfec5
Co-authored-by: Aliaksei Budavei <0x000c70@gmail.com>
Problem:
The default progress message doesn't account for
message-status. Also, the title and percent sections don't get written
to history. And progress percent is hard to find with variable length messages.
Solution:
Apply highlighting on Title based on status. And sync the formated msg
in history too. Also updates the default progress message format to
{title}: {percent}% msg
Problem:
The callback passed to `vim.wait` cannot return results directly, it
must set upvalues or globals.
local rv1, rv2, rv3
local ok = vim.wait(200, function()
rv1, rv2, rv3 = 'a', 42, { ok = { 'yes' } }
return true
end)
Solution:
Let the callback return values after the first "status" result.
local ok, rv1, rv2, rv3 = vim.wait(200, function()
return true, 'a', 42, { ok = { 'yes' } }
end)
Problem: filetype: fvwm2m4 files are no longer recognized
(after 9.1.1687).
Solution: Add a special case in m4 filetype detection (zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#181465355e81868
Co-authored-by: Damien Lejay <damien@lejay.be>
These versions have exited their standard support term as of
- bullseye: 2024-08-14
- focal: 2025-05
- oracular: 2025-07-10
closes: vim/vim#18134b760062897
Co-authored-by: James McCoy <jamessan@jamessan.com>
Problem:
`msg_show` has "progress" info (title, status, percent) which is not presented
by default.
Solution:
Format TUI messages as `{title}: {msg}...{percent}%`. This also gets sent to UI.
- With specific formatting sent to UI we can remove the `progress` item from
`msg_show` event. It can be added if needed in the future. Also, having
a default presentation makes the feature more useful.
- For `vim._extui` we just need to implement the replace-msg-with-same-id
behavior.
- If any UI/plugin wants to do anything fancier, they can handle the `Progress`
event.
tmux-direct is functionally the same as tmux-256color, except it
directly reports 24-bit color and how to set them (setaf/setab)
via ncurses 6.x's extended terminfo format.
Problem:
Hover response of MarkedString[] where the first element contains a
language identifier treated as empty.
Solution:
Fix empty check to handle case of MarkedString[] where the first element
is a pair of a language and value.
Problem:
Nvim does not have a core concept for indicating "progress" of
long-running tasks. The LspProgress event is specific to LSP.
Solution:
- `nvim_echo` can emit `kind="progress"` messages.
- Emits a `Progress` event.
- Includes new fields (id, status, percent) in the `msg_show` ui-event.
- The UI is expected to overwrite any message having the same id.
- Messages have a globally unique ID.
- `nvim_echo` returns the message ID.
- `nvim_echo(… {id=…})` updates existing messages.
Example:
local grp = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("Msg", {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('Progress', {
pattern={"term"},
group = grp,
callback = function(ev)
print(string.format('event fired: %s', vim.inspect(ev))..'\n')
end
})
-- require('vim._extui').enable({enable=true, msg={target='msg', timeout=1000}})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', percent=80, status='running', title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
local id = vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', status='running', percent=10, title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', percent=20, status = 'running', title='find tests'})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='running', percent=70})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'complete'}}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='success', percent=100, title="find tests"})
Followups:
- Integrate with 'statusline' by listening to the Progress autocmd event.
- Integrate progress ui-event with `vim._extui`.
bash 5.3 (released July 2025) added support for ${ cmd;} and
${|cmd;} style command substitution, which is similar (but not
identical) to ksh/mksh.
closes: vim/vim#18084e06d81fe67
Co-authored-by: Kevin Pulo <kevin.pulo@mongodb.com>
