Problem: Temporary cmdline config is saved to be restored later.
Solution: Close the cmdline window so that it is recreated with the appropriate config.
Problem: Patch v9.1.1432 causes performance regressions
Solution: Revert "patch 9.1.1432: GTK GUI: Buffer menu does not handle
unicode correctly" (Yee Cheng Chin).
This reverts commit 08896dd330c6dc8324618fde482db968e6f71088.
The previous change to support Unicode characters properly in the
buffers menu resorted to removing all buffer menus and re-add the
buffers after doing a sort, per each buffer addition. This was quite
slow because if Vim is trying to load in multiple buffers at once (e.g.
when loading a session) this scales in O(n^2) and Vim can freeze for
dozens of seconds when adding a few hundred buffers.
related: vim/vim#17405
related: vim/vim#17928fixes: vim/vim#17897cda0d17f59
Co-authored-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Problem: Incorrect E535 error message (after 9.1.1603).
Solution: Don't use transchar(), as the character is always printable
(zeertzjq).
closes: vim/vim#17948b362995430
Problem: completion: incorrect selected index returned from
complete_info()
Solution: Return the index into "items" and restore the previous
behaviour (Robert Muir).
complete_info() returned an incorrect selected index after
0ac1eb3555445f4c458c06cef7c411de1c8d1020 (Patch v9.1.1311). Effectively
it became an index into "matches" instead of "items". Return the index
into "items" by default to restore the previous behavior, unless
"matches" was requested.
closes: vim/vim#179528e2a229189
Co-authored-by: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Problem: tests: test_search leaves a few swapfiles behind
Solution: Use :bw! instead of :close to close the swapfile at the end of
the test.
related: vim/vim#17933a2bb21a895
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Ctrl-G/Ctrl-T does not ignore the end search delimiter
(irisjae)
Solution: Check if the pattern ends with a search delimiter and ignore
it, unless it is part of the pattern.
fixes: vim/vim#17895closes: vim/vim#17933c03990d30f
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: diff format erroneously detected
(Tomáš Janoušek)
Solution: Make the regex to detect normal diff format a bit stricter,
while at it, fix wrong test content from patch v9.1.1606
fixes: vim/vim#17946887b4981e7
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: No way to skip install confirmation in `add()`. Having install
confirmation by default is a more secure design. However, users are
usually aware of the fact that plugin will be installed and there is
currently no way to skip confirmation.
Plus it can introduce inconvenience on the clean config initialization
if it is modularized with many `vim.pack.add()` calls (leads to
confirming installation many times in a row).
Solution: Add `opts.confirm` option that can skip install confirmation.
Problem: No way to have full control over how plugin is loaded.
Although `:packadd!` has small side effects (only adds plugin
directory to 'runtimepath'; and maybe its 'after/' subdirectory), it
still has side effects. For example, 'plugin/' directories are still
loaded during startup (as part of `:h load-plugins`).
Solution: Allow function `opts.load` that has full control over how
plugin is loaded.
Problem: the `load=true` in `vim.pack.add()` means that `:packadd` is
executed even during startup. This leads to force source of 'plugin/',
which breaks the intended loading order (`:h load-plugins`) and
results into sourcing them twice. This also makes it ignore
`--noplugin` argument.
Using `:packadd!` during startup is more appropriate, while `:packadd`
afterwards is still more favorable to actually force 'plugin/' source
(as there is no pre-defined mechanism that will load them later).
Solution: have `load=false` default during startup, `true` - afterwards.
Problem: filetype: a few more files are not recognized
Solution: guess Mail, Info and Terminfo files by its content
(lacygoill)
closes: vim/vim#17880eb2aebeb79
Co-authored-by: lacygoill <lacygoill@lacygoill.me>
Problem: completion: cannot use autoloaded funcs in 'complete' F{func}
(Maxim Kim)
Solution: Make it work (Girish Palya)
fixes: vim/vim#17869closes: vim/vim#178851bfe86a7d3
Cherry-pick Test_omni_autoload() from patch 8.2.3223.
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem: The :keep{alt,jumps,marks,patterns} commmands are sometimes
misidentified as :k.
Solution: Make sure one_letter_cmd() only returns true for :k and not
other :keep* commands (Doug Kearns).
This currently manifests as missing completion for :keep* commands and
incorrect results from fullcommand().
E.g., fullcommand("keepmarks") returns "k" rather than "keepmarks".
The correct command, however, is executed as command modifiers are
handled specially in do_one_cmd() rather than using find_ex_command().
Fix exists(':k') so that it returns 2 for a full match.
closes: vim/vim#15742ea84202372
Cherry-pick Test_ex_command_completion() from patch 9.1.0624.
Co-authored-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Problem: completion: hang (after 9.1.1471) or E684 (after 9.1.1410)
when 'tagfunc' calls complete().
Solution: Check if complete() has been called immediately after getting
matches instead of in the next loop iteration (zeertzjq).
related: vim/vim#1668
related: neovim/neovim#34416
related: neovim/neovim#35163closes: vim/vim#17929982cda6976
Problem: completion: incsearch highlight might be lost after search
completion (Hirohito Higashi)
Solution: Restore incsearch highlight after dismissing pum with Ctrl-E
(Girish Palya)
related: vim/vim#17870closes: vim/vim#1789104c9e78cd3
This change actually isn't needed as Nvim doesn't call update_screen()
to redraw pum, but it doesn't hurt either.
Co-authored-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Problem: Patch v8.1.0425 was wrong
Solution: Revert that patch (Hirohito Higashi)
This is because the root cause was fixed in 8.1.0786 and a regression
occurred elsewhere.
related: vim/vim#3455
related: vim/vim#3830fixes: vim/vim#11558closes: vim/vim#178996abe5e4904
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Problem: :bnext doesn't go to unlisted help buffers when cycling
through help buffers (after 9.1.0557).
Solution: Don't check if a help buffer is listed (zeertzjq).
From <https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4478#issuecomment-498831057>:
> I think we should fix that, since once you get to a non-help buffer
> all unlisted buffers are skipped, thus you won't encounter another
> help buffer.
This implies that cycling through help buffers should work even if help
buffers are unlisted. Otherwise this part of :bnext isn't really useful,
as :h makes help buffers unlisted by default.
related: vim/vim#4478
related: vim/vim#15198closes: vim/vim#179139662f33480
Problem: diff: using diff anchors with hidden buffers fails silently
Solution: Give specific error message for diff anchors when using hidden
buffers (Yee Cheng Chin).
Diff anchors currently will fail to parse if a buffer used for diff'ing
is hidden. Previously it would just fail as the code assumes it would
not happen normally, but this is actually possible to do if `closeoff`
and `hideoff` are not set in diffopt. Git's default diff tool "vimdiff3"
also takes advantage of this.
This fix this properly would require the `{address}` parser to be
smarter about whether a particular address relies on window position or
not (e.g. the `'.` address requires an active window, but `'a` or `1234`
do not). Since hidden diff buffers seem relatively niche, just provide a
better error message / documentation for now. This could be improved
later if there's a demand for it.
related: vim/vim#17615closes: vim/vim#17904cad3b2421d
Co-authored-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Problem: tests: Test_search_wildmenu_iminsert() depends on help file
(after 9.1.1594).
Solution: Set buffer text using setline() instead of loading help file.
Add a test for another bug fixed by 9.1.1594 (zeertzjq).
related: vim/vim#17870closes: vim/vim#17922615ad4ced1
- Add delimiter between function signature and documentation, matching hover formatting
- Show title only if there are multiple clients or multiple signatures
- Avoid duplicating the title inside the window if it's already shown in the border
Problem: make_floating_popup_options only shows when opts.border is explicitly set, ignoring global winborder setting
Solution: check both opts.border and vim.o.winborder when determining whether to show title
Problem: python 3.12 produces warnings and fails test
Solution: Make use of raw strings in python3 tests
closes: vim/vim#12765288bf26c53
Co-authored-by: Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@redhat.com>
Problem: With Python 3.9 some tests fail.
Solution: Take into account the different error message. (James McCoy,
closesvim/vim#7210)
68a48ee55e
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Not all tests are executed on Github Actions.
Solution: Copy "src" to "src2" earlier. Recognize "src2" in a couple more
places. Add two tests to the list of flaky tests. (Ken Takata,
closesvim/vim#6798)
7d6979608e
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Python 3 test is old style.
Solution: Turn into new style test. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#6385)
effb0cd75d
Neovim has Lua context that conflict with asserted error message.
Disable incompatible tests due to unsupported features from
python3 provider (ie. LegacyVim bindings, vim.bindeval).
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: No space allowed before comma in list.
Solution: Legacy Vim script allows it. (closesvim/vim#6577)
4d4d1cd5c8
Partial port to guard against v8.2.1326 regression.
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
The cursor movement autocommand can not detect when the final tabstop $0
is directly adjacent to another tabstop, which prevents ending the
snippet session. The fix is an early return when jumping.
Problem:
Previously, 'null' value in LSP responses were decoded as 'nil'.
This caused ambiguity for fields typed as '? | null' and led to
loss of explicit 'null' values, particularly in 'data' parameters.
Solution:
Decode all JSON 'null' values as 'vim.NIL' and adjust handling
where needed. This better aligns with the LSP specification,
where 'null' and absent fields are distinct, and 'null' should
not be used to represent missing values.
This also enables proper validation of response messages to
ensure that exactly one of 'result' or 'error' is present, as
required by the JSON-RPC specification.
Problem:
Not easy for a user to tell ":restart" to "run this command(s) after restarting".
Solution:
All ":restart" args following the optional +cmd arg are treated as a big cmdline that is passed as a "-c" CLI arg when restarting nvim.
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: Using `addr` without `range` in nvim_create_user_command gives
"No range allowed" error, inconsistent with `:command -addr` behavior.
Solution: Set EX_RANGE flag when `addr` option is specified to match
`:command` behavior.
This workarounds a bug likely in nvim__get_runtime, and fixes#35124
Though I'd argue it is more correct anyway as the point of
vim.SUBMODULE lazy loading is "only pay for what you use". If no one
has require'vim.diagnostic' yet in LSP or otherwise, there cannot
be any diagostics available and loading the lua module is wasteful.
