Problem:
The dir.lua "-" mapping cannot be easily overridden (because of autocmd
ordering).
Solution:
- Move it to defaults.lua.
- Also to be extra polite: fall back to builtin `-` motion if the user
disabled the `dir.lua` plugin.
Problem: Separation markers (%=) are ignored within item groups. This
lead to a regression when the C implementation of the statusline was
replaced with a default expression. When the user configured a custom
ruler expression with a %= and used the overloaded item group syntax to
set the ruler width, the separation marker worked in the ruler, but not
when the ruler was incorporated into the statusline where the item group
syntax was interpreted in the usual way.
Solution: Analogously to top-level behaviour, expand separation markers
evenly within item groups until `minwid` is reached (if set).
ref https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/33036
fix https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/39984
ref https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/40247
Problem: The recursion offset into the static `stl_items` was not taken
into account when adjusting the item count after truncation.
Steps to reproduce: first prepare `stl_items`:
set stl=%{%repeat('%#Error#',10)%}
then watch how the Error highlight leaks into the recursive call:
set stl=%l%l%l%{%nvim_eval_statusline('test%l%<',{'maxwidth':3,'highlights':1}).highlights%}
ref https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/32259
* fix(statusline): consistent truncation at multicell character
Problem 1: truncation of item groups at multicell character didn't take
into account that minwid can be specified as a negative number.
Problem 2: after truncation at top-level from the right at multicell
character, the returned width was always `maxwidth`, even though the
actual width was reduced. In vim, this can be observed as a statusline
that is not fully drawn until the edge of the screen:
vim --clean +"set ls=2 stl=%{%repeat('x',&columns-2)%}🙂x%<"
Problem 3: after truncation at top-level from the left at multicell
character, the resulting gap to reach `maxwidth` again was filled with
fillchars, but then the final NUL was not set correctly.
This can be seen in the following example, where the statuscolumn spills
into the editing area starting from line 10:
nvim --clean +"set number stc=%<x🙂%{repeat('x',43)}%l" +"norm yy10p"
Solution: fix the small errors and, at top-level, consistently reduce
the size instead of compensating with fillchars. In the case of the
statusline and the winbar, the remaining place is filled with the
configured fillchars in `win_redr_custom`, after `build_stl_str_hl` has
returned. In all other cases (title, icon, statuscol, tabline, ruler),
there seems to be no point in adding additional spaces at the end.
* feat(statusline)!: scope %< to item groups
Problem:
Previously, item groups were only truncated at the beginning, which is
often not desired. In the example
%.15(path: %f%)
the group's title/label is truncated away:
<th/to/file.txt
Truncation markers (%<) in item groups were processed at the top-level
in the end, which can be confusing. Only the first %< is used for the
whole string, and it is used even if the containing item group is
hidden. Additionally, in the case of hidden item groups, the marker's
position was not adapted. For example,
%(hidden%<%)%f
had the effect of truncating the path somewhere in the middle:
/path/<file.txt
Solution:
Make truncation consistent with top-level behaviour, which has a better
default of truncating at the first `Normal` item, i.e.
path: <file.txt
and allows for fine-grained control with truncation markers (%<). E.g.
%.15(path: %f%<%)
now yields
path: /path/to>
The original behaviour can be restored like so:
%.15(%<path: %f%)
BREAKING CHANGE: %< is no longer processed at top-level
- the default truncation behaviour has changed: now at first item
- truncation markers inside item groups don't affect truncation outside
of the item group anymore
- several truncation markers can now have an effect when separated with
item groups, whereas previously only the first one globally had
ref https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/39984
Problem:
`:edit <dir>` and `nvim <dir>` currently rely on netrw to show local directory
contents.
Solution:
- Provide `filetype=directory`.
- Introduce dir.lua, a small plugin that provides directory listing, opening
items, parent navigation, and refresh.
- `netrw` remains available for `:Explore`, remote paths, archives, and file
operations. To continue
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Problem:
cmdwin (the `:q` cmdline buffer) has various limitations which require
special-casing all over the codebase.
Besides complicating the code, it also breaks async plugins if they try
to create buffers/windows after some work is done, if the user happens
to open cmdwin at the wrong the moment:
Lua callback: …/guh.nvim/lua/guh/util.lua:531:
E11: Invalid in command-line window; <CR> executes, CTRL-C quits
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'nvim_buf_delete'
…/guh.nvim/lua/guh/util.lua:531: in function <…/guh.nvim/lua/guh/util.lua:526>
Solution:
Just say no to "inception". Reimplement cmdwin as a normal buffer+window.
All of the cmdwin contortions (in both core, and innocent plugins) exist
literally only to support "inception": recursive
cmdwin-in-cmdline-things, like `<c-r>=`, `/`, search-during-substitute,
`:input()`, etc. So we just won't support that (though I have
a potential plan for that later, which I call "modal parking lot").
The benefit is that plugins, and core, no longer have to care about
cmdwin.
BONUS:
- mouse-drag on vertical separators works (it only worked for
horizontal/statusline before)
- inccommand-in-cmdwin now works correctly, for free (thus don't need
#40077).
POTENTIAL FOLLOWUPS
- Drop `CHECK_CMDWIN` ("E11: Invalid in command-line window"), allow chaos.
- Unify `BUFLOCK_OK` / `LOCK_OK` ?
DESIGN:
- Eliminate lots of C globals, `EX_CMDWIN`, etc.
- `text_locked()` no longer reports true for cmdwin.
- cmdwin = a normal window with 'winfixbuf', 'bufhidden=wipe',
'buftype=nofile'. Invariants come from those options rather than
special cases throughout the codebase.
- `nv_record` for q:/q//q? calls Lua
`nlua_call_vimfn("vim._core.cmdwin", …)`. No `K_CMDWIN`
/ cmdline-reader detour.
- `cedit_key` (`c_CTRL-F`) schedules a deferred event that calls
`vim._core.cmdwin.open(type, content, pos)` and returns `Ctrl_C` so
the in-flight cmdline cancels. Reader state is not serialized; instead
the captured `(type, line, col)` is replayed via
`nvim_feedkeys(type..line.."<CR>", "nt", …)` after user confirms.
- On confirm/cancel: `<CR>` / `<C-C>` calls into Lua which closes the
window and re-feeds the cmdline.
BREAKING CHANGES:
- Expression-register cmdline (`<C-R>=` from insert-mode) no longer
supports cmdwin. Same applies to `input()` / `inputlist()` (already
covered by `text_locked`).
- Usage of cmdwin in macros/mappings will probably break (assuming they
ever worked).
text-object-define is a pattern I found in tpope's plugins (e.g.
https://github.com/tpope/vim-jdaddy) which shows an elegant way to
define a text-object. (Any mistakes in the example are my fault.)
Problem:
No way to handle a "tab moved" event.
Use-case: tabline plugins may cache tab labels, and need to know when to
invalidate their cache.
Solution:
Add a `TabMoved` event that triggers whenever tabs are reordered via `:tabmove`
or via mouse click-and-drag.
Define `:packupdate` and `:packdel` as separate commands instead of a
unified `:pack {subcommand}` because the semantics between the two
commands vary differently enough that it doesn't make sense to combine
them. Additionally, `:pack! update/del` looks bad.
Problem:
BufModifiedSet autocmd only triggered for current buffer during
redraw, causing delayed events when :wa writes non-current buffers.
Solution:
- Use the aucmd_defer approach to implement `Optionset modified`.
- Drop BufModifiedSet.
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:
Currently, we recommend always inserting text above prompt-line in
prompt-buffer. This can be done using the `:` mark. However, although
we recommend it this way it can sometimes get confusing how to do it
best.
Solution:
Provide an api to append text to prompt buffer. This is a common
use-case for things using prompt-buffer.
Problem:
"[Process exited]" is implemented in C with anonymous namespace
and users have no way to hide it.
Solution:
- Handle "TermClose" event in Lua.
- User can delete the "nvim.terminal" augroup to avoid "[Process exited]".
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:
Mappings with a control modifier follow the (tag) format of:
{key_before}_CTRL-{key}_{key_after}
Where `{key_before}` and `{key_after}` can be any other key combination.
However, for the Nvim default mappings `[_CTRL-Q`, `]_CTRL-Q`,
`[_CTRL-L`, `]_CTRL-L`, `[_CTRL-T` and `]_CTRL-T`, the underscore
between the bracket and CTRL was absent. This lead to problems finding
the relevant docs with `:help [_CTRL-Q` and made parsing the {subject}
argument for `:help` harder.
Solution:
Use the right tag format.
Problem:
- Despite [nvim-lspconfig](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig)
claims to be a "data-only" plugin, in fact it still provides some
user-facing commands because they haven't been upstreamed to Nvim.
Solution:
- Upstream `:LspRestart`, `:LspStart` and `:LspStop` commands as `:lsp
restart`, `:lsp start` and `:lsp stop` respectively.
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Problem:
- Exposing the raw config as table is a pattern not seen anywhere else
in the Nvim codebase.
- Old spellfile.vim docs still available, no new documentation
Solution:
- Exposing a `config()` function that both acts as "getter" and "setter"
is a much more common idiom (e.g. vim.lsp, vim.diagnostic).
- Add new documentation and link old docs to |spellfile.lua| instead of
|spellfile.vim|.
compile time features are hot again.
Note: this changes the &term value for builtin definition from
'builtin_xterm' to just 'xterm'. It's an xterm regardless of we use an
external definition or an internal. Prior to this commit the vast
majority of POSIX users will have used external terminfo, so plugins and
scripts are only going to have checked for &term == 'xterm' or 'tmux' or
whatever.
The status of external loading is still available in "nvim -V3" output.
Problem: :update should write new file buffers, but previous fix
affected special buffer types (acwrite, nofile, etc.).
Solution: Add bt_nofilename() check to only write new files for
buffers representing real filesystem paths.
Problem: 'ruler' is set in defaults.vim, but not enabled by default in
non-compatible mode.
Solution: set the ruler option in non-compatible mode, remove it from
defaults.vim, update tests
closes: vim/vim#18260ba36510920
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: defaults: 'showcmd' is not enabled in non-compatible mode on
Unix
Solution: Always enable 'showcmd' in non-compatible mode, drop it from
defaults.vim.
'showcmd' was already always enabled in Vim compatible mode except for
UNIX environments. So let's just enable it always, there is no good
reason why UNIX platforms should be handled differently than other
platforms, especially since `defaults.vim` did enable this option
anyhow.
closes: vim/vim#177393f9d2378bd
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
- Problem: It's not clear for new plugin developers that `:help` uses
a help-tags file for searching the docs, generated by `:helptags`.
- Solution: Hint to the |:helptags| docs for regenerating the tags
file for their freshly written documentation.
Co-authored-by: Yochem van Rosmalen <git@yochem.nl>
Problem:
insert-mode ctrl-r input is treated like raw user input, which is almost
never useful. This means any newlines in the input are affected by
autoindent, etc., which is:
- slow
- usually breaks the formatting of the input
Solution:
- ctrl-r should be treated like a paste, not user-input.
- does not affect `<c-r>=`, so `<c-r>=@x` can still be used to get the
old behavior.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Problem: The maximum search count uses a hard-coded value of 99
(Andres Monge, Joschua Kesper)
Solution: Make it configurable using the 'maxsearchcount' option.
related: vim/vim#8855fixes: vim/vim#17527closes: vim/vim#17695b7b7fa04bf
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Many terminals now include support for OSC 52 in their Primary Device
Attributes (DA1) response. This is preferable to using XTGETTCAP because
DA1 is _much_ more broadly supported.
Problem:
- Running `:h :EditQuery` throws error `E149: Sorry, no help for
:EditQuery`
- vim_diff.txt miss an entry for `:EditQuery`
Solution:
- Make tag `[:EditQuery]()` right-aligned, similar to command `:Open`
- Update vim_diff.txt
Problems:
- Miss some entries in `vim_diff.txt` and `index.txt`.
- I want to learn about Vim register, but when I type `:h register`, it
shows sponsor information instead. Note that unlike Nvim, Vim has a
separate session for `*register*`
Solution:
- Add missing commands to `index.txt`, `vim_diff.txt`
- Remove tag `register` from `index.txt`
Problem:
Not easy to get user-input in prompt-buffer before the user submits the
input. Under the current system user/plugin needs to read the buffer
contents, figure out where the prompt is, then extract the text.
Solution:
- Add prompt_getinput().
- Extract prompt text extraction logic to a separate function
