Calling cmd.exe in Windows follows a very different pattern from Vim.
The primary difference is that Vim does a nested call to cmd.exe, e.g.
the following call in Vim
system('echo a 2>&1')
spawns the following processes
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim80\vimrun" -s C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c (echo a 2^>^&1
^>C:\Users\dummy\AppData\Local\Temp\VIoC169.tmp 2^>^&1)
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c (echo a 2^>^&1
^>C:\Users\dummy\AppData\Local\Temp\VIo3C6C.tmp 2^>^&1)
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c (echo a 2>&1
>C:\Users\dummy\AppData\Local\Temp\VIo3C6C.tmp 2>&1)
The escaping with ^ is needed because cmd.exe calls itself and needs to
preserve the special metacharacters for the last call. However in nvim
no nested call is made, system('') spawns a single cmd.exe process.
Setting shellxescape to "" disables escaping with ^.
The previous default for shellxquote=( wrapped any command in
parenthesis, in Vim this is more meaningful due to the use of tempfiles
to store the output and redirection (also see &shellquote). There is
a slight benefit in having the default be empty because some expressions
that run in console will not run within parens e.g. due to unbalanced
double quotes
system('echo "a b')
> The option 'maxmem' ('mm') is used to set the maximum memory used for one
> buffer (in kilobytes). 'maxmemtot' is used to set the maximum memory used for
> all buffers (in kilobytes). The defaults depend on the system used. These
> are not hard limits, but tell Vim when to move text into a swap file. If you
> don't like Vim to swap to a file, set 'maxmem' and 'maxmemtot' to a very large
> value. The swap file will then only be used for recovery. If you don't want
> a swap file at all, set 'updatecount' to 0, or use the "-n" argument when
> starting Vim.
On today's systems these values are huge (4GB in my machine with 8GB of RAM
since it's set as half the available memory by default) so the limits are
never reached in practice, but Vim wastes a lot of time checking if the limit
was reached.
If the limit is reached Vim starts saving pieces of the swap file that were in
memory to the disk. Said in a different way: Vim implements its own memory
swapping mechanism. This is unnecessary and inefficient since the operating
system already virtualized the memory and will swap to the disk if programs
start using too much memory.
This change does...
1. Reduce the number of config options and need for documentation.
2. Make the code more efficient as we don't have to keep track of memory usage
nor check if the memory limits were reached to start swapping to disk every
time we need memory for buffers.
3. Simplify the code. Once `memfile.c` is simple enough it could be replaced by
actual operating system memory mapping (`mmap`, `MemoryViewOfFile`...).
This change does not prevent Vim to recover changes from swap files since the
swapping code is never triggered with the huge limits set by default.
Problem: The 'langnoremap' option leads to double negatives. And it does
not work for the last character of a mapping.
Solution: Add 'langremap' with the opposite value. Keep 'langnoremap' for
backwards compatibility. Make it work for the last character of a
mapping. Make the test work.
920694c1b6
Make the 'scrollback' option work like most other buffer-local options:
- `:set scrollback=x` sets the global and local value
- `:setglobal scrollback=x` sets only the global default
- new terminal buffers inherit the global
Normal buffers are still always -1, and :setlocal there is an error.
Closes#6337
Problem: 'formatprg' is a global option but the value may depend on the
type of buffer. (Sung Pae)
Solution: Make 'formatprg' global-local. (closesvim/vim#1380)
9be7c04e6c
- Vim "unix default" of 'noshowcmd' is serving few users. And it's
inconsistent.
- 'ruler' and 'belloff=all' improve the out-of-the-box experience.
- Continue to use 'noshowcmd' and 'noruler' by default in the functional
tests to keep them fast.
TODO: Add a "disable slow stuff" command or mapping to address the
use-case of a very slow terminal connection.
This default causes too much confusion for terminal users. Until
a better approach is implemented, revert to the traditional default.
Better solution would be:
- Implement a right-click menu for TUI
- Set 'mouse=a' *only* if clipboard is working.
Closes#5938
'inccommand' allows us to expand the feature to other commands, such as:
:cdo
:cfdo
:global
Also rename "IncSubstitute" highlight group to "Substitute".
Originally implemented by
* Clement0
* DesbyP
* aym7
* Adrey06
* Robinhola
in #4811. Major reworkings and bug
fixes by
* bfredl
Most tests suggested by ZyX-l, suggestions for improvements by oni-link.
Problem: Although emoji characters are ambiguous width, best is to treat
them as full width.
Solution: Update the Unicode character tables. Add the 'emoji' options.
(Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3848e00e01
It is a wrong thing to do, this makes valid variable values be treated
incorrectly: in
XDG_DATA_HOME='/home/$foo/.local/share'
`$foo` should be treated literally and not expanded to `foo` environment
variable value.
Also makes option_expand not try to expand too long strings even if these too
long strings are default values. Previously it thought that default values
should always be expanded. Also does not try to expand NULL should it be the
default value just in case.
Fixes#4961
TODO: Only works at startup (i.e., in the user's init.vim/vimrc/--cmd),
but it should probably work at any time.
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patch 7.4.1799
Problem: 'guicolors' is a confusing option name.
Solution: Use 'termguicolors' instead. (Hirohito Higashi)
61be73bb0f
patch 7.4.1806
Problem: 'termguicolors' option missing from the options window.
Solution: Add the entry.
8e3d1b6326
patch 7.4.1808
Problem: Using wrong feature name to check for 'termguicolors'.
Solution: Use the right feature name. (Ken Takata)
8a24b794b8
patch 7.4.1809
Problem: Using wrong short option name for 'termguicolors'.
Solution: Use the option name.
868cfc19bb
Problem: On some systems automatically adding the missing EOL causes
problems. Setting 'binary' has too many side effects.
Solution: Add the 'fixeol' option, default on. (Pavel Samarkin)
34d72d4b6c
- Add functions that are able to query XDG.
- Replace defaults for
- &runtimepath. Does not follow #78.
- &viewdir.
- &undodir.
- &directory.
- &backupdir. Does not follow #78.
- vimrc location.
- Remove user vimrc file line from :version message.
- new feature: if the first character of 'keywordprg' is ":", the
command is invoked as a Vim ex-command prefixed with [count].
- change default 'keywordprg' to :Man
