Problem: We want to deprecate `nvim_err_write(ln)()` but there is no
obvious replacement (from Lua). Meanwhile we already have
`nvim_echo()` with an `opts` argument.
Solution: Add `err` argument to `nvim_echo()` that directly maps to
`:echoerr`.
Problem: Two separate try/end wrappers, that only marginally differ by
restoring a few variables. Wrappers that don't restore
previous state are dangerous to use in "api-fast" functions.
Solution: Remove wrappers that don't restore the previous state.
Always use TRY_WRAP.
Problem:
- API functions using `try_start` directly instead of `TRY_WRAP`, do not
surface the underlying error message, and instead show generic things
like "Failed to set buffer".
- Error handling code is duplicated in the API impl, instead of
delegating to the vim buffer/window handling logic.
Solution:
- Use `TRY_WRAP`.
Problem: Documentation for "hl_group" in nvim_buf_set_extmark() is
unclear. "hl_group" in nvim_echo() does not accept
highlight group id.
Solution: Move documentation for highlight group name/id to first
mention of hl_group. Update nvim_echo() to accept highlight
group id.
Problem: Highlight group id is not propagated to the end of the message call
stack, where ext_messages are emitted.
Solution: Refactor message functions to pass along highlight group id
instead of attr id.
In the api_info() output:
:new|put =map(filter(api_info().functions, '!has_key(v:val,''deprecated_since'')'), 'v:val')
...
{'return_type': 'ArrayOf(Integer, 2)', 'name': 'nvim_win_get_position', 'method': v:true, 'parameters': [['Window', 'window']], 'since': 1}
The `ArrayOf(Integer, 2)` return type didn't break clients when we added
it, which is evidence that clients don't use the `return_type` field,
thus renaming Dictionary => Dict in api_info() is not (in practice)
a breaking change.
Problem:
crash when calling nvim_buf_get_text() with a large negative start_col:
call nvim_buf_get_text(0, 0, -123456789, 0, 0, {})
Solution:
clamp start_col after subtracting it from the line length.
This also makes shada reading slightly faster due to avoiding
some copying and allocation.
Use keysets to drive decoding of msgpack maps for shada entries.
Before, we needed to always pack an entire msgpack_rpc Object to
a continous memory buffer before sending it out to a channel.
But this is generally wasteful. it is better to just flush
whatever is in the buffer and then continue packing to a new buffer.
This is also done for the UI event packer where there are some extra logic
to "finish" of an existing batch of nevents/ncalls. This doesn't really
stop us from flushing the buffer, just that we need to update the state
machine accordingly so the next call to prepare_call() always will
start with a new event (even though the buffer might contain overflow
data from a large event).
Then we can just load metadata in C as a single msgpack blob. Which also
can be used directly as binarly data, instead of first unpacking all the
functions and ui_events metadata to immediately pack it again, which was
a bit of a silly walk (and one extra usecase of `msgpack_rpc_from_object`
which will get yak shaved in the next PR)
Note: kSDItemHeader is something is _written_ by nvim in the shada file
to identify it for debugging purposes outside of nvim. But this data wasn't ever used by
neovim after reading the file back, So I removed the parsing of it for now.
Note: this contains two _temporary_ changes which can be reverted
once the Arena vs no-Arena distinction in API wrappers has been removed.
Both nlua_push_Object and object_to_vim_take_luaref() has been changed
to take the object argument as a pointer. This is not going to be
necessary once these are only used with arena (or not at all) allocated
Objects.
The object_to_vim() variant which leaves luaref untouched might need to
stay for a little longer.
and for return value of nlua_exec/nlua_call_ref, as this uses
the same family of functions.
NB: the handling of luaref:s is a bit of a mess.
add api_luarefs_free_XX functions as a stop-gap as refactoring
luarefs is a can of worms for another PR:s.
as a minor feature/bug-fix, nvim_buf_call and nvim_win_call now preserves
arbitrary return values.
Implement api_keydict_to_dict as the complement to api_dict_to_keydict
Fix a conversion error when nvim_get_win_config gets called from lua,
where Float values "x" and "y" didn't get converted to lua numbers.
Remove `export` pramgas from defs headers as it causes IWYU to believe
that the definitions from the defs headers comes from main header, which
is not what we really want.
FUNC_ATTR_* should only be used in .c files with generated headers.
Defining FUNC_ATTR_* as empty in headers causes misuses of them to be
silently ignored. Instead don't define them by default, and only define
them as empty after a .c file has included its generated header.
We already have an extensive suite of static analysis tools we use,
which causes a fair bit of redundancy as we get duplicate warnings. PVS
is also prone to give false warnings which creates a lot of work to
identify and disable.
Problem: The style guide states that all switch statements that are not conditional on an enum must have a `default` case, but does not give any explicit guideline for switch statements that are conditional on enums. As a result, a `default` case is added in many enum switch statements, even when the switch statement is exhaustive. This is not ideal because it removes the ability to have compiler errors to easily detect unchanged switch statements when a new possible value for an enum is added.
Solution: Add explicit guidelines for switch statements that are conditional on an enum, clarifying that a `default` case is not necessary if the switch statement is exhaustive. Also refactor pre-existing code with unnecessary `default` cases.
ml_get_buf() takes a third parameters to indicate whether the
caller wants to mutate the memline data in place. However
the vast majority of the call sites is using this function
just to specify a buffer but without any mutation. This makes
it harder to grep for the places which actually perform mutation.
Solution: Remove the bool param from ml_get_buf(). it now works
like ml_get() except for a non-current buffer. Add a new
ml_get_buf_mut() function for the mutating use-case, which can
be grepped along with the other ml_replace() etc functions which
can modify the memline.
Enforce consistent terminology (defined in
`gen_help_html.lua:spell_dict`) for common misspellings.
This does not spellcheck English in general (perhaps a future TODO,
though it may be noisy).
Adds new API helper macros `CSTR_AS_OBJ()`, `STATIC_CSTR_AS_OBJ()`, and `STATIC_CSTR_TO_OBJ()`, which cleans up a lot of the current code. These macros will also be used extensively in the upcoming option refactor PRs because then API Objects will be used to get/set options. This PR also modifies pre-existing code to use old API helper macros like `CSTR_TO_OBJ()` to make them cleaner.
Problem:
- API validation involves too much boilerplate.
- API validation errors are not consistently worded.
Solution:
Introduce some macros. Currently these are clumsy, but they at least
help with consistency and avoid some nesting.
