Problem:
Numerous callers have to manually check optval ownership (i.e. whether,
and how, to release) via `is_callback_option`, `option_is_global_local`,
etc. This is fragile, hard to use correctly; and if we introduce another
optval variant in the future, we'll have to redo all of these careful
checks and boilerplate again.
Solution:
Provide a unified system and use it everywhere:
optval_free_owned
optval_is_owned
optval_own
Problem:
Cannot assign Lua functions/closures to "func" ('completefunc',
'tagfun', …) or "expr" ('foldexpr', 'indentexpr', …) options.
Solution:
- Store "func"/"expr" options as `Callback` instead of string.
- Delete oceans of copy-pasted code.
- BREAKING: LuaRef returned via RPC/Vimscript is now represented as
`"<Lua N: file:line>"` (like what `:map` shows) instead of `nil`.
- Note: `man.vim` still uses `v:lua` string, bc it's a vimscript ftplugin.
Helped-by: Lewis Russell <lewis6991@gmail.com>
Problem: With 'smoothscroll' the scroll position of a window is lost when
its height changes.
Solution: Only reset the skipped columns when 'smoothscroll' is off, where
they just serve to keep the cursor visible.
closes: vim/vim#2088517f3923b8c
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Problem:
The bundled `zip` plugin is implemented in Vimscript, making it harder to
maintain and build on with Nvim's Lua runtime infrastructure.
Solution:
Add an opt-out `zip.lua` browser backed by `nvim.dir`, and disable the legacy
Vimscript implementation by moving it to `pack/dist/opt/zip/`. Load it with
`:packadd zip`.
Problem:
Cmdline area shows stale ":" after backspacing out of the command line.
Solution:
Clear the command line for empty commands. Note that `:<CR>` will now
clear the command line too.
Problem: Installing plugins during lockfile synchronization always
writes the lockfile, even though its content is used during install.
This might be a problem if the lockfile (itself or its parent
directory) is not writeable (can only be read).
Solution: Do not write the lockfile when installing directly from it.
This is okay since the `src` and `rev` are used directly from the
lockfile and don't change at this step. While potential change in
`version` (that must be written to the lockfile) is handled in other
code path.
Problem:
commit_chars_str() reads a 0x80-0xBF byte as a 2-byte lead, so
"\xA9x" makes "x" a commit character. nvim_get_hl() returns
a dict, so `#` on it is 0 whether or not the group exists
Solution:
use vim.str_utf_end() and drop entries that are not one whole
character. use next check dict length.
Problem:
Cursor-relative floats can use stale screen coordinates after a cursor move is restored without a redraw.
Solution:
Validate the current cursor before converting cursor-relative coordinates.
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Problem:
Tree-sitter uses UINT32_MAX for full-document ranges, which becomes -1 on 32-bit platforms and reaches _foldupdate as an invalid end row.
Solution:
Treat negative changed-range end rows as unbounded and clamp them to the buffer line count. Add a regression test that simulates the 32-bit sentinel.
AI-assisted: Codex
Problem:
Want `gQ` for _le multicursor_.
Solution:
- Don't use `gQ` for exmode.
- Introduce `:exmode`.
- Introduce `[count]q:` as an alias to `:exmode`.
Problem:
On NetBSD, `man -w open` can return the exact manpage path, but `:Man`
may still fail when man directories cannot be discovered from `manpath
-q`, bare `man -w`, or `$MANPATH`.
Solution:
Fall back to the direct manpage lookup when directory discovery fails.
Add a test for resolving `open(2)` through `goto_tag()` without manpath
data.
Problem: A preselected item is inserted even with "noinsert", and the
first added preselected item wins over the first one shown
in the menu.
Solution: Use K_DOWN when "noinsert" is set; pick the first preselected
item that made it into the menu.
Problem:
POSIX-compatible Ex-mode requires special-cases all over the codebase to
match various quirks that don't actually matter to users.
- The main utility of *interactive* Ex-mode is its REPL behavior, and
that can be achieved with `cmdwin`, which also gains extra UX
benefits.
- The main utility of *non-interactive* `nvim -es` is for shell
scripting, where Ex-mode quirks are mostly unhelpful (e.g. the
"Entering Ex mode" message).
Solution:
- Reimplement *interactive* Ex-mode as a "persistent, insert-mode
cmdwin" in Lua.
- "nvim -e/-E" is simply an alias to "gQ".
- Reframe *non-interactive* Ex-mode (`nvim -es`) as "script mode".
- Drop POSIX Ex-mode quirks.
Improvements:
- "nvim -V1 -es" output ends with a final newline!
- "nvim -V1 -es" no longer shows the "Entering Ex mode" msg. (This was
pointless noise, unwanted for scripting purposes.)
- stdin is no longer typeahead. Scripts (":lua io.read()") can read
stdin as data.
- Empty line is a no-op: a stray blank line no longer moves the cursor
(deviates from POSIX ex "+1"), no longer exits 1 at EOF (E501).
Preserved behavior:
- cursor starts at "$"
- mode()=="cv" (for non-interactive)
- multiline commands (:append/:function/heredoc pull continuation lines)
- bare-range print
- :print=>stdout
- -V1=>stderr
- CRLF input
- continue-after-error and exit codes
Dropped (regressed) POSIX behavior (non-interactive):
- Event loop only ticks while/between commands, not while blocked
waiting for a stdin line.
- ":g/pat/visual...Q"
- input()/getchar()/":s/x/y/c" no longer consume stdin lines as
answers: Nvim stops at end-of-input, skipping the rest of the script,
exit 0. Use ":lua io.read()" instead.
- If users care about this they should use interactive Ex-mode (`gQ`).
- ":@r" stops at end of the register instead of continuing to read
cmdline input from stdin.
Problem:
The current check is intended to match DOS device paths starting with
`\\?` or `\\.` but will match any path starting with `?` or `.`,
including relative paths such as `.\`.
This is because the leading slashes are removed before the comparison.
Solution:
Changes the check to include the path's prefix, assuring the path has
the correct amount of separators for a DOS device path.
Problem:
After expanding tabs with the `expandtab` option, if the old indent
matches the requested one, `vim.text.indent()` returns the input
unchanged.
The optimization path assumes that if old_indent == size, the input
wouldn't be changed, which is not correct when old_indent is formed by
expanded tabs.
Solution:
Apply the optimization only when `expandtab` is not set.
Problem: Shortening the name of a buffer whose full name is the current
directory + path sep yields empty string -> buf unnamed.
This doesn't interact well with things like `:mksession`, which
for example could `:badd` with no arg -> E471.
Solution: Keep the full path when shortening yields an empty name, as
`path_try_shorten_fname()` already does.
Problem: 'showcmd' not redrawn with empty mapping triggered on timeout.
Solution: Don't postpone redraw when inside vgetorpeek(). Also move test
for tabline 'showcmd' to test_tabline.vim.
fixes: vim/vim#20839closes: vim/vim#208402e9687647a
Problem: `q:` in visual mode does not insert `'<,'>` automatically in
the current line on cmdwin.
Solution: Insert `'<,'>` in the current line on cmdwin when `q:` is used
in visual mode.
Problem: `:browse edit` (and variants) without an argument fails instead
of opening a browser.
Solution: Dispatch to dir.lua using the cwd as the implied directory.
Replace the inherited GUI-only documentation with the supported
behavior. Support vsplit, split, tabedit variants.
Changes:
- Removed the blank line before the first healthcheck header.
- Fixed a bug where the entire "Terminal" section of `vim.health` would
not appear if the `infocmp` executable was not found.
- Fixed a typo in `vim.lsp` when displaying the LSP log level.
The parent commit made a valiant effort to store "dict options" in their
reified form, but this is more trouble than it's worth:
- inconsistent model for developers to understand.
- string lifetime issues (the "varp" convention is to pass around an
aliased, long-lived option value).
- lots of extra plumbing to deal with the 2 different option-storage
paradigms.
Problem:
Options parsing is still painful for dict-style options.
Solution:
schema-maxxing => better `opt:get()` (will be the basis for `vim.o()`),
unified (and more-detailed) err msgs.
- Drop bespoke structure-builder in `_core/options.lua`.
- Define `schema` for all non-primitive options (except 'guicursor' and
statusline-style options); generate reified keysets `OptKeyDict`).
- Generate 'fillchars' => `fcs_tab`, 'listchars' => `lcs_tab`.
- `nvim_set_option_value`:
- Return the improved structures. Also from `vim.opt.x:get()`.
- Eliminate api <=> lua roundtrip, centralize option structure
handling.
- Improve/unify errors.
- Bump ERR_BUFLEN 80 → 256 so the "one of" list isn't truncated.
- Eliminate old 'diffopt' order-dependence (`iwhiteall` before `iwhite`)
Error samples:
Typed-key path (opt_strings_check → diffopt/mousescroll/breakindentopt):
E474: Unknown item 'foo'
E474: 'context' requires a number
E474: 'ver' number is out of range
E474: 'algorithm' must be one of: myers, minimal, patience, histogram
E474: 'filler' does not take a value
Related:
- #31084
- #34661
- #31820
- #14739
- #20107
- fix#18875
- :get() returns `{ sbr = true, shift = '3' }` (reified-keyset) instead of `{'sbr', 'shift:3'}`
- Setting via table now works too. `object_as_optval_for` `is_map` now recognizes struct options.
- fix#30296
- instead of `E474: Invalid argument`, errors now look like:
```
E474: Invalid value 'x', expected one of: single, double: ambiwidth=x
E474: Unknown item 'foo': diffopt=foo
E474: 'context' requires a number: diffopt=context:x
```
simplify `win_float_parse_option` from #26799.
Problem:
The preview-window (:pedit, etc.) always uses a split, but it would be
useful as a floatwin (or "popup").
Solution:
Support Vim's 'previewpopup' option.
Problem:
The core behaviors of `nvim.dir` cannot be reused by consumers
such as the archive plugin, ssh browser, etc.
Solution:
- Define a basic "provider" shape.
- Extract the filesystem provider.
Problem:
When buffer is open in multiple windows and its line count changes, any
'statusline' or 'rulerformat' items depending on it (e.g. %P) will
become invalid in non-current windows because w_redr_status is only set
on first change.
Solution:
Set w_redr_status on all windows with the buffer when the line count
changes.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Balaz <blami@blami.net>
Problem:
Redundant code.
Solution:
Combine path_has_wildcard() and path_has_exp_wildcard(). They have similar logic.
Also, the latter operates on whatever wildcards remain after shell/env/backtick
expansion, so the two felt somewhat related.
Also drop some unnecessary MB_PTR_ADV calls.
