Problem: current command completion is a bit limited
Solution: Add the shellcmdline completion type and getmdcomplpat()
function (Ruslan Russkikh).
closes: vim/vim#158230407d621bb
Co-authored-by: Ruslan Russkikh <dvrussk@yandex.ru>
Problem: No way to get prompt for input()/confirm()
Solution: add getcmdprompt() function (Shougo Matsushita)
(Shougo Matsushita)
closes: vim/vim#156676908428560
Co-authored-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Problem: Cannot get a list of positions describing a region
(Justin M. Keyes, after v9.1.0120)
Solution: Add the getregionpos() function
(Shougo Matsushita)
fixes: vim/vim#14609closes: vim/vim#14617b4757e627e
Co-authored-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
runtime: Remove fallback :CompilerSet definition from compiler plugins
The :CompilerSet command was added in version Vim 6.4 which was released
twenty years ago. Other runtime files do not support versions of that
vintage so it is reasonable to remove this fallback command definition
now.
closes: vim/vim#14399408281e16a
Co-authored-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Problem: hard to get visual region using Vim script
Solution: Add getregion() Vim script function
(Shougo Matsushita, Jakub Łuczyński)
closes: vim/vim#13998closes: vim/vim#115793f905ab3c4
Cherry-pick changes from patch 9.1.0122, with :echom instead of :echow.
Co-authored-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jakub Łuczyński <doubleloop@o2.pl>
Problem: Vim is missing a foreach() func
Solution: Implement foreach({expr1}, {expr2}) function,
which applies {expr2} for each item in {expr1}
without changing it (Ernie Rael)
closes: vim/vim#12166e79e207760
Partial port as this doesn't handle non-materialized range() lists.
vim-patch:c92b8bed1fa6
runtime(help): delete duplicate help tag E741 (vim/vim#13861)
c92b8bed1f
Co-authored-by: Ernie Rael <errael@raelity.com>
Problem: Cannot easily get the list of matches
Solution: Add the matchstrlist() and matchbufline() Vim script
functions (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: vim/vim#13766
Omit CHECK_LIST_MATERIALIZE(): it populates a List with numbers only,
and there is a check for strings below.
f93b1c881a
vim-patch:eb3475df0d92
runtime(doc): Replace non-breaking space with normal space (vim/vim#13868)
eb3475df0d
Co-authored-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <4298407+yegappan@users.noreply.github.com>
Problem: Can only get a list of mappings.
Solution: Add the optional {abbr} argument. (Ernie Rael, closesvim/vim#10277)
Rename to maplist(). Rename test file.
09661203ec
Co-authored-by: Ernie Rael <errael@raelity.com>
Problem: Not simple programmatic way to find a specific mapping.
Solution: Add getmappings(). (Ernie Rael, closesvim/vim#10273)
659c240cf7
Co-authored-by: Ernie Rael <errael@raelity.com>
Problem: reverse() does not work for a String.
Solution: Implement reverse() for a String. (Yegappan Lakshmanan,
closesvim/vim#12179)
03ff1c2dde
vim-patch:9.0.1738: Duplicate code to reverse a string
Problem: Duplicate code to reverse a string
Solution: Move reverse_text() to strings.c and remove string_reverse().
closes: vim/vim#128474dd266cb66
Co-authored-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Problem: undotree() only works for the current buffer
Solution: Add an optional "buffer number" parameter to undotree(). If
omitted, use the current buffer for backwards compatibility.
closes: vim/vim#4001closes: vim/vim#122925fee111149
Co-authored-by: Devin J. Pohly <djpohly@gmail.com>
- eval.lua is now the source of truth.
- Formatting is much more consistent.
- Fixed Lua type generation for polymorphic functions (get(), etc).
- Removed "Overview" section from builtin.txt
- Can generate this if we really want it.
- Moved functions from sign.txt and testing.txt into builtin.txt.
- Removed the *timer* *timers* tags since libuv timers via vim.uv should be preferred.
- Removed the temp-file-name tag from tempname()
- Moved lueval() from lua.txt to builtin.txt.
* Fix indent
* fixup!
* fixup! fixup!
* fixup! better tag formatting
* fixup: revert changes no longer needed
* fixup! CI
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Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Problem: Using inclusive index for slice is not always desired.
Solution: Add the slice() method, which has an exclusive index. (closes
vim/vim#7408)
6601b62943
Cherry-pick a line in docs added later.
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: no functions for converting from/to UTF-16 index.
Solution: Add UTF-16 flag to existing funtions and add strutf16len() and
utf16idx(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#12216)
67672ef097
Co-authored-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Problem: There is no way to get a list of swap file names.
Solution: Add the swapfilelist() function. Use it in the test script to
clean up. Remove deleting individual swap files.
c216a7a21a
vim-patch:9.0.1005: a failed test may leave a swap file behind
Problem: A failed test may leave a swap file behind.
Solution: Delete the swap file to avoid another test to fail. Use another
file name.
d0f8d39d20
Cherry-pick test_window_cmd.vim changes from patch 8.2.1593.
Remove FUNC_ATTR_UNUSED from eval functions as fptr is always unused.
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Cannot easily get the list of sourced scripts.
Solution: Add the getscriptinfo() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan,
closesvim/vim#10957)
f768c3d19c
Cherry-pick usr_41.txt change from a later runtime update.
Co-authored-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Problem: Vim9: it is not possible to extend a dictionary with different
item types.
Solution: Add extendnew(). (closesvim/vim#7666)
b0e6b51364
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Finding value in list may require a for loop.
Solution: Add indexof(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#10903)
b218655d5a
Co-authored-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Problem: Vim9: flatten() always changes the list type.
Solution: Disallow using flatten() and add flattennew().
3b69006973
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Cannot read back what setcellwidths() has done.
Solution: Add getcellwidths(). (Kota Kato, closesvim/vim#11837)
66bb9ae70f
Co-authored-by: Kota Kato <github@kat0h.com>
Problem: getbufline() is inefficient for getting a single line.
Solution: Add getbufoneline().
ce30ccc06a
Cherry-pick part of usr_41.txt from patch 8.1.1628.
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: strchars() defaults to counting composing characters.
Solution: Add strcharlen() which ignores composing characters.
70ce8a1561
Use docs from latest Vim instead.
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Vim9: return type of readfile() is any.
Solution: Add readblob() so that readfile() can be expected to always
return a list of strings. (closesvim/vim#7671)
c423ad77ed
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem: Cannot translate messages in a Vim script.
Solution: Add gettext(). Try it out for a few messages in the options
window.
0b39c3fd4c
Co-authored-by: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Problem:
- Docs HTML: "foo ~" headings (column_heading) are not aligned with
their table columns/contents because the leading whitespace is not
emitted.
- taglinks starting with hyphen like |-x| were not recognized.
- keycodes like `<foo>` and `CTRL-x` were not recognized.
- ToC is not scrollable.
Solution:
- Add ws() to the column_heading case.
- Update help parser to latest version
- supports `keycode`
- fixes for taglink, argument
- Update .toc CSS. https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/297
fix https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/297
Problem: There is no easy way to translate a string with a key code into a
readable string.
Solution: Add the keytrans() function. (closesvim/vim#11114)
cdc839353f
vim-patch:7b2d87220c6c
Add missing part of patch
7b2d87220c
Problem: There is no way to get the byte index from a virtual column.
Solution: Add virtcol2col(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#10477,
closesvim/vim#10098)
5a6ec10cc8
Cherry-pick tv_check_for_number_arg() from Vim.
Cherry-pick pathshorten() doc change.
vim-patch:9.0.0285: it is not easy to change the command line from a plugin
Problem: It is not easy to change the command line from a plugin.
Solution: Add setcmdline(). (Shougo Matsushita, closesvim/vim#10869)
07ea5f1509
vim-patch:8.2.1536: cannot get the class of a character; emoji widths are wrong
Problem: Cannot get the class of a character; emoji widths are wrong in
some environments.
Solution: Add charclass(). Update some emoji widths. Add script to check
emoji widths.
4e4473c927
Use latest charclass() docs from Vim.
Rewrite DoIt() in emoji_list.vim in Lua.
Omit emoji table updates:
- emoji_width update looks wrong as these added ranges are only double-width when followed by 0xFE0F.
- Other updates are too old.
vim-patch:8.2.1540: the user cannot try out emoji character widths
Problem: The user cannot try out emoji character widths.
Solution: Move the emoji script to the runtime/tools directory.
98945560c1
Problem: It is not possible to specify cell widths of characters.
Solution: Add setcellwidths().
08aac3c619
Co-Authored-By: delphinus <me@delphinus.dev>
Problem: Menu functionality insufficiently tested.
Solution: Add tests. Add menu_info(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#5760)
0eabd4dc8f
Omit feedkeys() change: even if "L" flag is implemented it will likely
use input_enqueue(), which already checks for interrupts.
Omit Test_mouse_popup_menu(): already tested in Lua.
