Problem:
Bundled color schemes use `:hi clear` and only define Vim's highlight
groups. This results into Nvim-specific highlight groups using
definitions from Nvim's default color scheme, which are not always
linked to a Vim's highlight group.
Solution:
Restore links to Vim's highlight groups which were present before Nvim's
default color scheme update.
Diagnostic signs should now be configured with vim.diagnostic.config(),
but "legacy" sign definitions should go through the standard deprecation
process to minimize the impact from breaking changes.
Problem: Updating default color scheme produced some feedback.
Solution: Address the feedback.
Outline of the changes:
- Colors `Grey1` and `Grey2` are made a little bit more extreme (dark -
darker, light - lighter) to increase overall contrast.
- `gui` colors are treated as base with `cterm` colors falling back to
using 0-15 colors which come from terminal emulator.
- Update highlight group definition to not include attribute definition
if it is intended to staty uncolored.
- Tweak some specific highlight groups.
- Add a list of Neovim specific highlight groups which are now defined
differently in a breaking way.
- Minor tweaks in several other places related to default color scheme.
Problem: We have `P_(BOOL|NUM|STRING)` macros to represent an option's type, which is redundant because `OptValType` can already do that. The current implementation of option type flags is also too limited to allow adding multitype options in the future.
Solution: Remove `P_(BOOL|NUM|STRING)` and replace it with a new `type_flags` attribute in `vimoption_T`. Also do some groundwork for adding multitype options in the future.
Side-effects: Attempting to set an invalid keycode option (e.g. `set t_foo=123`) no longer gives an error.
Problem:
Unlike termopen(), nvim_open_term() PTYs do not carriage-return the
cursor on newline ("\n") input.
nvim --clean
:let chan_id = nvim_open_term(1, {})
:call chansend(chan_id, ["here", "are", "some", "lines"])
Actual behavior:
here
are
some
lines
Expected behaviour:
here
are
some
lines
Solution:
Add `force_crlf` option, and enable it by default.
* fix garbled item for new treesitter injection format
* add missing item for new `vim.lpeg` and `vim.re`
* use taglinks where possible
* remove redundant "Added" and "Removed" from items
Enable 'termguicolors' automatically when Nvim can detect that truecolor
is supported by the host terminal.
If $COLORTERM is set to "truecolor" or "24bit", or the terminal's
terminfo entry contains capabilities for Tc, RGB, or setrgbf and
setrgbb, then we assume that the terminal supports truecolor. Otherwise,
the terminal is queried (using both XTGETTCAP and SGR + DECRQSS). If the
terminal's response to these queries (if any) indicates that it supports
truecolor, then 'termguicolors' is enabled.
Problem: Default color scheme is suboptimal.
Solution: Start using new color scheme. Introduce new `vim` color scheme
for opt-in backward compatibility.
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Main design ideas
- Be "Neovim branded".
- Be minimal for 256 colors with a bit more shades for true colors.
- Be accessible through high enough contrast ratios.
- Be suitable for dark and light backgrounds via exchange of dark and
light palettes.
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Palettes
- Have dark and light variants. Implemented through exporeted
`NvimDark*` and `NvimLight*` hex colors.
- Palettes have 4 shades of grey for UI elements and 6 colors (red,
yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta).
- Actual values are computed procedurally in Oklch color space based on
a handful of hyperparameters.
- Each color has a 256 colors variant with perceptually closest color.
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Highlight groups
Use:
- Grey shades for general UI according to their design.
- Bold text for keywords (`Statement` highlight group). This is an
important choice to increase accessibility for people with color
deficiencies, as it doesn't rely on actual color.
- Green for strings, `DiffAdd` (as background), `DiagnosticOk`, and some
minor text UI elements.
- Cyan as main syntax color, i.e. for function usage (`Function`
highlight group), `DiffText`, `DiagnosticInfo`, and some minor text UI
elements.
- Red to generally mean high user attention, i.e. errors; in particular
for `ErrorMsg`, `DiffDelete`, `DiagnosticError`.
- Yellow very sparingly only with true colors to mean mild user
attention, i.e. warnings. That is, `DiagnosticWarn` and `WarningMsg`.
- Blue very sparingly only with true colors as `DiagnosticHint` and some
additional important syntax group (like `Identifier`).
- Magenta very carefully (if at all).
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Notes
- To make tests work without relatively larege updates, each one is
prepended with an equivalent of the call `:colorscheme vim`.
Plus some tests which spawn new Neovim instances also now use 'vim'
color scheme.
In some cases tests are updated to fit new default color scheme.
Problem: The legacy signlist data structures and associated functions are
redundant since the introduction of extmark signs.
Solution: Store signs defined through the legacy commands in a hashmap, placed
signs in the extmark tree. Replace signlist associated functions.
Usage of the legacy sign commands should yield no change in behavior with the
exception of:
- "orphaned signs" are now always removed when the line it is placed on is
deleted. This used to depend on the value of 'signcolumn'.
- It is no longer possible to place multiple signs with the same identifier
in a single group on multiple lines. This will now move the sign instead.
Moreover, both signs placed through the legacy sign commands and through
|nvim_buf_set_extmark()|:
- Will show up in both |sign-place| and |nvim_buf_get_extmarks()|.
- Are displayed by increasing sign identifier, left to right.
Extmark signs used to be ordered decreasingly as opposed to legacy signs.
Problem: buffer text with composing chars are converted from UTF-8
to an array of up to seven UTF-32 values and then converted back
to UTF-8 strings.
Solution: Convert buffer text directly to UTF-8 based schar_T values.
The limit of the text size is now in schar_T bytes, which is currently
31+1 but easily could be raised as it no longer multiplies the size
of the entire screen grid when not used, the full size is only required
for temporary scratch buffers.
Also does some general cleanup to win_line text handling, which was
unnecessarily complicated due to multibyte rendering being an "opt-in"
feature long ago. Nowadays, a char is just a char, regardless if it consists
of one ASCII byte or multiple bytes.
Use the XTGETTCAP sequence to determine if the host terminal supports
the OSC 52 sequence and, if it does, enable the OSC 52 clipboard
provider by default.
This is only done automatically when all of the following are true:
1. Nvim is running in the TUI
2. 'clipboard' is not set to unnamed or unnamedplus
3. g:clipboard is unset
4. Nvim is running in an SSH connection ($SSH_TTY is set)
5. Nvim is not running inside tmux ($TMUX is unset)
The 'termsync' option enables a mode (provided the underlying terminal
supports it) where all screen updates during a redraw cycle are buffered
and drawn together when the redraw is complete. This eliminates tearing
or flickering in cases where Nvim redraws slower than the terminal
redraws the screen.
refactor!: `vim.lsp.inlay_hint()` -> `vim.lsp.inlay_hint.enable()`
Problem:
The LSP specification allows inlay hints to include tooltips, clickable
label parts, and code actions; but Neovim provides no API to query for
these.
Solution:
Add minimal viable extension point from which plugins can query for
inlay hints in a range, in order to build functionality on top of.
Possible Next Steps
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- Add `virt_text_idx` field to `vim.fn.getmousepos()` return value, for
usage in mappings of `<LeftMouse>`, `<C-LeftMouse>`, etc
Problem: No way to have extmarks automatically removed when the range it
is attached to is deleted.
Solution: Add new 'invalidate' property that will hide a mark when the
entirety of its range is deleted. When "undo_restore" is set
to false, delete the mark from the buffer instead.
When the terminal emulator sends an OSC sequence to Nvim (as a response
to another OSC sequence that was first sent by Nvim), populate the OSC
sequence in the v:termresponse variable and fire the TermResponse event.
The escape sequence is also included in the "data" field of the
autocommand callback when the autocommand is defined in Lua.
This makes use of the already documented but unimplemented TermResponse
event. This event exists in Vim but is only fired when Vim receives a
primary device attributes response.
Fixes: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/25856
It is a design goal of extmarks that they allow precise tracking
of changes across undo/redo, including restore the exact positions
after a do/undo or undo/redo cycle. However this behavior is not useful
for all usecases. Many plugins won't keep marks around for long after
text changes, but uses them more like a cache until some external source
(like LSP semantic highlights) has fully updated to changed text and
then will explicitly readjust/replace extmarks as needed.
Add a "undo_restore" flag which is true by default (matches existing
behavior) but can be set to false to opt-out of this behavior.
Delete dead u_extmark_set() code.
While the interfaces for setting number and boolean options are now unified by #25394, there is still a separate `set_string_option` function that is used for setting a string option. This PR removes that function and merges it with set_option.
BREAKING CHANGE: `v:option_old` is now the old global value for all global-local options, instead of just string global-local options. Local value for a global-local number/boolean option is now unset when the option is set (e.g. using `:set` or `nvim_set_option_value`) without a scope, which means they now behave the same way as string options.
Ref: #25672
BREAKING CHANGE: This breaks the OptionSet autocommand, as the `v:` values associated with it (`v:option_new`, `v:option_old`, `v:option_oldlocal` and `v:option_oldglobal`) are now the same type as the option, instead of all option values being converted to strings.
Problem:
On Windows, "gf" fails on a filepath that has a line:column suffix.
Example:
E447: Can't find file "src/app/core/services/identity/identity.service.ts:64:23"
Solution:
- Remove ":" from 'isfname' on Windows. Colon is not a valid filename
character (except for the drive-letter).
- Handle drive letters specially in file_name_in_line().
Fixes#25160
Problem:
The swapfile "E325: ATTENTION" dialog is displayed when editing a file
already open in another (running) Nvim. Usually this behavior is
annoying and irrelevant:
- "Recover" and the other options ("Open readonly", "Quit", "Abort") are
almost never wanted.
- swapfiles are less relevant for "multi-Nvim" since 'autoread' is
enabled by default.
- Even less relevant if user enables 'autowrite'.
Solution:
Define a default SwapExists handler which does the following:
1. If the swapfile is owned by a running Nvim process, automatically
chooses "(E)dit anyway" (caveat: this creates a new, extra swapfile,
which is mostly harmless and ignored except by `:recover` or `nvim -r`.
2. Shows a 1-line "ignoring swapfile..." message.
3. Users can disable the default SwapExists handler via `autocmd! nvim_swapfile`.
