The name for_each_child is misleading and caused bugs.
After #25111, #25115, there are no more usages of `for_each_child` in Nvim.
In the future if we want to restore this functionality we can consider a
generalized vim.traverse(node, key, visitor) function.
There is no need for two ways to access all clients of a buffer.
This doesn't add a `vim.deprecate` call yet, as the function is probably
used a lot, but removes it from the documentation and annotates it with
`@deprecated`
Co-authored by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Co-authored by: Steven Todd McIntyre II <114119064+stmii@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored by: nobe4 <nobe4@users.noreply.github.com>
- docs: mention --luadev-mod to run with lua runtime files
When changing a lua file in the ./runtime folder, a new contributor
might expect changes to be applied to the built Neovim binary.
`client.messages` could grow unbounded because the default handler only
added new messages, never removing them.
A user either had to consume the messages by calling
`vim.lsp.util.get_progress_messages` or by manually removing them from
`client.messages.progress`. If they didn't do that, using LSP
effectively leaked memory.
To fix this, this deprecates the `messages` property and instead adds a
`progress` ring buffer that only keeps at most 50 messages. In addition
it deprecates `vim.lsp.util.get_progress_messages` in favour of a new
`vim.lsp.status()` and also promotes the `LspProgressUpdate` user
autocmd to a regular autocmd to allow users to pattern match on the
progress kind.
Also closes https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/20327
fix(api): use local LastSet structure in nvim_get_option_info
* nvim_get_option_info is deprecated.
It is always using the global LastSet information as reported in #15232.
* nvim_get_option_info2 is added.
The new function additionally accepts an 'opts' table {scope, buf, win}
allowing to specify the option scope and query local options from another
buffer or window.
Problem: no way of getting all highlight group definitions in a namespace.
Solution: add `nvim_get_hl()`, deprecate `nvim_get_hl_by_name()` and `nvim_get_hl_by_id()`.
Problem:
vim.deprecate() shows ":help deprecated" for third-party plugins. ":help
deprecated" only describes deprecations in Nvim, and is unrelated to any
3rd party deprecations.
Solution:
If `plugin` is specified, don't show ":help deprecated".
fix#22235
we cannot remove 'paste'. It is very common in plugins and configs.
'pastetoggle' can and should be removed though, it's a total waste of everyone's time because it generates bug reports and doesn't work well, and is useless because bracketed-paste works better.
Problem:
The function name `vim.pretty_print`:
1. is verbose, which partially defeats its purpose as sugar
2. does not draw from existing precedent or any sort of convention
(except external projects like penlight or python?), which reduces
discoverability, and degrades signaling about best practices.
Solution:
- Rename to `vim.print`.
- Change the behavior so that
1. strings are printed without quotes
2. each arg is printed on its own line
3. tables are indented with 2 instead of 4 spaces
- Example:
:lua ='a', 'b', 42, {a=3}
a
b
42
{
a = 3
}
Comparison of alternatives:
- `vim.print`:
- pro: consistent with Lua's `print()`
- pro: aligns with potential `nvim_print` API function which will
replace nvim_echo, nvim_notify, etc.
- con: behaves differently than Lua's `print()`, slightly misleading?
- `vim.echo`:
- pro: `:echo` has similar "pretty print" behavior.
- con: inconsistent with Lua idioms.
- `vim.p`:
- pro: very short, fits with `vim.o`, etc.
- con: not as discoverable as "echo"
- con: less opportunity for `local p = vim.p` because of potential shadowing.
Problem:
Help tags like vim.treesitter.language.add() are confusing because
`vim.treesitter.language` is (thankfully) not a user-facing module.
Solution:
Ignore the "fstem" when generating "treesitter" tags.
This function replaces both vim.treesitter.get_node_at_pos() and
vim.treesitter.get_node_at_cursor(). These two functions are similar
enough that they don't need separate interfaces. Even worse,
get_node_at_pos() returns a TSNode while get_node_at_cursor() returns a
string, so the two functions behave slightly differently.
vim.treesitter.get_node() combines these two into a more streamlined
interface. With no arguments, it returns the node under the cursor in
the current buffer. Optionally, it can accept a buffer number or a
position to get the node at a given position in a given buffer.
PROBLEM
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS has conflicting purposes as both a parameter ("the
current process should listen on this address") and a descriptor ("the
current process is a child of this address").
This contradiction means the presence of NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS is
ambiguous, so child Nvim always tries to listen on its _parent's_
socket. This is the cause of lots of "Failed to start server" spam in
our test/CI logs:
WARN 2022-04-30… server_start:154: Failed to start server: address already in use: \\.\pipe\nvim-4480-0
WARN 2022-04-30… server_start:154: Failed to start server: address already in use: \\.\pipe\nvim-2168-0
SOLUTION
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Set $NVIM to the parent v:servername, *only* in child processes.
- Now the correct way to detect a "parent" Nvim is to check for $NVIM.
2. Do NOT set $NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS in child processes.
3. On startup if $NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS exists, unset it immediately after
server init.
4. Open a channel to parent automatically, expose it as v:parent.
Fixes#3118Fixes#6764Fixes#9336
Ref https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/8247#issuecomment-380275696
Ref #8696
This function isn't compatible with including diagnostic sources when
"source" is "if_many" since it only has access to diagnostics for a
single line. Rather than having an inconsistent or incomplete interface,
make this function private. It is still exported as part of the module
for backward compatibility with vim.lsp.diagnostics, but it can
eventually be made into a local function.
* feat(diagnostic): add vim.diagnostic.match()
Provide vim.diagnostic.match() to generate a diagnostic from a string and
a Lua pattern.
* feat(diagnostic): add tolist() and fromlist()
This generalizes diagnostic handling outside of just the scope of LSP.
LSP clients are now a specific case of a diagnostic producer, but the
diagnostic subsystem is decoupled from the LSP subsystem (or will be,
eventually).
More discussion at [1].
[1]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/15585
Analogous to nodejs's `on('data', …)` interface, here on_key is the "add
listener" interface.
ref 3ccdbc570d#12536
BREAKING_CHANGE: vim.register_keystroke_callback() is now an error.
Since 1c3ca4f18f, 2c1d12d0be, #7836, the "unix" and "slash" behavior
of 'sessionoptions'/'viewoptions' is always enabled, and the flags are
just ignored. There is no reason for that behavior to be configurable.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
- We already find ourselves renaming nvim_execute_lua in tests and
scripts, which suggests "exec" is the verb we actually want.
- Add "exec" verb to `:help dev-api`.
