In vim, scrolling a window might mess up the cmdline. To keep it simple,
cmdline was always cleared for any window scroll. In nvim, where safe scrolling
is implemented in the TUI layer, this problem doesn't exist.
Clearing the message on scrolling, when we not do it e.g when switching tabs
is a bit weird, as the former is a much smaller context change.
A vim patch introduced the possibility to avoid the cmdlline clear for
redraws caused by async events. This case will now trivially be covered,
as the redraw is always avoided.
vim-patch:8.0.0592: if a job writes to a buffer screen is not updated
Implement lazy loading for vim.submodule, this would be over-engineering
for inspect only, but we expect to use this solution also for more and
larger modules.
Instead of eager-loading during plugin/* sourcing, define runtime
modules such as `vim.inspect` as lazy builtins. Otherwise non-builtin
Lua modules such as `vim.inspect` would not be available during startup
(init.vim, `-c`, `--cmd`, …).
ref #6580
ref #8677
Move `has_eval_provider()` check to `eval_call_provider()` to make sure that
every code path calls it first.
Previously we would, when pynvim was missing, get a nice error message for
`:python3 1`, but not for `:py3file blah`.
Fixes https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/9485
Problem: When 'rnu' is set folded lines are not displayed correctly.
(Vitaly Yashin)
Solution: When only redrawing line numbers do draw folded lines.
(closesvim/vim#3484)
7701f30856
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Explanation:
Before this patch, relative line numbers would update on a cursor
movement and overwrite fold highlighting in the line number columns.
Other operations can cause the fold highlighting to overwrite the line
number styles. Together, this causes the highlighting in the line number
columns to flicker back and forth while editing.
Test case: create `t.vim` with these contents:
set fdm=marker rnu foldcolumn=2
call setline(1, ["{{{1", "nline 1", "{{{1", "line 2"])
and then call `nvim -u NORC -S t.vim` and press `j`; observe that the fold
highlighting disappears.
There is no need to call update_screen() directly in an API function,
mode input processing invokes update_screen() as needed. And if the API
call is done in a context where redraw is disabled, then redraw is
disabled for a reason. A lot of API functions are of equal semantical
strength (nvim_call_function and nvim_execute_lua can also do whatever,
nvim_command is not special), this inconsistency has no purpose.
Decide whether to highlight the visual-selected character under the
cursor, depending on 'guicursor' style:
- Highlight if cursor is blinking or non-block (vertical, horiz).
- Do NOT highlight if cursor is non-blinking block.
Traditionally Vim's visual selection does "reverse mode", which perhaps
conflicts with the non-blinking block cursor. But 'guicursor' defaults
to a vertical bar for selection=exclusive, and this confuses users who
expect to see the text highlighted.
closes#8983
Besides the "visible" improvements, this release features numerous
internal improvements to the UI/screen code and test infrastructure.
Numerous patches were merged from Vim, which are not mentioned below.
FEATURES:
07ad5d71ab clipboard: Support custom VimL functions #9304725da1feeb#9401 win/TUI: Improve terminal/console support
7a8dadbedb#9077 startup: Use $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/nvim/sysinit.vim if it exists
feec926633#9299 support <cmd> mapping in more places
0653ed63a5#9028 diff/highlight: Show underline for low-priority CursorLine
bddcbbb571 signs: Add "numhl" argument #911305f9c7c2f7 clipboard: support Wayland (#9230)
14ae394532#9052 TUI: add support for undercurl and underline color
4fa3492a6f#9023 man.vim: soft (dynamic) wrap #9023
API:
8b39e4ec79#6920 API: implement object namespaces
b1aaa0a881 API: Implement nvim_win_set_buf() #91008de87c7b1c#8180 API: virtual text annotations (nvim_buf_set_virtual_text)
2b9fc9a13f#8660 API: add nvim_buf_is_loaded()
API: buf_get_lines, buf_line_count handle unloaded buffers
88f77c28e5 API: nvim_buf_get_offset_for_line
94841e5eae API/UI: #8221 ext_newgrid, ext_hlstate
(use line-based rather than char-based updates)
UI
b5cfac0894#8806 TUI: use BCE again more often, (smoother resizes/scrolling)
77b5e9ae25#9315 screen: add missing status redraw when redraw_later(CLEAR) was used
5f15788dc3 TUI: clip invalid regions on resize (#8779), fixes#8774c936ae0f36#9193 TUI: improvements for scrolling and clearing
f20427451e#9143 UI: disable clearing almost everywhere
f4b2b66661#9079 TUI: always use safe cursor movement after resize
d36afafc8d#9211 ui_options: also send when starting or from OptionSet
67f80d485c TUI: Avoid reset_cursor_color in old VTE #9191e55ebae373#9021 don't erase screen on `:hi Normal` during startup
c5790d9189#8915 TUI: Hint wrapped lines to terminals.
FIXES:
231de72539 RPC: turn errors from async calls into notifications
907ad921bc TUI: Restore terminal title via "title stacking" (#9407)
cb76a8a95f genappimage: Unset $ARGV0 at invocation #9376b48efd9ba7#9347 TUI: FreeBSD: Improve support for BSD vt console
c16529afa5 TUI: Konsole 18.07.70 supports DECSCUSR (#9364)
aec096fc5b os/lang: use the correct LC_NUMERIC also for OS X
5fee0be915 provider: improve error message (#9344)
3c42d7a10a TUI: alacritty supports set_cursor_color #93537bff9a5de8 TUI: Alacritty supports DECSCUSR (#9048)
57acfceabe macOS: infer primary language if $LANG is empty #9345bc132ae123 runtime/syntax: Fix highlighting of augroup contents (#9328)
715fdfee1e#9297 VimL/confirm(): Show dialog even if :silent
799d9c3215 clipboard: Prefer xclip (#9302)
6dae7776ed provider/nodejs: fix npm,yarn detection
16bc1e9c17#9218 channel: avoid buffering output when only terminal and no callbacks are active
72fecad1ff#8804 Fix crash in lang_init() on macOS if lang_region = NULL
d581398779 ruby: detect rbenv shims for other versions (#8733)
e568ac7a68#9123 third-party/unibilium: Fix parsing of extended capability entries
c4c74c3883 jobstart(): Fix hang on non-executable cwd #92041cf50cbfd9 provider/nodejs: Simultaneously query npm and yarn #90546c496db4b7 undo: Fix infinite loop if undo_read_byte returns EOF #2880f8f83579ff#9034 'swapfile: always show dialog'
CHANGES:
c236e80cf3#9024 --embed: wait for UI unless --headless
180b50dddc#9248 python: 'neovim' module was renamed to 'pynvim'
2000b6a64a#8589 VimL: Remove legacy aliases "v:errmsg", "v:shell_error", "v:this_session"
deb18a050e defaults: background=dark #2894 (#9205)
c1187d4af0 defaults: win: 'shellpipe' for cmd.exe (#8827)
Problem: An "after" directory of a package is appended to 'rtp', which
will be after the user's "after" directory. ()
Solution: Insert the package "after" directory before any other "after"
directory in 'rtp'. (closesvim/vim#3409)
99396d4cbf
Problem: Package directory not added to 'rtp' if prefix matches.
Solution: Check the match is a full match. (Ozaki Kiichi, closesvim/vim#2817)
Also handle different ways of spelling a path.
f98a39ca57
Problem: When package path is a symlink adding it to 'runtimepath' happens
at the end.
Solution: Do not resolve symlinks before locating the position in
'runtimepath'. (Ozaki Kiichi, closesvim/vim#2604)
2374faae11
ref #9280
Introduce the `vim.compat` module, to help environments with system Lua
5.2+ run the build/tests. Include the module implicitly in all tests.
ref #8677
legacy `vim` module:
beep
buffer
command
dict
eval
firstline
lastline
line
list
open
type
window
In Vim (and some vestigial parts of Nvim) E319 was a placeholder for
ex_ni commands, i.e. commands that are only available in certain builds
of Vim. That is obviously counter to Nvim's goals: all Nvim commands
are available on all platforms and build types (the remaining ex_ni
commands are actually just missing providers).
We need an error id for "missing provider", so it makes sense to use
E319 for that purpose.
ref #9344
ref #3577
