Using 'listchars' is a nice way to highlight tabs that were included by accident
for buffers that set 'expandtab'.
But maybe one does not want this for buffers that set 'noexpandtab', so now one
can use:
autocmd FileType go let &l:listchars .= ',tab: '
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
By historical accident, Nvim defaults to background=light. So on a dark
background, `:colorscheme default` looks completely wrong.
The "smart" logic that Vim uses is confusing for anyone who uses Vim on
multiple platforms, so rather than mimic that, pick the (hopefully) most
common default.
- Since Neovim is dark-powered, we assume most users have dark backgrounds.
- Most of the GUIs tend to have a dark background by default.
ref #6289
closes#7383closes#7715
This implements the compromise described in #7383:
* low-priority CursorLine if foreground is not set
* high-priority ("same as Vim" priority) CursorLine if foreground is set
ref d1874ab282
ref 56eda2aa17
This changes Ex mode (Q, -e) to work like Vim's "improved Ex mode"
(gQ, -E). That brings some small behavior differences, but should not
impact most Ex scripts (unless, for example, they depend on mappings
being disabled--but that can be solved for -e by skipping user config).
Before this change:
* the screen test hangs.
After this change:
* Q acts like gQ.
* -e/-es differs from -E/-Es only in its treatment of stdin.
This moves towards potentially removing getexmodeline().
(HINT: That does NOT mean "removing Ex mode", it means removing the
Vi-compatible Ex mode, which differs from Vim's "improved Ex mode" only
in some minor details (e.g. mappings are disabled).)
ref #1089 :-)~
Fixes 2 failing tests in startup_spec.lua.
The Windows-only `--literal` option complicates support of "stdin-as-text
+ file-args" (#7679). Could work around it, but it's not worth
the trouble:
- users have a reasonable (and englightening) alternative: nvim +"n *"
- "always literal" is more consistent/predictable
- avoids platform-specific special-case
Unrelated changes:
- Replace fileno(stdxx) with STDXX_FILENO for consistency (not motivated
by any observed technical reason).
After this change we never release blocks from memory (in practice it
never happened because the memory limits are never reached). Let the OS
take care of that.
---
On today's systems the 'maxmem' and 'maxmemtot' values are huge (4+ GB)
so the limits are never reached in practice, but Vim wastes a lot of
time checking if the limit was reached.
If the limit is reached Vim starts saving pieces of the swap file that were in
memory to the disk. Said in a different way: Vim implements its own
memory-paging mechanism. This is unnecessary and inefficient since the
operating system already has virtual memory and will swap to the disk if
programs start using too much memory.
This change does...
1. Reduce the number of config options and need for documentation.
2. Make the code more efficient as we don't have to keep track of memory
usage nor check if the memory limits were reached to start swapping
to disk every time we need memory for buffers.
3. Simplify the code. Once memfile.c is simple enough it could be
replaced by actual operating system memory mapping (mmap,
MemoryViewOfFile...). This change does not prevent Vim to recover
changes from swap files since the swapping code is never triggered
with the huge limits set by default.
Update vim_diff.txt with :lmap differences, update documentation on
'keymap', and add tests.
The tests added are to demonstrate the behaviour specified in the
documentation of :loadkeymap.
Most fonts should have these by now. Both are a significant visual
improvement.
- Vertical connecting bar `│` is used by tmux, pstree, Windows 7 cmd.exe
and nvim-qt.exe.
- Middle dot `·` works on Windows 7 cmd.exe, nvim-qt.exe.
For reference: tmux uses these chars to draw lines: │ ├ ─
vim-patch:8.0.1206: no autocmd for entering or leaving the command line
(commit a4f6cec7a3)
NA patches:
vim-patch:8.0.0320: warning for unused variable with small build
Get terminal debugging info by starting Nvim with 'verbose' level 3:
nvim -V3log
This is like Vim's `:set termcap`, which was removed in Nvim (and would
be very awkward to restore because of the decoupled UI).
Since "builtin" terminfo definitions were implemented (7cbf52db1b),
the decisions made by tui.c and terminfo.c are more relevant. Exposing
that decision in the 'term' option helps with troubleshooting.
Also: remove code that allowed setting t_Co. `:set t_Co=…` has never
worked; the highlight_spec test asserting that nvim_set_option('t_Co')
_does_ work makes no sense, and should not have worked.
- Prefer "TUI" where possible to refer to the host terminal.
- Remove obsolete tags and ancient TTY exposition.
- Establish "terminal" to consistently mean "terminal emulator" in all
Nvim documentation. This removes the need for verbose qualifiers in
tags and prose.
References #6280
References #6803
This documents 256-colour and true colour handling, cursor shapes,
and scrolling regions.
Almost all of these headings are taken from the Vim doco, so that
the :help commands that people learn are a transferable skill.
- Vim "unix default" of 'noshowcmd' is serving few users. And it's
inconsistent.
- 'ruler' and 'belloff=all' improve the out-of-the-box experience.
- Continue to use 'noshowcmd' and 'noruler' by default in the functional
tests to keep them fast.
TODO: Add a "disable slow stuff" command or mapping to address the
use-case of a very slow terminal connection.
The "technically correct" interpretation is to execute the first line
that is seen (and this is what happens on middle-click paste in Vim).
^M is only intended to "defuse" the newline, so the user can review it.
The parent commit changed the behavior to insert <Space> between lines,
but that's a higher-risk change: it is arguably possible that some user
*wants* the literal ^M chars when e.g. assigning to a register:
:let @a='<C-R>b'
To avoid that risk, keep the old behavior and only omit the last ^M.
This makes `yy:<C-R>0` nicer at no cost.
^M isn't any more "correct" than space: the "technically correct"
interpretation is to execute the first line that is seen (and this is
what happens on middle-click paste in Vim). ^M is only intended to
defuse the newline, so that the user can review the command. We can do
that with a space instead, and then the command can be executed without
having to fix it up first.
This allows executables to be found by :!, system(), and executable() if
they live next to ("sibling" to) nvim.exe. This is what gvim on Windows
does, and also matches the behavior of Win32 SearchPath().
c4a249a736/src/os_win32.c (L354-L370)
This default causes too much confusion for terminal users. Until
a better approach is implemented, revert to the traditional default.
Better solution would be:
- Implement a right-click menu for TUI
- Set 'mouse=a' *only* if clipboard is working.
Closes#5938
This ameliorates use-cases like:
:!cat foo.txt
:make
where the user is interested in the last few lines of output.
Try these shell-based ex-commands before/after this commit:
:grep -r '' *
:make
:!yes
:!grep -r '' *
:!git grep ''
:!cat foo
:!echo foo
:!while true; do date; done
:!for i in `seq 1 20000`; do echo XXXXXXXXXX $i; done
In all cases the last few lines of the command should always be shown,
regardless of where throttling was triggered.
Periodically skip :! spam. This is a "cheat" that works for all UIs and greatly
improves responsiveness when :! spams MB or GB of output:
:!yes
:!while true; do date; done
:!git grep ''
:grep -r '' *
After ~10KB of data is seen from a single :! invocation, output will be skipped
for ~1s and three dots "..." will pulse in the bottom-left. Thereafter the
behavior alternates at every:
* 10KB received
* ~1s throttled
This also avoids out-of-memory which could happen with large :! outputs.
Note: This commit does not change the behavior of execute(':!foo').
execute(':!foo') returns the string ':!foo^M', it captures *only* Vim
messages, *not* shell command output. Vim behaves the same way.
Use system('foo') for capturing shell command output.
Closes#1234
Helped-by: oni-link <knil.ino@gmail.com>
'inccommand' allows us to expand the feature to other commands, such as:
:cdo
:cfdo
:global
Also rename "IncSubstitute" highlight group to "Substitute".
- Eliminate/isolate static/global variables
- Remove special-case parameter from buflist_new()
- Remove special-case ECMD_RESERVED_BUFNR
- To determine when u_undo_and_forget() should be done, check
b_changedtick instead of a heuristic.
- use mb_string2cells() instead of strlen() to measure the :sub patterns
- call ml_close() before buf_clear_file(). Avoids leaks caught by ASan.
Original patch by:
Robin Elrharbi-Fleury (Robinhola)
Audrey Rayé (Adrey06)
Philémon Hullot (DesbyP)
Aymeric Collange (aym7)
Clément Guyomard (Clement0)
Closes#3529Closes#5241
In Vim,
:echo system('cat - &', 'foo')
works because for both system() and :! Vim writes input to a temp file and uses
shell syntax to redirect the file to the backgrounded `cat` (get_cmd_output()
.. make_filter_cmd()).
In Nvim,
:echo system('cat - &', 'foo')
fails because we write the input directly via pipes (shell.c:do_os_system()),
but (per POSIX[1]) backgrounded process input stream is redirected from
/dev/null (unless overridden by shell redirection; supported only by some shells
[2]), so our writes are ignored, the process exits quickly, and if we are
writing data larger than the buffer size we'll see EPIPE.
This still works:
:%w !tee > foo1358.txt &
but this does not:
:%w !tee foo1358.txt &
though it *should* (why doesn't it?) because we still do the temp file dance
in do_bang() .. do_filter().
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_03_02
[2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/71218
These tests are essentially affirming a regression vs Vim. In Vim,
:echo system('cat - &', 'foo')
returns "foo", because Vim internally wraps the command with shell-specific
syntax to redirect the streams from /dev/null[1].
That can't work in Nvim because we use pipes directly (instead of temp files)
and don't wrap the command with shell-specific redirection syntax.
References #3529
References #5241
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_03_02
`deprecated.txt` is a place for deprecated tags to live.
- Encourages aggressive documentation of deprecations without cluttering
the main help files.
- Provides a single browsable reference of all deprecations.
Other changes:
- Move tags to doc/vim_diff.txt.
- Remove doc/quotes.txt. It has little historical value, except maybe the
Larry Wall quote.
To healthcheck the "foo" plugin:
:CheckHealth foo
To healthcheck the "foo" and "bar" plugins:
:CheckHealth foo bar
To run all auto-discovered healthchecks:
:CheckHealth
- Weird tab+space combination used for alignment. All spaces now
- Added back <C-T> mapping (somehow we missed that completely)
- Fixed mistake that <Plug>(Man) opens in a new tab. Also added note at
top on how the window is chosen/opened.
- Clarified q local mapping
- Removed section that shows an example autocmd to add desired folding
style.
- Removed random line in `usr_12.txt` about `<Leader>` and backslash.
- :Man supports completion, not auto-completion.
Closes#5171
In 3b12bb225a, ":oldfiles" was taught to
behave like Vim's ":browse oldfiles" if ":oldfiles!" was used. However,
this conflates the use of ! for abandoning a modified buffer with
choosing one file out of a list of oldfiles.
Now that ":browse" is supported again, ":browse oldfiles" will allow the
user to select an old file, while still complaining if that would cause
a modified buffer to be abandoned. ":browse oldfiles!" will just
abandon the buffer, as expected.
Note: it looks like viminfo files do not store search direction intentionally.
After reading viminfo file search direction was considered to be “forward”.
Note 2: all files created on earlier Neovim version will automatically receive
“forward” direction.
Fixes#3580
From the documentation itself:
:[range]o[pen] Works like |:visual|: end Ex mode.
{Vi: start editing in open mode}
...
Vim does not support open mode, since it's not really useful. For
those situations where ":open" would start open mode Vim will leave Ex
mode, which allows executing the same commands, but updates the whole
screen instead of only one line.
Part of the reason behind this is to make removing vi_diff.txt easier,
although it's also because :open is not too useful.
Helped-by: @fdinoff
Helped-by: @dsummersl
Helped-by: @mhinz
Helped-by: @justinmk
Note about ~/.local/share/nvim/site used in one usr_\* file: this one talks
about user-local installation of third-party plugins, and
~/.local/share/nvim/site is the proper place for them. Most other files talk
about user own configuration and this is ~/.config.
