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:
Platform-specific UI providers should live in `vim.ui.*`. #24164
Solution:
- Move `vim.clipboard.osc52` module to `vim.ui.clipboard.osc52`.
- TODO: move all of `clipboard.vim` to `vim.ui.clipboard`.
ref #25872
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
The removes the previous restriction that nvim_buf_set_extmark()
could not be used to highlight arbitrary multi-line regions
The problem can be summarized as follows: let's assume an extmark with a
hl_group is placed covering the region (5,0) to (50,0) Now, consider
what happens if nvim needs to redraw a window covering the lines 20-30.
It needs to be able to ask the marktree what extmarks cover this region,
even if they don't begin or end here.
Therefore the marktree needs to be augmented with the information covers
a point, not just what marks begin or end there. To do this, we augment
each node with a field "intersect" which is a set the ids of the
marks which overlap this node, but only if it is not part of the set of
any parent. This ensures the number of nodes that need to be explicitly
marked grows only logarithmically with the total number of explicitly
nodes (and thus the number of of overlapping marks).
Thus we can quickly iterate all marks which overlaps any query position
by looking up what leaf node contains that position. Then we only need
to consider all "start" marks within that leaf node, and the "intersect"
set of that node and all its parents.
Now, and the major source of complexity is that the tree restructuring
operations (to ensure that each node has T-1 <= size <= 2*T-1) also need
to update these sets. If a full inner node is split in two, one of the
new parents might start to completely overlap some ranges and its ids
will need to be moved from its children's sets to its own set.
Similarly, if two undersized nodes gets joined into one, it might no
longer completely overlap some ranges, and now the children which do
needs to have the have the ids in its set instead. And then there are
the pivots! Yes the pivot operations when a child gets moved from one
parent to another.
Problem:
* The guessed botline might be smaller than the actual botline e.g. when
there are folds and the user is typing in insert mode. This may result
in incorrect treesitter highlights for injections.
* botline can be larger than the last line number of the buffer, which
results in errors when placing extmarks.
Solution:
* Take a more conservative approximation. I am not sure if it is
sufficient to guarantee correctness, but it seems to be good enough
for the case mentioned above.
* Clamp it to the last line number.
Co-authored-by: Lewis Russell <me@lewisr.dev>
Problem: Now way to show text at the bottom part of floating window
border (a.k.a. "footer").
Solution: Allows `footer` and `footer_pos` config fields similar to
`title` and `title_pos`.
This aligns its behaviour better with `nvim_win_close`.
Note that `:hide` is actually incapable of closing the cmdwin, unlike `:close`
and `:quit`, so this is a bit of a difference in behaviour.
Problem: As discussed on Matrix, there was some interest in having
`nvim_open_win` again be able to open floats in the cmdwin (e.g: displaying a
hover doc related to what's in the cmdwin). After #23228, this was disallowed.
Solution: Allow `nvim_open_win` in the cmdwin as long as `!enter` and
`buffer != curbuf` (the former can cause all sorts of issues, and the latter
can crash Nvim after closing cmdwin). Also allow `nvim_win_set_buf` in a similar
fashion.
Note that we're not *entirely* sure if this is 100% safe (cmdwin is a
global-state-using-main-loop-calling beast), but this seems to work OK..?
Also:
- Check the buffer argument of `nvim_open_win` earlier, and abort if it's
invalid (it used to still open a window in this case).
- Untranslate `e_cmdwin` errors in the API (other errors in the API are not
translated: although not detailed in the API contract yet, errors are
supposed to be stable).
Problem:
Lua functions that return multiple results are declared by using
multiple `@return` docstring directives. But the generated docs don't
make it obvious what this represents.
Solution:
- Generate a "Return (multiple)" heading for multiple-value functions.
- Fix `@note` directives randomly placed after `@return`.
Problem: nvim_buf_set_text(), nvim_open_term() and termopen() all change buffer
text, which is forbidden during textlock. Additionally, nvim_open_term() and
termopen() may be used to convert the cmdwin buffer into a terminal buffer,
which is weird.
Solution: Allow nvim_buf_set_text() and nvim_open_term() in the cmdwin, but
disallow nvim_open_term() from converting the cmdwin buffer into a terminal
buffer. termopen() is not allowed in the cmdwin (as it always operates on
curbuf), so just check text_locked().
Also happens to improve the error in #21055: nvim_buf_set_text() was callable
during textlock, but happened to check textlock indirectly via u_save();
however, this caused the error to be overwritten by an unhelpful "Failed to
save undo information" message when msg_list == NULL (e.g: an `<expr>` mapping
invoked outside of do_cmdline()).
Problem: some API functions that check textlock (usually those that can change
curwin or curbuf) can break the cmdwin.
Solution: make FUNC_API_CHECK_TEXTLOCK call text_locked() instead, which already
checks for textlock, cmdwin and `<expr>` status.
Add FUNC_API_TEXTLOCK_ALLOW_CMDWIN to allow such functions to be usable in the
cmdwin if they can work properly there; the opt-in nature of this attribute
should hopefully help mitigate future bugs.
Also fix a regression in #22634 that made functions checking textlock usable in
`<expr>` mappings, and rename FUNC_API_CHECK_TEXTLOCK to FUNC_API_TEXTLOCK.
Problem: vimdoc parser requires space between column heading and `~`.
Solution: Add space to docs (and mention it). Also edit `luaref.txt`
headings for consistency.
Problem:
In the generated docs HTML there is too much whitespace before/after `<pre>`
blocks.
- In the old layout (fixed-width), all text in `.old-help-para` is formatted as
`white-space:pre`.
- In the new layout, when `<pre>` is at the end of a `<div>`, the margins of
both are redundant, causing too much space.
Solution:
- In the old layout, always remove `<pre>` margin.
- In the new layout, disable `<pre>` margin if it is the last child.
Enforce consistent terminology (defined in
`gen_help_html.lua:spell_dict`) for common misspellings.
This does not spellcheck English in general (perhaps a future TODO,
though it may be noisy).
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.
