Problem: VMS support can be improved
Solution: Merge chagnes from Steven M. Schweda
(Zoltan)
closes: #17810
Co-authored-by: Steven M. Schweda <sms@antinode.info>
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Arpadffy <zoltan.arpadffy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: cannot perform autocompletion
Solution: Add the 'autocomplete' option value
(Girish Palya)
This change introduces the 'autocomplete' ('ac') boolean option to
enable automatic popup menu completion during insert mode. When enabled,
Vim shows a completion menu as you type, similar to pressing |i\_CTRL-N|
manually. The items are collected from sources defined in the
'complete' option.
To ensure responsiveness, this feature uses a time-sliced strategy:
- Sources earlier in the 'complete' list are given more time.
- If a source exceeds its allocated timeout, it is interrupted.
- The next source is then started with a reduced timeout (exponentially
decayed).
- A small minimum ensures every source still gets a brief chance to
contribute.
The feature is fully compatible with other |i_CTRL-X| completion modes,
which can temporarily suspend automatic completion when triggered.
See :help 'autocomplete' and :help ins-autocompletion for more details.
To try it out, use :set ac
You should see a popup menu appear automatically with suggestions. This
works seamlessly across:
- Large files (multi-gigabyte size)
- Massive codebases (:argadd thousands of .c or .h files)
- Large dictionaries via the `k` option
- Slow or blocking LSP servers or user-defined 'completefunc'
Despite potential slowness in sources, the menu remains fast,
responsive, and useful.
Compatibility: This mode is fully compatible with existing completion
methods. You can still invoke any CTRL-X based completion (e.g.,
CTRL-X CTRL-F for filenames) at any time (CTRL-X temporarily
suspends 'autocomplete'). To specifically use i_CTRL-N, dismiss the
current popup by pressing CTRL-E first.
---
How it works
To keep completion snappy under all conditions, autocompletion uses a
decaying time-sliced algorithm:
- Starts with an initial timeout (80ms).
- If a source does not complete within the timeout, it's interrupted and
the timeout is halved for the next source.
- This continues recursively until a minimum timeout (5ms) is reached.
- All sources are given a chance, but slower ones are de-prioritized
quickly.
Most of the time, matches are computed well within the initial window.
---
Implementation details
- Completion logic is mostly triggered in `edit.c` and handled in
insexpand.c.
- Uses existing inc_compl_check_keys() mechanism, so no new polling
hooks are needed.
- The completion system already checks for user input periodically; it
now also checks for timer expiry.
---
Design notes
- The menu doesn't continuously update after it's shown to prevent
visual distraction (due to resizing) and ensure the internal list
stays synchronized with the displayed menu.
- The 'complete' option determines priority—sources listed earlier get
more time.
- The exponential time-decay mechanism prevents indefinite collection,
contributing to low CPU usage and a minimal memory footprint.
- Timeout values are intentionally not configurable—this system is
optimized to "just work" out of the box. If autocompletion feels slow,
it typically indicates a deeper performance bottleneck (e.g., a slow
custom function not using `complete_check()`) rather than a
configuration issue.
---
Performance
Based on testing, the total roundtrip time for completion is generally
under 200ms. For common usage, it often responds in under 50ms on an
average laptop, which falls within the "feels instantaneous" category
(sub-100ms) for perceived user experience.
| Upper Bound (ms) | Perceived UX
|----------------- |-------------
| <100 ms | Excellent; instantaneous
| <200 ms | Good; snappy
| >300 ms | Noticeable lag
| >500 ms | Sluggish/Broken
---
Why this belongs in core:
- Minimal and focused implementation, tightly integrated with existing
Insert-mode completion logic.
- Zero reliance on autocommands and external scripting.
- Makes full use of Vim’s highly composable 'complete' infrastructure
while avoiding the complexity of plugin-based solutions.
- Gives users C native autocompletion with excellent responsiveness and
no configuration overhead.
- Adds a key UX functionality in a simple, performant, and Vim-like way.
closes: #17812
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Cannot disable cscope interface using configure, because in
feature.h FEAT_CSCOPE will always be enabled for huge builds
(chdiza)
Solution: Don't define FEAT_CSCOPE from configure script but set the
ENABLE_CSCOPE flag and check for the presence of that flag in
feature.h
fixes: #17825closes: #17842
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim9: can define an enum/interface in a function
(lacygoill)
Solution: Give an error when defining an enum or an interface inside a
function (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
fixes: #17835fixes: #17837closes: #17837
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Wayland: gvim still needs GVIM_ENABLE_WAYLAND
Solution: Drop the GVIM_ENABLE_WAYLAND code, always enable both X11 and
Wayland GUI support (Christoffer Aasted)
closes: #17817
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Aasted <chr.aasted@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: using ints as bool
Solution: Include stdbool.h and start using bool type directly
(Hirohito Higashi)
This is a test to see if using the boolean types cause any issues.
If this change causes issues on any platform, please reach out.
closes: #17830
Signed-off-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Since patch 9.1.1199 the gvim window no longer had _NET_WM_ICON
nor WM_HINTS icon information, for example when not using a
Gnome or KDE desktop (after v9.1.1199)
Solution: Check if the icon theme as used in patch 1199 contains a gvim
icon. If so, set the window's icon from that. Otherwise
use the previous method (Olaf Seibert)
fixes: #17703closes: #17814
Signed-off-by: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@falu.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: style issue in vim9type.c and vim9generics.c
(after v9.1.1581 and v9.1.1580)
Solution: Update Style and place opening brace on a new line.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: possible memory leak in vim9generics.c
Solution: Free ret_free if ga_grow() fails and before returning
(Lidong Yan).
In parse_generic_func_type_args() at vim9generics.c, we allocate memory
in ret_name and should free it by calling vim_free(ret_free). If
ga_grow on gfatab->gfat_args failed, we forget to call vim_free(ret_free)
thus would cause a leak. Add vim_free(ret_free) before return NULL.
closes: #17821
Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: possible memory leak in vim9type.c
Solution: Free tuple_types_ga if there was an error in
type_type_add_types() (Lidong Yan)
In parse_type_tuple() at src/vim9type.c, we allocate memory
in `tuple_types_ga` by ga_grow(), but forget to free it when
tuple_type_add_types() fails. Replace `return NULL` with `goto on_err`
to fix leak.
closes: #17820
Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Coverity complains about unchecked return value in
common_function() (after v9.1.1577)
Solution: Check the return value of skip_generic_func_type_args()
and return in case of an error (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #17818
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: configure: comment still mentions autoconf 2.71 to generate
the configure script
Solution: Update the comment to use autoconf 2.72 instead (Yee Chin Cheng).
Vim v9.1.1369 updated the autoconf generation to be done using 2.72.
Update comments to reflect that.
closes: #17815
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim9: no generic support yet
Solution: Add support for generic functions, funcrefs and object/class
methods (Yegappan Lakshmanan).
closes: #17313
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: cannot easily trigger wildcard expansion
Solution: Introduce wildtrigger() function
(Girish Palya)
This PR introduces a new `wildtrigger()` function.
See `:h wildtrigger()`
`wildtrigger()` behaves like pressing the `wildchar,` but provides a
more refined and controlled completion experience:
- Suppresses beeps when no matches are found.
- Avoids displaying irrelevant completions (like full command lists)
when the prefix is insufficient or doesn't match.
- Skips completion if the typeahead buffer has pending input or if a
wildmenu is already active.
- Does not print "..." before completion.
This is an improvement on the `feedkeys()` based autocompletion script
given in #16759.
closes: #17806
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: tabpanel not drawn correctly with wrapped lines
(utubo, after v9.1.1534)
Solution: Use Columns as width, not the frame width
(Hirohito Higashi)
fixes: #17774closes: #17809
Signed-off-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Dead code in mbyte.c
Solution: Delete the dead wcwidth()/iswprint() code
(Damien Lejay)
These library calls have been disabled since patch 6.2.446 (2002) due to
display issues with Hebrew. They are also non-portable: wcwidth() is a
POSIX function and not available on MSVC or other non-POSIX platforms.
Keeping this code path adds complexity without benefit.
closes: #17811
Signed-off-by: Damien Lejay <damien@lejay.be>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Memory leak when pressing Ctrl-D in cmdline mode
(after 9.1.1571).
Solution: Free prev_cmdbuff before assigning to it.
(zeertzjq).
Existing tests already cover this. This change fixes the CI failure.
closes: #17807
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Let's add the --no-location to the xgettext command line call, so that
the generated vim.pot file does not contain the message location. Those
will get out of date soon and we don't want to update vim.pot just
because the location in a comment changes.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: expanding $var does not escape whitespace for 'path'
Solution: Escape whitespace when expanding 'path' option.
(Miguel Barro)
closes: #17801
Signed-off-by: Miguel Barro <miguel.barro@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: The CmdlineChanged event was firing unnecessarily, even when
the command line's content hadn't actually changed.
Solution: I've added a check to compare the command-line buffer's state
before and after key processing. The `CmdlineChanged` event
now only triggers if the buffer's contents are genuinely
different (Girish Palya).
closes: #17803
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Copilot suggested some improvements in cmdexpand.c
(after v9.1.1556)
Solution: Use better variable names and comments
(John Marriott).
closes: #17795
Signed-off-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: tests: Vim9 tests can be improved
Solution: In Test_has_func_shortcircuit(), move the test functions to a
separate script (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #17796
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
This is needed since commit 59bd74e included vim.pot in the repository.
closes: #17800
Signed-off-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Crash when using inline diff mode
(Ilya Grigoriev)
Solution: Set tp_diffbuf to NULL when skipping a diff block
(Yee Cheng Chin).
Fix an array out of bounds crash when using diffopt+=inline:char when 4
or more buffers are being diff'ed. This happens when one of the blocks
is empty. The inline highlight logic skips using that buffer's block,
but when another buffer is used later and calls diff_read() to merge the
diff blocks together, it could erroneously consider the empty block's
diff info which has not been initialized, leaving to diff numbers that
are invalid. Later on the diff num is used without bounds checking which
leads to the crash.
Fix this by making sure to unset tp_diffbuf to NULL when we skip a
block, so diff_read() will not consider this buffer to be used within
inline diff. Also, add more bounds checking just to be safe.
closes: #17805
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: self-referenced enum may not get freed
Solution: Test if it can be freed (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #17743
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: configure: does not consider tiny version for wayland
Solution: Do not try to enable wayland for a tiny vim version
(Christoffer Aasted).
closes: #17783
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Aasted <chr.aasted@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Can open a popup window to a closing buffer, leading to the
buffer remaining open in the window after it's soon unloaded,
causing crashes.
Solution: Check b_locked_split when opening a popup window to an
existing buffer (Sean Dewar).
closes: #17790
Signed-off-by: Sean Dewar <6256228+seandewar@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Update the textconv filter to filter out changes in the comments
pointing to the location of the message.
Also remove the comments in vim.pot that mention the message location.
Since those will be ignored using vims textconv filter, it does not make
sense to keep them, they would get out of sync anyhow.
closes: #17782
Co-authored-by: Illia Bobyr <illia.bobyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: The ruler disappears after typing the second character during
insert mode completion, even when completion messages are
suppressed ('shortmess' includes "c"). This makes the UI
appear inconsistent.
Solution: Ensure the ruler is restored during screen redraw when popup
completion is active (Girish Palya).
Notes:
No new tests were added, as existing screen dump tests were updated to
reflect the corrected behavior.
closes: #17770
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: close button "X" is visible in the non-GUI 'tabline', even
when the mouse is disabled
Solution: only show the button when 'mouse' contains any of the flags
"anvi" (Girish Palya)
The tabline always displays an "X" (close) button, and the info popup
shows both a close button and a resize handle—even when the mouse is
disabled. These UI elements are only actionable with the mouse and serve
no purpose for keyboard users who disable the mouse. Displaying
non-functional, clickable elements in a non-GUI environment is
misleading and adds unnecessary visual clutter.
So remove the close button and resize handle when the mouse is disabled.
They appear again when mouse is enabled.
closes: #17765
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: configure: uses $PKG_CONFIG before it is defined
Solution: Define $PKG_CONFIG earlier in the script (Christoffer Aasted).
closes: #17771
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Aasted <chr.aasted@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: tests: Test_popup_complete_info_01() fails when run alone.
Solution: Set buffer-local competeopt+=noinsert and add missing cleanup
in Test_popup_complete() (zeertzjq).
closes: #17773
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Regenerate vim.pot because of a wording update in optwin.vim for the
diffanchors feature.
While at it, update the textconv filter to ignore all lines
containing version.c because those change just by incrementing
the Vim patch number *grummel*
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: str2blob() treats NULL string and empty string differently
Solution: Treats a NULL string the same as an empty string
(zeertzjq).
closes: #17778
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: not possible to anchor specific lines in difff mode
Solution: Add support for the anchoring lines in diff mode using the
'diffanchor' option (Yee Cheng Chin).
Adds support for anchoring specific lines to each other while viewing a
diff. While lines are anchored, they are guaranteed to be aligned to
each other in a diff view, allowing the user to control and inform the
diff algorithm what the desired alignment is. Internally, this is done
by splitting up the buffer at each anchor and run the diff algorithm on
each split section separately, and then merge the results back for a
logically consistent diff result.
To do this, add a new "diffanchors" option that takes a list of
`{address}`, and a new "diffopt" option value "anchor". Each address
specified will be an anchor, and the user can choose to use any type of
address, including marks, line numbers, or pattern search. Anchors are
sorted by line number in each file, and it's possible to have multiple
anchors on the same line (this is useful when doing multi-buffer diff).
Update documentation to provide examples.
This is similar to Git diff's `--anchored` flag. Other diff tools like
Meld/Araxis Merge also have similar features (called "synchronization
points" or "synchronization links"). We are not using Git/Xdiff's
`--anchored` implementation here because it has a very limited API
(it requires usage of the Patience algorithm, and can only anchor
unique lines that are the same across both files).
Because the user could anchor anywhere, diff anchors could result in
adjacent diff blocks (one block is directly touching another without a
gap), if there is a change right above the anchor point. We don't want
to merge these diff blocks because we want to line up the change at the
anchor. Adjacent diff blocks were first allowed when linematch was
added, but the existing code had a lot of branched paths where
line-matched diff blocks were handled differently. As a part of this
change, refactor them to have a more unified code path that is
generalized enough to handle adjacent diff blocks correctly and without
needing to carve in exceptions all over the place.
closes: #17615
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: string handling in cmdexpand.c can be improved
Solution: Improve string manipulation in cmdexpand.c (John Marriott).
This PR does the following:
In cmdline_fuzzy_completion_supported():
- replace the series of if tests with a switch
In expand_shellcmd_onedir():
- move the code to concatenate path and pattern to expand_shellcmd().
This allows us to slightly simplify the argument list to pass the fully
pathed pattern and the length of the path in the pattern (0 if no path)
- factor out calls to STRMOVE()
In expand_shellcmd():
- factor out calls to STRMOVE() in the first for loop.
- reorganise the second for loop by:
a) only calling vim_strchr() if s is not at the end of the string
b) making sure that when the path and pattern are concatenated they fit
inside buf
c) concatenating path and pattern and pass to expand_shellcmd_onedir()
In globpath():
- slightly improve logic that determines if the complete path will fit
inside the buffer
In f_getcompletion():
- replace the series of if tests with a switch
- factor out calls to STRLEN()
In copy_substring_from_pos():
- factor out the call to STRLEN()
closes: #17742
Signed-off-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: completion: repeated insertion and deletion of complete
functions
Solution: Remove unnecessary insertion and deletion of leader text
('compl_orig_text') during expansion of function present in
'complete' option (Girish Palya).
closes: #17738
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim crashes during omnifunc completion inside the command-line
window ("q:") if the completion item attempts to open an "info"
preview window. This leads to a failed assert during execution.
Solution: Avoid opening preview windows while inside the command-line
window to prevent the crash (Girish Palya).
closes: #17764
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim9: crash when accessing a variable in if condition
(lxhillwind)
Solution: Skip indexing a list/tuple/dict/blob when short-circuiting an
if condition check (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
fixes: #17756closes: #17768
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: [security]: path traversal issue in tar.vim
(@ax)
Solution: warn the user for such things, drop leading /, don't
forcefully overwrite files when writing temporary files,
refactor autoload/tar.vim
tar.vim: drop leading / in path names
A tar archive containing files with leading `/` may cause confusions as
to where the content is extracted. Let's make sure we drop the leading
`/` and use a relative path instead.
Also while at it, had to refactor it quite a bit and increase the
minimum supported Vim version to v9. Also add a test for some basic tar
functionality
closes: #17733
Problem: [security]: path traversal issue in zip.vim (@ax)
Solution: drop leading ../ on write of zipfiles, don't forcefully
overwrite existing files
A zip plugin which contains filenames with leading '../' may cause
confusion as to where the content will be extracted. Let's drop such
things and make sure we use a relative filename instead and don't
forcefully overwrite temporary files. Also, warn the user of such
things.
related: #17733
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
