Problem: completion: not possible to limit number of matches
Solution: allow to limit the matches for 'complete' sources by using the
"{flag}^{limit}" notation (Girish Palya)
This change extends the 'complete' option to support limiting the
number of matches returned from individual completion sources.
**Rationale:** In large files, certain sources (such as the current
buffer) can generate an overwhelming number of matches, which may cause
more relevant results from other sources (e.g., LSP or tags) to be
pushed out of view. By specifying per-source match limits, the
completion menu remains balanced and diverse, improving visibility and
relevance of suggestions.
A caret (`^`) followed by a number can be appended to a source flag to
specify the maximum number of matches for that source. For example:
```
:set complete=.^9,w,u,t^5
```
In this configuration:
- The current buffer (`.`) will return up to 9 matches.
- The tag completion (`t`) will return up to 5 matches.
- Other sources (`w`, `u`) are not limited.
This feature is fully backward-compatible and does not affect behavior
when the `^count` suffix is not used.
The caret (`^`) was chosen as the delimiter because it is least likely
to appear in file names.
closes: #17087
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Wrap the setting of basic whitespace formatting options in a conditional
block, following the de facto standard.
Setting 'et', 'sts' and 'sw' can be disabled by setting
"gleam_recommended_style" to false.
Follow up to PR #17086.
closes: #17128
Signed-off-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: During insert-mode completion, the most relevant match is often
the one closest to the cursor—frequently just above the current line.
However, both `<C-N>` and `<C-P>` tend to rank candidates from the
current buffer that appear above the cursor near the bottom of the
completion menu, rather than near the top. This ordering can feel
unintuitive, especially when `noselect` is active, as it doesn't
prioritize the most contextually relevant suggestions.
Solution: This change introduces a new sub-option value "nearest" for the
'completeopt' setting. When enabled, matches from the current buffer
are prioritized based on their proximity to the cursor position,
improving the relevance of suggestions during completion
(Girish Palya).
Key Details:
- Option: "nearest" added to 'completeopt'
- Applies to: Matches from the current buffer only
- Effect: Sorts completion candidates by their distance from the cursor
- Interaction with other options:
- Has no effect if the `fuzzy` option is also present
This feature is helpful especially when working within large buffers where
multiple similar matches may exist at different locations.
You can test this feature with auto-completion using the snippet below. Try it
in a large file like `vim/src/insexpand.c`, where you'll encounter many
potential matches. You'll notice that the popup menu now typically surfaces the
most relevant matches—those closest to the cursor—at the top. Sorting by
spatial proximity (i.e., contextual relevance) often produces more useful
matches than sorting purely by lexical distance ("fuzzy").
Another way to sort matches is by recency, using an LRU (Least Recently Used)
cache—essentially ranking candidates based on how recently they were used.
However, this is often overkill in practice, as spatial proximity (as provided
by the "nearest" option) is usually sufficient to surface the most relevant
matches.
```vim
set cot=menuone,popup,noselect,nearest inf
def SkipTextChangedIEvent(): string
# Suppress next event caused by <c-e> (or <c-n> when no matches found)
set eventignore+=TextChangedI
timer_start(1, (_) => {
set eventignore-=TextChangedI
})
return ''
enddef
autocmd TextChangedI * InsComplete()
def InsComplete()
if getcharstr(1) == '' && getline('.')->strpart(0, col('.') - 1) =~ '\k$'
SkipTextChangedIEvent()
feedkeys("\<c-n>", "n")
endif
enddef
inoremap <silent> <c-e> <c-r>=<SID>SkipTextChangedIEvent()<cr><c-e>
inoremap <silent><expr> <tab> pumvisible() ? "\<c-n>" : "\<tab>"
inoremap <silent><expr> <s-tab> pumvisible() ? "\<c-p>" : "\<s-tab>"
```
closes: #17076
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: GNU extensions, such as `ifeq` and `wildcard` function, are
highlighted in BSDmakefile
Solution: detect BSD, GNU, or Microsoft implementation according to
filename, user-defined global variables, or file contents
closes: #17089
Co-authored-by: Roland Hieber <rohieb@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Eisuke Kawashima <e-kwsm@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: completion: cannot configure completion functions with
'complete'
Solution: add support for setting completion functions using the f and o
flag for 'complete' (Girish Palya)
This change adds two new values to the `'complete'` (`'cpt'`) option:
- `f` – invokes the function specified by the `'completefunc'` option
- `f{func}` – invokes a specific function `{func}` (can be a string or `Funcref`)
These new flags extend keyword completion behavior (e.g., via `<C-N>` /
`<C-P>`) by allowing function-based sources to participate in standard keyword
completion.
**Key behaviors:**
- Multiple `f{func}` values can be specified, and all will be called in order.
- Functions should follow the interface defined in `:help complete-functions`.
- When using `f{func}`, escaping is required for spaces (with `\`) and commas
(with `\\`) in `Funcref` names.
- If a function sets `'refresh'` to `'always'`, it will be re-invoked on every
change to the input text. Otherwise, Vim will attempt to reuse and filter
existing matches as the input changes, which matches the default behavior of
other completion sources.
- Matches are inserted at the keyword boundary for consistency with other completion methods.
- If finding matches is time-consuming, `complete_check()` can be used to
maintain responsiveness.
- Completion matches are gathered in the sequence defined by the `'cpt'`
option, preserving source priority.
This feature increases flexibility of standard completion mechanism and may
reduce the need for external completion plugins for many users.
**Examples:**
Complete matches from [LSP](https://github.com/yegappan/lsp) client. Notice the use of `refresh: always` and `function()`.
```vim
set cpt+=ffunction("g:LspCompletor"\\,\ [5]). # maxitems = 5
def! g:LspCompletor(maxitems: number, findstart: number, base: string): any
if findstart == 1
return g:LspOmniFunc(findstart, base)
endif
return {words: g:LspOmniFunc(findstart, base)->slice(0, maxitems), refresh: 'always'}
enddef
autocmd VimEnter * g:LspOptionsSet({ autoComplete: false, omniComplete: true })
```
Complete matches from `:iabbrev`.
```vim
set cpt+=fAbbrevCompletor
def! g:AbbrevCompletor(findstart: number, base: string): any
if findstart > 0
var prefix = getline('.')->strpart(0, col('.') - 1)->matchstr('\S\+$')
if prefix->empty()
return -2
endif
return col('.') - prefix->len() - 1
endif
var lines = execute('ia', 'silent!')
if lines =~? gettext('No abbreviation found')
return v:none # Suppresses warning message
endif
var items = []
for line in lines->split("\n")
var m = line->matchlist('\v^i\s+\zs(\S+)\s+(.*)$')
if m->len() > 2 && m[1]->stridx(base) == 0
items->add({ word: m[1], info: m[2], dup: 1 })
endif
endfor
return items->empty() ? v:none :
items->sort((v1, v2) => v1.word < v2.word ? -1 : v1.word ==# v2.word ? 0 : 1)
enddef
```
**Auto-completion:**
Vim's standard completion frequently checks for user input while searching for
new matches. It is responsive irrespective of file size. This makes it
well-suited for smooth auto-completion. You can try with above examples:
```vim
set cot=menuone,popup,noselect inf
autocmd TextChangedI * InsComplete()
def InsComplete()
if getcharstr(1) == '' && getline('.')->strpart(0, col('.') - 1) =~ '\k$'
SkipTextChangedIEvent()
feedkeys("\<c-n>", "n")
endif
enddef
inoremap <silent> <c-e> <c-r>=<SID>SkipTextChangedIEvent()<cr><c-e>
def SkipTextChangedIEvent(): string
# Suppress next event caused by <c-e> (or <c-n> when no matches found)
set eventignore+=TextChangedI
timer_start(1, (_) => {
set eventignore-=TextChangedI
})
return ''
enddef
```
closes: #17065
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: filetype: mbsyncrc files are not recognized
Solution: detect isyncrc and "*.mbsyncrc" files as mbsync filetype,
include filetype and syntax plugin (Pierrick Guillaume)
mbsync is a command line application which synchronizes mailboxes;
currently Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes are supported.
New messages, message deletions and flag changes can be propagated both ways;
the operation set can be selected in a fine-grained manner.
References:
mbsync syntax overview: mbsync manual (isync v1.4.4)
https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html
Upstream support for the mbsync filetype.
Original plugin: https://github.com/Fymyte/mbsync.vimcloses: #17103
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Guillaume <pguillaume@fymyte.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
This has been bothering me quite for some time and I never knew why it
happened. Just today it occurred to me this might have been because of
the last-position-jump.
So I figured, let's fix it for everybody, not just me.
closes: #17092
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem:
- Help tags provide a good way to navigate the Vim documentation, but
many help documents don't use them effectively. I think one of the
reasons is that help writers have to look up help tags manually with
`:help` command, which is not very convenient.
- 'iskeyword' is only set for help buffers opened by `:help` command.
That means if I'm editing a help file, I cannot jump to tag in same
file using `Ctrl-]` unless I manually set it, which is annoying.
Solution:
- Add omni completion for Vim help tags.
- Set 'iskeyword' for `ft-help`
closes: #17073
Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Signed-off-by: Phạm Bình An <phambinhanctb2004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Using wrong window in ll_resize_stack()
(after v9.1.1287)
Solution: Use "wp" instead of "curwin", even though they are always the
same value. Fix typos in documentation (zeertzjq).
closes: #17080
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: not possible to configure the completion menu truncation
character
Solution: add the "trunc" suboption to the 'fillchars' setting to
configure the truncation indicator (glepnir).
closes: #17006
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: quickfix and location-list stack is limited to 10 items
Solution: add the 'chistory' and 'lhistory' options to configure a
larger quickfix/location list stack
(64-bitman)
closes: #16920
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: 64-bitman <60551350+64-bitman@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim9: null_object and null_class are no reserved names
Solution: Add null_object and null_class as reserved names.
(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #17054
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: inline word diff treats multibyte chars as word char
(after 9.1.1243)
Solution: treat all non-alphanumeric characters as non-word characters
(Yee Cheng Chin)
Previously inline word diff simply used Vim's definition of keyword to
determine what is a word, which leads to multi-byte character classes
such as emojis and CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) characters all
classifying as word characters, leading to entire sentences being
grouped as a single word which does not provide meaningful information
in a diff highlight.
Fix this by treating all non-alphanumeric characters (with class number
above 2) as non-word characters, as there is usually no benefit in using
word diff on them. These include CJK characters, emojis, and also
subscript/superscript numbers. Meanwhile, multi-byte characters like
Cyrillic and Greek letters will still continue to considered as words.
Note that this is slightly inconsistent with how words are defined
elsewhere, as Vim usually considers any character with class >=2 to be
a "word".
related: #16881 (diff inline highlight)
closes: #17050
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim9: no support for object<type> as variable type
Solution: add support for object<type> (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #17041
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
This might be a bug in Windows Vim, as when using the following command
it throws E480:
```
:com! -complete=file -nargs=1 :Echo echo <q-args>
:Echo ?
E480: No match ?
```
Work-around this by using `-nargs=*` to allow more arguments, even
though this is not completely correct.
fixes: #17029
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
- "Demote" SecurityManager from the list of java.lang class
types to javaLangDeprecated.
- Reintroduce supported syntax-preview-feature numbers 455
and 476 as _new numbers_ 488 and 494, respectively.
References:
- https://openjdk.org/jeps/486 (Permanently Disable the Security Manager)
- https://openjdk.org/jeps/488 (Primitive Types in Patterns etc.)
- https://openjdk.org/jeps/494 (Module Import Declarations)
closes: #16977
Signed-off-by: Aliaksei Budavei <0x000c70@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: regexp: max \U and \%U value is limited by INT_MAX but gives a
confusing error message (related: v8.1.0985).
Solution: give a better error message when the value reaches INT_MAX
When searching Vim allows to get up to 8 hex characters using the /\V
and /\%V regex atoms. However, when using "/\UFFFFFFFF" the code point is
already above what an integer variable can hold, which is 2,147,483,647.
Since patch v8.1.0985, Vim already limited the max codepoint to INT_MAX
(otherwise it caused a crash in the nfa regex engine), but instead of
error'ing out it silently fell back to parse the number as a backslash
value and not as a codepoint value and as such this "/[\UFFFFFFFF]" will
happily find a "\" or an literal "F". And this "/[\d127-\UFFFFFFFF]"
will error out as "reverse range in character class).
Interestingly, the max Unicode codepoint value is U+10FFFF which still
fits into an ordinary integer value, which means, that we don't even
need to parse 8 hex characters, but 6 should have been enough.
However, let's not limit Vim to search for only max 6 hex characters
(which would be a backward incompatible change), but instead allow all 8
characters and only if the codepoint reaches INT_MAX, give a more
precise error message (about what the max unicode codepoint value is).
This allows to search for "[\U7FFFFFFE]" (will likely return "E486
Pattern not found") and "[/\U7FFFFFF]" now errors "E1517: Value too
large, max Unicode codepoint is U+10FFFF".
While this change is straight forward on architectures where long is 8
bytes, this is not so simple on Windows or 32bit architectures where long
is 4 bytes (and therefore the test fails there). To account for that,
let's make use of the vimlong_T number type and make a few corresponding
changes in the regex engine code and cast the value to the expected data
type. This however may not work correctly on systems that doesn't have
the long long datatype (e.g. OpenVMS) and probably the test will fail
there.
fixes: #16949closes: #16994
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Previously it was using '\0' in sed which is non-portable and does not
work in macOS. Fix this by using the '$' (end-of-line) regex atom (which
needs to be doubled in the Makefile) to append at the end instead. An
alternative would have been to use '&' which is the more portable
version of '\0'.
closes: #16996
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Typos in code and docs related to 'diffopt' "inline:".
(after v9.1.1243)
Solution: Fix typos and slightly improve the docs.
(zeertzjq)
closes: #16997
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: cannot set the maximum popup menu width
(Lucas Mior)
Solution: add the new global option value 'pummaxwidth'
(glepnir)
fixes: #10901closes: #16943
Signed-off-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Diff mode's inline highlighting is lackluster. It only
performs a line-by-line comparison, and calculates a single
shortest range within a line that could encompass all the
changes. In lines with multiple changes, or those that span
multiple lines, this approach tends to end up highlighting
much more than necessary.
Solution: Implement new inline highlighting modes by doing per-character
or per-word diff within the diff block, and highlight only the
relevant parts, add "inline:simple" to the defaults (which is
the old behaviour)
This change introduces a new diffopt option "inline:<type>". Setting to
"none" will disable all inline highlighting, "simple" (the default) will
use the old behavior, "char" / "word" will perform a character/word-wise
diff of the texts within each diff block and only highlight the
differences.
The new char/word inline diff only use the internal xdiff, and will
respect diff options such as algorithm choice, icase, and misc iwhite
options. indent-heuristics is always on to perform better sliding.
For character highlight, a post-process of the diff results is first
applied before we show the highlight. This is because a naive diff will
create a result with a lot of small diff chunks and gaps, due to the
repetitive nature of individual characters. The post-process is a
heuristic-based refinement that attempts to merge adjacent diff blocks
if they are separated by a short gap (1-3 characters), and can be
further tuned in the future for better results. This process results in
more characters than necessary being highlighted but overall less visual
noise.
For word highlight, always use first buffer's iskeyword definition.
Otherwise if each buffer has different iskeyword settings we would not
be able to group words properly.
The char/word diffing is always per-diff block, not per line, meaning
that changes that span multiple lines will show up correctly.
Added/removed newlines are not shown by default, but if the user has
'list' set (with "eol" listchar defined), the eol character will be be
highlighted correctly for the specific newline characters.
Also, add a new "DiffTextAdd" highlight group linked to "DiffText" by
default. It allows color schemes to use different colors for texts that
have been added within a line versus modified.
This doesn't interact with linematch perfectly currently. The linematch
feature splits up diff blocks into multiple smaller blocks for better
visual matching, which makes inline highlight less useful especially for
multi-line change (e.g. a line is broken into two lines). This could be
addressed in the future.
As a side change, this also removes the bounds checking introduced to
diff_read() as they were added to mask existing logic bugs that were
properly fixed in #16768.
closes: #16881
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: if_python: no tuple data type support (after v9.1.1232)
Solution: Add support for using Vim tuple in the python interface
(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #16964
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim script is missing the tuple data type
Solution: Add support for the tuple data type
(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #16776
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Ctrl-C closes popup windows that have a filter callback,
but does not close popups without a filter callback.
Solution: Modified popup_do_filter() to also close popups without
filter callback when Ctrl-C is pressed (glepnir).
fixes: #16839closes: #16928
Signed-off-by: glepnir <glephunter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Also, do not set g:is_kornshell when g:is_posix is set. BSD shells are
POSIX but many are derived from the ash shell.
closes: #16939
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Akram <mohd.akram@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: wrong translation for encoding failures because of using
literal "from" and "to" in the resulting error message
(RestorerZ)
Solution: use separate error messages for errors "from" and "to"
encoding errors.
fixes: #16898closes: #16918
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Strange error with type for matchfuzzy() "camelcase".
Solution: Show the error "Invalid value for argument camelcase" instead
of "Invalid argument: camelcase" (zeertzjq).
Note that using tv_get_string() will lead to confusion, as when the
value cannot be converted to a string tv_get_string() will also give an
error about that, but "camelcase" takes a boolean, not a string. Also
don't use tv_get_string() for the "limit" argument above.
closes: #16926
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
