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Notable changes since Nvim 0.11

For changes in the previous release, see news-0.11.

BREAKING CHANGES IN HEAD OR EXPERIMENTAL news-breaking-dev

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The following changes to UNRELEASED features were made during the development cycle (Nvim HEAD, the "master" branch).

EVENTS

Renamed "nvim.find_exrc" default-autocmds group to "nvim.exrc".

EXPERIMENTS

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LSP

vim.lsp.buf.selection_range() now accepts an integer which specifies its direction, rather than a string 'outer' or 'inner'.

OPTIONS

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TREESITTER

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BREAKING CHANGES news-breaking

These changes may require adaptations in your config or plugins.

API

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BUILD

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DIAGNOSTICS

diagnostic-signs can no longer be configured with :sign-define or sign_define() (deprecated in Nvim 0.10 deprecated-0.10).

vim.diagnostic.disable() and vim.diagnostic.is_disabled() (deprecated in Nvim 0.10 deprecated-0.10) are removed.

The legacy signature of vim.diagnostic.enable() (deprecated in Nvim 0.10 deprecated-0.10) is no longer supported.

EDITOR

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EVENTS

ui-messages no longer emits the msg_show.return_prompt, and msg_history_clear events. The msg_clear event was repurposed and is now emitted after the screen is cleared. These events arbitrarily assumed a message UI that mimicks the legacy message grid. Benefit: reduced UI event traffic and more flexibility for UIs. The msg_history_show event has an additional "prev_cmd" argument.

A new empty message kind is emitted for an empty (e.g. :echo "") message.

HIGHLIGHTS

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LSP

root_markers in vim.lsp.Config can now be ordered by priority.

The function set with vim.lsp.log.set_format_func() is now given all arguments corresponding to a log entry instead of the individual arguments.

vim.lsp.semantic_tokens.start/stop now renamed to vim.lsp.semantic_tokens.enable

LUA

Renamed vim.diff to vim.text.diff.

vim.net.request() adds a minimal HTTP GET API using curl.

OPTIONS

'shelltemp' defaults to "false".

PLUGINS

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TREESITTER

treesitter-directive-offset! can now be applied to quantified captures. It no longer sets metadata[capture_id].range; it instead sets metadata[capture_id].offset. The offset will be applied in vim.treesitter.get_range(), which should be preferred over reading metadata directly for retrieving node ranges.

TUI

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VIMSCRIPT

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NEW FEATURES news-features

The following new features were added.

API

api-contract allows existing functions to change return-type fromvoid => non-void`.

nvim_win_text_height() can limit the lines checked when a certain max_height is reached, and returns the end_row and end_vcol for which max_height or the calculated height is reached.

vim.secure.read() now returns true for trusted directories. Previously it would return nil, which made it impossible to tell if the directory was actually trusted.

Added vim.lsp.is_enabled() to check if a given LSP config has been enabled by vim.lsp.enable().

nvim_echo() can set the ui-messages kind with which to emit the message.

BUILD

A Zig-based build system has been added as an alternative to CMake. It is currently limited in functionality, and CMake remains the recommended option for the time being.

DEFAULTS

'statusline' default is exposed as a statusline expression (previously it was implemented as an internal C routine).

Project-local configuration ('exrc') is also loaded from parent directories. Unset 'exrc' to stop further search.

Mappings:

grt in Normal mode maps to vim.lsp.buf.type_definition()

DIAGNOSTICS

vim.diagnostic.setloclist() and vim.diagnostic.setqflist() now support a format function to modify (or filter) diagnostics before being set in the location/quickfix list.

vim.diagnostic.get() now accepts an enabled filter to only return enabled or disabled diagnostics.

EDITOR

:iput works like :put but adjusts indent.

:uniq deduplicates text in the current buffer.

omnicompletion in help buffer. ft-help-omni

Setting "'0" in 'shada' prevents storing the jumplist in the shada file.

'shada' now correctly respects "/0" and "f0".

prompt-buffer supports multiline input/paste, undo/redo, and o/O normal commands.

'wildchar' now enables completion in search contexts using /, ?, :g, :v and :vimgrep commands.

EVENTS

CmdlineLeavePre triggered before preparing to leave the command line.

New append paremeter for ui-messages msg_show event.

HIGHLIGHTS

hl-DiffTextAdd highlights added text within a changed line.

hl-StderrMsg hl-StdoutMsg

LSP

vim.lsp.ClientConfig gained workspace_required.

You can control priority of vim.lsp.Config root_markers.

Support for textDocument/documentColor: lsp-document_color https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specification/#textDocument_documentColor

Support fortextDocument/colorPresentation |lsp-document_color| https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specification/#textDocument_colorPresentation

The textDocument/diagnostic request now includes the previous id in its parameters.

vim.lsp.enable() start/stops clients as necessary. And detaches non-applicable LSP clients.

vim.lsp.is_enabled() checks if a LSP config is enabled (without "resolving" it).

Support for workspace/diagnostic: vim.lsp.buf.workspace_diagnostics() https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/specification-current/#workspace_dagnostics

Incremental selection is now supported via textDocument/selectionRange. an selects outwards and in selects inwards.

Support for multiline semantic tokens.

Support for the disabled field on code actions.

The function form of cmd in a vim.lsp.Config or vim.lsp.ClientConfig receives the resolved config as the second arg: cmd(dispatchers, config).

Support for annotated text edits.

:checkhealth vim.lsp is now available to check which buffers the active LSP features are attached to.

LSP DiagnosticRelatedInformation is now shown in vim.diagnostic.open_float(). It is read from the LSP diagnostic object stored in the user_data field.

When inside the float created by vim.diagnostic.open_float() and the cursor is on a line with DiagnosticRelatedInformation, gf can be used to jump to the problematic location.

LUA

Lua type annotations for vim.uv.

vim.hl.range() now allows multiple timed highlights.

vim.tbl_extend() and vim.tbl_deep_extend() now accept a function behavior argument.

vim.fs.root() can define "equal priority" via nested lists.

vim.version.range() output can be converted to human-readable string with tostring().

vim.version.intersect() computes intersection of two version ranges.

Iter:take() and Iter:skip() now optionally accept predicates.

Built-in plugin manager vim.pack

OPTIONS

'autowriteall' writes all buffers upon receiving SIGHUP, SIGQUIT or SIGTSTP.

'chistory' and 'lhistory' set size of the quickfix-stack.

'completefuzzycollect' enables fuzzy collection of candidates for (some) ins-completion modes.

'complete' new flags:

"F{func}" complete using given function

"F" complete using 'completefunc'

"o" complete using 'omnifunc'

'complete' allows limiting matches for sources using "{flag}^<limit>".

'completeopt' flag "nearset" sorts completion results by distance to cursor.

'diffopt' inline: configures diff highlighting for changes within a line.

'grepformat' is now a global-local option.

'maxsearchcount' sets maximum value for searchcount() and defaults to 999.

'pummaxwidth' sets maximum width for the completion popup menu.

'winborder' "bold" style, custom border style.

g:clipboard accepts a string name to force any builtin clipboard tool.

'busy' sets a buffer "busy" status. Indicated in the default statusline.

PERFORMANCE

vim.glob.to_lpeg() uses a new LPeg-based implementation (Peglob) that provides ~50% speedup for complex patterns. The implementation restores support for nested braces and follows LSP 3.17 specification with additional constraints for improved correctness and resistance to backtracking edge cases.

PLUGINS

Customize :checkhealth by handling a FileType checkhealth event. health-usage

STARTUP

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TERMINAL

nvim_open_term() can be called with a non-empty buffer. The buffer contents are piped to the PTY and displayed as terminal output.

TREESITTER

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TUI

TermResponse now supports APC query responses.

UI

:restart restarts Nvim and reattaches the current UI.

:checkhealth shows a summary in the header for every healthcheck.

ui-multigrid provides composition information and absolute coordinates.

vim._extui provides an experimental commandline and message UI intended to replace the message grid in the TUI.

Error messages are more concise:

"Error detected while processing:" changed to "Error in:".

"Error executing Lua:" changed to "Lua:".

'busy' status is shown in default statusline with symbol ◐

VIMSCRIPT

cmdcomplete_info() gets current cmdline completion info.

getcompletiontype() gets command-line completion type for any string.

prompt_getinput() gets current user-input in prompt-buffer.

CHANGED FEATURES news-changed

These existing features changed their behavior.

gv works in operator pending mode and does not abort.

'smartcase' applies to completion filtering.

'spellfile' location defaults to stdpath("data").."/site/spell/" instead of the first writable directory in 'runtimepath'.

vim.version.range() doesn't exclude to if it is equal to from.

'scrollback' maximum value increased from 100000 to 1000000

REMOVED FEATURES news-removed

These deprecated features were removed.

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DEPRECATIONS news-deprecations

See deprecated-0.12.