Class Buffer

Hierarchy

  • BaseApi
    • Buffer

Constructors

Properties

_isReady: Promise<boolean> = ...
client: any
data?: number | Buffer
logger: Logger
prefix: string = ...
transport: Transport
captureRejectionSymbol: typeof captureRejectionSymbol
captureRejections: boolean

Sets or gets the default captureRejection value for all emitters.

defaultMaxListeners: number
errorMonitor: typeof errorMonitor

This symbol shall be used to install a listener for only monitoring 'error' events. Listeners installed using this symbol are called before the regular 'error' listeners are called.

Installing a listener using this symbol does not change the behavior once an 'error' event is emitted, therefore the process will still crash if no regular 'error' listener is installed.

Accessors

  • get loaded(): Promise<boolean>
  • Checks if a buffer is valid and loaded. See |api-buffer| for more info about unloaded buffers.

    Returns Promise<boolean>

Methods

  • Attach to buffer to listen to buffer events

    Parameters

    • sendBuffer: boolean = false

      Set to true if the initial notification should contain the whole buffer. If so, the first notification will be a nvim_buf_lines_event. Otherwise, the first notification will be a nvim_buf_changedtick_event

    • options: {} = {}

      Returns Promise<boolean>

    • Parameters

      • name: string
      • args: any[] = []

      Returns Promise<any>

    • Adds a highlight to buffer.

      Useful for plugins that dynamically generate highlights to a buffer (like a semantic highlighter or linter). The function adds a single highlight to a buffer. Unlike |matchaddpos()| highlights follow changes to line numbering (as lines are inserted/removed above the highlighted line), like signs and marks do.

      Namespaces are used for batch deletion/updating of a set of highlights. To create a namespace, use |nvim_create_namespace| which returns a namespace id. Pass it in to this function as ns_id to add highlights to the namespace. All highlights in the same namespace can then be cleared with single call to |nvim_buf_clear_namespace|. If the highlight never will be deleted by an API call, pass ns_id = -1.

      As a shorthand, ns_id = 0 can be used to create a new namespace for the highlight, the allocated id is then returned. If hl_group is the empty string no highlight is added, but a new ns_id is still returned. This is supported for backwards compatibility, new code should use |nvim_create_namespace| to create a new empty namespace.

      Parameters

      • __namedParameters: BufferHighlight

      Returns Promise<number>

    • Alias for emitter.on(eventName, listener).

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol
      • listener: ((...args: any[]) => void)
          • (...args): void
          • Parameters

            • Rest...args: any[]

            Returns void

      Returns this

      v0.1.26

    • Parameters

      • name: string
      • args: any[] = []

      Returns Promise<any>

    • Clears namespaced objects, highlights and virtual text, from a line range

      To clear the namespace in the entire buffer, pass in 0 and -1 to line_start and line_end respectively.

      Parameters

      • args: BufferClearNamespace

      Returns void

    • Delete a scoped variable

      Parameters

      • name: string

      Returns Promise<void>

    • Synchronously calls each of the listeners registered for the event namedeventName, in the order they were registered, passing the supplied arguments to each.

      Returns true if the event had listeners, false otherwise.

      const EventEmitter = require('events');
      const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();

      // First listener
      myEmitter.on('event', function firstListener() {
      console.log('Helloooo! first listener');
      });
      // Second listener
      myEmitter.on('event', function secondListener(arg1, arg2) {
      console.log(`event with parameters ${arg1}, ${arg2} in second listener`);
      });
      // Third listener
      myEmitter.on('event', function thirdListener(...args) {
      const parameters = args.join(', ');
      console.log(`event with parameters ${parameters} in third listener`);
      });

      console.log(myEmitter.listeners('event'));

      myEmitter.emit('event', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

      // Prints:
      // [
      // [Function: firstListener],
      // [Function: secondListener],
      // [Function: thirdListener]
      // ]
      // Helloooo! first listener
      // event with parameters 1, 2 in second listener
      // event with parameters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in third listener

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol
      • Rest...args: any[]

      Returns boolean

      v0.1.26

    • Returns an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners. The values in the array are strings or Symbols.

      const EventEmitter = require('events');
      const myEE = new EventEmitter();
      myEE.on('foo', () => {});
      myEE.on('bar', () => {});

      const sym = Symbol('symbol');
      myEE.on(sym, () => {});

      console.log(myEE.eventNames());
      // Prints: [ 'foo', 'bar', Symbol(symbol) ]

      Returns (string | symbol)[]

      v6.0.0

    • Get specific lines of buffer

      Parameters

      • __namedParameters: {
            end: number;
            start: number;
            strictIndexing: boolean;
        } = ...
        • end: number
        • start: number
        • strictIndexing: boolean

      Returns Promise<string[]>

    • Returns the current max listener value for the EventEmitter which is either set by emitter.setMaxListeners(n) or defaults to defaultMaxListeners.

      Returns number

      v1.0.0

    • Returns the byte offset for a line.

      Line 1 (index=0) has offset 0. UTF-8 bytes are counted. EOL is one byte. 'fileformat' and 'fileencoding' are ignored. The line index just after the last line gives the total byte-count of the buffer. A final EOL byte is counted if it would be written, see 'eol'.

      Unlike |line2byte()|, throws error for out-of-bounds indexing. Returns -1 for unloaded buffer.

      Parameters

      • index: number

      Returns Promise<number>

      Integer byte offset, or -1 for unloaded buffer.

    • Retrieves a scoped option depending on type of this

      Parameters

      • name: string

      Returns void | Promise<VimValue>

    • Retrieves a scoped variable depending on type (using this.prefix)

      Parameters

      • name: string

      Returns Promise<VimValue>

    • Returns the number of listeners listening to the event named eventName.

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol

        The name of the event being listened for

      Returns number

      v3.2.0

    • Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

      server.on('connection', (stream) => {
      console.log('someone connected!');
      });
      console.log(util.inspect(server.listeners('connection')));
      // Prints: [ [Function] ]

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol

      Returns Function[]

      v0.1.26

    • request is basically the same except you can choose to wait forpromise to be resolved

      Parameters

      • name: string
      • args: any[]

      Returns void

    • Alias for emitter.removeListener().

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol
      • listener: ((...args: any[]) => void)
          • (...args): void
          • Parameters

            • Rest...args: any[]

            Returns void

      Returns this

      v10.0.0

    • Adds the listener function to the end of the listeners array for the event named eventName. No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiple calls passing the same combination of eventNameand listener will result in the listener being added, and called, multiple times.

      server.on('connection', (stream) => {
      console.log('someone connected!');
      });

      Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

      By default, event listeners are invoked in the order they are added. Theemitter.prependListener() method can be used as an alternative to add the event listener to the beginning of the listeners array.

      const myEE = new EventEmitter();
      myEE.on('foo', () => console.log('a'));
      myEE.prependListener('foo', () => console.log('b'));
      myEE.emit('foo');
      // Prints:
      // b
      // a

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol

        The name of the event.

      • listener: ((...args: any[]) => void)

        The callback function

          • (...args): void
          • Parameters

            • Rest...args: any[]

            Returns void

      Returns this

      v0.1.101

    • Adds a one-timelistener function for the event named eventName. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed and then invoked.

      server.once('connection', (stream) => {
      console.log('Ah, we have our first user!');
      });

      Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

      By default, event listeners are invoked in the order they are added. Theemitter.prependOnceListener() method can be used as an alternative to add the event listener to the beginning of the listeners array.

      const myEE = new EventEmitter();
      myEE.once('foo', () => console.log('a'));
      myEE.prependOnceListener('foo', () => console.log('b'));
      myEE.emit('foo');
      // Prints:
      // b
      // a

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol

        The name of the event.

      • listener: ((...args: any[]) => void)

        The callback function

          • (...args): void
          • Parameters

            • Rest...args: any[]

            Returns void

      Returns this

      v0.3.0

    • Adds the listener function to the beginning of the listeners array for the event named eventName. No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiple calls passing the same combination of eventNameand listener will result in the listener being added, and called, multiple times.

      server.prependListener('connection', (stream) => {
      console.log('someone connected!');
      });

      Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol

        The name of the event.

      • listener: ((...args: any[]) => void)

        The callback function

          • (...args): void
          • Parameters

            • Rest...args: any[]

            Returns void

      Returns this

      v6.0.0

    • Adds a one-timelistener function for the event named eventName to the_beginning_ of the listeners array. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed, and then invoked.

      server.prependOnceListener('connection', (stream) => {
      console.log('Ah, we have our first user!');
      });

      Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol

        The name of the event.

      • listener: ((...args: any[]) => void)

        The callback function

          • (...args): void
          • Parameters

            • Rest...args: any[]

            Returns void

      Returns this

      v6.0.0

    • Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName, including any wrappers (such as those created by .once()).

      const emitter = new EventEmitter();
      emitter.once('log', () => console.log('log once'));

      // Returns a new Array with a function `onceWrapper` which has a property
      // `listener` which contains the original listener bound above
      const listeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');
      const logFnWrapper = listeners[0];

      // Logs "log once" to the console and does not unbind the `once` event
      logFnWrapper.listener();

      // Logs "log once" to the console and removes the listener
      logFnWrapper();

      emitter.on('log', () => console.log('log persistently'));
      // Will return a new Array with a single function bound by `.on()` above
      const newListeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');

      // Logs "log persistently" twice
      newListeners[0]();
      emitter.emit('log');

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol

      Returns Function[]

      v9.4.0

    • Remove lines at index

      Parameters

      • start: number
      • end: number
      • strictIndexing: boolean

      Returns Promise<any>

    • Removes all listeners, or those of the specified eventName.

      It is bad practice to remove listeners added elsewhere in the code, particularly when the EventEmitter instance was created by some other component or module (e.g. sockets or file streams).

      Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

      Parameters

      • Optionalevent: string | symbol

      Returns this

      v0.1.26

    • Removes the specified listener from the listener array for the event namedeventName.

      const callback = (stream) => {
      console.log('someone connected!');
      };
      server.on('connection', callback);
      // ...
      server.removeListener('connection', callback);

      removeListener() will remove, at most, one instance of a listener from the listener array. If any single listener has been added multiple times to the listener array for the specified eventName, then removeListener() must be called multiple times to remove each instance.

      Once an event is emitted, all listeners attached to it at the time of emitting are called in order. This implies that anyremoveListener() or removeAllListeners() calls after emitting and_before_ the last listener finishes execution will not remove them fromemit() in progress. Subsequent events behave as expected.

      const myEmitter = new MyEmitter();

      const callbackA = () => {
      console.log('A');
      myEmitter.removeListener('event', callbackB);
      };

      const callbackB = () => {
      console.log('B');
      };

      myEmitter.on('event', callbackA);

      myEmitter.on('event', callbackB);

      // callbackA removes listener callbackB but it will still be called.
      // Internal listener array at time of emit [callbackA, callbackB]
      myEmitter.emit('event');
      // Prints:
      // A
      // B

      // callbackB is now removed.
      // Internal listener array [callbackA]
      myEmitter.emit('event');
      // Prints:
      // A

      Because listeners are managed using an internal array, calling this will change the position indices of any listener registered after the listener being removed. This will not impact the order in which listeners are called, but it means that any copies of the listener array as returned by the emitter.listeners() method will need to be recreated.

      When a single function has been added as a handler multiple times for a single event (as in the example below), removeListener() will remove the most recently added instance. In the example the once('ping')listener is removed:

      const ee = new EventEmitter();

      function pong() {
      console.log('pong');
      }

      ee.on('ping', pong);
      ee.once('ping', pong);
      ee.removeListener('ping', pong);

      ee.emit('ping');
      ee.emit('ping');

      Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

      Parameters

      • eventName: string | symbol
      • listener: ((...args: any[]) => void)
          • (...args): void
          • Parameters

            • Rest...args: any[]

            Returns void

      Returns this

      v0.1.26

    • Replace lines starting at start index

      Parameters

      • _lines: string | string[]
      • start: number

      Returns Promise<any>

    • Set lines of buffer given indeces

      Parameters

      • _lines: string | string[]
      • __namedParameters: BufferSetLines = ...

      Returns Promise<any>

    • By default EventEmitters will print a warning if more than 10 listeners are added for a particular event. This is a useful default that helps finding memory leaks. The emitter.setMaxListeners() method allows the limit to be modified for this specific EventEmitter instance. The value can be set toInfinity (or 0) to indicate an unlimited number of listeners.

      Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

      Parameters

      • n: number

      Returns this

      v0.3.5

    • Set scoped option

      Parameters

      • name: string
      • value: VimValue

      Returns void | Promise<void>

    • Set a scoped variable

      Parameters

      • name: string
      • value: VimValue

      Returns Promise<void>

    • Set the virtual text (annotation) for a buffer line.

      By default (and currently the only option) the text will be placed after the buffer text. Virtual text will never cause reflow, rather virtual text will be truncated at the end of the screen line. The virtual text will begin one cell (|lcs-eol| or space) after the ordinary text.

      Namespaces are used to support batch deletion/updating of virtual text. To create a namespace, use |nvim_create_namespace|. Virtual text is cleared using |nvim_buf_clear_namespace|. The same ns_id can be used for both virtual text and highlights added by |nvim_buf_add_highlight|, both can then be cleared with a single call to |nvim_buf_clear_namespace|. If the virtual text never will be cleared by an API call, pass ns_id = -1.

      As a shorthand, ns_id = 0 can be used to create a new namespace for the virtual text, the allocated id is then returned.

      Parameters

      • nsId: number

        Namespace to use or 0 to create a namespace, or -1 for a ungrouped annotation

      • line: number

        Line to annotate with virtual text (zero-indexed)

      • chunks: VirtualTextChunk[]

        A list of [text, hl_group] arrays, each representing a text chunk with specified highlight. hl_group element can be omitted for no highlight.

      • opts: {} = {}

        Optional parameters. Currently not used.

        Returns Promise<number>

      • Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

        For EventEmitters this behaves exactly the same as calling .listeners on the emitter.

        For EventTargets this is the only way to get the event listeners for the event target. This is useful for debugging and diagnostic purposes.

        const { getEventListeners, EventEmitter } = require('events');

        {
        const ee = new EventEmitter();
        const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
        ee.on('foo', listener);
        getEventListeners(ee, 'foo'); // [listener]
        }
        {
        const et = new EventTarget();
        const listener = () => console.log('Events are fun');
        et.addEventListener('foo', listener);
        getEventListeners(et, 'foo'); // [listener]
        }

        Parameters

        • emitter: EventEmitter | DOMEventTarget
        • name: string | symbol

        Returns Function[]

        v15.2.0

      • A class method that returns the number of listeners for the given eventNameregistered on the given emitter.

        const { EventEmitter, listenerCount } = require('events');
        const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();
        myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
        myEmitter.on('event', () => {});
        console.log(listenerCount(myEmitter, 'event'));
        // Prints: 2

        Parameters

        • emitter: EventEmitter

          The emitter to query

        • eventName: string | symbol

          The event name

        Returns number

        v0.9.12

        Since v3.2.0 - Use listenerCount instead.

      • const { on, EventEmitter } = require('events');

        (async () => {
        const ee = new EventEmitter();

        // Emit later on
        process.nextTick(() => {
        ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
        ee.emit('foo', 42);
        });

        for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo')) {
        // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
        // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
        // if concurrent execution is required.
        console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
        }
        // Unreachable here
        })();

        Returns an AsyncIterator that iterates eventName events. It will throw if the EventEmitter emits 'error'. It removes all listeners when exiting the loop. The value returned by each iteration is an array composed of the emitted event arguments.

        An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting on events:

        const { on, EventEmitter } = require('events');
        const ac = new AbortController();

        (async () => {
        const ee = new EventEmitter();

        // Emit later on
        process.nextTick(() => {
        ee.emit('foo', 'bar');
        ee.emit('foo', 42);
        });

        for await (const event of on(ee, 'foo', { signal: ac.signal })) {
        // The execution of this inner block is synchronous and it
        // processes one event at a time (even with await). Do not use
        // if concurrent execution is required.
        console.log(event); // prints ['bar'] [42]
        }
        // Unreachable here
        })();

        process.nextTick(() => ac.abort());

        Parameters

        • emitter: EventEmitter
        • eventName: string

          The name of the event being listened for

        • Optionaloptions: StaticEventEmitterOptions

        Returns AsyncIterableIterator<any>

        that iterates eventName events emitted by the emitter

        v13.6.0, v12.16.0

      • Creates a Promise that is fulfilled when the EventEmitter emits the given event or that is rejected if the EventEmitter emits 'error' while waiting. The Promise will resolve with an array of all the arguments emitted to the given event.

        This method is intentionally generic and works with the web platform EventTarget interface, which has no special'error' event semantics and does not listen to the 'error' event.

        const { once, EventEmitter } = require('events');

        async function run() {
        const ee = new EventEmitter();

        process.nextTick(() => {
        ee.emit('myevent', 42);
        });

        const [value] = await once(ee, 'myevent');
        console.log(value);

        const err = new Error('kaboom');
        process.nextTick(() => {
        ee.emit('error', err);
        });

        try {
        await once(ee, 'myevent');
        } catch (err) {
        console.log('error happened', err);
        }
        }

        run();

        The special handling of the 'error' event is only used when events.once()is used to wait for another event. If events.once() is used to wait for the 'error' event itself, then it is treated as any other kind of event without special handling:

        const { EventEmitter, once } = require('events');

        const ee = new EventEmitter();

        once(ee, 'error')
        .then(([err]) => console.log('ok', err.message))
        .catch((err) => console.log('error', err.message));

        ee.emit('error', new Error('boom'));

        // Prints: ok boom

        An AbortSignal can be used to cancel waiting for the event:

        const { EventEmitter, once } = require('events');

        const ee = new EventEmitter();
        const ac = new AbortController();

        async function foo(emitter, event, signal) {
        try {
        await once(emitter, event, { signal });
        console.log('event emitted!');
        } catch (error) {
        if (error.name === 'AbortError') {
        console.error('Waiting for the event was canceled!');
        } else {
        console.error('There was an error', error.message);
        }
        }
        }

        foo(ee, 'foo', ac.signal);
        ac.abort(); // Abort waiting for the event
        ee.emit('foo'); // Prints: Waiting for the event was canceled!

        Parameters

        • emitter: NodeEventTarget
        • eventName: string | symbol
        • Optionaloptions: StaticEventEmitterOptions

        Returns Promise<any[]>

        v11.13.0, v10.16.0

      • Parameters

        • emitter: DOMEventTarget
        • eventName: string
        • Optionaloptions: StaticEventEmitterOptions

        Returns Promise<any[]>