Roadmap
This roadmap gives an overview of the project direction. A detailed list of features planned or under consideration can be found in the project boards; priorities are tracked by milestones:
- Version numbers (
0.1
, 0.2
, 0.2.1
, …) track production releases. The next upcoming version has a target date.
-
backlog
holds low-priority items.
-
unplanned
holds zero-priority items (no feasible path to completion).
Note that all of these are tentative and can be changed, moved, or dropped at any time.
Major Topics
These are the current themes driving our work.
- Architecture, Interfaces, Editor: (API, Lua, treesitter, UI)
- Surface area. Deprecate old APIs, delete/rename/unify some Lua interface.
- Constraints. Vimscript 1 is frozen (no new syntax).
- Ubiquity. Embed Neovim everywhere
Next
Concrete high-level feature areas and changes.
--remote
- multicursor
- treesitter: builtin parsers for markdown, ...
vim.iter
vim.lsp.server()
- Default colorscheme
- Externalized UI: window layout events,
ext_statusline
- File-change detection
- Lua remote plugin host
Completed
Here are the headline features of the previous releases; for details see the corresponding release notes.
- LSP improvements (v3.16 spec coverage, configuration,
LspAttach
)
- Lua API:
vim.fs
, vim.cmd{}
, measure require() in --startuptime
, :map
/:command
/:au
can print Lua source location
- treesitter API: use queries to define spellcheck regions (aka "spellsitter")
vim.ui_attach()
- UI and RPC performance
- user-defined command preview
cmdheight=0
- clickable statusline
- Tree-sitter integration (highlighting, folds)
- TUI: extended keys (CTRL-i vs TAB, SHIFT modifier, …!)
- Global statusline:
laststatus=3
- Unified diagnostics API
- Updated defaults
- Lua API improvements
- LSP support improvements (v3.16 spec coverage, configuration)
- Lua "stdlib"
- Externalized UI: multigrid
- Externalized UI: floating windows
- Externalized UI: messages
- API: buffer update events
- Vimscript expression parser:
nvim_parse_expression()
- Windows: MSVC support
-
0.2.1 Built-in Lua:
vim.api
, :lua
,
nvim_execute_lua()
, …
-
0.2.1 Externalize UI components: cmdline, wildmenu
-
0.2.1 Windows
:terminal
-
0.2.1 Pre-packaged "universal" binary for Linux
- Windows support
- Externalized UI: popumenu
- Externalized UI: tabline
- Pre-packaged builds for Windows and macOS
- First public release
- Publish a stable product that can be used as a benchmark for progress