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                            NVIM REFERENCE MANUAL


Notable changes since Nvim 0.10                                 news

For changes in the previous release, see news-0.10.

                                       Type gO to see the table of contents.

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BREAKING CHANGES                                                news-breaking

These changes may require adaptations in your config or plugins.

APIvim.rpcnotify(0) and rpcnotify(0) broadcast to ALL channels. Previously
  they would "multicast" only to subscribed channels (controlled by
  nvim_subscribe()). Plugins and clients that want "multicast" behavior must
  now maintain their own list of channels.
  • In the future, vim.rpcnotify() may accept a list of channels, if there
    is demand for this use-case.
• "Dictionary" was renamed to "Dict" internally and in the RPC api-metadata.
  This is not expected to break clients because there are no known clients
  that actually use the return_type field or the parameter type names
  reported by --api-info or nvim_get_api_info().
• Renamed nvim__id_dictionary (unsupported/experimental API) to
  nvim__id_dict.

BUILD

• On Windows, only building with the UCRT runtime is supported.
• Translations are turned off by default. Enable by building Nvim with the
  CMake flag ENABLE_TRANSLATIONS=ON.

DIAGNOSTICS

• The "underline" diagnostics handler sorts diagnostics by severity when using
  the "severity_sort" option.
• Diagnostics are filtered by severity before being passed to a diagnostic
  handler diagnostic-handlers.
• The "virtual_text" handler is disabled by default. Enable with 
    vim.diagnostic.config({ virtual_text = true })

EDITOR

• The order in which signs are placed was changed. Higher priority signs will
  now appear left of lower priority signs.
• hl-CurSearch now behaves the same as Vim and no longer updates on every
  cursor movement.
• Moving in the buffer list using :bnext and similar commands behaves as
  documented and skips help buffers if run from a non-help buffer, otherwise
  it moves to another help buffer.
• Bells from a terminal buffer are now silent by default, unless 'belloff'
  option doesn't contain "term" or "all".

EVENTSvim.ui_attach() callbacks for ui-messages msg_show events are executed in
  api-fast context.
• New/enhanced arguments in these existing UI events:
  • cmdline_hide: abort argument indicating if the cmdline was aborted.
  • cmdline_show:
    • Prompts that were previously emitted as msg_show events, are now routed
      through cmdline_show.
    • hl_id argument to highlight the prompt text.
  • msg_show:
    • history argument indicating if the message was added to the history.
    • new message kinds: "bufwrite", "completion", "list_cmd", "lua_print",
      "search_cmd", "shell_out/err/ret", "undo", "verbose", wildlist".TermRequest and TermResponse event-data is now a table. The "sequence"
  field contains the received sequence. TermRequest also contains a "cursor"
  field indicating the cursor's position when the sequence was received.

HIGHLIGHTSTermCursorNC is removed and no longer supported. Unfocused terminals no
  longer have a cursor.

LSPvim.lsp.buf.references(), vim.lsp.buf.declaration(), vim.lsp.buf.definition(),
  vim.lsp.buf.type_definition(), vim.lsp.buf.implementation() and
  vim.lsp.buf.hover() now support merging the results of multiple clients
  but no longer trigger the global handlers from vim.lsp.handlersvim.lsp.buf.typehierarchy() now passes the correct params for each
  client request.
• vim.lsp.handlers.signature_help() is no longer used.
• vim.lsp.diagnostic.on_publish_diagnostics() and
  vim.lsp.diagnostic.on_diagnostic() no longer accept a config parameter and
  can no longer be configured with vim.lsp.with().
  Instead use: 
    vim.diagnostic.config(config, vim.lsp.diagnostic.get_namespace(client_id))vim.lsp.util.make_position_params(), vim.lsp.util.make_range_params()
  and vim.lsp.util.make_given_range_params() now require the position_encoding
  parameter.
• vim.lsp.util.symbols_to_items() now requires the position_encoding parameter.

LUAAPI functions now consistently return an empty dictionary as
  vim.empty_dict(). Earlier, a lua-special-tbl was sometimes used.
• vim.json.encode() no longer escapes forward slashes "/" by default

OPTIONS

• The 'statuscolumn' %l item can now be used as a number column segment that
  changes according to related options. It takes care of alignment, 'number',
  'relativenumber' and 'signcolumn' set to "number". The now redundant %r item
  is no longer treated specially for 'statuscolumn'.
• `:set {option}<` removes the local value for all global-local options instead
  of just string global-local options.
• `:setlocal {option}<` copies the global value to the local value for number
  and boolean global-local options instead of removing the local value.
• Setting hidden-options now gives an error. In particular, setting
  'noshellslash' is now only allowed on Windows.

PLUGINS

• TODO

TREESITTERQuery:iter_matches() correctly returns all matching nodes in a match
  instead of only the last node. This means that the returned table maps
  capture IDs to a list of nodes that need to be iterated over. For
  backwards compatibility, an option all=false (only return the last
  matching node) is provided that will be removed in a future release.
• vim.treesitter.language.get_filetypes() always includes the {language}
  argument in addition to explicitly registered filetypes.
• vim.treesitter.language.get_lang() falls back to the {filetype} argument
  if no languages are explicitly registered.
• vim.treesitter.language.add() returns true if a parser was loaded
  successfully and nil,errmsg otherwise instead of throwing an error.
• vim.treesitter.get_parser() and vim.treesitter.start() no longer parse
  the tree before returning. Scripts must call LanguageTree:parse() explicitly. 
    local p = vim.treesitter.get_parser(0, 'c')
    p:parse()vim.treesitter.get_parser() expects its buffer to be loaded.
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TUI

• OSC 52 is used as a fallback clipboard provider when no other
  clipboard-tool is found, even when not using SSH clipboard-osc52. To
  disable OSC 52 queries, set the "osc52" key of g:termfeatures to false.

VIMSCRIPTv:msgpack_types has the type "binary" removed. msgpackparse() no longer
  treats BIN, STR and FIXSTR as separate types. Any of these is returned as a
  string if possible, or a blob if the value contained embedded NUL:s.

==============================================================================
NEW FEATURES                                                    news-features

The following new features were added.

API

• Improved API "meta" docstrings and :help documentation.
• nvim__ns_set() can set properties for a namespacenvim_echo() err field to print error messages and chunks accepts
  highlight group IDs.
• nvim_open_win() supports a mouse field that allows configuring mouse
  interaction with the window separately from focusable field.
• nvim_open_win() relative field can be set to "laststatus" and "tabline".
• Additions to nvim_buf_set_extmark():conceal_lines field to conceal an entire line.
  • hl_group field can be an array of layered groups.
  • virt_text_pos field accepts value eol_right_align to allow for right
    aligned text that truncates before covering up buffer text.
  • virt_lines_overflow field accepts value scroll to enable horizontal
    scrolling for virtual lines with 'nowrap'.
• vim.hl.range() now has a optional timeout field which allows for a timed highlight

DEFAULTS

• Highlighting:
  • Improved styling of :checkhealth and :help buffers.

• Mappings:
  • grn in Normal mode maps to vim.lsp.buf.rename()grr in Normal mode maps to vim.lsp.buf.references()gri in Normal mode maps to vim.lsp.buf.implementation()gO in Normal mode maps to vim.lsp.buf.document_symbol()gra in Normal and Visual mode maps to vim.lsp.buf.code_action()CTRL-S in Insert and Select mode maps to vim.lsp.buf.signature_help()
  • Mouse popup-menu includes an "Open in web browser" item when you right-click
    on a URL.
  • Mouse popup-menu includes a "Go to definition" item when LSP is active
    in the buffer.
  • Mouse popup-menu includes "Show Diagnostics", "Show All Diagnostics" and
    "Configure Diagnostics" items when there are diagnostics in the buffer.
  • ]d-default and [d-default accept a count.
  • [D-default and ]D-default jump to the first and last diagnostic in the
    current buffer, respectively.
  • Mappings inspired by Tim Pope's vim-unimpaired:
    • [q, ]q, [Q, ]Q, [CTRL-Q, ]CTRL-Q navigate through the quickfix list[l, ]l, [L, ]L, [CTRL-L, ]CTRL-L navigate through the location-list[t, ]t, [T, ]T, [CTRL-T, ]CTRL-T navigate through the tag-matchlist[a, ]a, [A, ]A navigate through the argument-list[b, ]b, [B, ]B navigate through the buffer-list[<Space>, ]<Space> add an empty line above and below the cursor
  • [[ and ]] in Normal mode jump between shell prompts for shells which emit
    OSC 133 sequences ("shell integration" or "semantic prompts").

• Options:
  • 'diffopt' default includes "linematch:40".'number', 'relativenumber', 'signcolumn', and 'foldcolumn' are disabled in
    terminal buffers. terminal-config shows how to change these defaults.
  • Lua ftplugin sets 'omnifunc' to "v:lua.vim.lua_omnifunc".Lua ftplugin sets 'foldexpr' to "v:lua.vim.treesitter.foldexpr()".

• Snippet:
  • <Tab> in Insert and Select mode maps to `vim.snippet.jump({ direction = 1 })`
    when a snippet is active and jumpable forwards.
  • <S-Tab> in Insert and Select mode maps to `vim.snippet.jump({ direction = -1 })`
    when a snippet is active and jumpable backwards.

DIAGNOSTICSvim.diagnostic.config() accepts a "jump" table to specify defaults for
  vim.diagnostic.jump().A "virtual_lines" diagnostic handler was added to render diagnostics using
  virtual lines below the respective code.
• The "virtual_text" diagnostic handler accepts a current_line option to
  only show virtual text at the cursor's line.

EDITOR

• Improved paste handling for redo (dot-repeat) and macros (recording):
  • Redoing a large paste is significantly faster and ignores 'autoindent'.
  • Replaying a macro with @ also replays pasted text.
• On Windows, filename arguments on the command-line prefixed with "~\" or
  "~/" are now expanded to the user's profile directory, not a relative path
  to a literal "~" directory.
• hl-ComplMatchIns shows matched text of the currently inserted completion.
• hl-PmenuMatch and hl-PmenuMatchSel show matched text in completion popup.
• gO now works in help, checkhealth, and markdown buffers.
• Jump between sections in help and checkhealth buffers with [[ and
  ]].

EVENTSCompleteDone now sets the reason key in v:event which specifies the reason
  for completion being done.
• vim.on_key() callbacks can consume the key by returning an empty string.

LSP

• Improved rendering of LSP hover docs. K-lsp-defaultvim.lsp.completion.enable() gained the convert callback which enables
  customizing the transformation of an LSP CompletionItem to complete-items.vim.lsp.diagnostic.from() can be used to convert a list of
  vim.Diagnostic objects into their LSP diagnostic representation.
• `:checkhealth vim.lsp` displays the server version (if available).
• Completion side effects (including snippet expansion, execution of commands
  and application of additional text edits) is now built-in.
• vim.lsp.util.locations_to_items() and vim.lsp.util.symbols_to_items() now
  sets end_col and end_lnum fields.
• vim.lsp.buf.format() now supports passing a list of ranges
  via the range parameter (this requires support for the
  textDocument/rangesFormatting request).
• vim.lsp.buf.code_action() actions show client name when there are multiple
  clients.
• vim.lsp.buf.signature_help() can now cycle through different signatures
  using <C-s> and also support multiple clients.
• The client now supports 'utf-8' and 'utf-32' position encodings.
• vim.lsp.buf.hover() now highlights hover ranges using the
  hl-LspReferenceTarget highlight group.
• Functions in vim.lsp.Client can now be called as methods.
• Implemented LSP folding: vim.lsp.foldexpr()
  https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specification/#textDocument_foldingRangevim.lsp.config() has been added to define default configurations for
  servers. In addition, configurations can be specified in lsp/<name>.lua.
• vim.lsp.enable() has been added to enable servers.
• vim.lsp.buf.code_action() resolves the command property during the
  codeAction/resolve request.
• The textDocument/completion request now includes the completion context in
  its parameters.

LUACommand-line completions for: vim.g, vim.t, vim.w, vim.b, vim.v,
  vim.o, vim.wo, vim.bo, vim.opt, vim.opt_local, vim.opt_global,
  and vim.fn.
• Documentation for lua-bit.gf in Lua buffers can go to module in same repo, runtime-search-path and
  package.path.vim.fs.rm() can delete files and directories.
• vim.validate() now has a new signature which uses less tables,
  is more performant and easier to read.
• vim.str_byteindex() and vim.str_utfindex() gained overload signatures
  supporting two new parameters, encoding and strict_indexing.
• vim.json.encode() has an option to enable forward slash escaping
• vim.fs.abspath() converts paths to absolute paths.
• vim.fs.relpath() gets relative path compared to base path.
• vim.fs.dir() and vim.fs.find() can now follow symbolic links,
  the behavior can be turn on using the new follow option.
• vim.text.indent() indents/dedents text.

OPTIONS'completeopt' flag "fuzzy" enables fuzzy-matching during ins-completion.'completeopt' flag "preinsert" highlights text to be inserted.
• 'wildmode' flag "noselect" shows 'wildmenu' without selecting an entry.
• 'messagesopt' configures :messages and hit-enter prompt.
• 'tabclose' controls which tab page to focus when closing a tab page.
• 'eventignorewin' to persistently ignore events in a window.
• 'winborder' sets the default border for floating-windows

PERFORMANCE

• Significantly reduced redraw time for long lines with treesitter
  highlighting.
• LSP diagnostics and inlay hints are de-duplicated (new requests cancel
  inflight requests). This greatly improves performance with slow LSP servers.
• 10x speedup for vim.treesitter.foldexpr() (when no parser exists for the
  buffer).
• Strong treesitter-query caching makes repeat  vim.treesitter.query.get()
  and vim.treesitter.query.parse() calls significantly faster for large
  queries.
• Treesitter highlighting is now asynchronous. To force synchronous parsing,
  use `vim.g._ts_force_sync_parsing = true`.
• Treesitter folding is now calculated asynchronously.
• LanguageTree:parse() now only runs the injection query on the provided
  range (as long as the language does not have a combined injection),
  significantly improving treesitter-highlight performance.
• Treesitter injection query iteration is now asynchronous, making edits in
  large buffers with combined injections much quicker.
• 10x reduction in blocking time when attaching an LSP to a large buffer.

PLUGINS

• EditorConfig
  • spelling_language property is now supported.
• 'inccommand' incremental preview can run on 'nomodifiable' buffers and
  restores their 'modifiable' state
• Commenting
  • 'commentstring' values can now be specified in a Treesitter capture's
    bo.commentstring metadata field, providing finer grained support for
    languages like JSX.

STARTUP-es ("script mode") disables shada by default.
• Nvim will fail if the --listen or $NVIM_LISTEN_ADDRESS address is
  invalid, instead of silently skipping an invalid address.

TERMINAL

• The terminal now understands the OSC 52 escape sequence to write to the
  system clipboard (copy). Querying with OSC 52 (paste) is not supported.
• hl-StatusLineTerm and hl-StatusLineTermNC define highlights for the
  status line in terminal windows.
• The terminal buffer now supports reflow (wrapped lines adapt when the buffer
  is resized horizontally). Note: Lines that are not visible and kept in
  'scrollback' are not reflown.
• The terminal now supports OSC 8 escape sequences and will display
  hyperlinks in supporting host terminals.
• The terminal now uses the actual cursor, rather than a "virtual" cursor.
  This means that escape codes sent by applications running in a terminal
  buffer can change the cursor shape and visibility. However, it also
  means that the TermCursorNC highlight group is no longer supported: an
  unfocused terminal window will have no cursor at all (so there is nothing to
  highlight).
• jobstart() gained the "term" flag.
• The terminal will send theme update notifications when 'background' is
  changed and DEC mode 2031 is enabled.
• The terminal has experimental support for the Kitty keyboard protocol
  (sometimes called "CSI u" key encoding). Only the "Disambiguate escape
  codes" mode is currently supported.
• The terminal emits a TermRequest autocommand event when the child process
  emits an APC control sequence.
• TermRequest has a "cursor" field in its event-data indicating the
  cursor position when the sequence was received.

TREESITTERLanguageTree:node_for_range() gets anonymous and named nodes for a range
• vim.treesitter.get_node() now takes an option include_anonymous, default
  false, which allows it to return anonymous nodes as well as named nodes.
• treesitter-directive-trim! can trim all whitespace (not just empty lines)
  from both sides of a node.
• vim.treesitter.get_captures_at_pos() now returns the id of each capture
• New TSNode:child_with_descendant(), which efficiently gets the node's
  child that contains a given node as descendant.
• LanguageTree:parse() optionally supports asynchronous invocation, which is
  activated by passing the on_parse callback parameter.
• vim.treesitter.query.set() can now inherit and/or extend runtime file
  queries in addition to overriding.
• LanguageTree:is_valid() now accepts a range parameter to narrow the scope
  of the validity check.
• :InspectTree now shows which nodes are missing.
• Bundled markdown highlight queries use conceal_lines metadata to conceal
  code block fence lines vertically.
• vim.treesitter.language.inspect() shows additional information, including
  parser version for ABI 15 parsers.
• TSQuery:disable_pattern() and TSQuery:disable_capture() to turn off
  a specific pattern or capture in a query.
• vim.treesitter.get_captures_at_pos() returns the pattern_id of the
  pattern used to match each capture.
• Query:iter_captures() now accepts an opts parameter, similar to
  Query:iter_matches().

TUI

• The builtin UI declares info nvim_set_client_info() on its channel. See
  startup-tui. To see the current UI info, try this: 
    :lua =vim.api.nvim_get_chan_info(vim.api.nvim_list_uis()[1].chan)log messages written by the builtin UI client (TUI, --remote-ui) are
  now prefixed with "ui" instead of "?".
• The TUI will re-query the terminal's background color when a theme update
  notification is received and Nvim will update 'background' accordingly.

UI:detach the current UI, let the Nvim server continue running as a background
  process. Works with the builtin TUI, and all GUIs.
• vim.ui.open() (by default bound to gx) accepts an opt.cmd parameter
  which controls the tool used to open the given path or URL. If you want to
  globally set this, you can override vim.ui.open using the same approach
  described at vim.paste().vim.ui.open() now supports
  [lemonade](https://github.com/lemonade-command/lemonade) as an option for
  opening urls/files. This is handy if you are in an ssh connection and use
  lemonade.
• The ins-completion-menu now supports cascading highlight styles.
  hl-PmenuSel and hl-PmenuMatch both inherit from hl-Pmenu, and
  hl-PmenuMatchSel inherits highlights from both hl-PmenuSel and
  hl-PmenuMatch.vim.diagnostic.setqflist() updates an existing quickfix list with the
  given title if found
• ui-messages content chunks now also contain the highlight group ID.
• :checkhealth can display in a floating window, controlled by the
  g:health variable.

VIMSCRIPTgetchar() and getcharstr() have optional {opts} Dict argument to control:
  cursor behavior, return type, and whether to simplify the returned key.

==============================================================================
CHANGED FEATURES                                                 news-changed

These existing features changed their behavior.

• 'scrollbind' now works properly with buffers that contain virtual lines.

  Scrollbind works by aligning to a target top line of each window in a tab
  page. Previously this was done by calculating the difference between the old
  top line and the target top line, and scrolling by that amount. Now the
  top lines are calculated using screen line numbers which take virtual lines
  into account.

• The implementation of grapheme clusters (or combining chars mbyte-combining)
  was upgraded to closely follow extended grapheme clusters as defined by UAX#29
  in the unicode standard. Noteworthily, this enables proper display of many
  more emoji characters than before, including those encoded with multiple
  emoji codepoints combined with ZWJ (zero width joiner) codepoints.

  This also applies to :terminal output, where width of cells will be calculated
  using the upgraded implementation.

• Custom highlights in 'rulerformat', 'statuscolumn', 'statusline', 'tabline',
  'winbar', and the sign/number column are stacked with their respective
  highlight groups, as opposed to hl-Normal.
  This is also reflected in the highlights from nvim_eval_statusline(),
  with a new groups field containing an array of stacked highlight groups.

• vim.on_key() callbacks won't be invoked recursively when a callback itself
  consumes input.

• "q" in man pages now uses CTRL-W_q instead of CTRL-W_c to close the
  current window, and it no longer throws E444 when there is only one window
  on the screen. Global variable vim.g.pager is removed.

• Default 'titlestring' is now implemented with 'statusline' "%" format items.
  This means the default, empty value is essentially an alias to:
  `%t%(\ %M%)%(\ \(%{expand(\"%:~:h\")}\)%)%a\ -\ Nvim`. This is only an
  implementation simplification, not a behavior change.

==============================================================================
REMOVED FEATURES                                                 news-removed

These deprecated features were removed.

• option severity_limit for vim.lsp.diagnostic (use min=severity
  instead vim.diagnostic.severity).

==============================================================================
DEPRECATIONS                                                news-deprecations

See deprecated-0.11.

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