Problem: LSP completion commitCharacters are not handled. Typing a
commit character (e.g. `.`, `(`, `;`) while a completion item is
selected does not accept the item first.
Solution: Store commit characters as a flat string in complete-items.
Check it before completion stops, accept the match and let
the character be inserted normally.
Problem:
After 25439dad7e, `opts` is optional, but not params that follow it.
Solution:
- Update `gen_api_dispatch.lua`, docs, tests.
- Enhance the `nvim_get_api_info()` api-metadata to include a boolean
flag indicating whether a parameter is optional:
```
[type, name, optional]
```
Note: Currently, optional params are assumed to be Dict/Array. Since we
don't yet have any use-cases of optional params following `opts`, the
build just checks this assumption and we can deal with it later if we
ever care to:
nvim_get_hl: optional param "foo" has type "Integer" but (currently)
we assume Dict/Array
Problem:
Inlay hints used separate global and per-buffer bufstates tables and
bespoke global autocmds for managing the inlay hint state across buffers
and clients, duplicating the lifecycle logic already provided by the
Capability framework. This caused inconsistencies in how client state
was handled and inlay hint state lifecycle was managed compared to other
LSP features.
Solution:
Replace the ad-hoc bufstate tracking and global autocmds in
vim.lsp.inlay_hint with a proper InlayHint subclass of Capability.
This also refactors the way inlay hint state is managed and fixes bugs I
found while doing this:
1. For each line with inlay hints, the list of the hints along with
whether they have been applied is stored in a current result on the
client state. This allows the on_win decorator to clear all inlay
hints for an old document version once, and then re-add the new
version's hints line-by-line as they are drawn to the screen,
modeling the semantic tokens module.
2. It fixes problems with mixing results from multiple clients attached
to the buffer by fully moving each client's state to its own table.
Previously, only the most recent document version used to populate a
line's inlay hints was stored, but there was no distinction for which
client the hints may have come from. (Fixes#36318)
3. It fixes the workspace/inlayHint/refresh server->client notification
behavior. Previously it would only re-request inlay hints for buffers
currently displayed in a window but would not invalidate them in
non-displayed buffers (or provide any mechanism for those buffers to
re-request at a later time). Model semantic token module here again
by invalidating all buffers, and adding a BufWinEnter autocmd to
refresh hints.
4. Add a mechanism to cancel in-flight requests if a new request for a
newer document version is made before the last one returned
5. Handle stale results by simply dropping them.
Problem:
`vim.lsp.buf.format()` accepts ranges using nvim indexing, where an
end column of -1 means end of line. LSP ranges cannot use that,
which is confusing for things like range formatting.
Solution:
Resolve -1 end columns to the line length before converting the range to
LSP positions.
Problem:
`request()` and `notify()` are methods of the object returned by
`vim.lsp.rpc.start()`/`connect()`, but were rendered with module-level
helptags (`vim.lsp.rpc.request()`, `vim.lsp.rpc.notify()`) (erroneously
implying module functions that do not exist).
Solution:
Mark the wrappers `@private` and describe them on `vim.lsp.rpc.Client` instead.
Problem: the pos argument in ListOps for lsp is an optional parameter,
but the lua_ls typing system doesn't reflect that
Solution: let pos be optional
Co-authored-by: nikolightsaber <nikolightsaber@gmail.com>
Problem:
cmd given as string[] always starts using Nvim's CWD, which is arbitrary.
Solution:
If cmd_cwd is not given, use root_dir as CWD.
BREAKING CHANGE: LSP commands given as string arrays now use `root_dir` as
the process working directory when `cmd_cwd` is unset.
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Problem: LspNotify never passed a buffer when executing the autocmds, so
buffer-local LspNotify autocmd subscriptions didn't have the correct buf
in the event metadata. It was also wrapped in a schedule() so the actual
autocmd was delayed until after the event loop.
This could result in the wrong buffer receiving the notification if
multiple LspNotify autocmds with buffer filters were added. Only the
"latest" one would actually receive non-buffer-filtered autocmds, not
the matching one. It also caused listeners to receive the notification
"out of sync" with when the notification is actually sent. If a buffer
is being deleted (which fires a textDocument/didClose notification), the
notification is scheduled and fired after the buffer is already gone.
Solution: For LSP notifications that pertain to a particular buffer, set
it when executing the LspNotify autocmds so the callback functions that
are filtered on that buffer will get the correct notifications and the
metadata buf field will be correct. Additionally, there is no need to
wrap the LspNotify callback in vim.schedule when it can be called inline
when the notification to the rpc server is fired.
This is tested by removing now-unnecessary autocmds from semantic tokens
(InsertEnter and BufWinEnter should no longer be necessary now that
requests are fired by LspNotify). Without this fix, simply modifying a
buffer doesn't actually trigger LspNotify correctly, and the test for
that fails.
Problem: linked_editing_range was still doing most of the capability
boilerplate itself.
Solution: refactor it to make use of the common Capability framework for
handling enabling, disabling, etc.
Problem:
This doc on `vim.lsp.completion.get()`:
--- Used by the default LSP |omnicompletion| provider |vim.lsp.omnifunc()|, thus |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O|
--- invokes this in LSP-enabled buffers. Use CTRL-Y to select an item from the completion menu.
--- |complete_CTRL-Y|
...makes two wrong claims:
1. "Used by the default LSP omnicompletion provider vim.lsp.omnifunc()"
- `_omnifunc` does not call `M.get()`, it calls the internal `trigger()` directly.
2. "thus |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O| invokes this in LSP-enabled buffers"
- The two paths use different client sets:
- `M.get()` reads `buf_handles[bufnr].clients` (clients
explicitly registered via `vim.lsp.completion.enable(true, ...)`).
- `_omnifunc` reads `lsp.get_clients({method='textDocument/completion'})` (every
completion client, regardless of `enable()`).
Solution:
Update docs.
Co-authored-by: Koichi Shiraishi <zchee.io@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: y9san9 / Alex Sokol <y9san9@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: adv0r <>
Problem:
Deduplicating LSP locations in the default handler changes list behavior for every user, while some configurations may intentionally return matching locations from multiple clients.
Solution:
Document how users can deduplicate locations in an on_list handler with vim.list.unique().
Co-authored-by: Deepak kudi <deepakkudi23@adsl-172-10-9-116.dsl.sndg02.sbcglobal.net>
Co-authored-by: Puneet Dixit <236133619+puneetdixit200@users.noreply.github.com>
Problem:
Currently, it only supports sending requests using the current cursor position as a parameter.
Solution:
Support sending requests using arbitrary positions.
Problem:
Linter missed backtick and double-quote keynames in the quasi-keyset of
the `nvim_create_user_command` docstring.
Solution:
Update the linter to check backtick-surrounded and quote-surrounded key
names.
docs: update instructions for debugging LSP
Previously, it was suggested to set:
vim.lsp.log.set_format_func(vim.inspect)
This made sense before f72c13341a, when
`format_func` was called once per argument being logged, but since that
commit it's called with the log level followed by the other args, so the
suggested setting would call `vim.inspect(log_level, ....)` which would
just print the human readable name of the current log level and no other
details, for example with this set I saw in my logs:
"DEBUG""DEBUG""DEBUG""DEBUG"
Instead just rely on the default formatter, which will:
> ... log the level, date, source and line number of the
caller, followed by the arguments.
Problem:
If a buffer's filetype changes after the LSP client has already
attached (e.g. from json to jsonc via a modeline), but the client
supports both filetypes, it stays attached. It does not notify the
server of the new languageId, causing the server to incorrectly process
the file using the old languageId.
Solution:
Save the languageId used during textDocument/didOpen, and send
textDocument/didClose + textDocument/didOpen when buffer's languageId
changed.
Lsp spec:
https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/blob/0003fb53f18dc7a4ac7e51d0eb518deeea90fde5/_specifications/lsp/3.18/textDocument/didOpen.md#L5
> If the language id of a document changes, the client
> needs to send a textDocument/didClose to the server followed by a
> textDocument/didOpen with the new language id if the server handles
> the new language id as well.
AI-assisted: Gemini 3.1 Pro
Problem:
Use vim.lsp.util.apply_text_edits to re-apply the same textedit causes
an incorrect edit, because apply_text_edits silently modifies the
parameter.
Solution:
- Avoid changing `text_edit._index`.
- Document this fun feature.
Helped-by: Riley Bruins <ribru17@hotmail.com>
Helped-by: Yi Ming <ofseed@foxmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Problem:
No LuaLS types for event-data fields (ev.data). Types are only
documented ad hoc in scattered locations.
Solution:
Add runtime/lua/vim/_meta/events.lua defining vim.event.<name>.data
classes for events that provide ev.data. Reference the types from
each event's help in autocmd.txt, lsp.txt, and pack.txt.
Problem:
Difficult for us to provide default handlers for functions like
`vim.lsp.buf.definition`. When users wanted to fine-tune the default behavior,
they don't know how.
Solution:
- Document an example providing `on_list` boilerplate to make it easier for
users to modify and override.
- Also, considering that the parameters of the previous
`on_list`(`vim.lsp.ListOpts.OnList`) are compatible with the parameters of
`setqflist`, remove that custom type in favor of passing
`vim.fn.setqflist.what`.
Problem:
Naming conventions are not automatically checked.
Solution:
Add a check to the doc generator. Eventually we should extract this
somehow, but that will require refactoring the doc generator...
Note: this also checks non-public functions, basically anything that
passes through `gen_eval_files.lua` and `gen_vimdoc.lua`. And that's
a good thing.
continues d0af4cd909.
This commit renames positional parameters. This is only "cosmetic", but
is intended to make it extra clear which name is preferred, since people
often copy existing code despite the guidelines in `:help dev-naming`.
Problem:
To support `collapsedText`, which allows the LSP server to determine the
content of the foldtext, we provided `vim.lsp.foldtext()`. However, such
content does not have highlighting.
Solution
Treat the filetype of `collapsedText` as the filetype of the corresponding
buffer and use tree-sitter to highlight it.
Problem:
The current LSP diagnostic implementation can't differ between a pull
diagnostic with no identifier and a set of diagnostics provided via push
diagnostics.
"Anonymous pull providers" are expected by the protocol https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#diagnosticOptions
, depending on how the capability was registered:
- Dynamic registrations have an identifier.
- Static registrations will not.
Solution:
Restore the `is_pull` argument removed in
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/37938, keeping the identifier of
pull diagnostic collections.
Problem:
LSP error responses implicitly rely on a custom `__tostring` function
(`vim.lsp.rpc.format_rpc_error`) for formatting. This causes errors that are not
created via `vim.lsp.rpc.error` to behave inconsistently with those that are.
Furthermore, we usually use `log.error` to print these errors, which uses
`vim.inspect` under the hood, so the custom `__tostring` provides little
benefit.
This increases the difficulty of refactoring the code, as it tightly couples RPC
error handling with the LSP.
Solution:
Convert every potential `__tostring` call to an explicit one. Since we don't
describe this behavior in the documentation, this should not be a breaking
change.
Problem:
LSP jump operations such as `buf.definition`/`buf.type_definition` do
not follow the 'switchbuf' option. Instead their behavior is controlled
by `vim.lsp.LocationOpts.reuse_win`. When `reuse_win=true`, the effect
is very similar to `set switchbuf=useopen`.
Note that functions like `buf.definition` open the quickfix
window when there are multiple results, and jumping between quickfix
entries already follows 'switchbuf', so unifying the behavior is more
intuitive.
Solution:
Follow the 'switchbuf' option and drop `reuse_win`.
We can achieve this behavior by using :cfirst when the quickfix list has
only one item, rather than customizing the jump logic as before.
Problem:
- Progress-events are filtered by "source". But "source" is not required by nvim_echo.
- Without "++nested" (force=false), nvim_echo in an event-handler does not trigger Progress events.
- vim.health does not declare a "source".
Solution:
- Make source mandatory for progress-messages
- Enable ++nested (force=true) by default when firing Progress event.
- Set "source" in vim.health module.