Problem: 'wildchar' does not work in search contexts
Solution: implement search completion when 'wildchar' is typed
(Girish Palya).
This change enhances Vim's command-line completion by extending
'wildmode' behavior to search pattern contexts, including:
- '/' and '?' search commands
- ':s', ':g', ':v', and ':vim' commands
Completions preserve the exact regex pattern typed by the user,
appending the completed word directly to the original input. This
ensures that all regex elements — such as '<', '^', grouping brackets
'()', wildcards '\*', '.', and other special characters — remain intact
and in their original positions.
---
**Use Case**
While searching (using `/` or `?`) for lines containing a pattern like
`"foobar"`, you can now type a partial pattern (e.g., `/f`) followed by
a trigger key (`wildchar`) to open a **popup completion menu** showing
all matching words.
This offers two key benefits:
1. **Precision**: Select the exact word you're looking for without
typing it fully.
2. **Memory aid**: When you can’t recall a full function or variable
name, typing a few letters helps you visually identify and complete the
correct symbol.
---
**What’s New**
Completion is now supported in the following contexts:
- `/` and `?` search commands
- `:s`, `:g`, `:v`, and `:vimgrep` ex-commands
---
**Design Notes**
- While `'wildchar'` (usually `<Tab>`) triggers completion, you'll have
to use `<CTRL-V><Tab>` or "\t" to search for a literal tab.
- **Responsiveness**: Search remains responsive because it checks for
user input frequently.
---
**Try It Out**
Basic setup using the default `<Tab>` as the completion trigger:
```vim
set wim=noselect,full wop=pum wmnu
```
Now type:
```
/foo<Tab>
```
This opens a completion popup for matches containing "foo".
For matches beginning with "foo" type `/\<foo<Tab>`.
---
**Optional: Autocompletion**
For automatic popup menu completion as you type in search or `:`
commands, include this in your `.vimrc`:
```vim
vim9script
set wim=noselect:lastused,full wop=pum wcm=<C-@> wmnu
autocmd CmdlineChanged [:/?] CmdComplete()
def CmdComplete()
var [cmdline, curpos, cmdmode] = [getcmdline(), getcmdpos(),
expand('<afile>') == ':']
var trigger_char = '\%(\w\|[*/:.-]\)$'
var not_trigger_char = '^\%(\d\|,\|+\|-\)\+$' # Exclude numeric range
if getchar(1, {number: true}) == 0 # Typehead is empty, no more
pasted input
&& !wildmenumode() && curpos == cmdline->len() + 1
&& (!cmdmode || (cmdline =~ trigger_char && cmdline !~
not_trigger_char))
SkipCmdlineChanged()
feedkeys("\<C-@>", "t")
timer_start(0, (_) => getcmdline()->substitute('\%x00', '',
'ge')->setcmdline()) # Remove <C-@>
endif
enddef
def SkipCmdlineChanged(key = ''): string
set ei+=CmdlineChanged
timer_start(0, (_) => execute('set ei-=CmdlineChanged'))
return key == '' ? '' : ((wildmenumode() ? "\<C-E>" : '') .. key)
enddef
**Optional: Preserve history recall behavior**
cnoremap <expr> <Up> SkipCmdlineChanged("\<Up>")
cnoremap <expr> <Down> SkipCmdlineChanged("\<Down>")
**Optional: Customize popup height**
autocmd CmdlineEnter : set bo+=error | exec $'set ph={max([10,
winheight(0) - 4])}'
autocmd CmdlineEnter [/?] set bo+=error | set ph=8
autocmd CmdlineLeave [:/?] set bo-=error ph&
```
closes: #17570
Signed-off-by: Girish Palya <girishji@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: terminal: no visual highlight of empty cols when 'listchars'
is empty (Yousef Mohammed)
Solution: reset wlv.win_attr when column is zero and we are drawing a
terminal buffer
fixes: #17559closes: #17618
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: configure: using obsolete macro AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL
Solution: drop it from configure.ac, regenerate auto/configure
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: documentation issues with Wayland
(after v9.1.1485)
Solution: Tweak documentation style. Capitalize the first letter of
Wayland (Hirohito Higashi)
related: #17619
Signed-off-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: missing Wayland clipboard support
Solution: make it work (Foxe Chen)
fixes: #5157closes: #17097
Signed-off-by: Foxe Chen <chen.foxe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
relevant commits:
- refactor: cleanup netrw#BrowseX
- fix: correctly handle symlinks in treeview
- chore: add minimalrc for reproducing issues
- refactor: simplify s:NetrwInit with the 'newer' assignment syntax
- refactor: remove balloon functionality
- Tune local file listing especially for Windows network drives
- interim fix for browse open with multiple windows
closes: #17616
Signed-off-by: Luca Saccarola <github.e41mv@aleeas.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: tests: Turkish locale tests fails on Mac
(after v9.1.1480)
Solution: skip the test Test_pos_percentage_in_turkish_locale() on Mac
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: not possible to translation position in buffer
Solution: use _() macro to mark the output as translatable
(Emir SARI)
Row/Column indicator separator is currently not customizable. Some
languages have a space after the comma as the usual practice, plus this
would help translators use a custom separator like colons if necessary.
Additionally, after a save, the line and the byte indicator is also
hardcoded, this enables i18n for that as well.
closes: #17608
Signed-off-by: Emir SARI <emir_sari@icloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Topline is preemptively updated by line() in WinResized
autocmd with 'splitkeep' != "cursor".
Solution: Set `skip_update_topline` when 'splitkeep' != "cursor".
(Luuk van Baal)
related: neovim/neovim#34666
closes: #17613
Signed-off-by: Luuk van Baal <luukvbaal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
The examples mention the [u] flag, so at least the [u] flag should be
introduced before the examples.
Slightly reword the sentence about trailing/leading white space.
closes: #17604
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
The unamed register may be referenced as both @" and @@.
Remove the unused vimPlainRegister syntax group.
fixes: #17603.
closes: #17605
Signed-off-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Usually, Vim's document provides example code after explanations.
However some part of the editing.txt doesn't follow the style, therefore
this commit modifies it so that it follows the usual style.
closes: #17607
Co-authored-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: mityu <mityu.mail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: regression when displaying localized percentage position
(after v9.1.1291)
Solution: calculate percentage first (Emir SARI)
Cleanups made in ec032de broke the Turkish percent display, failing to
prepend it properly in cases between 0 and 10. In Turkish, the percent
sign is prepended to the number, so it was displaying it as `% 5`
(should have been `%5`), while displaying numbers bigger than 9 properly.
related: #17597
Signed-off-by: Emir SARI <emir_sari@icloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Don't match the OR operator in expressions as a trailing bar.
closes: #17533
Signed-off-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: no easy way to deduplicate text
Solution: add the :uniq ex command
(Hirohito Higashi)
closes: #17538
Signed-off-by: Hirohito Higashi <h.east.727@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: missing out-of-memory checks in cmdexpand.c
Solution: add missing out-of-memory checks, re-order code
(John Marriott)
This commit does the following:
- in cmdline_pum_create() add out-of-memory check call of ALLOC_MULT()
- in expand_cmdline() move check for out-of-memory to cover both
assignments of file_str
- in nextwild() don't free `p2` until after it's last use.
closes: #17592
Signed-off-by: John Marriott <basilisk@internode.on.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
vim9script <expr> mappings relying on imports cannot be evaluated
outside of the script file with the imports, so do not work with plugins
like vim-which-key, which evaluates <expr> mappings to apply them.
Using <Plug> mappings is one way to address this, and has the added
benefit of reading like a description for users finding the mappings.
fixes: #17523closes: #17563
Signed-off-by: Mark Woods <mwoods.online.ie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
vim9script <scriptcmd> mappings relying on imports cannot be evaluated
outside of the script file with the imports, so do not work with plugins
like vim-which-key, which applies the mappings using feedkeys().
Using <Plug> mappings is one way to address this, and has the added
benefit of reading like a description for users finding the mappings.
related: #17563
Signed-off-by: Mark Woods <mwoods.online.ie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
In this commit, all legacy encodings for tutor files are removed.
* All the tutor files `tutor1.xx` and `tutor2.xx` are now `utf-8`
* All `README.xx.txt` files are now `utf-8`
* All makefiles are removed, as they are no longer needed
* The `tutor.vim` script is simplified
* The `README` indicates `utf-8` as a requirement
* update vimtutor.bat file
In 2025, there is no realistic scenario where a beginner starts the Vim
9.1 tutor on a machine that lacks UTF-8 support.
This change will ease the maintenance of the tutor files. Cf #17562 for
an example.
closes: #17582closes: #17586
Co-authored-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Signed-off-by: Damien Lejay <damien@lejay.be>
Signed-off-by: RestorerZ <restorer@mail2k.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Remove unmatchable :normal {mark,register} matches. The arg to :normal
is now handled separately and contained marks and registers are no
longer matched.
closes: #17571
Signed-off-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
The required space in Vim9 continuation comments (#\ comment) was
accidentally removed in commit 6acca4b as trailing whitespace.
closes: #17573
Signed-off-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: inconsistent range arg for :diffget/diffput
Solution: fix the range specification, place the cursor for :diffput and
:diffget consistently on the last line (Yee Cheng Chin)
Previously, `:<range>diffget` only allowed using 1 or above in the range
value, making it impossible to use the command for a diff block at the
beginning of the file. Fix the range specification so the user can now
use 0 to specify the space before the first line. This allows
`:0,$+1diffget` to work to retrieve all the changes from the other file
instead of missing the first diff block. Also do this for `:diffput`.
Also, make `:diffput` work more similar to `:diffget`. Make it so that
if the cursor is on the last line and a new line is inserted in the
other file, doing `:diffput` will select that diff block below the line,
just like `:diffget` would.
Also clean up the logic a little bit for edge cases and for handling
line matched diff blocks better.
closes: #17579
Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: if_python: PySequence_Fast_{GET_SIZE,GET_ITEM} removed with
python3.14 in stable ABI
Solution: use PySequence_{Size,GetItem} instead (Zdenek Dohnal)
Python 3.14 removed those two functions from stable API because of
reasoning these function shouldn't be part of stable API at the first
place.
Moving to PySequence_GetSize and PySequence_GetItem fixes the build
failure when Vim is built with dynamic Python and stable API for Python
3.8.
closes: #17575
Signed-off-by: Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
The 'h' occasion is now used for "matched text of currently inserted
completion" (defaulting to ComplMatchIns).
closes: #17572
Signed-off-by: Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: use-after-free with popup callback on error
(Brian Carbone, lifepillar)
Solution: check if the popup window is valid before accessing it
fixes: #17558closes: #17565
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: potential buffer-underflow with invalid hl_id (mugitya03)
Solution: assert that the return-code of syn_get_final_id() if > 0
As a safety check, syn_get_final_id() may return zero when either the
provided hl_id is zero or larger than expected.
However, many callers of syn_get_final_id() do not check that the return
value is larger than zero but re-use the returned highlight id directly
like this:
hl_id = syn_get_final_id(hl_id);
sgp = &HL_TABLE()[hl_id - 1]; // index is ID minus one
in which case, this would cause a buffer underrun and an access violation.
Let's use assert(hl_id > 0); to make sure that hl_id is larger than
zero.
Note to myself: I'll need to compile releases builds using -DNDEBUG once
a new release will be made
fixes: #17475closes: #17512
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: filetype: bright(er)script files are not recognized
Solution: detect *.bs files as brighterscript filetype and *.brs as
brightscript filetype, include filetype plugins (Riley Bruins)
closes: #17566
Signed-off-by: Riley Bruins <ribru17@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
