Problem: In autocmd APIs, a non-nil "pattern" containing only empty 'sub'-patterns is silently treated as nil, causing the fallback value to be unexpectedly used instead. Solution...

Problem Running :Open on an open buffer does not run vim.ui.open() on that file, requiring the user to type :Open %. This is inconsistent with most other vim commands which accept files, which defa...

Problem: There is no way for a vim.ui.input caller to indicate for which scope the input is. As in "This input is for something at cursor scope". This information can be useful for vim.ui...

Problem: No public method for treesitter incremental selection Solution: Add a method vim.treesitter.select() Closes: #38211 TODO 1. Return information about the selection? (There is a comment w...

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 no...

Problem vim.fn.writefile() treats Lua strings as Vimscript strings instead of a "binary clean" string. Solution: Treat Lua-originated strings as blob data. Related (possibly fixes): #3558...

Problem When running nvim on a remote machine over SSH, if there is high ping, then bg detection may not complete in time. This results in a warning every time nvim is started. close #38648 Solutio...

closes #38926

(Comments welcome, I didn't create a tracking issue so please feel free to comment here.) Problem The ZR feature makes it more obvious that we need some sort of flag so that an ExitPre / QuitP...

fixes #39071 close #37284 api.nvim_buf_del_mark already emits a MarkSet event with col and line set to 0. However, :delmarks currently emits no events. This changes :delmarks to emit the same col==...

Problem: No default mapping for :restart. Solution: Map to ZR in defaults. Closes: #38942

I return having sifted through some backlog. Following #25236, fix #24032 by stripping the local file: prefix before gf and <cfile> path resolution. Other URL handling is not changed.

Problem: Described in #35316, there are some inconsistencies within the lua API. :h dev-name-common states that &quot;buf&quot; should be used instead of &quot;buffer&quot; but there are cases wher...

Problem The version comparison logic in vim.pack.add is wrong. It leads to unnecessary lock_write calls even when lock_write emits exact same file. The version field may be string or vim.VersionRan...

NVIM v0.12.5 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...

Problem: No way of inspecting the (user-added) filetype detection rules. Solution: Add vim.filetype.inspect() returning copies of the internal extension, filename, pattern tables. Due to the dynami...

Problem: Currently, we recommend always inserting text above prompt-line in promptbuffer. This can be done useing the : mark. However, although we recommend it this way it can sometimes get confusi...

Problem: nvim_set_hl always replaces all attributes. Solution: Add update field. When true, merge with existing attributes instead of replacing. Unspecified attributes are preserved. If highlight g...

Problem: Plugins may want to have a way to show more details about items when using vim.ui.select. This is a fairly common problem that prompts plugin authors to implement dedicated sources/pickers...

Problem: The &quot;tohtml&quot; module should not occupy a top-level place in the require() search path. Solution: Move it to pack/dist/opt/nvim.tohtml/, it is an &quot;opt-in&quot; plugin now. Do...

vim-patch:9.2.0223: Option handling for key:value suboptions is limited Problem: Option handling for key:value suboptions is limited Solution: Improve :set+=, :set-= and :set^= for options that us...

Follow up to #34846 Problem Currently, statusline by default doesn&#39;t show progress status. Solution Add progress-message support to the default statusline. How it works Displays statusline text...

Problem: Checking the extension of a file is done often, e.g. in Nvim&#39;s codebase for differentiating Lua and Vimscript files in the runtime. The current way to do this in Lua is (1) a Lua patte...

Problem Unlike inlay hints, code lenses are closely related to running commands; a significant number of code lenses are used to execute a command (such as running tests). Therefore, it is necessar...

Closes #37174. Currently only has the filters enabled and filetype. If anyone has suggestions about other useful filters, let me know and I&#39;ll add them. Also indirectly improves :lsp enable/dis...

Problem Applications running inside :terminal that use DEC private mode 2026 (synchronized output) to batch screen updates get garbled/overlapping rendering. Neovim&#39;s TUI already supports mode ...

Problem: When using &#39;diffopt=inline:word&#39;, lines were excessively fragmented with punctuation creating separate highlight blocks, making it harder to read the diffs. Solution: This PR repl...

Problem The &#39;android&#39; and &#39;termux&#39; feature flags have been shipped in the downstream neovim/neovim-nightly package for 5+ years but were never properly documented in the downstream ...

Problem No programmatic interface (analogous to nvim_open_win) to open a new tabpage. use-cases :tab sb bufnr -&gt; nvim_open_tabpage(bufnr) :tabedit nvim_buf_get_name(bufnr) -&gt; nvim_open_tabpa...

Problem: K and CTRL-] in help files may fail if it&#39;s in the middle of some noisy text. Example: (`fun(config: vim.lsp.ClientConfig): boolean`) ^cursor Solution: Impl...

Problem: nvim_win_set_config cannot move floating windows to different tab pages Solution: Add cross-tab window movement logic with proper insertion point handling Fix #33790

An error used to be thrown when a parser was not available Now nil gets returned along with the reason

NVIM v0.12.4 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...

Problem: Statusline component of diagnostics allows only the default format "sign:count". Solution: Extend vim.diagnostic.Opts.Status to allow a custom formatting function.

Problem: If NVIM_LOG_FILE, or the default fallback, is inaccessible (e.g. directory is owned by root), users get confused. Solution: Show a warning when $NVIM_LOG_FILE or $XDG_STATE_HOME are inacc...

Close #37138 vim-patch:9.2.0088: cannot display tabs for indentation Problem: cannot display tabs for indentation Solution: Add the &quot;leadtab&quot; value to the &#39;listchars&#39; option to d...

Problem: Color completion items display as plain text without visual preview Solution: Parse RGB/hex colors from documentation and render with colored symbol ■

vim-patch:9.2.0061: Not possible to know when a session will be loaded Problem: Not possible to know when a session will be loaded. Solution: Add the SessionLoadPre autocommand (Colin Kennedy). cl...

Problem &#39;vim.secure.trust({action=&#39;allow&#39;,path=...})&#39; throws an error &quot;path is not valid when action is allow&quot; this - as discussed in #37423 - makes the API inconsistent ...

NVIM v0.12.3 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...

looking into addressing #37586 when doing packadd mypackage up to two exact paths are added to &amp;rtp. Instead of recalculating runtime_search_path from scratch, we can &quot;just&quot; splice th...

Add consistent codeblock annotations in our Markdown files while I&#39;m at it. (Note: The language name is bash, so without a custom vim.treesitter.language.register(), using sh will not work out ...

Problem: vim.diagnostic.fromqflist() discards quickfix items with valid=0, losing multi-line error context from compilers like GHC. Solution: Add opts.merge_lines to concatenate continuation lines ...

Problem Neovim doesn't support the textDocument/documentLink request. Solution Add support for it 😀 Note that this PR is based on #33500. Closes #33497 Close #33500

Close #37558 Problem: Terminal doesn&#39;t detect if the PTY process is suspended or offer a convenient way for the user to resume the process. Solution: Detect suspended PTY process on SIGCHLD an...

Problem: No easy way to stack highlight groups #35806. Solution: Add a way to specify a new statusline chunk with a highlight group that inherits from previous highlight attributes. Also applies to...

Fix #34087 Problem: Terminal doesn&#39;t handle ED 3 (clear scrollback) properly. Solution: Add vterm callback for sb_clear(). Also fix another problem that scrollback lines may be duplicated when...

Problem vim.json.decode() could not parse JSONC (JSON with Comments) extension, which is commonly used in configuration files. Solution Introduce an skip_comments option, which is disabled by defau...

Problem: Neovim’s TUI does not support several standard SGR text attributes: dim/faint (SGR 2), blink (SGR 5), conceal (SGR 8), and overline (SGR 53). This means that when a program running in the ...