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Neovim Core updates

Updates of Neovim itself, which are available on Neovim nightly.

Important: if you are a plugin author, you are strongly advised to follow the #14090 breaking changes on master GitHub thread, as it contains important breaking changes information.

  • spellsitter merged to core!. A huge contribution by @lewis6991 and @vigoux. If you did not know, spellsitter is a tree-sitter powered spell checking mechanism that only checks spells for specified queries. This allows checking only relevant parts such as comments or markdown text for spelling errors. (#19419)

  • #15391 adds tree-sitter parsers and queries for core languages (C, Lua and VimL).

    Neovim now bundles parsers and highlight queries for Lua, Vimscript, and C; by default the former are installed in /usr/local/lib/nvim/parsers, the latter in /usr/local/share/nvim/runtime/queries. Parsers and queries from plugins and user configs should take precedence, but conflicts cannot be ruled out in some situations.

    To enable treesitter highlighting for Lua, add vim.g.ts_highlight_lua = true to your init.lua. (Note that this disables regex syntax highlighting, which plugins may rely on for functionality. In this case, add vim.bo.syntax = 'ON' to ftplugin/lua.lua in your config.)

    Note that this does not work with brew install neovim --HEAD, which doesn't bundle parsers, see discussions/3611.

  • #20039 updates nvim_parse_cmd().

    nvim_parse_cmd() now returns tab = -1 instead of tab = 0 when :tab modifier is absent. This makes it possible for :[n]tab to be properly forwarded to nvim_cmd() for all valid non-negative values.

  • #20105 changes tree-sitter runtime queries.

    The behavior of the runtime queries changed and now works as follows:

    • The first query in the rtp without and extends modeline will be used as the base query (typically implies the priority "user config > plugins > bundled runtime").
    • All queries (without a specific order) with an extends modeline are concatenated with the base query, see :h lua-treesitter-query.

    This has to be done to correctly handle different version of the queries, working with different parsers following #15391.

Neovim Plugin Community updates

Neovim is full of active plugins. This section is about the community and what is going on.

Plugins supporting SemVer will have a little badge on the right side of their title: SemVer Those plugins help contributing to a more stable Neovim ecosystem, and hence are put in front of others. Thank you!

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Need help {#need-help}

What do you want for autolist.nvim?

Automatic list continuation and formatting for neovim, powered by Lua.

@gaoDean is asking the community what kind of features you want to be included in the next iteration of autolist.nvim. Go help them out with the next feature set!

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Guides, tours, articles, etc. {#guides}

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New plugins {#new-plugins}

debuglog

Have you ever used print() in your plugin code for debugging? This new plugin by @smartpde simplifies this use case - leave log statements in the code and enable them when needed.

telescope-recent-files

Another new plugin by @smartpde for picking the recent files with Telescope. Unlike the built-in oldfiles picker, this plugin also takes into account new buffers opened in the current session.

SemVer

kat.nvim

@katawful made a colorscheme called kat.nvim which hit its v1.0 version! This version is named Rotund Donskoy — I will let you read the Reddit announcement to know why! — and it looks pretty cool!

nvim-tundra

nvim-tundra

@sam4llis released their own personal colorscheme, called nvim-tundra. It has native integration of other famous plugins, such as:

  • nvim-lspconfig
  • nvim-treesitter
  • nvim-treesitter-context
  • gitsigns.nvim
  • nvim-cmp
  • telescope.nvim
  • vim-dadbod-ui

Go check it out!

sterm.nvim

sterm.nvim

Hey, a new terminal plugin! @Hvassaa made their very first Neovim plugin, sterm.nvim, which stands for (s)tupid (term)inal. It allows you to toggle between showing and hiding a terminal buffer. Simple, to the point. Congrats on your first plugin!

coal.nvim

coal.nvim

Are you sick of colors? Do you enjoy monochromatic themes? Here’s a new theme for you then, made by @cranberry-clockworks.

last-color.nvim

last-color.nvim

Procrastinating instead of doing their university duty, @raddari made a fun Neovim plugin to recall your last call to :colorscheme. You can then reuse it as you wish, and even automatically set your colorscheme based on the last session.

But really, do your homework!

lualine-lsp-progress.nvim

lualine-lsp-progress.nvim

A plugin that shows the LSP progress inside lualine statusline, by @WhoIsSethDaniel. I don’t know who they are, but that looks pretty cool!

telescope-makefile.nvim

telescope-makefile

Do you use Makefile with lots of targets? If yes, try @ptethng's first plugin. With help from telescope.nvim it can show and run available make targets.

mason-null-ls.nvim

@jayp0521’s first plugin! It can automatically install/upgrade tools needed for null-ls (with help from mason.nvim, hence the name).

markid

A Neovim plugin to highlight same-name identifiers with the same color, by @David-Kunz.

SJ.nvim

SJ.nvim

@woosaaahh made a search based navigation combined with quick jump features plugin. Congrats! The name is two o and three a, for people struggling installing the plugin!

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Updates {#updates}

inc-rename.nvim

inc-rename.nvim is a small plugin that lets you preview Neovim vim.lsp.buf.rename command as you type (nightly only). It will highlight all occurrences of the variable in your buffers as you rename it.

inc_rename.nvim

inc-rename.nvim released a new update which adds proper support for the popular dressing.nvim plugin that enhances the appearance of Neovim's default vim.ui.input. Now, the new name of a variable will be mirrored in dressing's input buffer as you type in the command line. There is still a small issue with the UI though that can only be fixed in Neovim itself (see #14735).

diffview.nvim

A plugin that uses the strengths of Neovim builtin diff-mode and offers some nice interfaces for viewing git-diffs for any git revision, as well as exploring file history.

diffview.nvim

The plugin now has a merge tool! Also, that screenshot looks really nice, doesn’t it?! Congrats on the update, @sindrets.

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Did you know? {#tips}

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