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Problem: Lockfile can become out of sync with what is actually installed
on disk when user performs (somewhat reasonable) manual actions like:
- Delete lockfile and expect it to regenerate.
- Delete plugin directory without `vim.pack.del()`.
- Manually edit lock data in a bad way.
Solution: Synchronize lockfile data with installed plugins on every
lockfile read. In particular:
1. Install immediately all missing plugins with valid lock data.
This helps with "manually delete plugin directory" case by
prompting user to figure out how to properly delete a plugin.
2. Repair lock data for properly installed plugins.
This helps with "manually deleted lockfile", "manually edited
lockfile in an unexpected way", "installation terminated due to
timeout" cases.
3. Remove unrepairable corrupted lock data and their plugins. This
includes bad lock data for missing plugins and any lock data
for corrupted plugins (right now this only means that plugin
path is not a directory, but can be built upon).
Step 1 also improves usability in case there are lazy loaded plugins
that are rarely loaded (like on `FileType` event, for example):
- Previously starting with config+lockfile on a new machine only
installs rare `vim.pack.add()` plugin after it is called (while
an entry in lockfile would still be present). This could be
problematic if there is no Internet connection, for example.
- Now all plugins from the lockfile are installed before actually
executing the first `vim.pack.add()` call in 'init.lua'. And later
they are only loaded on a rare `vim.pack.add()` call.
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Synchronizing lockfile on its every read makes it work more robustly
if other `vim.pack` functions are called without any `vim.pack.add()`.
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Performance for a regular startup (good lockfile, everything is
installed) is not affected and usually even increased. The bottleneck
in this area is figuring out which plugins need to be installed.
Previously the check was done by `vim.uv.fs_stat()` for every plugin
in `vim.pack.add()`. Now it is replaced with a single `vim.fs.dir()`
traversal during lockfile sync while later using lockfile data to
figure out if plugin needs to be installed.
The single `vim.fs.dir` approach scales better than `vim.uv.fs_stat`,
but might be less performant if there are many plugins that will be
not loaded via `vim.pack.add()` during startup.
Rough estimate of how long the same steps (read lockfile and normalize
plugin array) take with a single `vim.pack.add()` filled with 43
plugins benchmarking:
- Before commit: ~700 ms
- After commit: ~550 ms
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
- Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Enable advanced UIs without modifications to the core
- Maximize extensibility
See the Introduction wiki page and Roadmap for more information.
Features
- Modern GUIs
- API access from any language including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust
- Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator
- Asynchronous job control
- Shared data (shada) among multiple editor instances
- XDG base directories support
- Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins
See :help nvim-features for the full list, and :help news for noteworthy changes in the latest version!
Install from package
Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found on the Releases page.
Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Gentoo, and more!
Install from source
See BUILD.md and supported platforms for details.
The build is CMake-based, but a Makefile is provided as a convenience. After installing the dependencies, run the following command.
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install
To install to a non-default location:
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/full/path/
make install
CMake hints for inspecting the build:
cmake --build build --target helplists all build targets.build/CMakeCache.txt(orcmake -LAH build/) contains the resolved values of all CMake variables.build/compile_commands.jsonshows the full compiler invocations for each translation unit.
Transitioning from Vim
See :help nvim-from-vim for instructions.
Project layout
├─ cmake/ CMake utils
├─ cmake.config/ CMake defines
├─ cmake.deps/ subproject to fetch and build dependencies (optional)
├─ runtime/ plugins and docs
├─ src/nvim/ application source code (see src/nvim/README.md)
│ ├─ api/ API subsystem
│ ├─ eval/ Vimscript subsystem
│ ├─ event/ event-loop subsystem
│ ├─ generators/ code generation (pre-compilation)
│ ├─ lib/ generic data structures
│ ├─ lua/ Lua subsystem
│ ├─ msgpack_rpc/ RPC subsystem
│ ├─ os/ low-level platform code
│ └─ tui/ built-in UI
└─ test/ tests (see test/README.md)
License
Neovim contributions since b17d96 are licensed under the
Apache 2.0 license, except for contributions copied from Vim (identified by the
vim-patch token). See LICENSE for details.
Vim is Charityware. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are
encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda. Please see the
kcc section of the vim docs or visit the ICCF web site, available at these URLs:
https://iccf-holland.org/
https://www.vim.org/iccf/
https://www.iccf.nl/
You can also sponsor the development of Vim. Vim sponsors can vote for
features. The money goes to Uganda anyway.