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Problem: No way to granularly operate on plugins when inside
confirmation buffer.
Solution: Implement code actions for in-process LSP that act on "plugin
at cursor":
- Update (if has updates).
- Skip updating (if has updates).
- Delete.
Activate via default `gra` or `vim.lsp.buf.code_action()`.
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Problem: No easy/robust way to jump between plugin sections.
Solution: Add `[[` and `]]` mappings.
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Problem: Installing plugin always pulls latest `version` changes
(usually from the default branch or "latest version tag"). It is more
robust to prefer initial installation to use the latest recorded
(i.e. "working") revision.
Solution: Prefer using revision from the lockfile (if present) during
install. The extra `update()` will pull the latest changes.
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Problem: Running `update()` by default doesn't include not active
plugins, because there was no way to get relevant `version` to get
updates from. This might be a problem in presence of lazy loaded
plugins, i.e. ones that can be "not *yet* active" but still needed to
be updated.
Solution: Include not active plugins by default since their `version` is
tracked via lockfile.
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Problem: The revision data is returned behind `opts.info` flag because
it required extra Git calls. With lockfile it is not the case.
Solution: Use lockfile to always set `rev` field in output of `get()`.
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Problem: `get()` doesn't return `spec.version` about not-yet-active
plugins (because there was no way to know that without `add()`).
Solution: Use lockfile data to set `spec.version` of non-active plugins.
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Problem: Some use cases require or benefit from persistent on disk
storage of plugin data (a.k.a. "lockfile"):
1. Allow `update()` to act on not-yet-active plugins. Currently if
`add()` is not yet called, then plugin's version is unknown
and `update()` can't decide where to look for changes.
2. Efficiently know plugin's dependencies without having to read
'pkg.json' files on every load for every plugin. This is for the
future, after there is `packspec` support (or other declaration of
dependencies on plugin's side).
3. Allow initial install to check out the exact latest "working" state
for a reproducible setup. Currently it pulls the latest available
`version.`
4. Ensure that all declared plugins are installed, even if lazy loaded.
So that later `add()` does not trigger auto-install (when there
might be no Internet connection, for example) and there is no issues
with knowing which plugins are used in the config (so even never
loaded rare plugins are still installed and can be updated).
5. Allow `add()` to detect if plugin's spec has changed between
Nvim sessions and act accordingly. I.e. either set new `src` as
origin or enforce `version.` This is not critical and can be done
during `update()`, but it might be nice to have.
Solution: Add lockfile in JSON format that tracks (adds, updtes,
removes) necessary data for described use cases. Here are the required
data that enables each point:
1. `name` -> `version` map.
2. `name` -> `dependencies` map.
3. `name` -> `rev` map. Probably also requires `name` -> `src` map
to ensure that commit comes from correct origin.
4. `name` -> `src` map. It would be good to also track the order,
but that might be too many complications and redundant together
with point 2.
5. Map from `name` to all relevant spec fields. I.e. `name` -> `src`
and `name` -> `version` for now. Storing data might be too much,
but can be discussed, of course.
This commit only adds lockfile tracking without implementing actual
use cases. It is stored in user's config directory and is suggested to
be tracked via version control.
Example of a lockfile:
```json
{
# Extra nesting to more future proof.
"plugins": {
"plug-a": {
"ref": "abcdef1"
"src": "https://github.com/user/plug-a",
# No `version` means it was `nil` (infer default branch later)
},
"plug-b": {
"dependencies": ["plugin-a", "plug-c"],
"src": "https://github.com/user/plug-b",
"ref": "bcdefg2",
# Enclose string `version` in quotes
"version": "'dev'"
},
"plug-c": {
"src": "https://github.com/user/plug-c",
"ref": "cdefgh3",
# Store `vim.version.Range` via its `tostring()` output
"version": ">=0.0.0",
}
}
}
```
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Problem: First clean start with config containing multiple
`vim.pack.add()` calls requires to explicitly confirm each one.
Although usually a rare occurrence, it still might be tedious.
Solution: Add a third choice during installation confirmation that
approves current and all next installs within current session. It is
reset after session restart.
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Problem: Some environment variables which are useful when working inside
a bare repository can affect any Git operation.
Solution: Explicitly unset problematic environment variables.
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Problem:
Force resolve `spec.version` overrides the information about whether
a user supplied `version` or not. Knowing it might be useful in some use
cases (like comparing to previously set `spec` to detect if it has
changed).
Solution:
Do not resolve `spec.version`. This also improves speed when triggering
events and calling `get()`.
- Place default branch first when listing all branches.
- Use correct terminology in `get_hash` helper.
- Do not return `{ '' }` if there are no tags.
Problem:
There is no way to get more information about installed plugins, like
current revision or default branch (necessary if resolving default
`spec.version` manually). As computing Git data migth take some time,
also allow `get()` to limit output to only necessary set of plugins.
Solution:
- introduce arguments to `get(names, opts)`, which follows other
`vim.pack` functions. Plugin extra info is returned by default and
should be opt-out via `opts.info = false`.
- Examples:
- Get current revision: `get({ 'plug-name' })[1].rev`
- Get default branch: `get({ 'plug_name' })[1].branches[1]`
- `update()` and `del()` act on plugins in the same order their names
are supplied. This is less surprising.
- default `opts.info` to `true` since this simplifies logic for the
common user, while still leaving the door open for a faster `get()` if
needed.
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Problem: Progress reports use plain `nvim_echo()` with manually
constructed messages and populate history on every call.
Solution: Use `nvim_echo()` with newly added `kind=progress` which (at
least for now) is meant to be a unified interface for showing progress
report. Also save in history only first and last progress report
messages.
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Problem:
Nvim does not have a core concept for indicating "progress" of
long-running tasks. The LspProgress event is specific to LSP.
Solution:
- `nvim_echo` can emit `kind="progress"` messages.
- Emits a `Progress` event.
- Includes new fields (id, status, percent) in the `msg_show` ui-event.
- The UI is expected to overwrite any message having the same id.
- Messages have a globally unique ID.
- `nvim_echo` returns the message ID.
- `nvim_echo(… {id=…})` updates existing messages.
Example:
local grp = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("Msg", {clear = true})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('Progress', {
pattern={"term"},
group = grp,
callback = function(ev)
print(string.format('event fired: %s', vim.inspect(ev))..'\n')
end
})
-- require('vim._extui').enable({enable=true, msg={target='msg', timeout=1000}})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', percent=80, status='running', title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
local id = vim.api.nvim_echo({{'searching'}}, true, {kind='progress', status='running', percent=10, title="terminal(ripgrep)"})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', percent=20, status = 'running', title='find tests'})
vim.api.nvim_echo({}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='running', percent=70})
vim.api.nvim_echo({{'complete'}}, true, {id = id, kind='progress', status='success', percent=100, title="find tests"})
Followups:
- Integrate with 'statusline' by listening to the Progress autocmd event.
- Integrate progress ui-event with `vim._extui`.
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Problem: Some use cases might lead to `vim.pack.add()` failing to
`:packadd` a plugin because of missing entry in 'packpath'. Like with
`nvim --clean` or manually setting `$XDG_DATA_HOME` during startup.
Solution: Document it. A more proactive approach can be ensuring correct
'packpath' entry, but it is currently somewhat verbose to do (due to
having to adjust for Windows using `\` in 'packpath' entries).
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Problem:
The load function in opts was difficult to use if you wished to
customize based on the plugin being loaded.
You could get the name, but without some way to mark a spec, that was of
limited usefulness unless you wanted to hardcode a list of names in the
function, or write a wrapper around the whole thing
Solution:
Allow users to provide an arbitrary data field in plugin specs so that
they may receive info as to how to handle that plugin in load, get() and
events, and act upon it
Co-authored-by: BirdeeHub <birdee@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Evgeni Chasnovski <evgeni.chasnovski@gmail.com>
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Problem: No way to skip install confirmation in `add()`. Having install
confirmation by default is a more secure design. However, users are
usually aware of the fact that plugin will be installed and there is
currently no way to skip confirmation.
Plus it can introduce inconvenience on the clean config initialization
if it is modularized with many `vim.pack.add()` calls (leads to
confirming installation many times in a row).
Solution: Add `opts.confirm` option that can skip install confirmation.
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Problem: No way to have full control over how plugin is loaded.
Although `:packadd!` has small side effects (only adds plugin
directory to 'runtimepath'; and maybe its 'after/' subdirectory), it
still has side effects. For example, 'plugin/' directories are still
loaded during startup (as part of `:h load-plugins`).
Solution: Allow function `opts.load` that has full control over how
plugin is loaded.
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Problem: the `load=true` in `vim.pack.add()` means that `:packadd` is
executed even during startup. This leads to force source of 'plugin/',
which breaks the intended loading order (`:h load-plugins`) and
results into sourcing them twice. This also makes it ignore
`--noplugin` argument.
Using `:packadd!` during startup is more appropriate, while `:packadd`
afterwards is still more favorable to actually force 'plugin/' source
(as there is no pre-defined mechanism that will load them later).
Solution: have `load=false` default during startup, `true` - afterwards.
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Problem: Left (`<` prefix) and right (`>` prefix) parts of update
changelog come in not fixed order: it can be left-right or right-left.
Solution: Ensure left-right order.
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Problem: New version suggestions in update confirmation buffer might
include semver tags that were committed later but for versions that
are not greater than current. Like if versions committed in order
`v0.2.0` - `v0.3.0` - `v0.2.1` - `v0.3.1`, then when on `v0.3.0` both
`v0.2.1` and `v0.3.1` are suggested, but only the latter is newer as
a version. This is because those tags are computed with post-processed
`git tag --list --contains HEAD`.
Solution: Compute all semver tags and filter only those greater than the
latest version available at HEAD.
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Problem: Both `PackChangedPre` and `PackChanged` contain |event-data|
with plugin's `spec`. It looks like a good idea to have all its
triggers contain the same format across all kinds ("install",
"update", "delete"). There are several choices:
- Have it be as verbatim as supplied to `vim.pack.add()`, i.e. can
be either string or table. A bit too ambiguous.
- Have it be table with `src` and `name` inferred. This requires
less work for "install", but more work for "update" and "delete"
(since they use `vim.pack.get()` which already infers default
`version`).
- Have it be table with *all* defaults made explicit. This looks
like the best approach, but requires extra care to only infer
default `version` when needed (i.e. avoid inferring during regular
load) because it is costly in terms of startup time.
This might also introduce inconsistency when dealing with
lockfile(s) as information there should be as close to what user
supplied as possible. Address that when dealing with lockfile.
Solution: Ensure explicit `version` in all events where possible.
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Problem: Currently `update()` and `del()` silently ignore input plugin
names that are not for already installed plugin. This might lead to
confusion because they are not explicitly reported.
Solution: Check that all input names are for installed plugins and error
otherwise.
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Problem: using `print()` to show progress report writes to `stdout` when
in `--headless` mode (interferes with the testing output) and doesn't
allow coloring.
Solution: use `nvim_echo` with colored chunks.
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Problem: Sourcing of 'after/plugin' scripts depends on the value of
'loadplugins' option. It is redundant, as it has effect only during
startup, while it is combined with `vim.v.vim_did_enter == 1` (i.e.
"it is after starting up") condition.
Solution: Ignore it.
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Problem: `attempt to yield across metamethod/C-call boundary` error when
trying to use `vim.pack.add()`.
Solution: use `pcall()` variant from 'coxpcall' on non-LuaJIT version of
Lua.
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Problem: On canceling the update (triggering `WinClosed`), the tab page
will most probably be closed too. Closing some other tab page while the
confirmation buffer is open also changes tab page numbers. We are trying
to close the wrong tab page in both cases.
Solution: save the tab page ID, and attempt to get the tab page number
from the ID when closing the buffer.
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Problem:
Error when adding a plugin will make all following plugins not
`:packadd`ed
Solution:
- add() should handle errors from :packadd with pcall()
Co-authored-by: Evgeni Chasnovski <evgeni.chasnovski@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
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Problem: No built-in plugin manager
Solution: Add built-in plugin manager
Co-authored-by: Lewis Russell <lewis6991@gmail.com>
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