Neovim 0.9 New Features

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Neovim v0.9: New Features

1. Treesitter syntax highlighting for help files
2. Native Treesitter Inspect window
3. Status Column for fold, sign, and number
4. EditorConfig support
5. NVIM_APPNAME support for configuration directories
6. Run Lua scripts from the shell
7. showcmdloc informational status
8. splitkeep to control horizontal split scroll
9. Lots more!

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1. Treesitter syntax highlinging for help files

To enable, create .config/nvim/ftplugin/help.lua

vim.treesitter.start()

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2. Native Treesitter Inspect window

Opens a split window showing a text representation of the nodes in a lanugage tree for the current buffer.

lua vim.treesitter.inspect_tree()

:InspectTree

Help

:help inspect_tree

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3. Status Column for fold, sign, and number

statuscolumn option to customize the area to the side of a window, normally containing the fold, sign and number columns. This new option follows the 'statusline' syntax...

vim.opt.statuscolumn = "%l %r"

Help

:help statuscolumn

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4a. EditorConfig support

Neovim will now use settings from EditorConfig

root = true

[lib/**.js]
indent_style = tab
indent_size = 2

[{package.json,.travis.yml}]
indent_style = space
indent_size = 2

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4b. EditorConfig support

However, if you don't want this behavior you can turn it off.

vim.g.editorconfig = false

Help

:help editorconfig

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5a. NVIM_APPNAME support for configuration directories

Environment variable that tells Neovim what directory should be used to find its configuration and state files.

🎦 Neovim Config Switcher

git clone https://github.com/LazyVim/starter ~/.config/LazyVim
NVIM_APPNAME=LazyVim nvim

Help

:help $NVIM_APPNAME

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5b. NVIM_APPNAME support for configuration directories

Neovim will look for (and auto-create) in the various XDG parent directories.

.
├── .cache
│   └── LazyVim
└── .local
    ├── share
    │   └── LazyVim
    └── state
        └── LazyVim

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6. Run Lua scripts from the shell

Added support for running Lua scripts from shell using -l flag.

Examples

nvim -l foo.lua --arg1 --arg2
echo "print(42)" | nvim -l -
echo "print(vim.inspect(_G.arg))" | nvim -l - --arg1 --arg2

Help

:help -l

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7. showcmdloc informational status

showcmdloc option to display the showcmd information in the status line or tab line. A new %S statusline item is available to place the showcmd text in a custom statusline. Useful for when cmdheight is set to 0.

:lua vim.opt.cmdheight = 0
:lua vim.opt.statusline = "%f - %y %=%S %l / %L"
:lua vim.opt.showcmdloc = "statusline"

Help

:help showcmdloc

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8. splitkeep to control horizontal split scroll

Possible values are:

• cursor Keep the same relative cursor position (default)
• screen Keep the text on the same screen line.
• topline Keep the topline the same.

Help

:help splitkeep

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9. Lots more features!

• GitHub Release v0.9.0
• Notable changes in Nvim 0.9 from 0.8

Help

:help news

Thank you Neovim contributors!

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