Extended marks support

[hoschi]

Do I miss something or is the support for extended marks missing? From the Neovim docs I would expect that Buffer gets new methods/properties, e.g. setExtmark().

[mhinz]

Unfortunately, this repo isn't very well maintained at the moment. If you'd like to help out and add support for the latest Nvim features, I'd gladly give you write access.

[hoschi]

Sadly I haven't time either :(

[smolck]

@mhartington Are you familiar with how new APIs like this are generated with this library? I'd like to update this but can't seem to find how that's done.

[mhartington]

APIs from the library have a mapping back to the original nvim API.

so things like nvim_buf_set_extmark(0, g:mark_ns, 0, 0, 2, {})

Would probably be implemented like setLines

https://github.com/neovim/node-client/blob/master/packages/neovim/src/api/Buffer.ts#L103-L125

 setExtMark(nameSpace, line, col, opts = {}) {
    return this.request(`${this.prefix}set_extmark`, [
      this,
      nameSpace,
      line,
      col,
      opts,
    ]);
  }

The main take away is that each method in the classes must map back to an API from neovim.

[smolck]

Right, but are those written by hand and not generated (via reading the output from $ nvim --api-info)?

[mhartington]

Correct, they are written by hand. I'm not sure there was ever a way to generate the API programmatically.

[smolck]

Okay, thank you! I think I might write something to generate them then . . .

[billyvg]

I think there is (or was) a script to generate the TS interfaces.

I haven't had much time to work on this, but I wanted to have some automation to compare against the neovim API and create GH issues for missing methods.

[justinmk]

See https://github.com/neovim/node-client/pull/199#issuecomment-1628814410

Nvim APIs from node-client should be auto-generated. Anything else is not sustainable.

Meanwhile, clients can use neovim.request('nvim_buf_get_extmarks', [...]) and any other :help api function using neovim.request().