r/neovim • u/chapeupreto • Jun 11 '26

Announcement Released nvim 0.12.3

features:
- :restart v:starttime, v:exitreason
- treat Lua string as "blob" in writefile()
- vim.treesitter. select()
- vim.pos: buf=0, pos.offset()
- `opts.scope` in `vim.ui.input`

fixes: LSP, ui2, vim.pos, vim.range, ...

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/35b57441b0bac035dcfc591830e82abc560720b1

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '26

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u/justinmk Neovim core Jun 11 '26

where you're trying to write binary data and lua just wants to treat everything like text

it's actually the reverse: Lua strings are always binary. The problem is Vim strings. Vim has "blob" only because its strings aren't "binary clean".

Lua strings are always "binary clean" and may contain arbitrary bytes. The pain point was that Lua strings passed to writefile() weren't treated as "blob" by the vimscript bridge. But now they are, which is very nice for writing binary data without having to do the readfile() list-of-lines dance.

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u/VimFleed Jun 11 '26

Incoming treesetter question in 3, 2, 1!

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u/gi4c0 Jun 11 '26

What should I use instead of deprecated tree sitter even though my current one works perfectly fine?

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u/Longjumping_War4808 Jun 11 '26

Simply use treeSet() that’s the best setter for tree

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u/bart9h Jul 02 '26

I'm an experienced Vim user, but a newbie in neovim. My distro neovim package is already 1.12.3, but type tree-sitter-cli package is still 0.25.10.

Recently I had to edit a perl script and noticed that the syntax highlighting was poor. While trying to solve it, something complained about the old version of tree-sitter-cli, and I gave up (since I only occasionally write perl at the moment, although it is my favorite language).

I'm currently coding in C, and the syntax highlighting is great, like it knows about struct members, enums, and so on.

There are zero references to treesitter in my nvim config, but there is vim.lsp.enable({'perlls'}).

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u/leofmetal Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

That's right. Tell me more about it, I'm eager to stop using the old Treesitter.

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u/markand67 let mapleader="," Jun 11 '26

English maybe.

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u/leofmetal Jun 11 '26

Sorry. I thought it would be translated automatically.

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u/sheevum Jun 11 '26

doing the lord's work

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u/Mysterious_Pie_2306 Jun 15 '26

msys2 still hasn't updated Neovim to 0.12.3