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Reviewed-on: https://git.barrettruth.com/barrettruth/vimdoc-language-server/pulls/171
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vimdoc-language-server

Language server for vim help files.

Note

Due to GitHub's historic unreliability, active development is hosted on Forgejo. GitHub is maintained as a read-only mirror.

Installation

Cargo

cargo install vimdoc-language-server

Nix

nix run git+https://git.barrettruth.com/barrettruth/vimdoc-language-server.git

From source

git clone https://git.barrettruth.com/barrettruth/vimdoc-language-server.git
cd vimdoc-language-server
cargo install --path .

Usage

Configure vimdoc-language-server in your editor of choice, for example with Neovim via nvim-lspconfig:

vim.lsp.enable('vimdoc_ls')

CLI

The server also provides standalone CLI subcommands that work without an editor.

Format vimdoc files (in-place or check-only for CI):

vimdoc-language-server format doc/
vimdoc-language-server format --check doc/*.txt
vimdoc-language-server --line-width 80 format doc/

Check for diagnostics (duplicate tags, unresolved taglinks):

vimdoc-language-server check doc/
vimdoc-language-server check --ignore unresolved-tag doc/

Features

  • Formatting — separator normalization, prose reflow, heading alignment; range formatting supported
  • Diagnostics — duplicate *tag* definitions (same-file and cross-file), unresolved |taglinks|; push, pull, and CLI (check)
  • Completion — tag completion triggered by |, context-aware
  • Hover — tag definition context in a floating window
  • Go-to-definition|tag-ref| to *tag*, same-file and cross-file
  • References — all |taglinks| referencing a *tag*, cross-file
  • Rename — rename a tag and all its references across the workspace
  • Document symbols — all *tag* definitions in the current file
  • Document highlight — highlight all occurrences of a tag under cursor
  • Document links — clickable |taglinks| with tooltip
  • Folding — sections (between separators) and code blocks
  • Code actions — quick fixes and refactors

Release

Numbered releases are explicit maintainer actions from a clean, up-to-date main branch. First, prepare the release PR:

just release 0.2.3

The command bumps Cargo and Nix package metadata, regenerates manpages, runs CI, checks cargo publish --dry-run, commits the release on a release/v* branch, pushes that branch, and opens a Forgejo PR. After the PR merges, tag the merged main commit:

just release 0.2.3 --tag

Forgejo publishes crates.io and replaces the release assets from the tag workflow. Use just release 0.2.3 --dry-run to run the release checks without keeping a commit, branch, tag, or push.

Acknowledgements

  • @skewb1k - pull diagnostics deduplication fix