Extra buffer opening with neovim 0.3.0

[kierun]

I launch neovim-qt via this zsh function:

function gvim {                                                                 
    nvim-qt --geometry 970x512 --no-ext-tabline -- "$@" &                       
}   

I updated to neovim 0.3.0 and when calling the above, I get a window to open just fine but there are two buffers: an empty one and another buffer the one with the file.

[kierun]

Just for completeness sake. When I select the second buffer, the one where my file is, this is what I get:

[kierun]

@equalsraf Are you still looking at these? A while back you were very quick at replying and now I have two bugs reported and have heard nothing? You okay? You still maintaining this? …

[equalsraf]

hi @kierun I'm good, just crazy busy :) thanks for asking.

As for the issue. I was able to reproduce this in sh too. And I confirmed it does not happen with neovim alone. To replicate is enough to call nvim-qt with a single file name argument (the file does not need to exist) i.e.

bin/nvim-qt --nvim ../../neovim/build/bin/nvim -- -u NONE /tmp/test

However this does not cause the same issue

../../neovim/build/bin/nvim  -u NONE /tmp/test

The additional buffer is unnamed which suggests this is not a bug regarding command line arguments.

On a side note you can probably remove the & since nvim-qt now forks into the backgroud.

[kierun]

hi @kierun I'm good, just crazy busy :) thanks for asking.

You're welcome.

As for the issue. I was able to reproduce this in sh too.

Right, so not the shell… Good.

On a side note you can probably remove the & since nvim-qt now forks into the background.

Yup. Done that, all working. Thanks.

[JAffleck]

FWIW, until this bug is fixed you can kill the extra empty buffer by putting this init.vim

if @% == ""
  bd
endif

[justinmk]

I wouldn't expect nvim-qt to be affected by this, but neovim/neovim#8576 may help with this. If not I don't know what the issue could be. Can someone try that PR?

[kierun]

@JAffleck

Even better, just add it to ~/.config/nvim/ginit.vim…

[kierun]

Sorry, pressed the wrong key…

[roflcopter4]

I managed to fix this (for me) with this extremely simple patch. It seems that for whatever reason the current version neovim doesn't like getting option paramaters passed after files. Neovim-qt was passing arguments that look like --cmd let &rtp.=',/usr/local/share/nvim-qt/runtime' --cmd set termguicolors *FILES* --embed --headless. There are two simple solutions. The first is to define an alias like alias gvi='nvim-qt --no-ext-tabline -- --' which forces nvim-qt to put its arguments before the file list. The second and better solution is to force nvim-qt to always put its arguments before the file list. This patch does that.

diff --git a/src/neovimconnector.cpp b/src/neovimconnector.cpp
index 1f15768..1ba4f4c 100644
--- a/src/neovimconnector.cpp
+++ b/src/neovimconnector.cpp
@@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ NeovimConnector* NeovimConnector::spawn(const QStringList& params, const QString
        QProcess *p = new QProcess();
        QStringList args;
        if (params.indexOf("--") == -1) {
-               args.append(params);
                args << "--embed" << "--headless";
+               args.append(params);
        } else {
                // Neovim accepts a -- argument after which only
                // filenames are passed

I'm not sure if it's worth opening a pull request for something this small but this does fix the problem.

[kierun]

@roflcopter4 I just tried your patch and can confirm that this solves the issue. Thank you.