vim.highlight.range does not support -1 as column value about neovim

[zeertzjq]

This sounds like a feature request rather than a bug report.

[justinmk]

IIRC, -1 used to be accepted, but now it's not. If you change the -1 column specification to vim.v.maxcol, it works.

I guess this is technically a regression.

[zeertzjq]

That seems to be a different issue.

[asmodeus812]

Yeah, it indeed used to be possible. i had it used like that, with -1, with 0.9.5

[zeertzjq]

I compared the behavior of v0.9.5 and v0.10.0 and they seem to be the same.

[asmodeus812]

For me i see different behaviour, i tested with both 9.4 and 9.5 and i can highlight the entire line using -1.

9.5 and 9.4 both work the same, tested down to 9.2 where -1 still works.

:lua vim.highlight.range(0, vim.api.nvim_create_namespace("user"), "IncSearch", { 0, 0 }, { 0, -1 }, { regtype = "V" })

[zeertzjq]

I misunderstood what you meant by "highlighting the whole line". I tested in v0.10.0 and it still works. It doesn't work in nightly.

[asmodeus812]

Strange, my verbose --version shows this

NVIM v0.10.0
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1713773202

  system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/neovim/0.10.0/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

But i can not make highlight work linewise in 0.10.0, i am not using nightly.