Problem: `compile` and `toggle` are accurate but unintuitive — `compile`
sounds academic and `toggle` says nothing about what it toggles.
Solution: rename the public API and `:Preview` subcommands to `build`
(one-shot) and `watch` (live preview). Internal compiler functions are
unchanged. No aliases for old names — clean break.
Problem: stylua required is_longrunning to be on one line; lua-ls
warned about undefined field is_reload on preview.Process.
Solution: inline the boolean expression and add is_reload? to the
preview.Process annotation.
Problem: ProviderConfig still declared synctex and validated it, but
the field is being dropped in favour of the general-purpose reload.
Solution: replace the synctex annotation and vim.validate call with the
reload field, accepting boolean | string[] | function.
Problem: presets that need the output path in their args function
(markdown, github) had to recompute it inline, duplicating the same
gsub expression already in the output field.
Solution: resolve output_file first in M.compile, then extend ctx with
output = output_file into a resolved_ctx before evaluating args and cwd.
Presets can now reference ctx.output directly. Add output? to the
preview.Context type annotation.
Problem: all parse errors went to vim.diagnostic with no way to silence
them or route them to the quickfix list. Users wanting quickfix-style
error navigation had no option.
Solution: add an errors field to ProviderConfig accepting false,
'diagnostic' (default), or 'quickfix'. false suppresses error handling
entirely. 'quickfix' converts parsed diagnostics to qflist items
(1-indexed), calls setqflist, and opens the window. On success,
'quickfix' mode clears the qflist the same way 'diagnostic' mode clears
vim.diagnostic.
Problem: all three built-in error parsers were broken against real
compiler output. Typst set source to the relative file path, overriding
the provider name. LaTeX errors go to stdout but the parser only
received stderr. Pandoc's pattern matched "Error at" but not the real
"Error parsing YAML metadata at" format, and single-line parsing missed
multiline messages.
Solution: pass combined stdout+stderr to error_parser so LaTeX stdout
errors are visible. Remove source = file from the Typst parser so
diagnostic.lua defaults it to the provider name. Rewrite the Pandoc
parser with line-based lookahead: match (line N, column N) regardless
of prefix text, skip YAML parse exception lines when looking ahead for
the human-readable message. Rename stderr param to output throughout
diagnostic.lua, presets.lua, and init.lua annotations.
Problem: no way to expose compiling/watching state to statusline
plugins like lualine or heirline without polling status() and
formatting it manually.
Solution: add `require('preview').statusline()` that returns
'compiling', 'watching', or '' for direct use in statusline components.
Problem: after closing a viewer, there was no way to re-open the last
compiled output without recompiling.
Solution: track the most recent output file per buffer in a `last_output`
table that persists after compilation finishes. Add `compiler.open()`,
`M.open()`, and wire it into the command dispatch.
* refactor(config): replace array preset syntax with preset_name = true
Problem: setup() mixed array entries (preset names) and hash entries
(custom providers keyed by filetype), requiring verbose
vim.tbl_deep_extend boilerplate to override presets.
Solution: unify under a single key=value model. Keys are preset names
or filetypes; true registers the preset as-is, a table deep-merges
with the matching preset (or registers a custom provider if no preset
matches), and false is a no-op. Array entries are dropped. Also adds
-f gfm to presets.github args so pandoc parses input as GFM.
* ci: format
* fix(presets): parenthesize gsub output to suppress redundant-return-value
Problem: :Preview watch only registered a BufWritePost autocmd without
compiling immediately, required boilerplate to open output files after
first compilation, and was misleadingly named.
Solution: Rename watch → toggle throughout. M.toggle now compiles
immediately on activation. Add an open field to ProviderConfig: true
calls vim.ui.open(), a string[] runs the command with the output path
appended, tracked per-buffer so the file opens only once. All presets
default to { 'xdg-open' }. Health check validates opener binaries.
Guard the async compile callback against invalid buffer ids.
