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diff --git a/runtime/doc/api.txt b/runtime/doc/api.txt index 1727b571ca..9adca7620f 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/api.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/api.txt @@ -17,8 +17,15 @@ Applications can also embed libnvim to work with the C API directly. API Usage *api-rpc* *RPC* *rpc* *msgpack-rpc* -RPC is the typical way to control Nvim programmatically. Nvim implements the -MessagePack-RPC protocol: +RPC is the main way to control Nvim programmatically. Nvim implements the +MessagePack-RPC protocol with these extra (out-of-spec) constraints: + +1. Responses must be given in reverse order of requests (like "unwinding + a stack"). +2. Nvim processes all messages (requests and notifications) in the order they + are received. + +MessagePack-RPC specification: https://github.com/msgpack-rpc/msgpack-rpc/blob/master/spec.md https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/0b8f5ac/spec.md |