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diff --git a/runtime/doc/lua.txt b/runtime/doc/lua.txt index 355c31090e..4ea78c2426 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/lua.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/lua.txt @@ -568,6 +568,26 @@ Example: TCP echo-server *tcp-server* end) print('TCP echo-server listening on port: '..server:getsockname().port) + +Multithreading *lua-loop-threading* + +Plugins can perform work in separate (os-level) threads using the threading +APIs in luv, for instance `vim.loop.new_thread`. Note that every thread +gets its own separate lua interpreter state, with no access to lua globals +in the main thread. Neither can the state of the editor (buffers, windows, +etc) be directly accessed from threads. + +A subset of the `vim.*` API is available in threads. This includes: + +- `vim.loop` with a separate event loop per thread. +- `vim.mpack` and `vim.json` (useful for serializing messages between threads) +- `require` in threads can use lua packages from the global |lua-package-path| +- `print()` and `vim.inspect` +- `vim.diff` +- most utility functions in `vim.*` for working with pure lua values + like `vim.split`, `vim.tbl_*`, `vim.list_*`, and so on. +- `vim.is_thread()` returns true from a non-main thread. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIM.HIGHLIGHT *lua-highlight* |