---@meta -- luacheck: no unused args ---@defgroup vim.builtin --- ---@brief
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---vim.api.{func}({...}) *vim.api*
--- Invokes Nvim |API| function {func} with arguments {...}.
--- Example: call the "nvim_get_current_line()" API function: >lua
--- print(tostring(vim.api.nvim_get_current_line()))
---
---vim.NIL *vim.NIL*
--- Special value representing NIL in |RPC| and |v:null| in Vimscript
--- conversion, and similar cases. Lua `nil` cannot be used as part of a Lua
--- table representing a Dictionary or Array, because it is treated as
--- missing: `{"foo", nil}` is the same as `{"foo"}`.
---
---vim.type_idx *vim.type_idx*
--- Type index for use in |lua-special-tbl|. Specifying one of the values from
--- |vim.types| allows typing the empty table (it is unclear whether empty Lua
--- table represents empty list or empty array) and forcing integral numbers
--- to be |Float|. See |lua-special-tbl| for more details.
---
---vim.val_idx *vim.val_idx*
--- Value index for tables representing |Float|s. A table representing
--- floating-point value 1.0 looks like this: >lua
--- {
--- [vim.type_idx] = vim.types.float,
--- [vim.val_idx] = 1.0,
--- }
---< See also |vim.type_idx| and |lua-special-tbl|.
---
---vim.types *vim.types*
--- Table with possible values for |vim.type_idx|. Contains two sets of
--- key-value pairs: first maps possible values for |vim.type_idx| to
--- human-readable strings, second maps human-readable type names to values
--- for |vim.type_idx|. Currently contains pairs for `float`, `array` and
--- `dictionary` types.
---
--- Note: One must expect that values corresponding to `vim.types.float`,
--- `vim.types.array` and `vim.types.dictionary` fall under only two following
--- assumptions:
--- 1. Value may serve both as a key and as a value in a table. Given the
--- properties of Lua tables this basically means “value is not `nil`”.
--- 2. For each value in `vim.types` table `vim.types[vim.types[value]]` is the
--- same as `value`.
--- No other restrictions are put on types, and it is not guaranteed that
--- values corresponding to `vim.types.float`, `vim.types.array` and
--- `vim.types.dictionary` will not change or that `vim.types` table will only
--- contain values for these three types.
---
--- *log_levels* *vim.log.levels*
---Log levels are one of the values defined in `vim.log.levels`:
---
--- vim.log.levels.DEBUG
--- vim.log.levels.ERROR
--- vim.log.levels.INFO
--- vim.log.levels.TRACE
--- vim.log.levels.WARN
--- vim.log.levels.OFF
---
---
--- Returns true if the code is executing as part of a "fast" event handler,
--- where most of the API is disabled. These are low-level events (e.g.
--- |lua-loop-callbacks|) which can be invoked whenever Nvim polls for input.
--- When this is `false` most API functions are callable (but may be subject
--- to other restrictions such as |textlock|).
function vim.in_fast_event() end
--- Creates a special empty table (marked with a metatable), which Nvim
--- converts to an empty dictionary when translating Lua values to Vimscript
--- or API types. Nvim by default converts an empty table `{}` without this
--- metatable to an list/array.
---
--- Note: If numeric keys are present in the table, Nvim ignores the metatable
--- marker and converts the dict to a list/array anyway.
function vim.empty_dict() end
--- Sends {event} to {channel} via |RPC| and returns immediately. If {channel}
--- is 0, the event is broadcast to all channels.
---
--- This function also works in a fast callback |lua-loop-callbacks|.
--- @param channel integer
--- @param method string
--- @param args? any[]
--- @param ...? any
function vim.rpcnotify(channel, method, args, ...) end
--- Sends a request to {channel} to invoke {method} via |RPC| and blocks until
--- a response is received.
---
--- Note: NIL values as part of the return value is represented as |vim.NIL|
--- special value
--- @param channel integer
--- @param method string
--- @param args? any[]
--- @param ...? any
function vim.rpcrequest(channel, method, args, ...) end
--- Compares strings case-insensitively.
--- @param a string
--- @param b string
--- @return 0|1|-1
--- if strings are
--- equal, {a} is greater than {b} or {a} is lesser than {b}, respectively.
function vim.stricmp(a, b) end
--- Convert UTF-32 or UTF-16 {index} to byte index. If {use_utf16} is not
--- supplied, it defaults to false (use UTF-32). Returns the byte index.
---
--- Invalid UTF-8 and NUL is treated like by |vim.str_byteindex()|.
--- An {index} in the middle of a UTF-16 sequence is rounded upwards to
--- the end of that sequence.
--- @param str string
--- @param index number
--- @param use_utf16? any
function vim.str_byteindex(str, index, use_utf16) end
--- Gets a list of the starting byte positions of each UTF-8 codepoint in the given string.
---
--- Embedded NUL bytes are treated as terminating the string.
--- @param str string
--- @return table
function vim.str_utf_pos(str) end
--- Gets the distance (in bytes) from the starting byte of the codepoint (character) that {index}
--- points to.
---
--- The result can be added to {index} to get the starting byte of a character.
---
--- Examples:
---
--- ```lua
--- -- The character 'æ' is stored as the bytes '\xc3\xa6' (using UTF-8)
---
--- -- Returns 0 because the index is pointing at the first byte of a character
--- vim.str_utf_start('æ', 1)
---
--- -- Returns -1 because the index is pointing at the second byte of a character
--- vim.str_utf_start('æ', 2)
--- ```
---
--- @param str string
--- @param index number
--- @return number
function vim.str_utf_start(str, index) end
--- Gets the distance (in bytes) from the last byte of the codepoint (character) that {index} points
--- to.
---
--- Examples:
---
--- ```lua
--- -- The character 'æ' is stored as the bytes '\xc3\xa6' (using UTF-8)
---
--- -- Returns 0 because the index is pointing at the last byte of a character
--- vim.str_utf_end('æ', 2)
---
--- -- Returns 1 because the index is pointing at the penultimate byte of a character
--- vim.str_utf_end('æ', 1)
--- ```
---
--- @param str string
--- @param index number
--- @return number
function vim.str_utf_end(str, index) end
--- Convert byte index to UTF-32 and UTF-16 indices. If {index} is not
--- supplied, the length of the string is used. All indices are zero-based.
---
--- Embedded NUL bytes are treated as terminating the string. Invalid UTF-8
--- bytes, and embedded surrogates are counted as one code point each. An
--- {index} in the middle of a UTF-8 sequence is rounded upwards to the end of
--- that sequence.
--- @param str string
--- @param index? number
--- @return integer UTF-32 index
--- @return integer UTF-16 index
function vim.str_utfindex(str, index) end
--- The result is a String, which is the text {str} converted from
--- encoding {from} to encoding {to}. When the conversion fails `nil` is
--- returned. When some characters could not be converted they
--- are replaced with "?".
--- The encoding names are whatever the iconv() library function
--- can accept, see ":Man 3 iconv".
---
--- @param str string Text to convert
--- @param from number Encoding of {str}
--- @param to number Target encoding
--- @param opts? table