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Fix E539: replace dot-containing highlight group names in gitinfo()#7
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[WIP] Fix E539: Illegal character crash in lua/modeline/provider.lua
Fix E539: replace dot-containing highlight group names in Aug 13, 2026
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Neovim's statusline parser rejects
.inside%#...#highlight group tokens withE539: Illegal character, killing the render coroutine.gitinfo()was producing strings like%#@diff.plus#and%#@diff.Head#via a prefix + dot-joined alias scheme.Changes
lua/modeline/provider.luaaliasentries with dot-free names:{ 'ModeLineGitHead', 'diffAdded', 'diffChanged', 'diffRemoved' }@diff.prefix in the format string:%%#@diff.%s#→%%#%s#ModeLineGitHead(linked toTitle) vianvim_set_hlwithdefault = trueat the top ofgitinfo()