Improve type enclosing behavior on various class and object related items#2053
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Improve type enclosing behavior on various class and object related items#2053voodoos merged 3 commits intoocaml:mainfrom
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and objects Further location improvements require changes in the Typedtree
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+ merlin library
- Implement new refactor-extract-region command for extracting region to a fresh let binding (warning: this feature is still experimental) (ocaml/merlin#1948)
- Add "Other" variant to locate-types result (ocaml/merlin#2025)
- Don't include `option` in locate-types result for optional parameters (ocaml/merlin#2027)
- Fix record field autocompletion (ocaml/merlin#2028)
- Signature help should not loop over the parameters once it is finished (ocaml/merlin#2023)
- Fix bugs on signature help about labelled and optional parameters (ocaml/merlin#2032)
- Add `-end-position` parameter for `enclosing` (ocaml/merlin#2029)
- Signature help should appear even if the 'in' is not written (ocaml/merlin#2036)
- Improve type enclosing behavior on various class and object related items
(ocaml/merlin#2053)
+ merlin binary
- Define PATH_MAX to 4096 if undefined (eg. hurd) (ocaml/merlin#2039)
+ test suite
- Add a reproduction case for ocaml/merlin#1214, the issue has been resolved before (ocaml/merlin#2022)
- Add reproduction case for ocaml/merlin#1763 but it is not failing anymore (ocaml/merlin#2021)
- Add a test to reproduce [Locate command fails on multi-line type definitions](ocaml/merlin#1987) (ocaml/merlin#2020)
- Add a regression test for issue ocaml/merlin#2019 (ocaml/merlin#2030)
merlin 5.6.1
Sat Dec 20 11:15:42 CET 2025
+ merlin binary
- Fix a plethora of minor issues with the C code (ocaml/merlin#1998)
+ merlin library
- Signature help should not appear on the function name (ocaml/merlin#1997)
- Fix completion not working for inlined records labels (ocaml/merlin#1978, fixes ocaml/merlin#1977)
- Perform buffer indexing only if the query requires it (ocaml/merlin#1990 and ocaml/merlin#1991)
- Stop unnecessarily forcing substitutions when initializing short-paths graph (ocaml/merlin#1988)
- Fix Mocaml.with_printer didn't update replacement_printer_doc (ocaml/merlin#2010)
+ test suite
- Add a test to ensure the behavior showed in issue ocaml/merlin#1517 is no longer relevant (ocaml/merlin#1995)
- Add a test to ensure the code fragment exhibited in issue ocaml/merlin#1118 no longer makes Merlin crash (ocaml/merlin#1996)
- Add a test case illustrating how a snippet produces two unrelated errors in issue ocaml/merlin#2000. (ocaml/merlin#2003)
- Add a test reproducing issue ocaml/merlin#1983 where `document` command which sometime concatenates consecutive variants and labels (ocaml/merlin#2005)
- Signature-help should trigger on unfinished `let ... in` bindings (ocaml/merlin#2009)
merlin 5.6
Sat Oct 04 15:10:42 CEST 2025
+ merlin binary
- Add `locate-types` command (ocaml/merlin#1951)
+ merlin library
- Implement new refactor-extract-region command for extracting region to a fresh let binding (ocaml/merlin#1948)
- Fix `merlin_reader` for OpenBSD (ocaml/merlin#1956)
- Improve recovery of mutually recursive definitions (ocaml/merlin#1962, ocaml/merlin#1963, fixes ocaml/merlin#1953)
- Support for OCaml 5.4 (ocaml/merlin#1974)
+ vim plugin
- Fix error when `:MerlinOccurrencesProjectWide` fails to gather code previews (ocaml/merlin#1970)
+ test suite
- Add more short-paths tests cases (ocaml/merlin#1904)
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This PR should greatly improve the experience of working with classes and objects.
Should mostly fix ocaml/ocaml-lsp#1587
Additional location improvement require typedtree changes.
cc @trefis