[Feature Request] More Feedback for Slow Operations #324

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1. sidlatau commented on Sep 28, 2026

   

   sidlatau

   on Sep 28, 2026

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   Hot reload, hot restart and launch/attach now show native progress, as of #553 on main. It needs Neovim 0.12+ and the debugger runner:

   require("flutter-tools").setup({
     debugger = { enabled = true }, -- requires nvim-dap
   })

   The Flutter debug adapter reports each operation's start and finish. Those reports show up where Neovim shows progress, and as a progress bar in terminals that support OSC 9;4.

   If you want to react to them yourself, they fire the Progress autocmd:

   vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("Progress", {
     pattern = "flutter-tools",
     callback = function(ev)
       local p = ev.data -- { title, text, status = "running"|"success"|"failed", percent }
       if p.status ~= "running" then vim.notify(p.title .. ": " .. p.text) end
     end,
   })

   The plain flutter run runner (debugger.enabled = false, the default) doesn't report any of this. Its output is only human-readable text, and matching on that text would break whenever Flutter changes the wording.
2. sidlatau

   closed this as completedon Sep 28, 2026