An even bigger shout out than usual to all the contributors - we had a whopping 110 contributors in this release! That's more than double the number of contributors as last release!
Check out some of the highlights in the news section.
As usual, the following is a summary of each of the changes since the last release. For the full log, check out the git log.
Breaking Changes:
- Removed
C-j
,C-k
bindings from file picker (#1792) - Replaced
C-f
withC-d
andC-b
withC-u
bindings in file picker (#1792) A-hjkl
bindings have been moved toA-pion
(#2205)A-Left
/A-Right
have been moved toC-Left
/C-Right
(#2193)
Features:
- The indentation mechanism has been reworked (#1562, #1908)
- Configurable gutters (#1967)
- Support for local language configuration (#1249)
- Configurable themed rulers (#2060)
- Render visible whitespace (e6b865e, #2322, #2331)
Commands:
- Paragraph motion and textobject (
]p
,[p
) (#1627, #1956, #1969, #1992, #2226) :buffer-next
,:buffer-previous
(#1940):set-language
to set the buffers language (#1866, #1996)- Command for picking files from the current working directory (
Space-F
) (#1600, #2308) :write!
which creates non-existent subdirectories (#1839)- Add
m
textobject that selects closest surrounding pair (de15d70, 76175db) :pipe
typable command for piping selections (#1972)extend_line_above
which extends to previous lines (#2117)set_line_ending
which replaces line endings (#1871):get-option
for getting the current value of an option (:get
) (#2231):run-shell-command
which does not interact with selections (#1682):reflow
which hard-wraps selected text (#2128)commit_undo_checkpoint
which adds an undo checkpoint (#2115):log-open
which opens the log file (#2422)transpose_view
which transposes window splits (#2461)- View-swapping:
swap_view_right
,swap_view_left
,swap_view_up
,swap_view_down
(#2445) shrink_to_line_bounds
which shrinks selections to line-bounds (#2450)
Usability improvements and fixes:
- Handle broken pipes when piping
hx --health
throughhead
(#1876) - Fix for
copy_selection
on newlines (ab7885e, 236c6b7) - Use
win32yank
clipboard provider on WSL2 (#1912) - Jump to the next number on the line before incrementing (#1778)
- Fix start position of next search (#1904)
- Use check and X marks for health check output (#1918)
- Clear terminal after switching to alternate screens (#1944)
- Fix
toggle_comments
command on multiple selections (#1882) - Apply
ui.gutter
theming to empty gutter spans (#2032) - Use checkboxes in
hx --health
output (#1947) - Pass unmapped keys through prompt regardless of modifiers (764adbd)
- LSP: pull formatting options from config (c18de0e)
- LSP: provide
rootPath
(84e799f) - LSP: implement
workspace_folders
(8adf0c1) - LSP: fix auto-import (#2088)
- Send active diagnostic to LSP when requesting code actions (#2005)
- Prevent panic when parsing malformed LSP
PublishDiagnostic
(#2160) - Restore document state on completion cancel (#2096)
- Only merge top-level array when merging
languages.toml
(#2145, #2215) - Fix open on multiline selection (#2161)
- Allow re-binding
0
if it is not used in a count (#2174) - Fix
ctrl-u
behavior in insert mode (#1957) - Check LSP rename capabilities before sending rename action (#2203)
- Register the
publish_diagnostics
LSP capability (#2241) - Fix paste direction for typed paste commands (#2288)
- Improve handling of buffer-close (#1397)
- Extend the tutor file (#2133)
- Treat slashes as word separators in prompts (#2315)
- Auto-complete directory members (#1682)
- Allow disabling format-on-save as a global editor setting (#2321)
- Wrap command palette in overlay (#2378)
- Prevent selections from collapsing when inserting newlines (#2414)
- Allow configuration of LSP request timeout (#2405)
- Use debug console on Windows for DAP terminal (#2294)
- Exclude cursor when deleting with
C-w
in insert mode (#2431) - Prevent panics from LSP parsing errors (7ae6cad)
- Prevent panics from LSP responses without requests (#2475)
- Fix scroll rate for documentation popups (#2497)
- Support inserting into prompts from registers (#2458)
- Separate theme scopes for diagnostic types (#2437)
- Use
ui.menu
instead ofui.statusline
for command completion menu theming (82fb217) - Panic when reloading a shrunk file (#2506)
- Add theme key for picker separator (#2523)
Themes:
- Remove
ui.text
background from dark_plus (#1950) - Add
boo_berry
(#1962) - Update
dark_plus
markup colors (#1989) - Update
dark_plus
tag
andui.menu.selected
colors (#2014) - Add
dracula_at_night
(#2008) - Improve
dracula
selection theming (#2077) - Remove dim attribute on
onedark
line-number gutter (#2155) - Add
tokyonight
(#2162) - Use border colors from the original
dark_plus
theme (#2186) - Add
autumn
(#2212, #2270, #2531) - Add
tokyonight_storm
(#2240) - Add
pop-dark
(#2189) - Fix
base16_terminal
theme using incorrect ansi-color (#2279) - Add
onelight
(#2287, #2323) - Add
ui.virtual
scopes toonedark
theme (3626e38) - Add
night_owl
(#2330) - Use yellow foreground and red background for
monokai_pro_spectrum
(#2433) - Add
snazzy
(#2473) - Update
dark_plus
constructor color (8e8d4ba) - Add
ui.menu
to the default theme (e7e13dc) - Add
ui.menu
to any themes missing the key (9be810f) - Add
catppuccin
(#2546, 7160e74)
LSP:
- Use texlab for latex (#1922)
- HTML (#2018)
- JSON (#2024)
- CSS (#2025)
- PHP (#2031)
- Swift (#2033)
- OCaml (#2035)
- Vue (#2043)
- Yaml (#2234)
- Vala (#2243)
- TOML (#2302)
- Java (#2511)
- Lua (#2560)
- Verilog (#2552)
New Languages:
- JSX (#1906, a24fb17, 855e438, #1921)
- Rust Object Notation (RON) (#1925)
- R and R Markdown (#1998)
- Swift (#2033)
- EJS and ERB (#2055)
- EEx (9d095e0)
- HEEx (4836bb3, #2149)
- SQL (#2097)
- GDScript (#1985)
- Nickel (#2173, #2320)
go.mod
andgo.work
(#2197)- Nushell (#2225)
- Vala (#2243)
- Hare (#2289, #2480)
- DeviceTree (#2329)
- Cairo (7387905)
- CPON (#2355, #2424)
- git-ignore (#2397)
- git-attributes (#2397)
- Odin (#2399, #2464)
- Meson (#2314)
- SSH Client Config (#2498)
- Scheme (d25bae8)
- Verilog (#2552)
Updated Languages and Queries:
- Erlang (e2a5071, #2149, 82da9bd)
- Elixir (1819478, 8c3c901, 4ac94a5)
- Gleam (7cd6050, 45dd540)
- Bash (#1917)
- JavaScript (#2140)
- Ruby textobject queries (#2143)
- Fix Golang textobject queries (#2153)
- Add more bash and HCL file extensions (#2201)
- Divide HCL and tfvars into separate languages (#2244)
- Use JavaScript for
cjs
files (#2387) - Use Perl for
t
files (#2395) - Use
markup.list
scopes for lists (#2401) - Use PHP for
inc
files (#2440) - Improve Rust textobjects (#2494, 10463fe)
- Python (#2451)
Packaging:
- Use
builtins.fromTOML
in Nix Flake on Nix 2.6+ (#1892) - Shell auto-completion files are now available (#2022)
- Create an AppImage on release (#2089)
A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 51 contributors in this release.
This release is particularly large and featureful. Check out some of the highlights in the news section.
As usual, the following is a summary of each of the changes since the last release. For the full log, check out the git log.
Breaking changes:
Features:
- Experimental Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) support (#574)
- Primary cursor shape may now be customized per mode (#1154)
- Overhaul incremental highlights and enable combined injections (
6728344..4080341
) - Allow specifying file start position (#445, #1676)
- Dynamic line numbers (#1522)
- Show an info box with the contents of registers (#980)
- Wrap-around behavior during search is now configurable (#1516)
- Tree-sitter textobjects motions for classes, functions, and parameters (#1619, #1708, #1805)
- Command palette: a picker for available commands (#1400)
- LSP
workspace/configuration
andworkspace/didChangeConfiguration
support (#1684) hx --health [LANG]
command (#1669)- Refactor of the tree-sitter grammar system (#1659)
- All submodules have been removed
- New
hx --grammar {fetch|build}
flags for fetching and building tree-sitter grammars - A custom grammar selection may now be declared with the
use-grammars
key inlanguages.toml
Commands:
:cquit!
- quit forcefully with a non-zero exit-code (#1414)shrink_selection
- shrink the selection to a child tree-sitter node (Alt-j
, #1340):tree-sitter-subtree
- show the tree-sitter subtree under the primary selection (#1453, #1524)- Add
Alt-Backspace
,Alt-<
,Alt->
, andCtrl-j
to insert mode (#1441) select_next_sibling
,select_prev_sibling
- select next and previous tree-sitter nodes (Alt-l
andAlt-h
, #1495):buffer-close-all
,:buffer-close-all!
,:buffer-close-others
, and:buffer-close-others!
(#1677):vsplit-new
and:hsplit-new
- open vertical and horizontal splits with new scratch buffers (#1763):open-config
to open the config file and:refresh-config
to refresh config after changes (#1771, #1803)
Usability improvements and fixes:
- Prevent
:cquit
from ignoring unsaved changes (#1414) - Scrolling view keeps selections (#1420)
- Only use shellwords parsing on unix platforms (
7767703
) - Fix slash in search selector status message (#1449)
- Use
std::path::MAIN_SEPARATOR
to determine completion (3e4f815
) - Expand to current node with
expand_selection
when the node has no children (#1454) - Add vertical and horizontal splits to the buffer picker (#1502)
- Use the correct language ID for JavaScript & TypeScript LSP (#1466)
- Run format command for all buffers being written (#1444)
- Fix panics during resizing (#1408)
- Fix auto-pairs with CRLF (#1470)
- Fix picker scrolling when the bottom is reached (#1567)
- Use markup themes for the markdown component (#1363)
- Automatically commit changes to history if not in insert mode (
2a7ae96
) - Render code-actions as a menu and add padding to popup (
094a0aa
) - Only render menu scrollbar if the menu doesn't fit (
f10a06f
,36b975c
) - Parse git revision instead of tag for version (
d3221b0
, #1674) - Fix incorrect last modified buffer (#1621)
- Add
PageUp
,PageDown
,Ctrl-u
,Ctrl-d
,Home
,End
bindings to the file picker (#1612) - Display buffer IDs in the buffer picker (#1134)
- Allow multi-line prompt documentation (
2af0432
) - Ignore the
.git
directory from the file picker (#1604) - Allow separate styling for markup heading levels (#1618)
- Automatically close popups (#1285)
- Allow auto-pairs tokens to be configured (#1624)
- Don't indent empty lines in
indent
command (#1653) - Ignore
Enter
keypress when a menu has no selection (#1704) - Show errors when surround deletions and replacements fail (#1709)
- Show infobox hints for
mi
andma
(#1686) - Highlight matching text in file picker suggestions (#1635)
- Allow capturing multiple nodes in textobject queries (#1611)
- Make repeat operator work with completion edits (#1640)
- Save to the jumplist when searching (#1718)
- Fix bug with auto-replacement of components in compositor (#1711)
- Use Kakoune logic for
align_selection
(#1675) - Fix
follows
fornixpkgs
inflake.nix
(#1729) - Performance improvements for the picker (
78fba86
) - Rename infobox theme scopes (#1741)
- Fallback to broader scopes if a theme scope is not found (#1714)
- Add arrow-keys bindings for tree-sitter sibling selection commands (#1724)
- Fix a bug in LSP when creating a file in a folder that does not exist (#1775)
- Use
^
and$
regex location assertions for search (#1793) - Fix register names in
insert_register
command (#1751) - Perform extend line for all selections (#1804)
- Prevent panic when moving in an empty picker (#1786)
- Fix line number calculations for non CR/CRLF line breaks (
b4a282f
,0b96201
) - Deploy documentation for
master
builds separately from release docs (#1783)
Themes:
- Add everforest_light (#1412)
- Add gruvbox_light (#1509)
- Add modified background to dracula popup (#1434)
- Markup support for monokai pro themes (#1553)
- Markup support for dracula theme (#1554)
- Add
tag
to gruvbox theme (#1555) - Markup support for remaining themes (#1525)
- Serika light and dark (#1566)
- Fix rose_pine and rose_pine_dawn popup background color (#1606)
- Fix hover menu item text color in base16 themes (#1668)
- Update markup heading styles for everforest (#1687)
- Update markup heading styles for rose_pine themes (#1706)
- Style bogster cursors (
6a6a9ab
) - Fix
ui.selection
in rose_pine themes (#1716) - Use distinct colors for cursor and matched pair in gruvbox (#1791)
- Improve colors for
ui.cursor.match
capture in some themes (#1862)
LSP:
- Add default language server for JavaScript (#1457)
- Add
pom.xml
as maven root directory marker (#1496) - Haskell LSP (#1556)
- C-sharp LSP support (#1788)
- Clean up Julia LSP config (#1811)
New Languages:
- llvm-mir (#1398)
- regex (#1362)
- Make (#1433, #1661)
- git-config (#1426)
- Lean (#1422)
- Elm (#1514)
- GraphQL (#1515)
- Twig (#1602)
- Rescript (#1616, #1863)
- Erlang (#1657)
- Kotlin (#1689)
- HCL (#1705, #1726)
- Org (#1845)
- Solidity (#1848, #1854)
Updated Languages and Queries:
- Textobject and indent queries for c and cpp (#1293)
- Fix null and boolean constant highlights for nix (#1428)
- Capture markdown link text as
markup.link.text
(#1456) - Update and re-enable Haskell (#1417, #1520)
- Update Go with generics support (
ddbf036
) - Use
tree-sitter-css
for SCSS files (#1507) - Update Zig (#1501)
- Update PHP (#1521)
- Expand language support for comment injections (#1527)
- Use tree-sitter-bash for
.zshrc
and.bashrc
(7d51042
) - Use tree-sitter-bash for
.bash_profile
(#1571) - Use tree-sitter-bash for
.zshenv
and ZSH files (#1574) - IEx (#1576)
- Textobject queries for PHP (#1601)
- C-sharp highlight query improvements (#1795)
- Git commit performance has been improved on large verbose commits (#1838)
Packaging:
- The submodules system has been replaced with command-line flags for fetching and building tree-sitter grammars (#1659)
- Flake outputs are pushed to Cachix on each push to
master
(#1721) - Update flake's
nix-cargo-integration
to depend ondream2nix
(#1758)
Happy new year and a big shout out to all the contributors! We had 55 contributors in this release.
Helix has popped up in DPorts and Fedora Linux via COPR (#1270)
As usual the following is a brief summary, refer to the git history for a full log:
Breaking changes:
- fix: Normalize backtab into shift-tab
Features:
- Macros (#1234)
- Add reverse search functionality (#958)
- Allow keys to be mapped to sequences of commands (#589)
- Make it possible to keybind TypableCommands (#1169)
- Detect workspace root using language markers (#1370)
- Add WORD textobject (#991)
- Add LSP rename_symbol (
space-r
) (#1011) - Added workspace_symbol_picker (#1041)
- Detect filetype from shebang line (#1001)
- Allow piping from stdin into a buffer on startup (#996)
- Add auto pairs for same-char pairs (#1219)
- Update settings at runtime (#798)
- Enable thin LTO (
cccc194
)
Commands:
:wonly
-- window only (#1057)- buffer-close (
:bc
,:bclose
) (#1035) - Add
:<line>
and:goto <line>
commands (#1128) :sort
command (#1288)- Add m textobject for pair under cursor (#961)
- Implement "Goto next buffer / Goto previous buffer" commands (#950)
- Implement "Goto last modification" command (#1067)
- Add trim_selections command (#1092)
- Add movement shortcut for history (#1088)
- Add command to inc/dec number under cursor (#1027)
- Add support for dates for increment/decrement
- Align selections (
&
) (#1101) - Implement no-yank delete/change (#1099)
- Implement black hole register (#1165)
gf
as goto_file (gf
) (#1102)- Add last modified file (
gm
) (#1093) - ensure_selections_forward (#1393)
- Readline style insert mode (#1039)
Usability improvements and fixes:
- Detect filetype on
:write
(#1141) - Add single and double quotes to matching pairs (#995)
- Launch with defaults upon invalid config/theme (rather than panicking) (#982)
- If switching away from an empty scratch buffer, remove it (#935)
- Truncate the starts of file paths instead of the ends in picker (#951)
- Truncate the start of file paths in the StatusLine (#1351)
- Prevent picker from previewing binaries or large file (#939)
- Inform when reaching undo/redo bounds (#981)
- search_impl will only align cursor center when it isn't in view (#959)
- Add
<C-h>
,<C-u>
,<C-d>
, Delete in prompt mode (#1034) - Restore screen position when aborting search (#1047)
- Buffer picker: show is_modifier flag (#1020)
- Add commit hash to version info, if present (#957)
- Implement indent-aware delete (#1120)
- Jump to end char of surrounding pair from any cursor pos (#1121)
- File picker configuration (#988)
- Fix surround cursor position calculation (#1183)
- Accept count for goto_window (#1033)
- Make kill_to_line_end behave like emacs (#1235)
- Only use a single documentation popup (#1241)
- ui: popup: Don't allow scrolling past the end of content (
3307f44c
) - Open files with spaces in filename, allow opening multiple files (#1231)
- Allow paste commands to take a count (#1261)
- Auto pairs selection (#1254)
- Use a fuzzy matcher for commands (#1386)
- Add
<C-s>
to pick word under doc cursor to prompt line & search completion (#831) - Fix
:earlier
/:later
missing changeset update (#1069) - Support extend for multiple goto (#909)
- Add arrow-key bindings for window switching (#933)
- Implement key ordering for info box (#952)
LSP:
- Implement MarkedString rendering (
e128a8702
) - Don't panic if init fails (
d31bef7
) - Configurable diagnostic severity (#1325)
- Resolve completion item (#1315)
- Code action command support (#1304)
Grammars:
- Adds mint language server (#974)
- Perl (#978) (#1280)
- GLSL (#993)
- Racket (#1143)
- WGSL (#1166)
- LLVM (#1167) (#1388) (#1409) (#1398)
- Markdown (
49e06787
) - Scala (#1278)
- Dart (#1250)
- Fish (#1308)
- Dockerfile (#1303)
- Git (commit, rebase, diff) (#1338) (#1402) (#1373)
- tree-sitter-comment (#1300)
- Highlight comments in c, cpp, cmake and llvm (#1309)
- Improve yaml syntax highlighting highlighting (#1294)
- Improve rust syntax highlighting (#1295)
- Add textobjects and indents to cmake (#1307)
- Add textobjects and indents to c and cpp (#1293)
New themes:
- Solarized dark (#999)
- Solarized light (#1010)
- Spacebones light (#1131)
- Monokai Pro (#1206)
- Base16 Light and Terminal (#1078)
- and a default 16 color theme, truecolor detection
- Dracula (#1258)
A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 46 contributors in this release.
Helix has popped up in Scoop, FreeBSD Ports and Gentu GURU!
The following is a quick rundown of the larger changes, there were many more (check the git history for more details).
Breaking changes:
- A couple of keymaps moved to resolve a few conflicting keybinds.
- Documentation popups were moved from
K
tospace+k
K
is nowkeep_selections
which filters selections to only keeps ones matching the regexkeep_primary_selection
moved fromspace+space
to,
Alt-,
is nowremove_primary_selection
which keeps all selections except the primary one- Opening files in a split moved from
C-h
toC-s
- Documentation popups were moved from
- Some configuration options moved from a
[terminal]
section to[editor]
. Consult the documentation for more information.
Features:
- LSP compatibility greatly improved for some implementations (Julia, Python, Typescript)
- Autocompletion! Completion now triggers automatically after a set idle timeout
- Completion documentation is now displayed next to the popup (#691)
- Treesitter textobjects (select a function via
mf
, class viamc
) (#728) - Global search across entire workspace
space+/
(#651) - Relative line number support (#485)
- Prompts now store a history (
72cf86e
) :vsplit
and:hsplit
commands (#639)C-w h/j/k/l
can now be used to navigate between splits (#860)C-j
andC-k
are now alternative keybindings toC-n
andC-p
in the UI (#876)- Shell commands (shell-pipe, pipe-to, shell-insert-output, shell-append-output, keep-pipe) (#547)
- Searching now defaults to smart case search (case insensitive unless uppercase is used) (#761)
- The preview pane was improved to highlight and center line ranges
- The user
languages.toml
is now merged into defaults, no longer need to copy the entire file (dc57f8dc
) - Show hidden files in completions (#648)
- Grammar injections are now properly handled (
dd0b15e
) v
in select mode now switches back to normal mode (#660)- View mode can now be triggered as a "sticky" mode (#719)
f
/t
and object selection motions can now be repeated viaAlt-.
(#891)- Statusline now displays total selection count and diagnostics counts for both errors and warnings (#916)
New grammars:
- Ledger (#572)
- Protobuf (#614)
- Zig (#631)
- YAML (#667)
- Lua (#665)
- OCaml (#666)
- Svelte (#733)
- Vue (#787)
- Tree-sitter queries (#845)
- CMake (#888)
- Elixir (we switched over to the official grammar) (
6c0786e
) - Language server definitions for Nix and Elixir (#725)
- Python now uses
pylsp
instead ofpyls
- Python now supports indentation
New themes:
Fixes:
- Fix crash on empty rust file (#592)
- Exit select mode after toggle comment (#598)
- Pin popups with no positioning to the initial position (
12ea3888
) - xsel copy should not freeze the editor (
6dd7dc4
) *
now only sets the search register and doesn't jump to the next occurrence (3426285
)- Goto line start/end commands extend when in select mode (#739)
- Fix documentation popups sometimes not getting fully highlighted (
066367c
) - Refactor apply_workspace_edit to remove assert (
b02d872
) - Wrap around the top of the picker menu when scrolling (
c7d6e44
) - Don't allow closing the last split if there's unsaved changes (
3ff5b00
) - Indentation used different default on hx vs hx new_file.txt (
c913bad
)
A minor release that includes:
- A fix for rendering glitches that would occur after editing with multiple selections.
- CI fix for grammars not being cross-compiled for aarch64
A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 28 contributors in this release.
Two months have passed, so this is another big release. A big thank you to all the contributors and package maintainers!
Helix has popped up in Arch, Manjaro, Nix, MacPorts and Parabola and Termux repositories!
A large scale refactor landed that allows us to support zero width (empty) selections in the future as well as resolves many bugs and edge cases.
- Multi-key remapping! Key binds now support much more complex usecases (#454)
- Pending keys are shown in the statusline (#515)
- Object selection / textobjects.
mi(
to select text inside parentheses (#385) - Autoinfo:
whichkey
-like popups which show available sub-mode shortcuts (#316) - Added WORD movements (W/B/E) (#390)
- Vertical selections (repeat selection above/below) (#462)
- Selection rotation via
(
and)
(66a90130
) - Selection contents rotation via
Alt-(
andAlt-)
(02cba2a
) - Completion behavior improvements (
f917b5a4
,627b899
) - Fixed a language server crash (
385a6b5a
) - Case change commands (
`
,~
,<a-`>
) (#441) - File pickers (including goto) now provide a preview! (#534)
- Injection query support. Rust macro calls and embedded languages are now properly highlighted (#430)
- Formatting is now asynchronous, and the async job infrastructure has been improved (#285)
- Grammars are now compiled as separate shared libraries and loaded on-demand at runtime (#432)
- Code action support (#478)
- Mouse support (#509, #548)
- Native Windows clipboard support (#373)
- Themes can now use color palettes (#393)
:reload
command (#374)- Ctrl-z to suspend (#464)
- Language servers can now be configured with a custom JSON config (#460)
- Comment toggling now uses a language specific comment token (#463)
- Julia support (#413)
- Java support (#448)
- Prompts have an (in-memory) history (
63e54e30
)
A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 24 contributors in this release.
Another big release.
Highlights:
- Indentation is now automatically detected from file heuristics. (#245)
- Support for other line endings (CRLF). Significantly improved Windows support. (#224)
- Encodings other than UTF-8 are now supported! (#228)
- Key bindings can now be configured via a
config.toml
file (#268) - Theme can now be configured and changed at runtime. (Please feel free to contribute more themes!) (#267)
- System clipboard yank/paste is now supported! (#310)
- Surround commands were implemented (#320)
Features:
- File picker can now be repeatedly filtered (#232)
- LSP progress is now received and rendered as a spinner (#234)
- Current line number can now be themed (#260)
- Arrow keys & home/end now work in insert mode (#305)
- Cursors and selections can now be themed (#325)
- Language servers are now gracefully shut down before
hx
exits (#287) :show-directory
/:change-directory
(#335)- File picker is now sorted by access time (before filtering) (#336)
- Code is being migrated from helix-term to helix-view (prerequisite for alternative frontends) (#366)
x
andX
merged (f41688d9
)
Fixes:
- The IME popup is now correctly positioned (#273)
- A bunch of bugs regarding
o
/O
behavior (#281) ~
expansion now works in file completion (#284)- Several UI related overflow crashes (#318)
- Fix a test failure occurring only on
test --release
(4f108ab1
) - Prompts now support unicode input (#295)
- Completion documentation no longer overlaps the popup (#322)
- Fix a crash when trying to select
^
(9c534614
) - Prompt completions are now paginated (
39dc09e6
) - Goto did not work on Windows (
503ca112
)
Includes a fix where wq/wqa could exit before file saving completed.
A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 18 contributors in this release.
Enough has changed to bump the version. We're skipping 0.1.x because previously the CLI would always report version as 0.1.0, and we'd like to distinguish it in bug reports..
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The
runtime/
directory is now properly detected on binary releases and on cargo run.~/.config/helix/runtime
can also be used. -
Registers can now be selected via " (for example
"ay
) -
Support for Nix files was added
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Movement is now fully tested and matches kakoune implementation
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A per-file LSP symbol picker was added to space+s
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Selection can be replaced with yanked text via R
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1g
now correctly goes to line 1 -
ctrl-i
now correctly jumps backwards in history -
A small memory leak was fixed, where we tried to reuse tree-sitter query cursors, but always allocated a new one
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Auto-formatting is now only on for certain languages
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The root directory is now provided in LSP initialization, fixing certain language servers (typescript)
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LSP failing to start no longer panics
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Elixir language queries were fixed
Keymaps:
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Add mappings to jump to diagnostics
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Add gt/gm/gb mappings to jump to top/middle/bottom of screen
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^ and $ are now gh, gl
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The runtime/ can now optionally be embedded in the binary
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Haskell syntax added
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Window mode (ctrl-w) added
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Show matching bracket (vim's matchbrackets)
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Themes now support style modifiers
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First user contributed theme
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Create a document if it doesn't exist yet on save
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Detect language on a new file on save
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Panic fixes, lots of them