changelog

0.32.0 (preview)

• fix **/*.{js,ts} did syntax not include the async keyword
• changed color <color-ident> <value> command to correctly parse hex colors of the form 0xdddddd where d are digits
• fix key bindings making input reading stuck after mapping to a key chord prefix
• added **/*.glsl syntax
• added map normal ; : to default_configs.pepper
• added focus detection on windows

0.31.0

• changed plugin-remedybg to add support for new version 0.3.8.4 which enables several plugin code simplifications
• fix buffer insert processes would sometimes insert lines ending with a single \r which would screw some buffer invariants
• added support for msvc style path + line parsing
• added < and > as path delimiters when using gf
• fix “flickering” on unix caused by a forgotten eprintln in its platform layer
• fix old buffer position and cursor formatting in help texts
• fix open now errors when trying to open a buffer with an empty path
• fix possible crash when trying to undo/redo after a replace-with-output
• changed syntax collection is now append only and when matching it against a path, the most recent ones are tried first
• changed list-buffer command name to list-buffers
• changed **/*.refs syntax by simplifying it a little
• removed : suffix when listing currently opened buffers
• added syntax for .sh shell files
• added @output() expansion which expands into an external command stdout
• added support for recursive variable expansions (that is, it’s possible to have a @var(...) inside a @var(...))
• changed parsing of expansion arguments to be more robust like command parsing
• added @command-source() expansion which expands into a macro command’s source
• changed remedybg-plugin to support newer events from version 0.3.8.6
• fix c/cpp syntax ordering

0.30.0

• added insert-text command
• added set-clipboard command
• fix > (indent command) will no longer indent empty lines
• changed search string will also be compiled into a pattern if it contains ^ or $
• changed readline input and prompt are now registers i and p respectively
• removed @readline-input() as the input can now be accessed by register(i)
• added toggle-comment which will toggle a prefix comment for each line reached by a cursor
• added a simple indentation fixer on the = binding while in normal mode
• added batch file syntax
• fix string syntax for some languages (lua, js, html, css, py)
• added ruby syntax
• fix crash when opening and editing the middle of a buffer in a single action (in a macro or through lsp for example)
• fix [aA]` was missing
• added log as a open command option which is the same as old scratch and now scratch enables buffer history by default
• added file-backed as a open command option which affects open and reopen commands
• added output as a open command option which disables all buffer prorperties (suitable for process outputs)
• added to-lowercase and to-uppercase commands
• fix buffer views would not be removed when their clients closed
• fix breakpoints locations on text edits
• changed save-all and reopen-all to only report an error at the end and always try to process all buffers
• added BufferBreakpointId to BufferBreakpoint which is a buffer scoped monotonically increasing breakpoint id
• changed open-log to always refreshes the log buffer’s content
• changed plugin-remedybg to make use of the new IPC driver api which enables better integration
• changed help command to autocomplete on help page names and always open help pages
• fix web version not working because it would try to create a log file
• changed cursor list format from “path:1,3-1,4;2,3-2,4” to “path:1:3-1:4,2:3-2:4”
• added support for cc and hh file extensions for the c++ language
• changed view scroll is now saved for each buffer view instead of client which makes up for a more consistent ux
• added hlsl language syntax

0.29.0

• added diagnostic logging to spawn command
• added diagnostic logging to replace-with-output command
• fix pattern bad optimization output when nonascii codepoints
• fix remedybg-plugin breakpoint sync on spawn
• changed default value of indent_with_tabs to false
• removed xa binding that used to list all breakpoints in a buffer
• added buffer-list command that lists all buffers in a new buffer
• added lint-list command that lists all lints in a buffer
• added breakpoint-list command that lists all lints in a buffer
• fix breakpoint was not rendering if it was on the first line of the view
• added proper error flow handling in some builtin commands that either tried to open a file or parse process command
• fix undo on a buffer with history-disabled would move the cursor to the top
• fix would not open a buffer with saving-disabled and invalid chars in its path
• fix gf would not open file when it’s relative to the root and the current buffer’s path parent exists
• added support for parsing multiple cursors when using (m_, gf, etc)
• added main cursor range display in status bar when its anchor is different from its position
• added @cursor-anchor() and @cursor-position() expansions which expand with the format line,col
• added @cwd() expansion which expands into the current directory path
• removed unnecessary conditionals on ui rendering code
• added the chars []{} as path delimiters for find_path_and_ranges_at (gf on normal mode)
• added cursor count to the status bar when there is more than one cursor

0.28.0

• added the concept of breakpoints for plugins to use
• added bindings starting with x that interact with breakpoints
• changed theme color name from background to normal_background
• changed theme color name from active_line_background to active_background
• added theme color breakpoint_background
• changed smart search patterns: if your search pattern contains a % character, it will perform a pattern search instead of a fixed string search (it’s still possible to force a fixed string search by prefixing it with either f/ or F/)
• changed find_path_and_position_at to also break on " and '
• added remedybg plugin (under the plugin-remedybg folder)
• added css syntax
• changed bracket objects to invert bracket positions if invoked with the closing bracket. that is, a) will now select text between ) and ( instead of ( and )
• changed StatusBar to Logger (and editor.status_bar to editor.logger)
• changed print command to log command which accepts a <log-kind> parameter (use log status <args...> for old behavior)
• added logging to the editor which you can open it with the open-log command
• added if command that supports == and != operations to conditionally execute other commands
• added @platform() that expands to the platform name the editor is running on top of.
• added the possibility for plugins to register its own expansions
• added command variable expansion completion
• better picker heuristics which favors matches that happen more to the end of the entry
• fix lsp-plugin documentation on globs

0.27.0

• added set-env command to change the editor’s environment variables
• fix @arg(*) expanding into no arguments if it’s empty
• fix save command alias s not taking arguments as it should
• changed cd binding (delete all cursors except the main cursor) to CD
• added new cd binding that only deletes the main cursor
• added lsp configuration examples
• fix gf (and GF) that could open a duplicate of an already opened buffer if trying to open the same path but absolute
• fix reopen-all would fail if there was a scratch buffer with a path that does not exist
• changed spawn command to use a piped stdout in order to detect when the process exits
• changed cursor-<anchor/position>-<column/line> expansions to be one based (instead of zero based) for easier interoperability with other software

0.26.1

• improved find_path_and_position_at to account for paths followed by :
• unix: fix not being able to spawn server if the application was installed to a folder in path

0.26.0

• removed escaping expansion from {...} string blocks
• unix now uses posix_spawn instead of fork to spawn a server for better reliability and to remove the need to use libc::daemon which is deprecated on macos
• fix bug on windows that prevented the server from spawning when opening files using -- cli positional args

0.25.0

• new variable expansion mechanism when evaluating commands
• changed string syntax for commands
• command strings now support some escapings
• command aliases that start with - won’t show up in auto completions
• merged default_commands.pepper with default_bindings.pepper into default_configs.pepper
• merged all map-<mode> commands into a single map command whose first parameter is the mode to map keys to
• merged all syntax-<token-kind> commands into the syntax command which can take the first parameter the token kind for the defined pattern
• insert processes now correctly adjust their insert positions on buffer insertions and deletions
• added set-register command
• changed open command parameters order, now buffer properties come before the path parameter
• removed alias command since it’s now possible to replicate its behavior by creating a new command that calls the aliased command and use the @arg() expansion
• removed find-file and find-command commands as they’re now implementable using other builtin commands (see default_configs.pepper for an example)
• removed the old 255 cursor count limit
• exiting search mode will fully restore the previous cursor state
• it’s now possible to use use the search mode to expand selections
• included default config files to help pages
• fix wrong error message when parsing color values
• fix buffer would not read from file when opened with saving-disabled
• lsp plugin correctly handle completion responses which only fill the changes field
• added pepper- prefix to windows session named pipe paths

0.24.0

• handle buffer paths beginning with ./ (on Buffer::set_path and Buffer::find_with_path)
• command $ is now ! and what was ! is now removed; that is, there’s no longer a ‘only insert from command output’, just ‘replace with command output’ (| command) and if the selection is empty, it behaves as if it was the old !

0.23.3

• fix failing lsp protocol test that should only run on windows
• force redeploy on github actions

0.23.2

• fix URI parsing on windows

0.23.1

• fix crash after pc wakeup on linux (possibly on bsd and mac as well)
• fix server occasionally dropping writes to client on linux

0.23.0

• changed default clipboard linux interface to xclip instead of xsel
• fix crash when lsp-references would not load the context buffer
• handle <c-i> (insert at end of line) by instead mapping it to tab on unix
• fix some lsp operations not working on unix due to poor path handling

0.22.0

• added quit instruction to the start screen
• added ‘%t’ to patterns to match a tab (‘\t’)
• fix bad handling of BSD’s resize signal on kqueue

0.21.0

• prevent deadlocks by writing asynchronously to clients from server
• fix possible crash when listing lsp item references when there’s a usage near the end of the buffer
• added instructions on how to package the web version of the editor
• added error to lsp-stop and lsp-stop-all when there is no lsp server running

0.20.0

• use builtin word database for completions when plugins provide no suggestions
• prevent closing all clients when the terminal from which the server was spawned is closed
• fix debugging crash when sometimes dropping a client connection

0.19.3

• added changelog! you can access it through :help changelog<enter>
• added error number to unix platform panics
• fix event loop on bsd
• fix idle events not triggering on unix
• fix buffer history undo crash when you undo after a “insert, delete then insert” single action
• fix messy multiple autocomplete on the same line
• fix crash on macos since there kqueue can’t poll /dev/tty

0.19.2 and older

There was no official changelog before. However, up to this point, we were implementing all features related to the editor’s vision. Then fixing bugs and stabilizing the code base.