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
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-( and Alt-) (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)
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 and X 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 occuring 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.
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..
Keymaps:
- Add mappings to jump to diagnostics
- Add gt/gm/gb mappings to jump to top/middle/bottom of screen
- ^ and $ are now gh, gl