23.10 (2023-10-24)
A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 118 contributors in this release.
Breaking changes:
Support multiple language servers per language
This is a breaking change to language configuration
Features:
Support multiple language servers per language
Add a statusline element for the selected register
Add %, #, ., * and + special registers
Add initial support for LSP DidChangeWatchedFiles notifications
Search buffer contents in global_search
Add a "smart tab" command that intelligently jumps the cursor on tab
Add a statusline element for whether a file is read-only
Syntax highlight regex prompts
Allow defining alignment in indent queries
Show visual feedback in surround_replace
Switch to Nucleo for fuzzy matching
Insert a trailing newline on write
Add a -w/--working-dir CLI flag for specifying a working directory on startup
Accept a +N CLI argument to set the first file's line number
Accept Helix-specific ignore files in .helix/ignore and ~/.config/helix/ignore
Commands:
merge_selections (A-minus) - merge all selections into one selection that covers all ranges
move_prev_long_word_end and extend_prev_long_word_end - move/extend to the end of the previous WORD
reverse_selection_contents - swaps the values of each selection so they are reversed
Add :rl and :rla aliases for :reload and :reload-all
yank_joined - join the selections and yank to the selected register
:write-all! (:wa!) - forcibly write all buffers to disk and create any necessary subdirectories
:redraw - clear re-render the UI
:tree-sitter-highlight-name - show the theme scope name of the highlight under the cursor
Usability improvements:
Allow cycling option values at runtime
Exit gracefully on termination signals
Add plaintext matching fallback to tree-sitter pair matching
Persist register selection in pending keymaps (0e08349)
Propagate the count and register to command palette commands (b394997)
Auto indent on insert_at_line_start
Add a config option to control whether LSP completions are automatically inserted on preview
Add a config option for default line endings
Allow ANSI colors in themes
Match pairs that don't form a standalone tree-sitter node
Allow indent sizes of up to 16 columns
Improve performance of mapping positions through changes
Mark buffers created from stdin as modified
Forcibly shut down uninitialized language servers
Add filename completer for shell prompts
Allow binding F13-F24
Resolve LSP code actions
Save an undo checkpoint before accepting completions
Include gitignored files in debugger completions
Make editor remember the last search register
Open directories with goto_file
Use relative path to open buffer in goto_file (gf)
Support default color in themes
Toggle between relative and absolute line numbers when the terminal loses focus
Lower default idle-timeout to 250ms (060e73a)
Allow theming diff gutters separately from other diff colors
Style bold/italic/strikethrough in markdown doc popups
Maintain the cursor position and view when splitting with :hsplit/:vsplit
Accept - in macros outside of </>
Show all language servers for each language in --health
Don't break on hyphens in :reflow
Fixes:
Update diagnostics correctly on language server exit
Fix off-by-one in select_references_to_symbol_under_cursor
Extend selection with repeat-last-motion only if the original motion extended the selection
Fix undefined behavior in the diff gutter
Check that tab width is non-zero
Fix styles being overwritten in table rows with multiple cells
Add file for --log CLI arg in help text
Fix underflow when repeating a completion that has a negative shift position
Prefer longer matches in select_next_sibling and select_prev_sibling
Preview scratch buffers in the jumplist picker
Fix chunking by bytes in tree-sitter parsing
Discard LSP publishDiagnostic from uninitialized servers
Use negotiated position encoding for LSP workspace edits
Fix error message for unknown gutter types in config
Fix :log-open when --log CLI arg is specified
Fix debouncing of LSP messages to fix the last message sticking around
Fix crash when the current working directory is deleted
Fix piping to Helix on macOS
Fix crash when parsing overlapping injections
Clear the statusline when the prompt is visible
Fix range formatting error message typo
Skip rendering gutters when gutter width exceeds view width
Center the picker preview using visual lines
Align view correctly for background buffers opened with A-ret
Fix cursor resetting to block when quitting via a keybind
Remove path completions for the :new command
Use binary path resolved by which for formatter commands
Handle crossterm's hidden modifier
Clear completion when switching between windows with the mouse
Eagerly remove the last picker (<space>') when the picker has many items
Fix find commands for buffers with non-LF line-endings
Detect the tmux clipboard provider on macOS
Fix syntax highlighting in dynamic picker preview pane
Recognize HTML code tags with attributes as code in markdown previews
Fix multicursor snippet placeholder directions
Only show diagnostic highlights when diagnostics are enabled for a language server
Themes:
Improve the selection color in ferra
Add variable.other.member theming to spacebones_light
Update autumn and theme the soft-wrap indicator
Add gruvbox_dark_soft
Add merionette
Add zed_onedark and zed_onelight
Use light-gray for onedarker inlay hint theming
Update the Nord theme to follow the style guidelines
Tune dark_plus inlay hint colors
Add naysayer
Add kaolin-dark, kaolin-light and kaolin-valley-dark
Fix selection highlighting in gruvbox variants
Add soft-wrap indicator to gruvbox
Add missing palette definitions in everforest_dark
Increase diagnostics clarity in pop-dark
Add vim_dark_high_contrast
Add new_moon
Add yellowed
Improve comment readability for autumn
Distinguish active bufferline buffer in monokai
Update ruler colors in nord
Update Catppuccin themes
Add text focus scope and diagnostics undercurls for nord
Add material theme collection
Improve indent line color in dracula
Clean up and refactor papercolor to use inheritance
Fix zenburn inlay hint color
Fix picker crash when previewing an invalid range (e9d0bd7)
Correctly center items in the picker preview (13d4463)
Add cyan_light
Theme HTML tags in onedark
Refine darcula and darcula-solid themes
Improve nord highlights
Add nord-night
New languages:
Blueprint
Forth
t32
WebC
Persistent DSL for Haskell
F#
Wren
Unison
Todo.txt
Jinja and Handlebars
Pod
Strace
Gemini
GNU Assembler (GAS)
JSON5
TEMPL
Updated languages and queries:
Add one to the ruler numbers for git-commit
Recognize XAML files as XML
Recognize Cargo.lock as TOML
Use Rust grammar for Cairo (c6d1430)
Update tree-sitter-nickel
Tune auto-pair characters for Nickel
Recognize Vagrantfile as Ruby
Recognize hidden justfiles as Just
Update Java and TypeScript highlight queries
Recognize .zimrc as Bash
Recognize .gir as XML
Update tree-sitter-scala
Recognize make file-type as Makefile
Update tree-sitter-verilog
Update tree-sitter-cpp
Support core mode for delve debugger
Add Fortran comment injections
Switch Vue language server to vue-language-server
Update tree-sitter-sql
Replace the MATLAB tre-sitter grammar
Highlight TOML table headers
Recognize cppm file-type as C++
Refactor ecma language queries into private and public queries
Update tree-sitter-dart
Add shebang for nushell files
Recognize systemd files as INI
Update TypeScript, TSX and Svelte grammars
Enable inlay hints in the Svelte language server
Recognize Brewfiles as Ruby
Add more file-types for R
Switch tree-sitter-perl to official upstream parser
Fix predicate typo in comment highlights
Update tree-sitter-prql
Recognize .gitf as JSON
Switch V language server to v-analyzer
Add protobuf language servers
Update tree-sitter-zig
Update tree-sitter-hare
Add Java indent queries
Update tree-sitter-scheme (979933b)
Recognize scm as Scheme instead of TSQ (5707151)
Update tree-sitter-git-commit
Update JavaScript, TypeScript and TSX grammars
Update tree-sitter-nu
Fix YAML indentation
Add csharp-ls, Pyright, Pylyzer and add roots for Python
Update tree-sitter-slint
Recognize more ZSH file-types as Bash
Recognize star extension as Starlark
Fix inline HTML tag highlighting in markdown
Update tree-sitter-robot
Highlight Dart 3 sealed and base keywords
Add configuration for ltex-ls to the default languages.toml
Update tree-sitter-strace
Update tree-sitter-gleam, enable auto-format
Update tree-sitter-esdl
Expand ignore file-types
Recognize feed related formats as XML
Improve YAML injections
Add shebangs for TypeScript, Julia, Java and OCaml (95e994a)
Highlight abbreviations in Scheme (ef23847)
Remove backtic auto-pair in OCaml
Recognize flake.lock as JSON
Add Python test script injection for Nix (b4494e1)
Fix Nix comment injection precedence (37e48f4)
Recognize editorconfig files as INI
Recognize .babelrc as JSON
Switch Purescript to its own tree-sitter parser
Update Unison highlights
Recognize .webmanifest as JSON
Recognize polkit policy files as XML
Recognize polkit rules files as JavaScript
Update Go highlight queries
Add shebangs for Makefiles
Add file-type associations from VSCode
Add validation to JSON/CSS language server configs
Add a configuration for the tailwind language server
Add a configuration for the ansible language server
Add a configuration for the GraphQL language server
Indent while statements in Bash
Update tree-sitter-haskell and queries
Packaging:
Add an overlay to the Nix flake
Check for git before fetching or building grammars
Refactor Nix flake to use Crane
Remove the aarch64 appimage from the release CI
Add desktop and icon files to Nix flake output
Build flake packages with the latest stable Rust
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