4A minor release that includes:
5- A fix for rendering glitches that would occur after editing with multiple selections.
6- CI fix for grammars not being cross-compiled for aarch64
10Two months have passed, so this is another big release. A big thank you to all
11the contributors and package maintainers!
13Helix has popped up in [Arch, Manjaro, Nix, MacPorts and Parabola and Termux repositories](https://repology.org/project/helix/versions)!
15A [large scale refactor](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/376) landed that allows us to support zero width (empty)
16selections in the future as well as resolves many bugs and edge cases.
18- Multi-key remapping! Key binds now support much more complex usecases ([#454](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/454))
19- Pending keys are shown in the statusline ([#515](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/515))
20- Object selection / textobjects. `mi(` to select text inside parentheses ([#385](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/385))
21- Autoinfo: `whichkey`-like popups which show available sub-mode shortcuts ([#316](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/316))
22- Added WORD movements (W/B/E) ([#390](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/390))
23- Vertical selections (repeat selection above/below) ([#462](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/462))
24- Selection rotation via `(` and `)` ([66a90130](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/66a90130a5f99d769e9f6034025297f78ecaa3ec))
25- Selection contents rotation via `Alt-(` and `Alt-)` ([02cba2a](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/02cba2a7f403f48eccb18100fb751f7b42373dba))
26- Completion behavior improvements ([f917b5a4](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/f917b5a441ff3ae582358b6939ffbf889f4aa530), [627b899](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/627b89931576f7af86166ae8d5cbc55537877473))
27- Fixed a language server crash ([385a6b5a](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/385a6b5a1adddfc26e917982641530e1a7c7aa81))
28- Case change commands (`` ` ``, `~`, ``<a-`>``) ([#441](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/441))
29- File pickers (including goto) now provide a preview! ([#534](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/534))
30- Injection query support. Rust macro calls and embedded languages are now properly highlighted ([#430](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/430))
31- Formatting is now asynchronous, and the async job infrastructure has been improved ([#285](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/285))
32- Grammars are now compiled as separate shared libraries and loaded on-demand at runtime ([#432](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/432))
33- Code action support ([#478](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/478))
34- Mouse support ([#509](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/509), [#548](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/548))
35- Native Windows clipboard support ([#373](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/373))
36- Themes can now use color palettes ([#393](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/393))
37- `:reload` command ([#374](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/374))
38- Ctrl-z to suspend ([#464](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/464))
39- Language servers can now be configured with a custom JSON config ([#460](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/460))
40- Comment toggling now uses a language specific comment token ([#463](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/463))
41- Julia support ([#413](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/413))
42- Java support ([#448](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/448))
43- Prompts have an (in-memory) history ([63e54e30](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/63e54e30a74bb0d1d782877ddbbcf95f2817d061))
51- Indentation is now automatically detected from file heuristics. ([#245](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/245))
52- Support for other line endings (CRLF). Significantly improved Windows support. ([#224](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/224))
53- Encodings other than UTF-8 are now supported! ([#228](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/228))
54- Key bindings can now be configured via a `config.toml` file ([#268](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/268))
55- Theme can now be configured and changed at runtime ([please feel free to contribute more themes!](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/tree/master/runtime/themes)) ([#267](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/267))
56- System clipboard yank/paste is now supported! ([#310](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/310))
57- Surround commands were implemented ([#320](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/320))
61- File picker can now be repeatedly filtered ([#232](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/232))
62- LSP progress is now received and rendered as a spinner ([#234](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/234))
63- Current line number can now be themed ([#260](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/260))
64- Arrow keys & home/end now work in insert mode ([#305](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/305))
65- Cursors and selections can now be themed ([#325](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/325))
66- Language servers are now gracefully shut down before `hx` exits ([#287](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/287))
67- `:show-directory`/`:change-directory` ([#335](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/335))
68- File picker is now sorted by access time (before filtering) ([#336](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/336))
69- Code is being migrated from helix-term to helix-view (prerequisite for
70 alternative frontends) ([#366](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/366))
72 ([f41688d9](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/f41688d960ef89c29c4a51c872b8406fb8f81a85))
76- The IME popup is now correctly positioned ([#273](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/273))
77- A bunch of bugs regarding `o`/`O` behavior ([#281](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/281))
78- `~` expansion now works in file completion ([#284](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/284))
79- Several UI related overflow crashes ([#318](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/318))
80- Fix a test failure occuring only on `test --release` ([4f108ab1](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/4f108ab1b2197809506bd7305ad903a3525eabfa))
81- Prompts now support unicode input ([#295](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/295))
82- Completion documentation no longer overlaps the popup ([#322](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/322))
83- Fix a crash when trying to select `^` ([9c534614](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/9c53461429a3e72e3b1fb87d7ca490e168d7dee2))
84- Prompt completions are now paginated ([39dc09e6](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/39dc09e6c4172299bc79de4c1c52288d3f624bd7))
85- Goto did not work on Windows ([503ca112](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/503ca112ae57ebdf3ea323baf8940346204b46d2))
89Includes a fix where wq/wqa could exit before file saving completed.
93Enough has changed to bump the version. We're skipping 0.1.x because
94previously the CLI would always report version as 0.1.0, and we'd like
95to distinguish it in bug reports..
97- The `runtime/` directory is now properly detected on binary releases and
98 on cargo run. `~/.config/helix/runtime` can also be used.
99- Registers can now be selected via " (for example `"ay`)
100- Support for Nix files was added
101- Movement is now fully tested and matches kakoune implementation
102- A per-file LSP symbol picker was added to space+s
103- Selection can be replaced with yanked text via R
105- `1g` now correctly goes to line 1
106- `ctrl-i` now correctly jumps backwards in history
107- A small memory leak was fixed, where we tried to reuse tree-sitter
108 query cursors, but always allocated a new one
109- Auto-formatting is now only on for certain languages
110- The root directory is now provided in LSP initialization, fixing
111 certain language servers (typescript)
112- LSP failing to start no longer panics
113- Elixir language queries were fixed
118- Add mappings to jump to diagnostics
119- Add gt/gm/gb mappings to jump to top/middle/bottom of screen
120- ^ and $ are now gh, gl
122- The runtime/ can now optionally be embedded in the binary
123- Haskell syntax added
124- Window mode (ctrl-w) added
125- Show matching bracket (vim's matchbrackets)
126- Themes now support style modifiers
127- First user contributed theme
128- Create a document if it doesn't exist yet on save
129- Detect language on a new file on save
131- Panic fixes, lots of them
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