Vis version 0.9

This release has been long in the works but its time now. There have been many additions and bugfixes since 0.8. In particular changes to the Lua API have made it easier to extend vis in all sorts of ways that were previously difficult or impossible. As always the appreciation towards contributors new and old can not be understated; thanks goes out to everyone for their efforts!

A summary of changes follows:

Core

• Compare non-existing files by name and existing files by inode
• Do tilde expansion only for the tilde character at the beginning of the pattern.
• Add word wrapping via breakat and wrapcolumn options
• Add ansi escaping values and theming keyword for dimmed text
• Allow statusbar to disabled
• Default theme was changed to one that uses the terminal colors directly.

Lua

• filetype: support filetype detection via hashbang
• filetype: many new file extensions are covered
• Resync the lexers with Scintillua
• Implement Selection:remove()
• Allow underscore (_) in command names
• Allow nil in vis:pipe() File and Range parameters
• Add fullscreen param to vis_pipe_collect() and vis:pipe()
• Access and set all available editor options
• Implementation of the non-blocking process running Lua API
• Make expandtab and tabwidth options window-local
• Drop redrawtime option
• Add a Lua constant for UI_STYLE_LEXER_MAX
• Report viewport as lines in addition to bytes
• Add win:style_pos() for styling a specific window cell.
• Add UI_DRAW event for last minute changes to the drawn window.
• Report viewport dimensions

Misc

• Add a basic .editorconfig file
• Don't set _FORTIFY_SOURCE in configure
• Many documentation improvements.
• Make vis-open and vis-complete more POSIX compliant
• vis-clipboard: clean up bashisms and make shellcheck happy.
• vis-clipboard: add support for wayclip
• vis-open: allow to show files vertically

Bugfixes

• fix warning by dealing with error value from fchdir in text-io.c
• text-io: close "cwd" in all cases
• vis-complete: Fix commandline options handling
• vis-clipboard: make xsel honor --selection
• wl-paste and wl-copy should not add \n to the end of the clipboard.
• fix a bug with using regex to close windows (i.e. :X/re/q)
• Limit to lines within range for inner text objects
• vis-clipboard: don't fail when sel is primary on unsupported platforms
• fix { moving back too much if cursor is at start of a line
• Print keybindings containing space correctly in help window
• Prevent flickering in curses
• vis-menu: try to preserve valid Unicode points
• lua: make sure lpeg is in fact optional
• vis-single: respect TMPDIR
• lua: fail when mapping a key to an invalid handler type
• vis_pipe: correctly return non-zero exit status
• view: skip empty cells before applying a style
• sam: reject invalid ranges for cmd_extract ("x"/"y")
• Fix upper/lower case conversions with gU and gu.
• lua: complete-word: use internal regex for splitting words
• Theme application was refactored and should be more consistent now.

Deprecation Notices

The option names show-spaces, show-tabs, show-newlines, show-eof, and change-256colors are all deprecated and will be removed for the next release, use the name without the - instead (e.g. showeof). This was done to avoid inconsistencies between the lua option names and the :set option names.

The complete changelog can be viewed using git log v0.8..v0.9 or clicking here.

Vis version 0.8

This is a release of vis as it has been for more than a year before some development started up again. We're releasing this version to get a stable 'old' release out there which should still contain a number of bugfixes compared to 0.7.

• build: add git based version information back
• lexers: fix bug in bash lexer for last here-doc
• vis: make O implementation independent of mapping
• fix typos in comments
• lua: fix luacheck warnings
• vis: rename to/till motion internals
• vis: implement multiline to/till motions
• vis-lua: provide file.permission property
• Mention pkg-config in README
• lexers/strace: improve comments, field names and syscall results
• lexers/git-rebase: also highlight break command
• filetype: Set "bash" for APKBUILD and .ebuild.
• filetype: Detect make shebang for "makefile".
• Adding .sv extension to verilog syntax highlighter
• build: update alpine in docker build to version 3.13
• sam: only skip the last empty match if it follows a newline
• sam: produce empty match at the end of looped range
• test: update
• gitignore: remove vim specific swap files
• sam: tweak handling of zero length matches in y commands
• sam: simplify trailing match handling for x/y commands
• vis: correctly close pipe connected to stdin of external process
• add lua5.4 in configure script
• vis: Add readline Ctrl+A/E bindings
• ci: verify codecov script before using it
• ci: verify coverity scan script before using it
• filetype: Set "groovy" for Jenkinsfile

Full Changelog: v0.7...v0.8

Vis version 0.7

This is mostly a bug fix release with fixes for a few cases of undefined behavior and preliminary work for experimentation with different core text management data structures and general editor architecture.

• fix UB in core text management data structure
• text refactoring, splitting out reusable text iterator and I/O components
• new *at() variants taking directory descriptor for file load/save API
• more efficient initial file read, avoiding spurious syscalls and copy
• text API cleanups, const correctness improvements
• increased test coverage for core text data structure
• support for Lua 5.4
• Lua API improvements: vis.mark, vis.register, vis.win.file.modified
  and support for terminal CSI events
• NetBSD support
• new :set ignorecase option to search case independently
• new visual mode mapping <C-a> to select all matching selections
• fix mappings involving non-leading <C-c>
• minor file detection fixes for racket, node.js modules, Typescript and liliypond
• new lexers for Zig, meson build system, Mikrotik RouterOS scripts, Gemini
• improved inner word text object and its use for <C-n> in normal mode
• improved <C-n> behavior in visual mode
• removed ie, ae inner/outer entire text object, use :, as shorthand for :0,$
• removed pairwise selection combinators z>, z<, z-, z+, z&, z|
• remove ~ as alias for g~
• use ~ instead of ! for selection complement
• remove special key and window related aliases
• vis-open(1) adds a trailing slash to indicate folders
• add primary clipboard support to vis-clipboard(1)
• support wayland clipboard using wl-clipboard(1)
• new Makefile targets: distclean, testclean

Vis version 0.6

• bounded time syntax highlighting using the :set redrawtime option
• support optional count for sam's text commands e.g. :i3/-/
• make <C-n> in visual mode match next occurence of existing selection
• warn when attempting to write to an existing file
• improved file change detection based on inode instead of path information
• fix file saves with modifications in file pre-save events
• fix save on file systems without fsync(2) support on directory descriptors
• do not unlink file~ when saving file
• introduce distinct vis-menu(1) exit codes
• modify Lua package.path to include /init.lua
• performance improvements for the HTML, XML and YAML lexers
• new Julia and Elm lexers, better defaults for standard text lexer
• support optional exit status in :q and :qall commands
• better temporary file creation using mkstemp(2)
• performance improvements in highlight matching parentheses
• improved behavior of ^ and $ in searches and looping commands
• improved search wrap around behavior
• new :set layout option to specify window orientation
• improved filetype detection by matching known filenames exactly
• support DragonFly BSD in configure script
• better manual page, fixed warnings
• removed gp, gP, gq
• implement g~, gu and gU using tr(1), they are no longer operators
• removed v and V in operator pending mode
• avoid crash if $TERM is unset
• keep selections after :> command
• normalize selections after : command execution
• show pending input queue content in status bar
• make r<Enter> insert a new line
• new :set loadmethod option, valid values are read, mmap or auto
• always apply :| command to existing selections
• fix terminal UI on serial console
• various code cleanups, removal of VLA
• resets count, if applicable
• fix :X and :Y commands which were interchanged
• don't strip executables by default, provide install-strip target

Vis version 0.5

• Fix for a buffer overflow when dealing with invalid/incomplete
  Unicode sequences which caused an infinite loop/crash. With default
  compilation flags this should not be exploitable, but opening a
  malicious file would lose all unsaved changes.

• Fix color support in ncurses 6.1

• New default 256 color theme: zenburn. It should hopefully work
  better with the default color palette.

• Updated Docker based builds (make docker) to use latest Alpine
  Linux packages to produce a statically linked, self-contained binary.

• Take symbolic keys into account when evaluating key prefixes (ci<
  is not a prefix of ci<Tab>).

• Improved paragraph text objects.

• Reset count after handling ,

• Lexer updates for Clojure, Scheme, ASM, Pony, PHP, Python, Erlang,
  xs and ReasonML.

• Correct handling of g/^$/ construct to match empty lines in
  commands like:

  x g/^$/ d

• <C-v><Enter> now inserts \r rather than \n, this currently also
  affects r<Enter> which might not be desirable.

• Fix command prompt malfunction triggered by special cursor position.

• Configure script can be interrupted.

• Removed ! operator, use :|

• Ignore SIGQUIT

• vis-open(1) fixes

Vis version 0.4

• Selections as core editing primitives. Cursors have been superseded
  by singleton selections. Overlapping selections are now merged. This
  change is also reflected in the exposed Lua API (for which still no
  stability guarantee is given).

• Selections can be saved into marks on which set operations can be
  performed:

  m save selections
  M restore selections
  | set union
  & set intersection
  \ set minus
  ! set complement
  z| pairwise union
  z& pairwise intersection
  z+ pairwise combine, choose longer
  z- pairwise combine, choose shorter
  z< pairwise combine, choose leftmost
  z> pairwise combine, choose rightmost

  Marks are specified using '{mark} analogous to "{register}.

• Jump list based on marks:

  g< jump backward
  g> jump forward
  gs save currently active selections

• New register # to insert the current selection number.

• Drop special handling of \r\n line endings. \r will be displayed
  as ^M. Enter will always insert \n.

• Fix Unicode regex search with libtre backend.

• New count specifiers for sam's g and v commands to keep/drop
  selections based on their index.

• On macOS saving files larger than INT_MAX bytes should work.

• New :set show-eof to toggle the display of end of file markers ~
  as before it is enabled by default.

• Double leading slashes of paths are stripped.

• Improved :< command implementation to only use a pipe when necessary.

• New lexers for Myrddin and strace(1), updates for Elixir, Perl
  and Forth.

• Fix compilation for GNU Hurd. The vis package is now built for all
  supported Debian architectures.

• Improve job control of forked processes. SIGINT is now properly
  delivered to child processes.

• Commands given a huge count can now be interrupted using .
  This is implemented in cooperative fashion, meaning a single long
  running operation can still not be interrupted.

• More efficient line wise motions based on optimized mem{r,}chr(3)
  libc functions.

• Optionally support vim compatible n/N search direction.

• Reproducible, statically linked, self contained binary built using
  the Alpine Docker image. The idea being that it is a single file
  which can be copied to any Linux >= 2.6 system to provide a usable
  editor. It has an embedded tar archive which contains the required
  Lua support files which are extracted to a temporary directory using
  libuntar.

• Preliminary C API documentation found at: http://vis.rtfd.io

• Updated manual page.

• Various code cleanups.

Check the git log for further details.

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Vis version 0.3

Most notable changes include:

• support for sam's structural regular expression based command language

• various bug fixes related to multiple cursor/selection support. New
  functionality to navigate among cursors (<C-u>, <C-d>), align
  (<Tab>, <S-Tab>), rotate (+, -), trim (\) or drop
  (<C-c>, <C-l>) selections.

• improved Lua API, featuring a new event subscription mechanism and the
  possibility to define custom operators, motions, text-objects, :set
  options and more. Notice however that at this point no API stability
  guarantee is provided.

  You might have to update your visrc.lua configuration file, check the
  Documentation for details:

  http://martanne.github.io/vis/doc/

• new standalone tools vis-menu (:o .), vis-digraph (<C-k>) and
  vis-complete (<C-k>) for a simple file open dialog, digraph support
  and word completion, respectively.

• multiple bug fixes for vi(m) functionality, including improved count
  and repeat handling as well as better cursor positioning, cw, shift,
  join and autoindent implementation.

• new key mapping processing based on longest unique match

• optional libtre based regex backend for more memory efficient forward searches

• respect umask when creating new files, previously they were only
  read/writable by the current user. Also fsync(2) destination
  directory after rename(2) when performing an atomic save operation.

• new :set options to configure the used shell, escape delay, file save
  method and context to consider for syntax highlighting

• True color support in lexer themes, in case the terminal supports
  color palette changes

• minimal built-in :help [pattern] command

• incorporated upstream changes to LPeg based lexers used for syntax
  highlighting from the Scintillua project

• new set of manual pages in mdoc format

• experimental raw vt100 UI backend for resource constraint environments

• various code cleanups and bug fixes reported by static analysis, runtime
  interpretation and fuzzing tools

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