= Changelog This changelog contains major and/or breaking changes to Kakoune between released versions. == Kakoune 2023.07.29 * `` and `` now undo/redo selection changes; the previous meaning of moving in history tree has been moved to `` and `` * `%exp{...}` expansions provide flexible quoting for expanded strings (as double quoted strings) * `` cancels the current operation and goes back to the main event loop, this provides an escape hatch when Kakoune seems to hang due to a costly operation * `show-matching -previous` highlighter will fall back onto the character preceeding the cursor == Kakoune 2022.10.31 * `complete-command` (See <>) * `p`, `P`, `!` and `` commands now select the inserted text * `x` now just extends the selection to contain full lines (as `` did) `` trims partial lines from the selection (as `` did) * User mappings is now bound to `` while keeping/removing main selection moved to `,` and `` * Prompt history registers `%reg{colon}`, `%reg{slash}` and `%reg{pipe}` now have reverse chronological order * Executing user mode mappings no longer adds to prompt history registers. == Kakoune 2021.11.07 * Support for curly and separately colored underlines (undocumented in 2021.10.28) * Fixes for terminal flickering * Fixes for command and response fifo corner cases == Kakoune 2021.10.28 * `g` and `v` do not auto lower case the next key, so `GL` needs to be manually mapped to `Gl` for example. == Kakoune 2021.08.28 * command and response fifo support (See <>) * Shell expansions only trim the last trailing newline instead of all of them to make is possible to losslessly pass text through `%sh{...}`. * `set-option -remove` support for subtracting/removing from option values * Menu completions such as command name completion are now auto-inserted on space * `write -atomic` was replaced with `write -method [replace|overwrite]` to make both write methods available explicitly * `write ` will fail if the given filename already exists and is a regular file. Use the `-force` switch to override that behaviour. == Kakoune 2020.09.01 * The `repl` and `send-text` aliases have been renamed respectively into `repl-new` and `repl-send-text`. * Daemon mode (`-d` switch) does not fork anymore. * Replace NCursesUI with a custom terminal UI implementation == Kakoune 2020.08.04 * Introduce `User` hook support. * The `bold` and `italic` faces are no longer built-in. Highlighters are expected to use face attributes (`+b` and `+i`, respectively) to decorate text. * The `lint-enable` command no longer needs to be called to display linting errors. The `lint-disable` command was renamed into `lint-hide-diagnostics`. * The `+` part of a `range-specs` highlighter consistently refers to the length of the target range. * clients stdin is transferred to the server, making it possible to pipe into `kak -c ` * Faces can have an alpha channel, specified using the `rgba:RRGGBBAA` format. * replace-ranges highlighter now support empty and multi-lines ranges * `%val{...}` now expands to list of strings, `$kak_quoted_...` now work as expected with these. * `*SetOption` hooks filter string will contain a value only for options of int/str/bool types to avoid performance issue with generating those on more complex option types. == Kakoune 2020.01.16 * Expose history tree through `$kak_history` and `$kak_uncommitted_modifications` * `InsertCompletionHide` parameter is the list of inserted ranges == Kakoune 2019.12.10 * Arrow keys and ``, `` are not normal mode commands anymore but default key mappings. * `ModeChange` hook parameter now takes `push:` or `pop:` prefix, `InsertBegin`, `InsertEnd`, `NormalBegin` and `NormalEnd` were removed. * `-verbatim` switch in `evaluate-commands` for perfect command forwarding to another context. * `WrapMarker` face used by `wrap -marker` highlighter * `info` supports markup with the `-markup` switch * `rename-buffer` gained `-file` and `-scratch` switches to support converting buffer types. == Kakoune 2019.07.01 * Re-organized bundled script files directory hierarchy. * Introduced helpers to write/read from file in scripts with `%file{...}` expansion and `echo -to-file `. * Added `ClientCreate` and `ClientClose` hooks * `edit -scratch` with no buffer name will create a new scratch buffer with a unique autogenerated name. * `info -placement` is now `info -style` and supports `menu` and `modal` additional styles. * `completions` option type `docstring` are now arbitrary kakoune commands that are run on item select. * `InsertCompletionSelect` hook has been removed as `completions` commands now provides a similar feature. * Introduced a module system using the `provide-module` and `require-module` commands that allows for lazily loading language support files with dependency resolution. * Added a new hook `ModuleLoaded` which is run after a module is loaded, allowing for module specific configuration. * Shell quoting of lists is not automatic anymore, `$kak_quoted_...` makes it opt-in, and works for all option types. * Lower case function key syntax is not accepted anymore, `` should be converted to ``. == Kakoune 2019.01.20 * `auto_complete` has been renamed to `autocomplete` for more consistency. * Start of a builtin key parser in the ncurses ui bypassing the ncurses one. Can be favored by setting the ui option `ncurses_builtin_key_parser` to `true`. * Right clicks extend the current selection, the control modifier allows merging all the selections after extension. * The `regex` highlighter now supports named capture groups to ease readability. == Kakoune 2018.10.27 * `remove-hooks` argument is now a regex and removes all hooks whose group matches it. * `exclusive` face attribute (e) has been replaced with more granular `final foreground` (f), `final background` (g), and `final attributes` (a), or the three combined as `final` (F). Semantics changed slightly as those attributes apply to the existing face as well (a final face will not get modified by a following face if that following face does not have the final attribute itself. * `` aka "merge consecutive selections" has been moved to ``. The new `` and `` are now symmetrical with `m` and `M`. Those commands select (or extend) to the matching char backwards. * `define-command` switches `-shell-completion` and `-shell-candidates` have been renamed to `-shell-script-completion` and `-shell-script-candidates` to make way for a new `-shell-completion` which completes like the shell (shell command name then filename). * `asciidoc` is not a dependency anymore, the last file that required it (Kakoune's manpage) has been converted to troff format. == Kakoune 2018.09.04 This version contains a significant overhaul of various Kakoune features that can break user configuration. This was a necessary change to make Kakoune command model cleaner and more robust. * `%sh{...}` strings are not reparsed automatically anymore, they need to go through an explicit `evaluate-commands` * The `-allow-override` switch from `define-command` has been renamed `-override`. * The search prompt uses buffer word completion so that fuzzy completion can be used to quickly search for a buffer word. * The `wrap` highlighter can accept a new `-marker ` switch. * The command line syntax has changed to support robust escaping. - `%sh{...}` is not expanded to multiple tokens automatically anymore, to evaluate its output as multiple tokens/commands, use the `evaluate-commands` command: ------------------------------------------------------------- evaluate-commands %sh{ echo "first command; second command" } ------------------------------------------------------------- - Escaping of `'` in `'...'` and `"` and `%` in `"..."` strings is done by doubling up (`''`, `""` and `%%`) instead of using a backslash - Bare words escaping has been tweaked. See <>. * Various lists (options, registers...) in Kakoune are now written using the command line syntax: - `set-register` now take an arbitrary number of parameters and sets the register to multiple strings. `%reg` expands to a list of strings. - the `$kak_reg_*` environment variable is now a list, `$kak_main_reg_*` provides the previous behaviour. - `%opt` expands list options as list of strings. - selection descs are whitespaces separated instead of `:` separated * Highlighters syntax has changed to permit explicit naming and remove highlighter specific name parameters (such as for the group highlighter) `add-highlighter / ` is the new syntax. * Regions highlighters have been overhauled and are now specified with a sequence of commands instead of a single one: ------------------------------------------------------------------ add-highlighter / regions add-highlighter // region \ ------------------------------------------------------------------ The recursion regex is opt-in through a `-recurse ` flag. They also are not necessarily groups anymore, a region can directly apply any other highlighter See <> * Highlighter type names have been unified, types that used `_` as word separators, such as `show_whitespaces` are now using `-` (`show-whitespace`). * `a` on end of line is not treated specially anymore, it will start inserting on the next character, which will be the first character of the next line. * `autoshowcompl` options has been renamed `auto_complete` and is now a `flags(insert|prompt)` option, allowing more granular configuration of when the completions should be displayed automatically. * Prompt editing shortcuts have been changed to match readline. == Kakoune 2018.04.13 First official Kakoune release.