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New Features:

• File type configuration - File types are now user configurable. Flow comes with a built-in list of file types that you can now modify and save to the configuration directory with the Edit file type configuration command. You can also create whole new file types simply by adding new files to the configuration directory in the file_type folder. The file type configuration defines the name, icon, description, formatter and language server, extensions and first line matching rules for a file type.

• Auto Save - Enable auto save for the current buffer with the Toggle auto save command. This will automatically save the current buffer on every change. Debounce time is the currently configured frame rate. You can also enable auto save globally with the enable_auto_save configuration option, and limit which file type have auto save automatically enabled with the limit_auto_save_file_types configuration option (which is a list of file types, e.g. ["zig","rust"])

• Highlight columns - Use the Toggle highlight columns (toggle_highlight_columns) command (bound to shift+f11 in flow mode) to enable a background dim effect at the configured column positions. The columns to highlight are configured via the highlight_columns configuration option.

• Smart insert & delete - Brace pairs like (), [], {} and "" are now handled intelligently like in most code editors. Also, leading whitespace is now intelligently deleted in indent_size steps.

• Format on save toggle - Format on save can now be toggled for the current buffer with the Toggle format on save command (toggle_format_on_save).

• Git support - The status bar now shows a summary of the project's git status include current branch, number of changed files and number of unpushed/unpulled/stashed commits. Also, Flow now respects all of git's file ignore machanisms. Diffs do not yet use git, but that is planned.

• Auto create parent directories - Flow will now automatically create parent directies if necessary when creating new files.

• Tilde expansion - The Open file and Save as commands now correctly support expanding ~ to the user's home directory.

• Improved panic handling - Flow now has much improved panic handling and will leave the terminal in a known good state for all panics and segfaults. Additionally, release and nightly builds are now available with full debug information that will produce fully detailed backtraces on crash. This should help catch and fix those rare but pesky crashes. Please submit issues! Additionally, there is a configuration option to automatically start and connect gdb to a crashing flow instance. (linux only)

• Terminal support - Flow now supports the kitty explicit text width protocol. This improves unicode character rendering on terminals that support it and superceeds wcwidth when available.

• Language server protocol - Flow language server protocol backend is now fully asynchronous. This means that slow language servers cannot cause pauses while editing.

• Language support

  • Added powershell syntax highlighting
  • Added hurl syntax highlighting
  • Added rpmspec syntax highlighting
  • Added protobuf syntax highlighting
  • Added uxntal syntax highlighting
  • Added C# formatter (csharpier)
  • Added PHP language server (intelephense)

• Themes

  • Themes can now be customized with the Customise theme command
  • Added the entire base16 theme collection
  • Added the hypersubatomic theme

• Home screen - The home screen text and list of commands can now be customized. Also, the current build version and build type are now shown in the bottom right corner of the home screen.

• tree-sitter - Queries are now biniary compiled and stored in the flow executable. This greatly improves load times and reduces binary size. Also, incremental tree-sitter parsing is now checked for parsing errors and will fallback to a full re-parse if errors occur.

• Integer arguments - Flow now supports integer arguments to many commands similar to emacs and vim. Related bindings have been added to Flow, Emacs, Vim and Helix modes. Pending integer arguments are shown in the status bar.

• Vim mode improvements - Insert mode now produces automic undo steps, much more like Vim. Many vim mode bindings have been improved to more closely match Vim in their behaviour. Visual line mode was added.

• Helix mode improvements - Many helix mode bindings have been improved to more closely match Helix in their behaviour.

• New keybindings

  • Flow mode home/end now work in palettes ctrl+shift+F5 => reload file

  • Vim mode ctrl-c => exit insert mode :e! => reload file gt => next tab gT => previous tab ctrl-v => enter visual block mode < => unindent > => indent * => find work at cursor J => join line dgg => cut to beginning of buffer dG => cut to end of buffer f => move/select forward to char F => move/select backwards to char t => move/select forward until char T => move/select backwards until char N => goto previous match cc => change whole line C => change to end of line D => delete to end of line cw => change word right cb => change word left zz => scroll view to center w => [VISUAL] select word right (vim) W => [VISUAL] select word right e => [VISUAL] select to end of word right (vim) b => [VISUAL] select word left (vim) B => [VISUAL] select word left gg => [VISUAL] select to beginning of buffer G => [VISUAL] select to end of buffer c => [VISUAL] change word right C => [VISUAL] change to end of line D => [VISUAL] delete to end of line

• New & updated commands

  • copy_file_name => [NEW] Copy the current buffer file name (and optionally line number) to the clipboard.
  • reload_file => [NEW] Reload the current file from disk (mainting undo).
  • find_file => [NEW] Alias for open_recent.
  • save_file_with_formatting => [NEW] Format and save the current file. Independant of the current value of enable_format_on_save.
  • save_file_without_formatting => [NEW] Save the current file without first formatting it. Independant of the current value of enable_format_on_save.
  • open_file => [UPDATED] Open file will now detect if the current selection contains a valid file path, including optional line number. If it does, it will be opened immediately without first prompting.
  • join_next_line => [UPDATED] Join next line will now collapse whitespace.
  • shell_execute_stream_output => [UPDATED] Will now follow output tail if cursor is at buffer end.

• Command line improvements

  • --new-file => Create a new file when starting Flow.
  • --scratch => Create a new scratch (ephemeral) buffer when starting Flow.
  • --exec => You can now pass string arguments to commands by separating them from the command name with a colon.

• UI improvements - Many minor usability and visual UI improvments

  • The results pane now closes if Find in files mode is cancelled
  • The clock widget now supports multiple digit styles
  • Status bar widgets can support parameters for width or style depending on the widget
  • Scrollbars and file icons can be enabled/disabled via configuration options
  • Inline diagnostics (and gutter symbols) can now be toggled with the Toggle display of diagnostics inline command
  • Line numbers can now be displayed in various styles (toggled via middle click and/or config)

Fixes:

• Add legacy input encoding compatible undo keybinding in emacs mode
• Allow .cmd along with .exe for Windows executables
• Fixed broken shifted keybinds for Helix mode
• Fix palette crashing when its items's length is exceeded
• Fix restoring of last_find_query from editor state
• Fix make keybind module respect command.suppressed_errors list
• Allow font names longer than 31 characters in win32
• Fix panic on extra long plane names
• Don't stop unindenting on blank or full unindented lines
• Make sure to show_home if no files are opened via command line
• Add workaround for LSPs sending junk null messages (omnisharp)
• Don't truncate scratch buffer names in tabs and terminal title
• Prevent unexpected message errors on missing LSP binary
• Replace std.unicode.utf8Decode with safe function that cannot panic on invalid UTF-8 input
• nudge_delete should handle cursor moving to same line as delete
• Remove multithreaded buffer access in background async differ
• Remove multithreaded buffer access in project_manager
• Word/line wise dragging should keep the original word/line selected
• Remove prefix from paths in ripgrep results
• Use iso date format for default date instert keybind
• Workaround broken dir.statFile on WSL1
• Left an right movements jump to selection boundary
• Prefer targetSelectionRange over targeRange if both are provided by LSP
• Fix flicker: home screen should not load if we have a file to open
• Update thespian to fix subprocess file descriptor race
• Force ripgrep to never try search stdin
• Bracketed paste should check for ctrl+j and insert \n
• Render control codes in mini buffer input with unicode control code symbols
• Proactive close subprocesses on early exit in shell module
• Fix paste in goto mode
• Don't match against legacy unshifted keys when we have extended input text
• Remove blocking project manager call on startup
• Never double free LSP init queue
• Remove arbitrary limit to command buffer size
• Remove ctrl+p command palette binding
• Stop after removing widget in Widget.remove (fixes ReleaseFast crash)
• Fix potention dangling pointer in mainview on view list realloc
• MRU position should not override line numbers on command line
• Don't restore editor view rows and cols
• Prevent task palette from being too short to show palette label
• Refresh hover on tab changes