vis

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...

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 mappi...

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](https://www.brain-dump.org/blog/vis-...

• 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 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 p...