This is a great big release filled with changes from a 99 contributors. A big _thank you_ to you all!
As usual, the following is a summary of each of the changes since the last release.
For the full log, check out the [git log](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/compare/22.08.1..22.12).
Breaking changes:
- Remove readline-like navigation bindings from the default insert mode keymap ([e12690e](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/e12690e), [#3811](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3811), [#3827](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3827), [#3915](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3915), [#4088](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4088))
- Rename `append_to_line` as `insert_at_line_end` and `prepend_to_line` as `insert_at_line_start` ([#3753](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3753))
- Swap diagnostic picker and debug mode bindings in the space keymap ([#4229](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4229))
- Select newly inserted text on paste or from shell commands ([#4458](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4458), [#4608](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4608), [#4619](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4619), [#4824](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4824))
- Select newly inserted surrounding characters on `ms<char>` ([#4752](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4752))
- Exit select-mode after executing `replace_*` commands ([#4554](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4554))
- Exit select-mode after executing surround commands ([#4858](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4858))
- Support underline styles and colors ([#4061](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4061), [98c121c](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/98c121c))
- Inheritance for themes ([#3067](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3067), [#4096](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4096))
- Overhauled system for writing files and quiting ([#2267](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2267), [#4397](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4397))
- Autosave when terminal loses focus ([#3178](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3178))
- Use OSC52 as a fallback for the system clipboard ([#3220](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3220))
- Show git diffs in the gutter ([#3890](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3890), [#5012](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5012), [#4995](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4995))
- Add a logo ([dc1ec56](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/dc1ec56))
- `:lsp-restart` to restart the current document's language server ([#3435](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3435), [#3972](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3972))
- `join_selections_space` (`A-j`) which joins selections and selects the joining whitespace ([#3549](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3549))
- `:update` to write the current file if it is modified ([#4426](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4426))
- `:lsp-workspace-command` for picking LSP commands to execute ([#3140](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3140))
- `extend_prev_word_end` - the extend variant for `move_prev_word_end` ([7468fa2](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/7468fa2))
- `make_search_word_bounded` which adds regex word boundaries to the current search register value ([#4322](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4322))
- `:reload-all` - `:reload` for all open buffers ([#4663](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4663), [#4901](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4901))
- `goto_next_change` (`]g`), `goto_prev_change` (`[g`), `goto_first_change` (`[G`), `goto_last_change` (`]G`) textobjects for jumping between VCS changes ([#4650](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4650))
Usability improvements and fixes:
- Don't log 'LSP not defined' errors in the logfile ([1caba2d](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/1caba2d))
- Look for the external formatter program before invoking it ([#3670](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3670))
- Don't send LSP didOpen events for documents without URLs ([44b4479](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/44b4479))
- Fix off-by-one in `extend_line_above` command ([#3689](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3689))
- Use the original scroll offset when opening a split ([1acdfaa](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/1acdfaa))
- Handle auto-formatting failures and save the file anyway ([#3684](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3684))
- Ensure the cursor is in view after `:reflow` ([#3733](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3733))
- Add default rulers and reflow config for git commit messages ([#3738](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3738))
- Improve grammar fetching and building output ([#3773](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3773))
- Add a `text` language to language completion ([cc47d3f](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/cc47d3f))
- Improve error handling for `:set-language` ([e8add6f](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/e8add6f))
- Improve error handling for `:config-reload` ([#3668](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3668))
- Improve error handling when passing improper ranges to syntax highlighting ([#3826](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3826))
- Render `<code>` tags as raw markup in markdown ([#3425](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3425))
- Remove border around the LSP code-actions popup ([#3444](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3444))
- Canonicalize the path to the runtime directory ([#3794](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3794))
- Add a `themelint` xtask for linting themes ([#3234](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3234))
- Re-sort LSP diagnostics after applying transactions ([#3895](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3895), [#4319](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4319))
- Add a command-line flag to specify the log file ([#3807](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3807))
- Track source and tag information in LSP diagnostics ([#3898](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3898), [1df32c9](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/1df32c9))
- Fix theme returning to normal when exiting the `:theme` completion ([#3644](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3644))
- Improve error messages for invalid commands in the keymap ([#3931](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3931))
- Deduplicate regexs in `search_selection` command ([#3941](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3941))
- Split the finding of LSP root and config roots ([#3929](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3929))
- Ensure that the cursor is within view after auto-formatting ([#4047](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4047))
- Add pseudo-pending to commands with on-next-key callbacks ([#4062](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4062), [#4077](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4077))
- Add live preview to `:goto` ([#2982](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2982))
- Show regex compilation failure in a popup ([#3049](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3049))
- Add 'cycled to end' and 'no more matches' for search ([#3176](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3176), [#4101](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4101))
- Add extending behavior to tree-sitter textobjects ([#3266](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3266))
- Add `ui.gutter.selected` option for themes ([#3303](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3303))
- Make statusline mode names configurable ([#3311](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3311))
- Add a statusline element for total line count ([#3960](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3960))
- Add extending behavior to `goto_window_*` commands ([#3985](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3985))
- Fix a panic in signature help when the preview is too large ([#4030](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4030))
- Add command names to the command palette ([#4071](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4071), [#4223](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4223), [#4495](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4495))
- Find the LSP workspace root from the current document's path ([#3553](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3553))
- Add an option to skip indent-guide levels ([#3819](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3819), [2c36e33](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/2c36e33))
- Change focus to modified docs on quit ([#3872](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3872))
- Respond to `USR1` signal by reloading config ([#3952](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3952))
- Exit gracefully when the close operation fails ([#4081](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4081))
- Fix goto/view center mismatch ([#4135](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4135))
- Highlight the current file picker document on idle-timeout ([#3172](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3172), [a85e386](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/a85e386))
- Log failures to load tree-sitter grammars as errors ([#4315](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4315))
- Fix rendering of lines longer than 65,536 columns ([#4172](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4172))
- Skip searching `.git` in `global_search` ([#4334](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4334))
- Display tree-sitter scopes in a popup ([#4337](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4337))
- Fix deleting a word from the end of the buffer ([#4328](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4328))
- Pretty print the syntax tree in `:tree-sitter-subtree` ([#4295](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4295), [#4606](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4606))
- Allow specifying suffixes for file-type detection ([#2455](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/2455), [#4414](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4414))
- Improve sort scoring for LSP code-actions and completions ([#4134](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4134))
- Fix the handling of quotes within shellwords ([#4098](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4098))
- Fix `delete_word_backward` and `delete_word_forward` on newlines ([#4392](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4392))
- Fix 'no entry found for key' crash on `:write-all` ([#4384](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4384))
- Remove lowercase requirement for tree-sitter grammars ([#4346](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4346))
- Resolve LSP completion items on idle-timeout ([#4406](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4406), [#4797](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4797))
- Render diagnostics in the file picker preview ([#4324](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4324))
- Fix terminal freezing on `shell_insert_output` ([#4156](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4156))
- Allow use of the count in the repeat operator (`.`) ([#4450](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4450))
- Show the current theme name on `:theme` with no arguments ([#3740](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3740))
- Fix rendering in very large terminals ([#4318](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4318))
- Sort LSP preselected items to the top of the completion menu ([#4480](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4480))
- Trim braces and quotes from paths in goto-file ([#4370](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4370))
- Prevent automatic signature help outside of insert mode ([#4456](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4456))
- Fix freezes with external programs that process stdin and stdout concurrently ([#4180](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4180))
- Make `scroll` aware of tabs and wide characters ([#4519](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4519))
- Correctly handle escaping in `command_mode` completion ([#4316](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4316), [#4587](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4587), [#4632](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4632))
- Fix `delete_char_backward` for paired characters ([#4558](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4558))
- Fix crash from two windows editing the same document ([#4570](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4570))
- Fix pasting from the blackhole register ([#4497](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4497))
- Support LSP insertReplace completion items ([1312682](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/1312682))
- Dynamically resize the line number gutter width ([#3469](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3469))
- Fix crash for unknown completion item kinds ([#4658](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4658))
- Re-enable `format_selections` for single selection ranges ([d4f5cab](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/d4f5cab))
- Limit the number of in-progress tree-sitter query matches ([#4707](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4707), [#4830](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4830))
- Use the special `#` register with `increment`/`decrement` to change by range number ([#4418](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4418))
- Add a statusline element to show number of selected chars ([#4682](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4682))
- Add a statusline element showing global LSP diagnostic warning and error counts ([#4569](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4569))
- Add a scrollbar to popups ([#4449](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4449))
- Prefer shorter matches in fuzzy matcher scoring ([#4698](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4698))
- Use key-sequence format for command palette keybinds ([#4712](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4712))
- Remove prefix filtering from autocompletion menu ([#4578](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4578))
- Focus on the parent buffer when closing a split ([#4766](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4766))
- Handle language server termination ([#4797](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4797), [#4852](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4852))
- Allow `r`/`t`/`f` to work on tab characters ([#4817](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4817))
- Show a preview for scratch buffers in the buffer picker ([#3454](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3454))
- Set a limit of entries in the jumplist ([#4750](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4750))
- Re-use shell outputs when inserting or appending shell output ([#3465](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3465))
- Check LSP server provider capabilities ([#3554](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3554))
- Improve tree-sitter parsing performance on files with many language layers ([#4716](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4716))
- Move indentation to the next line when using `<ret>` on a line with only whitespace ([#4854](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4854))
- Remove selections for closed views from all documents ([#4888](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4888))
- Improve performance of the `:reload` command ([#4457](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4457))
- Properly handle media keys ([#4887](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4887))
- Support LSP diagnostic data field ([#4935](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4935))
- Handle C-i keycode as tab ([#4961](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4961))
- Fix view alignment for jumplist picker jumps ([#3743](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3743))
- Use OSC52 for tmux clipboard provider ([#5027](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5027))
- Switch to `openscad-lsp` for OpenScad ([#3750](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3750))
- Support Jsonnet ([#3748](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3748))
- Support Markdown ([#3499](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3499))
- Support Bass ([#3771](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3771))
- Set roots configuration for Elixir and HEEx ([#3917](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3917), [#3959](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3959))
- Support Purescript ([#4242](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4242))
- Set roots configuration for Julia ([#4361](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4361))
- Support D ([#4372](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4372))
- Increase default language server timeout for Julia ([#4575](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4575))
- Use ElixirLS for HEEx ([#4679](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4679))
- Support Bicep ([#4403](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4403))
- Switch to `nil` for Nix ([433ccef](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/433ccef))
- Support QML ([#4842](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4842))
- Enable auto-format for CSS ([#4987](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4987))
- Support CommonLisp ([4176769](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/4176769))
- Go ([#4906](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4906), [#4969](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4969), [#5010](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/5010))
- Filter relevant source files in the Nix flake ([#3657](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3657))
- Build a binary for `aarch64-linux` in the release CI ([038a91d](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/038a91d))
- Build an AppImage for `aarch64-linux` in the release CI ([b738031](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/b738031))
- Enable CI builds for `riscv64-linux` ([#3685](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3685))
- Support preview releases in CI ([0090a2d](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/0090a2d))
- Strip binaries built in CI ([#3780](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3780))
- Fix the development shell for the Nix Flake on `aarch64-darwin` ([#3810](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3810))
- Raise the MSRV and create an MSRV policy ([#3896](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3896), [#3913](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3913), [#3961](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3961))
- Fix Fish completions for `--config` and `--log` flags ([#3912](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3912))
- Use builtin filenames option in Bash completion ([#4648](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/4648))
# 22.08.1 (2022-09-01)
This is a patch release that fixes a panic caused by closing splits or buffers. ([#3633](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3633))