A big shout out to all the contributors! We had 46 contributors in this release.
Helix has popped up in [Scoop, FreeBSD Ports and Gentu GURU](https://repology.org/project/helix/versions)!
The following is a quick rundown of the larger changes, there were many more
(check the git history for more details).
Breaking changes:
- A couple of keymaps moved to resolve a few conflicting keybinds.
- Documentation popups were moved from `K` to `space+k`
-`K` is now `keep_selections` which filters selections to only keeps ones matching the regex
-`keep_primary_selection` moved from `space+space` to `,`
-`Alt-,` is now `remove_primary_selection` which keeps all selections except the primary one
- Opening files in a split moved from `C-h` to `C-s`
- Some configuration options moved from a `[terminal]` section to `[editor]`. [Consult the documentation for more information.](https://docs.helix-editor.com/configuration.html).
Features:
- LSP compatibility greatly improved for some implementations (Julia, Python, Typescript)
- Autocompletion! Completion now triggers automatically after a set idle timeout
- Completion documentation is now displayed next to the popup (#691)
- Treesitter textobjects (select a function via `mf`, class via `mc`) (#728)
- Global search across entire workspace `space+/` (#651)
- Relative line number support (#485)
- Prompts now store a history (72cf86e)
-`:vsplit` and `:hsplit` commands (#639)
-`C-w h/j/k/l` can now be used to navigate between splits (#860)
-`C-j` and `C-k` are now alternative keybindings to `C-n` and `C-p` in the UI (#876)
- Selection rotation via `(` and `)` ([66a90130](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/66a90130a5f99d769e9f6034025297f78ecaa3ec))
- Selection contents rotation via `Alt-(` and `Alt-)` ([02cba2a](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/02cba2a7f403f48eccb18100fb751f7b42373dba))
- File pickers (including goto) now provide a preview! ([#534](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/534))
- Injection query support. Rust macro calls and embedded languages are now properly highlighted ([#430](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/430))
- Formatting is now asynchronous, and the async job infrastructure has been improved ([#285](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/285))
- Grammars are now compiled as separate shared libraries and loaded on-demand at runtime ([#432](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/432))
- Code action support ([#478](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/478))
- Mouse support ([#509](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/509), [#548](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/548))
- Native Windows clipboard support ([#373](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/373))
- Themes can now use color palettes ([#393](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/393))
- Indentation is now automatically detected from file heuristics. ([#245](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/245))
- Support for other line endings (CRLF). Significantly improved Windows support. ([#224](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/224))
- Encodings other than UTF-8 are now supported! ([#228](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/228))
- Key bindings can now be configured via a `config.toml` file ([#268](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/268))
- Theme can now be configured and changed at runtime ([please feel free to contribute more themes!](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/tree/master/runtime/themes)) ([#267](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/267))
- System clipboard yank/paste is now supported! ([#310](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/310))
- Surround commands were implemented ([#320](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/320))
Features:
- File picker can now be repeatedly filtered ([#232](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/232))
- LSP progress is now received and rendered as a spinner ([#234](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/234))
- Current line number can now be themed ([#260](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/260))
- Arrow keys & home/end now work in insert mode ([#305](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/305))
- Cursors and selections can now be themed ([#325](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/325))
- Language servers are now gracefully shut down before `hx` exits ([#287](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/287))
- The IME popup is now correctly positioned ([#273](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/273))
- A bunch of bugs regarding `o`/`O` behavior ([#281](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/281))
-`~` expansion now works in file completion ([#284](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/284))
- Several UI related overflow crashes ([#318](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/318))
- Fix a test failure occuring only on `test --release` ([4f108ab1](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/4f108ab1b2197809506bd7305ad903a3525eabfa))
- Prompts now support unicode input ([#295](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/295))
- Completion documentation no longer overlaps the popup ([#322](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/322))
- Fix a crash when trying to select `^` ([9c534614](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/9c53461429a3e72e3b1fb87d7ca490e168d7dee2))
- Prompt completions are now paginated ([39dc09e6](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/39dc09e6c4172299bc79de4c1c52288d3f624bd7))
- Goto did not work on Windows ([503ca112](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/commit/503ca112ae57ebdf3ea323baf8940346204b46d2))
# 0.2.1
Includes a fix where wq/wqa could exit before file saving completed.