What changed in Helix from 24 to 25

This is a patch release which lowers the GLIBC requirements of the release artifacts published to GitHub (#13983)

As always, a big thank you to all of the contributors! This release saw changes from 195 contributors.

Breaking changes:

• The parsing of the command line has been rewritten and now supports flags and expansions (#12527, #13018, 9574e55, 2d4c2a1, #13192, 67f1fe2, #13466, #13467, #13840)
  • Quoting and spaces are now handled differently. This can break existing keymaps which use typable commands, in particular :sh, :set-option or :toggle-option.
  • The :rsort command has been removed. Use the reverse flag instead: :sort --reverse

Features:

• Add a picker which explores directories (#11285, d4aed40)
• Allow cycling through multiple LSP Hover responses with A-n/A-p (#10122, 2367b20)
• Add support for incomplete LSP completions (5c1f3f8)
• Add support for EditorConfig (#13056, #13443)
• Add support for LSP document colors (#12308, d43de14, 47cdd23, ba54b6a, #13188)
• Support expansions in external formatter arguments (#13429)
• Switch out the highlighter for the tree-house crate (#12972, 09bc67a, a7c3a43, 3ceae88, 05ae617, 5a1dcc2, ebf96bd, #13644, b1f4717, 7410fe3, 633c5fb, 362e97e, #13828, 6fd1efd)
  • This fixes a number of highlighter bugs.
  • Locals like parameter highlights are now highlighted even when the definition is not in view.
  • Markdown is now injected into rust doc comments (/// and //!).
• Add support for the DAP startDebugging reverse request (#13403)

Commands:

• Add copy_between_registers for interactive copying between two registers (066e938)
• Add extend_to_file_{start,end}, select-mode variants of goto_file_{start,end} (#11767)
• Add :! alias for :sh and :| for :pipe (#13263)
• Add goto_column and extend_to_column (#13440)
• Add an --insensitive/-i flag to the :sort command (#13560)
• Add rotate_selections_first and rotate_selections_last (#13615)
• Add a --no-format flag for all :write commands (2f56091)
• Add a --skip-visible flag for :buffer-close-others and :buffer-close-others! (#5393)

Usability improvements:

• Replace current file using A-ret in pickers rather than loading it in the background (#12605)
• Set multiple selections when passing a file with multiple locations to hx (#12192)
• Add path completion for multiple cursors (#12550, c9dc940)
• Truncate long prompt lines with "…" (#12036, 9d6ea77, 0b9701e, d3fb8fc)
• Allow specifying languages in :lsp-stop and :lsp-restart (#12578, 3d7e273)
• Add m (nearest matching pair) to infobox popups for md and mr (#12650)
• Add a hint message in the statusline when using :sort on a single selection (#12585)
• Avoid wrapping around in goto_{next,prev}_diag (#12704)
• Support responses from multiple language servers for LSP goto-definition (and declaration, type definition and implementation) and goto-references (f7394d5, 1a821ac, d285a8a)
• Show formatter errors in :format (47f84d0)
• Show typable command docs in keybinding infobox popups when the command takes no arguments (e9c16b7)
• Add per-command titles to register selection infobox popups for select_register, insert_register and copy_between_registers (e0da129)
• Add container name column to the LSP symbol picker (#12930)
• Add a theme key for highlighting directories in completions and picker items (#12855, 7bebe0a)
• Add editor.trim-final-newlines and editor.trim-trailing-whitespace config options (aa20eb8)
• Warn when the configured theme is unusable because true-color is not available (#13058)
• Allow configuring [workspace-]diagnostic statusline element severities (#13288, b0528bb)
• Improve completion for shell commands (#12883, 532f241)
• Show the primary selection index in the selections statusline element when there are multiple selections (#12326)
• Use configured language server names when possible in --health output (#13573)
• Add a statusline element for indentation style (#13632)
• Set the working directory of language server commands to the workspace root (#13691)
• Avoid jumpiness in the picker preview for languages with non-default tab widths (#13761)
• Add a config option for limiting LSP inlay hint length (#13742)
• Improve heuristics used in the diff gutter (#13722)
• Allow moving a file with :move when its old path does not exist (#13748)
• Allow moving a file into a directory with :move (#13922)
• Show human-readable file sizes in the statusline message for file writes (#13627)
• Add diagnostic source to the diagnosics pickers (#13758)
• Show all active scopes under the cursor in :tree-sitter-highlight-name (4a85171)
• Auto-close the LSP code-actions popup (#13832)
• Add a configuration option for controlling atomic writes to disk (#13656)

Fixes:

• Fix panic from using search_selection_detect_word_boundaries (*) at the end of the file (#12611)
• Discard placeholder text for zero tabstop ${0:placeholder} (#12647)
• Fix panic in goto_file (gf) on file names with non-ASCII characters (#12673)
• Only accept unmodified characters in goto_word (gw) (f5f9f49, 0364521)
• Skip recording keys pressed by macros while recording a macro (#12733)
• Deny unknown fields in editor.smart-tab config (28047fe)
• Fix soft-wrap word boundary detection for Unicode combining accent characters (#12483)
• Fix clearing of infobox popups in select_register and insert_register commands (e882a75)
• Fix handling of stderr of DAP child processes (d0d1693)
• Cancel all pending requests when a DAP session terminates (26db541)
• Properly discard out-of-date diagnostics (313a647)
• Fix display of multiple language servers in hx --health (#12841)
• Respect editor.default-yank-register in :yank-joined (#12890)
• Escape percent character when pasting the history register into the picker (#12886)
• Render rulers before the cursor (2d3b75a)
• Avoid inserting final newlines in empty files (67879a1)
• Gracefully handle partial failure in multi-language-server requests (#13156, 14cab4b)
• Improve LSP progress message display in the statusline (#13180)
• Fix behavior of <esc> removing added indentation in documents with CRLF line endings (702a961) …

25.01.1 is a patch release focusing on fixing bugs and panics from changes in 25.01.

Usability improvements:

• Run external formatters from the document's directory (#12315)

Fixes:

• Fix blank buffer picker preview on doc with no views (917174e)
• Fix join_selections behavior on tabs (#12452)
• Fix recognition for color LSP completion hex codes for some language servers (#12501)
• Fix offsets to selections updated by open_below/open_above (o/O) in multi-cursor scenarios (#12465)
• Fix offsets to selections updated by insert_newline when trimming whitespace in multi-cursor scenarios (4bd17e5)
• Fix panic in path completion from resolving variables like ${HOME:-$HOME} (#12556)
• Prevent line comment continuation when using change_selection (c) on a line above a comment (#12575)

Themes:

• Update onelight (#12399)
• Add cursorline color to iceberg themes (#12404)
• Update special, ui.text.directory and ui.virtual.wrap in dark_plus (#12530)

New languages:

• CodeQL (#12470)
• Gren (#12525)

Updated languages and queries:

• Fix Teal LSP name (#12395)
• Highlight : in Rust as a delimiter (#12408)
• Update Swift highlights (#12409)
• Highlight JSX attributes as @attribute (#12416)
• Improve markdown heading highlights (#12417)
• Add comment tokens configuration for JSONC (b26903c)
• Highlight the never type ! as a type in Rust (#12485)
• Expand builtin function highlights for ECMA languages, Rust and Haskell (#12488)
• Recognize .clang-tidy as YAML (#12498)
• Update MATLAB grammar and indent queries (#12518)
• Recognize rockspec as Lua (#12516)
• Add /// to Dart comment tokens configuration (99d33c7)
• Update Solidity grammar and queries (#12457)
• Update Spade grammar and queries (#12583)
• Re-enable Hare fetching and building by default (#11507)

Packaging:

• --version now prints a leading zero for single-digit months, for example 25.01 (03f35af)
• Pin the Ubuntu GitHub Actions runners used for releases to ubuntu-22.04 (#12464)
• Produce a Debian package (.deb file) in the release GitHub Actions workflow (#12453)

As always, a big thank you to all of the contributors! This release saw changes from 171 contributors.

Breaking changes:

• The editor.lsp.display-messages key now controls messages sent with the LSP window/showMessage notification rather than progress messages. If you want to enable progress messages you should now enable the editor.lsp.display-progress-messages key instead. (#5535)

Features:

• Big refactor for Pickers (#9647, #11209, #11216, #11211, #11343, #11406)
  • Use a table layout and allow filtering by column
  • Reimplement global_search to allow changing the query dynamically
• Add an alternative "inline" display for LSP diagnostics (#6417, #11815)
• Support defining keybindings as macros (#4709)
• Continue line comments in o/O and on <ret> in insert mode (#10996, #12213, #12215)
• Allow configuring and switching clipboard providers at runtime (#10839, b855cd0, 467fad5, 191b0f0)
• Add support for path completion (#2608)
• Support bindings with the Super (Cmd/Win/Meta) modifier (#6592)
• Support rendering and jumping between tabstops in snippet completions (#9801)
• Allow theming directory completions (#12205, #12295)

Commands:

• Add commands to move within snake_case or camelCase words (#8147)
• Add search_selection_detect_word_boundaries (#12126)
  • This command takes the * key in normal and select mode, replacing search_selection which was moved to A-*.

Usability improvements:

• Add :edit and :e aliases for :open (#11186, #11196)
• Trim trailing newline from pipe command outputs when the input doesn't have a trailing newline (#11183, 4f63a46)
• Add :mv alias for :move (#11256)
• Return document display name instead of absolute path from the % special register (#11275)
• Track view position on a per-view instead of per-document basis (#10559)
• Improve scrolloff calculation to leave a gap in the middle (#11323)
• Show a popup for stderr printed by failed :sh commands (#11239)
• Add statusline errors when nothing is selected with s, K, A-K (#11370)
• Add .svn as a workspace root marker (#11429)
• Trim the end of :sh outputs (#11161)
• Show LSP window/showMessage messages in the statusline (#5535)
• Support finding workspace directories via .jj directories (#11685)
• Join single-line comments with join_selections (J) (#11742)
• Show anonymous syntax tree nodes in :tree-sitter-subtree (#11663, 38e8382)
• Save an undo checkpoint before paste in insert mode (#8121)
• Only break on ASCII spaces in :reflow (#12048)
• Add a default-yank-register config option (#11430)
• Show a statusline error for :format when a formatter is not available (#12183)
• Change to the home directory with :cd with no arguments (#12042)
• Change default comment token to # for unrecognized files (#12080, #12266, bae6a58)
• Trim all trailing whitespace on insert_newline (#12177)
• Change to the prior directory with :cd - (#12194)
• Allow parsing - (with no modifiers) as a keybinding (#12191)
• Improve opening statusline and error messages when opening duplicate files or directories (#12199)
• Trim trailing colons in paths passed on the argv (#9963)
• Show tree-sitter parser availability in hx --health <lang> (#12228)
• Show a preview block for colors in the LSP completion menu (#12299)
• Add infobox help for surround_add, surround_replace and surround_delete (#12262)

Fixes:

• Respect document indentation settings in format_selections (=) (#11169)
• Avoid switching the current document to normal mode during an LSP workspace/applyEdit operation (#11176)
• Fix off-by-one in LSP find_completion_range (#11266)
• Prefer file-system mtime to local system time for detecting external modifications (#11142, #11352, #11358, #11361)
• Fix writing of hardlinks (#11340)
• Prevent language servers from being automatically restarted when stopped with :lsp-stop (#11321)
• Stable-sort LSP text edits (#11357)
• Fix determination of current language layer in documents with nested language injections (#11365)
• Fix a panic from :moveing a file to a new extension which starts a language server (#11387)
• Fix a panic from duplicating the diff gutter (#11092)
• Keep cursor position when exactly replacing text (#5930)
• Fix a panic from jump_backward on a newly opened split (#11508)
• Fix a panic from language servers sending an unknown diagnostic severity (#11569)
• Fix a panic when drawing at the edge of the screen (#11737)
• Fix git repo detection on symlinks (#11732)
• Fix a panic from a language server sending an out-of-range active signature index in textDocument/signatureHelp (#11825)
• Fix a panic from using C-k in a prompt ending in a multi-byte character (#12237)
• Expand tildes in paths passed to :read (#12271)
• Respect per-language workspace-lsp-roots configuration when opening new documents (#12223)
• Consistently replace line-endings in paste/replace commands (c262fe4)
• Fix formatting in error statusline messages when inspecting variables in DAP (#12354)
• Fix invisible printing of headers in --health output on light terminals (#12355)
• Accept integers serialized as floats in the JSONRPC id field (#12376)

Themes:

• Bring kanagawa colors better in line with neovim version (#11187, #11270)
• Add ao (#11063)
• Update dark_plus (#11415)
• Add iceberg-light and iceberg-dark (#10674)
• Update everforest themes (#11459)
• Update gruvbox themes (#11477)
• Change primary selection cursor color for naysayer (#11617)
• Style picker column names in horizon-dark (#11649)
• Style picker column names in Darcula themes (#11649)
• Update diagnostics colors in snazzy (#11731)
• Update bogster themes (#11353)
• Highlight keyword.storage in onedark (#11802)
• Add ui.virtual.jump-label to serika-dark (#11911)
• Add adwaita-light (#10869)
• Add seoul256 themes (#11466)
• Add yo themes (#11703)
• Add eiffel (#11679)
• Add carbonfox (#11558)
• Set tags color in monokai themes (#11917)
• Improve readability of spacebones picker selection (#12064)
• Update modus themes (#11949)
• Use bold for statusline mode indicator in onedarker (#11958)
• Update hex themes, add a new hex theme (#10849)
• Add sunset (#12093)
• Add bufferline highlighting for flexoki themes (#12146) …