Helix 23.05

23.05 is a smaller release focusing on fixes. There were 88 contributors in this release. Thank you all!

Features:

• Add a config option to exclude declaration from LSP references request (#6886)
• Enable injecting languages based on their file extension and shebang (#3970)
• Sort the buffer picker by most recent access (#2980)
• Perform syntax highlighting in the picker asynchronously (#7028)

Commands:

• :update is now aliased as :u (#6835)
• Add extend_to_first_nonwhitespace which acts the same as goto_first_nonwhitespace but always extends (#6837)
• Add :clear-register for clearing the given register or all registers (#5695)
• Add :write-buffer-close and :write-buffer-close! (#6947)

Fixes:

• Normalize LSP workspace paths (#6517)
• Robustly handle invalid LSP ranges (#6512)
• Fix line number display for LSP goto pickers (#6559)
• Fix toggling of soft-wrap.enable option (#6656, 58e457a, #6742)
• Handle workspace/configuration requests from stopped language servers (#6693)
• Fix possible crash from opening the jumplist picker (#6672)
• Fix theme preview returning to current theme on line and word deletions (#6694)
• Re-run crate build scripts on changes to revision and grammar repositories (#6743)
• Fix crash on opening from suspended state (#6764)
• Fix unwrap bug in DAP (#6786)
• Always build tree-sitter parsers with C++14 and C11 (#6792, #6834, #6845)
• Exit with a non-zero statuscode when tree-sitter parser builds fail (#6795)
• Flip symbol range in LSP goto commands (#6794)
• Fix runtime toggling of the mouse option (#6675)
• Fix panic in inlay hint computation when view anchor is out of bounds (#6883)
• Significantly improve performance of git discovery on slow file systems (#6890)
• Downgrade gix log level to info (#6915)
• Conserve BOM and properly support saving UTF16 files (#6497)
• Correctly handle completion re-request (#6594)
• Fix offset encoding in LSP didChange notifications (#6921)
• Change gix logging level to info (#6915)
• Improve error message when writes fail because parent directories do not exist (#7014)
• Replace DAP variables popup instead of pushing more popups (#7034)
• Disable tree-sitter for files after parsing for 500ms (#7028)
• Fix crash when deleting with multiple cursors (#6024)
• Fix selection sliding when deleting forwards in append mode (#6024)
• Fix completion on paths containing spaces (#6779)

Themes:

• Style inlay hints in dracula theme (#6515)
• Style inlay hints in onedark theme (#6503)
• Style inlay hints and the soft-wrap indicator in varua (#6568, #6589)
• Style inlay hints in emacs theme (#6569)
• Update base16_transparent and dark_high_contrast themes (#6577)
• Style inlay hints for mellow and rasmus themes (#6583)
• Dim pane divider for base16_transparent theme (#6534)
• Style inlay hints in zenburn theme (#6593)
• Style inlay hints in boo_berry theme (#6625)
• Add ferra theme (#6619, #6776)
• Style inlay hints in nightfox theme (#6655)
• Fix ayu theme family markup code block background (#6538)
• Improve whitespace and search match colors in rose_pine theme (#6679)
• Highlight selected items in base16_transparent theme (#6716)
• Adjust everforest to resemble original more closely (#5866)
• Refactor dracula theme (#6552, #6767, #6855, #6987)
• Style inlay hints in darcula theme (#6732)
• Style inlay hints in kanagawa theme (#6773)
• Improve ayu_dark theme (#6622)
• Refactor noctis theme multiple cursor highlighting (96720e7)
• Refactor noctis theme whitespace rendering and indent guides (f2ccc03)
• Add amberwood theme (#6924)
• Update nightfox theme (#7061)

Language support:

• R language server: use the --no-echo flag to silence output (#6570)
• Recognize CUDA files as C++ (#6521)
• Add support for Hurl (#6450)
• Add textobject queries for Julia (#6588)
• Update Ruby highlight queries (#6587)
• Add xsd to XML file-types (#6631)
• Support Robot Framework (#6611)
• Update Gleam tree-sitter parser (#6641)
• Update git-commit tree-sitter parser (#6692)
• Update Haskell tree-sitter parser (#6317)
• Add injection queries for Haskell quasiquotes (#6474)
• Highlight C/C++ escape sequences (#6724)
• Support Markdoc (#6432)
• Support OpenCL (#6473)
• Support DTD (#6644)
• Fix constant highlighting in Python queries (#6751)
• Support Just (#6453)
• Fix Go locals query for var_spec identifiers (#6763)
• Update Markdown tree-sitter parser (#6785)
• Fix Haskell workspace root for cabal projects (#6828)
• Avoid extra indentation in Go switches (#6817)
• Fix Go workspace roots (#6884)
• Set PerlNavigator as the default Perl language server (#6860)
• Highlight more sqlx macros in Rust (#6793)
• Switch Odin tree-sitter grammar (#6766)
• Recognize poetry.lock as TOML (#6928)
• Recognize Jupyter notebooks as JSON (#6927)
• Add language server configuration for Crystal (#6948)
• Add build.gradle.kts to Java and Scala roots (#6970)
• Recognize sty and cls files as latex (#6986)
• Update Dockerfile tree-sitter grammar (#6895)
• Add comment injections for Odin (#7027)
• Recognize gml as XML (#7055)
• Recognize geojson as JSON (#7054)

Packaging:

• Update the Nix flake dependencies, remove a deprecated option (#6546)
• Fix and re-enable aarch64-macos release binary builds (#6504)
• The git dependency on tree-sitter has been replaced with a regular crates.io dependency (#6608)