0.3.0
Fixes
Candidate window reversal
See #27.
Jumping to newlines with at-full style
See #5.
Stop at-full style from shifting text sometimes
See #5.
Fix at-full interaction with tabs
When at a tab, visualize it using tab-width spaces.
See #43.
Fix overlay issue when the same buffer is in two windows
See #47 and http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20607.
Quote punctuation chars
See #63.
Update screenshot for avy-goto-char in README.md
Use C-: as the new suggested binding instead of the pi char.
See #64.
New Features
avy-goto-line can now break into goto-line
Just enter a digit and you’ll be transferred into goto-line prompt
with that digit already entered. This means that you can just bind
M-g g to avy-goto-line without losing anything.
See #29.
avy-goto-line now works with all kinds of overlay styles
Any of the following do something different now:
(setq avy-styles-alist
'((avy-goto-line . post)))
(setq avy-styles-alist
'((avy-goto-line . at)))
(setq avy-styles-alist
'((avy-goto-line . at-full)))
(setq avy-styles-alist
'((avy-goto-line . pre)))See #17.
New defcustom avy-case-fold-search
Non-nil when searches should ignore case, so e.g. avy-goto-char “b”
will match both “b” and “B”. On by default. Use this to turn off this
behavior:
(setq avy-case-fold-search nil)See #34.
New command avy-goto-word-or-subword-1
Enter one char, and select a visible word or subword that starts with
it, depending on subword-mode. Move the point there.
See #33.
avy-move-line should remove empty line after original one is moved
See #40.
avy-move-line now takes a prefix arg
Use e.g. M-3 before avy-move-line to move 3 lines at once.
Most commands can be used non-interactively
Example:
(defun avy-goto-lp ()
(interactive)
(avy-goto-char ?\())This command only goes to the “(” character. This is actually very similar to =lispy-ace-paren=, except the implementation is only one line.
See #44.
(almost) all defcustoms are explained on the wiki
Allow all operations to work across frames
You have to customize avy-all-windows for this. By default, it’s set
to work on all windows on the current frame.
To make it work only on the current window, use:
(setq avy-all-windows nil)To make it work on all frames, use:
(setq avy-all-windows 'all-frames)New command avy-goto-char-in-line
This is avy-goto-char reduced only to the current line. Few
candidates means very short decision chars path.
See #49.
New overlay style de-bruijn
How to use it:
(setq avy-style 'de-bruijn)What it does: when your leading chars are clumped up together, it’s
impossible to overlay the decision path without shifting the buffer
text a bit. For example, with the word “buffer”, you avy-goto-char “b”, and:
- the path for the first “f” is “aj”
- the path for the second “f” is “ak”
It’s not possible to overlay 4 characters over “ff” in “buffer”. But
to with de-bruijn style, which results in the path being “aj” and
“jk”. It’s possible to overlay “ajk” just fine.
Pros and cons of de-bruijn over other styles:
- a pro is that it’s possible to display the full decision path for clumped up chars, which is truncated for other styles
- a con is that the decision path is of the same length (e.g. 2 or 3) for all candidates, while with other styles it’s possible to have a few candidets with a shorter path.
New defcustom avy-ignored-modes
This is meant for visual modes like doc-view-mode or image-mode
that can have a huge number of chars in a single window. Which results
in a huge number of candidates even in other windows.
Current setting:
(setq avy-ignored-modes '(image-mode doc-view-mode pdf-view-mode))See #57.
New tutorial on writing custom commands
See the the custom-commands wiki page and #55.
New face setup
New variable avy-lead-faces will determine the faces used to color
the current decision depth you’re in. For example, if to select a
particular candidate you need to press “abc”:
- “a” will be highlighted with a face that corresponds to depth 3
- “b” will be highlighted with a face that corresponds to depth 2
- “c” will be highlighted with a face that corresponds to depth 1
But if another candidate needs “ef”:
- “e” will be highlighted with a face that corresponds to depth 2
- “f” will be highlighted with a face that corresponds to depth 1
See #53.
New variable avy-translate-char-function
You can use this, for example, to interpret one character as another in avy-keys.
Example:
(setq avy-translate-char-function
(lambda (c) (if (= c 32) ?a c)))This will translate SPC (32) into a. So you can press either a or SPC to mean “a”.
avy-isearch works for different styles
See #61.
Switch the default style from pre to at-full
I’ve come to like at-full more than pre over time. The difference
is that pre hides no chars in your buffer, while at-full doesn’t
shift text.
Use this to restore the previous default behavior:
(setq avy-style 'pre)0.4.0
Fixes
avy-goto-char-timer obeys avy-styles-alist
See #67.
Add de-bruijn to the defcustom of avy-styles-alist
See #73.
Respect the current input method for target chars
See #76.
avy-goto-subword-0 shouldn’t offer invisible chars
See #90.
Better case-fold-search handling
See #87.
Add misc punctuation to subword commands
See #93.
Add padding for wide-width chars (ex. Japanese and Chinese)
See #96.
avy-goto-line
Push mark for numeric line
See #74.
Allow numeric prefix arg
The old behavior remains for ARG 1 or 4. For all other ARG, simply go to that line. See #86.
Work for visual-line-mode
See #91.
Don’t error on end of buffer
See #91.
Obey avy-background
See #94.
Fix for narrowed regions
Don’t modify avy-action
See #124.
avy-goto-char-timer
May read as many chars as you want
See #97.
Highlight matches while reading chars
See #98.
Highlight depending on avy-all-windows
See #104.
Make faster for org-mode
See #100.
Add case fold search
See #128.
avy-copy-region
Keep the same selectors for the second pass
Copy/move to initial window
See #131.
Search only in the visible region
Fix jumping to the last char of a folded Org outline
See #108.
Fix for both org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode
See #110.
Beep when there are no matches
See #111.
Simplify overlay code
Most functions reuse avy--overlay now.
Fix de-bruijn “no catch for tag”
See #116.
Fix overlays at point-max
See #125.
Improve case-fold-search condition
See #126.
Don’t shorten selector string for visual-line-mode and bolp
See #129.
Fix interaction with goto-address-mode
New Features
Allow non-printing keys in avy-keys
Now you can set avy-keys also to the arrow keys and page up/down, e.g.
(setq avy-keys '(left right up down prior next))and those will be displayed as ▲, ▼, ◀, ▶, △, ▽ in the overlays. The
display is controlled by the variable avy-key-to-char-alist.
See #77.
Allow to switch action midway from goto to kill/mark/copy
For example, suppose you have:
(global-set-key (kbd "M-t") 'avy-goto-word-1)- To jump to a certain word starting with “w” (e.g. first one on
screen):
M-t w a - To copy the word instead of jumping to it:
M-t w na. - To mark the word after jumping to it:
M-t w ma. - To kill the word after jumping to it:
M-t w xa.
You can customize avy-dispatch-alist to modify these actions.
See #78.
New command avy-pop-mark
Goes back to the last location of push-mark:
- has its own history,
- handles multiple frames.
New commands avy-goto-line-above and avy-goto-line-below
See #106.
New defcustom avy-line-insert-style
Allows to modify the behavior of avy-copy-line, avy-move-line, and avy-copy-region.
See #117.
New defcustom avy-all-windows-alt
Allows to customize the behavior of universal-argument modifying
avy-all-windows.
See #118.
New defcustom avy-subword-extra-word-chars
Allows to customize the behavior of avy-goto-subword-0 and
avy-goto-subword-1 by adding extra chars that should match as word
constituents.
See #116.