Focus 0.3.5

• New features:
  • New option: insert_final_newline_on_save. Set to true to auto-add missing final newlines to saved files.
  • New command: copy_current_line_info. Copies a string <current-file-path>:<line> to clipboard. Useful for setting breakpoints.
  • Basic HLSL highlighting (thanks @Roman-Skabin for many improvements)
  • Basic JSON highlighting (thanks @simonvallz)
  • Rust highlighting
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the Jai code samples highlighting in build output in some cases
  • Fixed build output highlighting glitch when using the clear build output option
  • Fixed a crash in some cases when selecting all occurrences with the search bar open
  • Fixed a massive slowdown on some systems due to problematic OpenGL drivers
  • Fixed buffer duplication when jumping to build errors on Windows
  • Fixed editor freeze on large workspace reloads
  • Fixed wrong local search results after stripping trailing whitespace in some cases
• Other changes:
  • Made the fuzzy search in the command dialog more intuitive
  • CRLF is now stripped from build output before displaying

Focus 0.3.4-3

• Build system bug fixes and improvements:
  • Fixed a crash when trying to jump to error in a file we can't open
  • Fixed build output parsing in some situations
  • Added relative build error path support (relative to the build_working_dir of the build command)
  • Improved error messages

Focus 0.3.4-1

Bug fixes:

• fix a crash when auto-indenting C/C++ code

Focus 0.3.4

• New features:
  • Jumping to build errors is now supported. See the default config for examples and more information (thanks @jlami for the initial implementation)
    • Use the new commands go_to_next_build_error (F8 by default) and go_to_previous_build_error (Shift-F8 by default)
    • Double-clicking the file name in the build output will also jump to the error location (provided it matched the error regex)
    • You can add Ctrl to your key combo or double-click to open on the side, as usual (when the default keybinds are used)
  • Closing an editor will now remove the corresponding file from the open files list (only if it's not modified)
  • New Handmade Hero theme (thanks @Sokus)
  • Basic JS highlighting (thanks @simonvallz)
  • It is now possible to use variables in build and run commands: %FILE%, %FILE_DIR%, %FILE_NAME%, %FILE_NAME_NO_EXTENSION%, %BUILD_WORKING_DIR%, %RUN_WORKING_DIR% (see more information in the default config)
  • New options: window_width, window_height, window_x, window_y. Can be used to configure the initial size of the editor window.
  • Focus now allows auto loading projects at startup in one of the following ways:
    • By passing a project name as a parameter: focus -project "Project Name" or focus -project path/to/project.focus-config.
    • By passing in a directory path which contains a file named .focus-config. This file will be loaded as a Focus project.
    • By launching Focus from a directory containing a file named .focus-config.
• Bug fixes:
  • C highlighting now supports identifiers which start with a UTF8 letter
• Other changes:
  • Column number shown in the footer will now count the number of characters, not the visual offset (previously it would take tab size into account)
  • Configs will be migrated to version [3]. New settings, colors and keybinds will be automatically added.
  • C highlighting has been slightly improved

Focus 0.3.3

• New features:
  • macOS: Drag files into the window to open them.
  • C/C++ highlighter will now accept most common unicode letter characters in identifiers
  • Added highlighting for the Uxntal language (thanks @LainLayer)
  • C# highlighting: support nested string interpolation (thanks @audV)
  • New option: show_selected_text_length. Set to true to display the number of selected chars (and bytes) in the footer (thanks @CELLTH)
  • New command: open_another_editor_instance. Defaults to Ctrl-Shift-Alt-N. Opens a new editor instance as a subprocess (thanks @LainLayer)
  • In Jai, #string literals will now support highlighting text. E.g. #string STR_PYTHON will highlight the contents as python. The name needs to end with the desired language name. The string block can have a special background color (called region_heredoc in the config)
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug with cursor positioning when using the align_cursors action through the command dialog
  • Fixed a visual glitch when attempting to draw tabs as characters in a new buffer name
  • After switching to a new project the Navigate to File dialog should no longer persist paths from the previous project
  • Fixed a crash when opening the global search widget immediately after switching projects
  • Fixed incorrect cursor positioning when redoing with multiple cursors in some cases
• Other changes:
  • Improved the scanning speed by ignoring large binary files quicker
  • Windows: improved the startup times by avoiding the use of heavy Win32 API calls
  • It is now possible to select all occurrences of the selected text while the search bar is open
  • Build commands will now appear in the command palette. There's no need to assign each command a key binding any more.

Focus 0.3.2

• New features:
  • New build option: clear_build_output_before_running. Set to true to clear the build output window every time a command is run.
  • New option: disable_viewport_chasing_cursor_near_the_edge. Set to true to prevent the viewport from smoothly scrolling to the new cursor position when it moves near the edge by a small amount.
  • macOS: Opt is now allowed in keybinds rather than Alt.
  • macOS: colored title bars are now used by default
• Bug fixes:
  • macOS: added NSHighResolutionCapable to Info.plist which should fix blurry rendering when installing Focus via the .dmg package.
  • macOS: keyboard shortcuts should now work correctly on non-QWERTY layouts (#29)
    • NOTE: key composition still does not work correctly, this fix is only about the base keyboard layout being respected
  • Fixed a crash when attempting to override key mappings in a project config
  • Fixed the double shift search action not registering on Linux consistently
  • It shouldn't now be allowed to switch projects while a build command is running, to prevent freezing
  • Go-to-line now works when you press enter to jump to an already entered line number
• Other changes:
  • macOS: Installing the editor from the .dmg package will register it as a handler for text files. This means that:
    1. you will see Focus as an entry in the "Open With" list in the context menu for text files in Finder
    2. you can use Focus to open files from the terminal by running open -a Focus file
  • macOS: Some default keyboard shortcuts were changed to remove conflicts with system shortcuts.
  • macOS: The oldest OS that can launch Focus is now macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
  • Continuous scroll actions such as scroll_viewport_up, scroll_viewport_down etc. now should work with multipart combos.
  • Cursor positioning when undoing/redoing has been improved. You should now be able to use undo/redo to jump to the position of the last edit without actually applying it.

Focus 0.3.1

• New features:
  • New options: save_current_buffer_on_build and save_all_file_backed_buffers_on_build. Enable to auto-save files before running build commands (thanks @jlami)
  • Zig highlighting
• Bug fixes:
  • Previewing themes will now change window border color as well as it should (thanks @jmpstar)
  • Regex search should no longer crash the editor on certain inputs
  • Close current editor when animations are disabled should now focus the remaining editor
  • Binary files should now be auto-ignored again
  • Fixed a memcpy-related memory corruption bug which manifested in some rare Linux distros
• Other changes:
  • Various theme improvements (thanks @jmpstar, @leonader, @maxamundsen)
  • Crash reports now print stack traces in release mode where possible (thanks @Sanian-Creations)
  • Upgraded to Jai 0.1.83+ (thanks @valignatev)
  • C highlighting improvements
  • Linux: the editor now uses libxcb to interact with an X11 server by default. The old X11 backend (Xlib) is still around and can be activated by running the editor with FOCUS_LD_BACKEND=x11 set in the environment
    • NOTE: the xcb backend is currently missing drag-and-drop support. If that is important to you please use the old Xlib backend as described above.
  • Platform support enhancements for macOS:
    • the editor no longer consumes CPU when idle
    • implemented the refresh timer (2024, year of the blinking cursor)
    • smoother trackpad scrolling
    • the maximize_on_start option now actually maximizes the main window instead of making it full-screen

Focus 0.3.0

• New features:

  • An automatic config migration system. All configs will be bumped to version [2], with new things added or renamed where needed.
  • Windows 11+: New config option: colored_titlebar. Sets the color of the title bar to the background color (thanks @amasondev)
  • New option: hide_mouse_when_typing (currently Windows/Mac only). Set to true to hide the mouse cursor when entering text (thanks @amasondev)
  • New commands: add_cursors_to_line_ends (Alt-Shift-I) and add_cursors_to_line_starts (Alt-Shift-Ctrl-I)
  • New command: align_cursors (Alt-A). Can be used to align the indentation for multiple cursors (thanks @hfr4)
  • New command: show_default_config. Can be used to view the default editor config for your reference (readonly)
  • New command: select_all_occurrences. Used to create a cursor on each selection occurrence (thanks @hfr4)
  • New command: toggle_fullscreen. Defaults to F11 (thanks @ustance)
  • New command: close_project. Can be used to (surprise!) close the active project
  • New command: swap_selections. Can swap two selected pieces of text (thanks @hfr4)
  • New command: escape. Tries to close dialogs, remove additional cursors, etc. You can just bind it to Escape in [common] and forget.
  • New option: highlight_line_with_cursor (thanks @SentientCoffee)
  • New option: draw_indent_guides. Set to true to draw a vertical guide line at every indent level (determined by tab size)
  • New option: auto_surround_with_brackets_and_quotes to enable auto-surrounding (thanks @hfr4)
  • New option: scroll_beyond_last_line (defaults to true). Disable to prevent scrolling past the editor's last line
  • New option: show_cursors_off_screen (defaults to true). If enabled, displays a warning in the footer if there are cursors off screen (only when more than one is used)
  • New option: persist_local_search_results (defaults to false). If enabled, search highlights will persist even when the search bar is closed. Press escape to dismiss (you might need to bind the escape action for it to work). (thanks @amasondev)
  • Added support for regular expressions in file/project search
  • Added a built-in 'save file' dialog (it will be on by default). To use the system dialogs on Windows, use prefer_system_file_dialogs: true
  • Dragging with the middle mouse button will create cursors (thanks @hfr4)
  • Added an indicator showing if there are any cursors off screen (if you have more than one)
  • Mac: You can now set maximize_on_start in your global config to true, and Focus will launch in fullscreen.
  • New syntax highlighting:
    • Python
    • HTML/XML (thanks @arjenwitteveen)
    • Odin (thanks @SentientCoffee)
    • Yang (thanks @jmpstar)
    • Lua (thanks @SentientCoffee)
  • Numpad keys can now be used in key mappings.
    The editor now recognizes the following new key names:
    Numpad0 - Numpad9
    NumpadMultiply
    NumpadDivide
    NumpadAdd
    NumpadSubtract
    NumpadDecimal
    NumpadEnter
  • Scopes in Jai are now highlighted. See the default config for the new color options (region_scope_*)
  • Build system:
    • New config options:
      • build_panel_width_percent, build_panel_height_percent - how much space the build panel occupies. Both default to 50%.
      • build_panel_stays_in_one_place. Defaults to false. If disabled, then the panel will flip to the other side of the active pane.
    • Check an example build configuration in the example project or in the default config (use the show default config command)
    • Thanks to the Jai beta user Jakob for writing the first version of the build system
  • New code color: code_warning. Used to highlight things such as duplicate key binding etc.
  • New dialog: Switch Between Open Files (defaults to Ctrl-Tab)
  • Windows/Linux: Support horizontal scrolling with trackpads/mice with horizontal scroll wheels.

• Bug fixes:

  • Mac: Fixed intermittent crashing on launch
  • It should now be possible to scroll the viewport by dragging outside it in all cases (previously it wasn't always possible - see issue #101)
  • Duplicating a line near the end now duplicates a line as expected
  • Fixed a bug with multi-cursor copying/pasting when some of the cursors don't have a selection
  • Fixed a bug with multi-cursor range replace by typing
  • Fixed a bug with move_lines_up/down near EOF whilst using multi-cursor
  • Fixed visual bug where tabs would align to the wrong columns
  • Fix toggle_comment command when tabs are enabled (thanks @Sanian-Creations)
  • Linux: fixed selection while scrolling due to "stuck" START and END states of the mouse button presses.
  • Linux: Clipboard handling should become way faster on X11 because we let event loop to handle more requests before drawing.
  • Linux: fix drag-n-drop crash caused by calling Basic.free on the memory allocated with temp allocator
  • Fix for stuck keys when the editor loses window focus (such as alt-tabbing or moving to other workspaces on Linux)
  • Improved scrolling smoothness (thanks @Sanian-Creations)
  • Parent directories of files outside of project directories are no longer recursively watched for changes. The editor should no longer hang for a long time when opening a file inside a large directory.
  • Directories created within the project shouldn't get themselves any buffers any more
  • Newer user messages will stop dismissing older ones which have a longer lifetime
  • Fixed a crash when trying to rewind editor history after reloading workspace
  • Fixed a crash when searching with whole word match on
  • Aligned missing shortcuts on the welcome screen

• Other changes:

  • When the workspace is done scanning, the open file dialog input will no longer be cleared
  • Limited Windows 7 support (no dpi awareness)
  • Better word detection by commands that move cursors by word
  • Config highlighting has become smarter and hopefully more helpful
  • Improved CPU usage when selecting text by mouse
  • Tab characters are now only shown when they are within selection
  • Windows: better handling of Unicode input (thanks @ostef)
  • Fuzzy match improvements in dialogs

Focus 0.2.0

• BREAKING CHANGE: the default config is no longer used as a fallback for missing keymaps, so any keybinds you haven't listed explicitly in the global config won't be included. It's best to start with a fresh config if possible to ensure you have all the most recent options. In the future the plan is to have a config migration system which will add new options or rename/remove existing ones

• New features:

  • Line numbers can now be enabled (default shortcut is Alt-Shift-L). To enable permanently, use show_line_numbers: true in the config
  • Line wrap is now supported (use the toggle_line_wrap command - the default shortcut on Windows is Alt-Z). If you want line wrap to be on by default, use line_wrap_is_on_by_default: true. There is currently no way to enable line wrap for certain file types only, but that's coming later.
  • New command: toggle_block_comment (for the supported languages)
  • New command: autoindent_region (bound to Ctrl-Tab by default on Windows/Linux, Option-Tab on Mac). Works with the C-like languages we have syntax highlighting for. Should work similarly to Emacs.
  • New command: delete_current_file. Not bound to anything by default, but can be used from the commands dialog (thanks @SentientCoffee)
  • New command: save_as. Also not bound to any key combination by default (thanks @SentientCoffee)
  • New commands: move_to_previous_buffer, move_to_next_buffer. They work like normal editor history, but skip the cursor movements and jump right to the next buffer or layout change
  • New config option: cursor_blink_time_in_seconds (5 by default). Set to 0 if you don't want the cursors to blink at all.
  • It is now possible to paste whatever was copied with N cursors into another file as long as the number of cursors there is also N (thanks @hfr4)
  • Syntax highlighting for GLSL (thanks @SentientCoffee)
  • Syntax highlighting for Golang (thanks @OlyaIvanovs)
  • Linux: The Open Projects Directory command as well as shift-clicking files/directories in the "open file" dialogs (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+Shift+O, Ctrl+P) should now work.
    By default the editor will try to auto-detect the preferred file manager using the XDG utilities.
    In case the auto-detection fails you can manually set the commands to run via the explorer_command and explorer_reveal_command options in the "[[linux]]" section of the config file.
    Example:

        [[linux]]
        # '%s' is replaced with the path of the file/directory to open
        explorer_command:         konsole -e mc "%s"      # this command is used when opening a directory
        explorer_reveal_command:  nautilus --select "%s"  # this command is used when highlighting a specific file in a directory

• Bug fixes:

  • Focus will fall back to a slower hash function on CPUs which don't support AES instructions instead of crashing
  • When opening a file outside of workspace the editor should no longer scan its parent folder and its subfolders (but tell us if it still does)
  • Mac: Focus no longer collects window events when another window is active. This eliminates several bugs (Cmd+Tab spawning cursors, I-Beam cursor when using other apps) at the cost of no longer being able to vertically scroll unless Focus is active. For now.
  • Fixed a bug with the Navigate to file dialog being empty
  • Fixed a bug with global search not finding everything when case sensitive or whole word toggles are just turned on
  • Fixed several issues in the editor history
  • Linux: fixed a bug related to mouse cursor handling which caused slowdowns and cursor flickering on X11 (thanks @valignatev)
  • Linux: there's now a VERY basic save file dialog for new files (thanks @rexim)

• Other changes:

  • copy will now copy whole lines to clipboard if the config option copy_whole_line_without_selection is enabled in config
  • Delete-to-start/end-of-line commands now copy whatever was deleted
  • Added #ifdef/#ifndef highlighting to C/C++
  • Added #compile_time/#no_debug/#no_aoc highlighting to Jai
  • Multi-cursor line cuts will no longer include extra newlines
  • When adding cursors above/below it's now possible to easily remove the last added cursor by executing the opposite command (thanks @WWilliams741)
  • Added a notification about match case or match whole word toggles active when no search results found
  • When editor width is limited in settings, the non-editor part of the window will be colored using the background_dark color
  • Linux: The editor shoudn't use any CPU while idle.
  • Linux: timers are now supported. As a result some animations (such as the text cursor blinking) should now actually work as expected.
  • Linux: More robust and resilent mechanism to get user's locale and input method for X11 backend. Fix locale-related segfaults
  • Linux: Improve smooth scrolling performance.
  • Global search will now try to preserve search results and cursor position when searching using the same query
  • Windows: The editor window should open on the primary monitor by default

Lots of features

• Key chord support (thanks @arjenwitteveen): you can now bind a sequence of key combos to an action, e.g. Ctrl-A Ctrl-K <action_name>
• Case-sensitive and whole-word search toggles (use new commands toggle_case_sensitive & toggle_whole_word in the [search dialog] context). The default shortcuts are Alt+C/Alt+W on Windows/Linux and Cmd+Opt+C/Cmd+Opt+W on Mac. (Thanks @hfr4!)
• Windows/Mac: You can now shift+click files/folders in dialog boxes to reveal them in Explorer. (Finder on Mac)
• Windows/Mac: New keyboard shortcut command: open_entry_in_explorer. This will, like the previous item, open a file selected in a dialog box in Explorer/Finder. The default shortcut is Shift+Enter
• Mac: Keyboard shortcuts for editing text now match other applications even more by default
• Mac: The app's icon was brightened
• Basic C# syntax highlighing (thanks @audV)
• New shortcut to center viewport on cursor: center_viewport_on_cursor (thanks @onelivesleft)
• Basic editor history (thanks @onelivesleft). Use commands move_to_previous_editor_history/move_to_next_editor_history to go back to previous/next cursor position (Alt-Minus, Alt-Plus by default)
• Duplicating an editor on the side will now duplicate cursors and viewport position (thanks @hfr4)
• It's now possible to limit the max width of an editor (max_editor_width in settings)