Version 0.18.0

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Evolve

• Prefer using 'mini.input' functionality (if module is enabled) to get user input asynchronously. Affected modules:

  • mini.ai
  • mini.align
  • mini.jump2d
  • mini.pick
  • mini.surround

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• Soft deprecate support for Neovim 0.9. It will be fully deprecated in next release.

mini.base16

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• Add new plugin integrations:
  • 'folke/snacks.nvim'
  • 'saghen/blink.cmp'

mini.clue

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• Allow mode arrays for clues and triggers for parity with modes parameter of vim.keymap.set. By @pkazmier, PR #2202.

mini.completion

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• Add support for executing completionItem.command in LSP completion.

mini.deps

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• Development of 'mini.deps' is frozen in favor of suggesting to use vim.pack. See 'mini.deps' README for more details.

mini.extra

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• Add pickers.manpages picker.

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• Update pickers.lsp to highlight (if 'mini.icons' is enabled) workspace symbols after prepended position. This makes easier to quickly locate the symbol data.

mini.files

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• Do not treat focus as lost if it has changed from the explorer during vim.ui.select() or vim.ui.input(). These functions are useful during text editing inside the explorer and are often reimplemented via a separate floating window and dedicated buffer (like in 'mini.pick').

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• Add LSP integration (on Neovim>=0.11), i.e. make some files system actions (create, delete, rename) LSP aware. The information is forwarded to all active LSP servers for them to perform additional actions (like update imports after renaming a file).

  This also adds config.options.lsp_timeout to control or disable LSP integration.

  By @TheLeoP, PR #2340.

mini.hipatterns

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• Add max_number option to gen_highlighter.hex_color() and compute_hex_color_group(). It controls how many different highlight groups these functions are allowed to create. The default is 10000, which is useful to reasonably prevent reaching the maximum number of allowed highlight groups (19999), like when there are too many hex colors to show.

mini.hues

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• Add new plugin integrations:
  • 'folke/snacks.nvim'
  • 'saghen/blink.cmp'

mini.input

• Introduction of a new module.

mini.jump

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• Make dot-repeat behave exactly as in clean Neovim, i.e. make it less interfere with regular jumping. This allows doing something like dte -> fx -> . to perform dte again and not dfx (which is the latest regular jumping state). By @abeldekat, PR #2284.

mini.misc

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• Update setup_termbg_sync() to use OSC 111 control sequence to reset terminal emulator's background color. This provides a more robust behavior across platforms (like tmux).

  The previous "reset by explicitly setting initial background color" behavior is available by setting the new opts.explicit_reset option to true.

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• Add safely() to execute a function reporting its possible error as warning. It can also postpone execution until certain condition (like event, fixed delay, etc.).

  It is intended to be a future replacement for MiniDeps.now() and MiniDeps.later().

mini.pairs

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• Update neighborhood patterns for default mappings to work better with multibyte characters. Their meaning is the same, just the form is adjusted to be more versatile.

mini.pick

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• Allow source.preview to directly set another buffer into picker's main window. The recommended way is still to adjust the provided buf_id buffer, but there is now a workaround if this is not reasonably possible.

• Allow opts.preview_item in ui_select to also return a dedicated data about preview. This preview interface for a general vim.ui.select implementation is added and documented in Neovim=0.12.3.

• Describe alternative move keys (<Down>, <Up>, <Home>) as "hard-coded but overridable" (instead of a previous not very precise "non-overridable") and show them in the info view.

• Update ui_select to wait until currently active picker is stopped before opening a new one. This behavior allows to call several vim.ui.select() in a row and is more aligned with how it is assumed to work.

• Update grep and grep_live pickers to allow method local option which describes a pattern matching method ('regex' or 'plain'). The grep_live picker also has custom <C-e> mapping to switch method.

• Allow non-streaming paste from system clipboard when a picker is active. It will insert text at caret similar to built-in paste action.

Refine

• Stop forcing redraw every config.delay.async milliseconds while the picker is active. It added visible CPU usage and code/test lines for its benefit (mostly to show "background" changes/notifications).

  One side effect of this is that previews with an asynchronous highlighting (like after vim.treesitter.start()) might require extra care. There are built-in several (but limited) number of explicit :redraw with config.delay.async milliseconds apart. If that is not enough, make sure to explicitly redraw when needed.

mini.sessions

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• Add restart() function that restarts Neovim>=0.12 while preserving current session.

mini.surround

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• Create Visual and Operator-pending mode mappings for find and find_left actions.

mini.test

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• Update expect.error and expect.no_error to not accept extra arguments for tested function. It will mostly work until the next 'mini.nvim' release, but not after that.

  Use them explicitly inside anonymous function: expect.error(f, "", 1, 2) -> expect.error(function() f(1, 2) end, "") and expect.no_error(f, 1, 2) -> expect.no_error(function() f(1, 2) end).

  Sorry for the inconvenience.

• Update all built-in reporters (gen_reporter.buffer and gen_reporter.stdout) to first show all fails followed by all notes. This makes it easier to find failed cases when there are many notes (like from MiniTest.skip()).

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• Update all MiniTest.expect expectations to allow customization of failure reason instead of default "Failed expectation for ...". This also consistently introduces opts last argument.

• Update MiniTest.expect.equality to show more detailed cause of failed equality. Like which character is different in two string or which values are different in two tables and at what key branch.

mini.visits

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• Update add_label and remove_label to use vim.ui.input to ask user for not supplied label instead of previous non-customizable vim.fn.input().