folke/sidekick.nvim v2.0.0

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2.0.0 (2025-10-17)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• config: changed the default keymaps. Please check the updated documentation and example mappings

Features

• cli.claude: transform line ranges to a format Claude can understand. Closes #59 (4a492da)
• cli.select: better distinction between attaching to terminal/external (48d0bf6)
• cli: close() on an external session, now detaches from that session. Closes #98 (d2e6c64)
• cli: added <c-q> to hide in normal mode, so from terminal double <c-q> will hide (358804c)
• cli: added health checks and optional reqs to the docs for lsof and ps. Fixes #89 (d403ec3)
• cli: added some config option validation (c236b38)
• cli: added terminal navigation with <c-hjkl>. Only mapped when not a float and a window in the dir exists. See #51 (b48e177)
• cli: deduplicate cli tool sessions. Closes #92 (e5bcf17)
• cli: handle special filenames for Claude, Gemini, Qwen. Fixes #130 (19b5985)
• config: changed the default keymaps. Please check the updated documentation and example mappings (6608705)
• context: you can now use context fallbacks like {function|line} (076147a)
• copilot: allow configuring minimum level for copilot LSP messages (4b6750b)
• opencode: add pid to external opencode sessions (3d9d519)
• terminal: much better scrollback buffer. no flickering and should work in all modes (3aa2fe5)
• terminal: restore normal/terminal mode when entering the sidekick window (50c40d5)
• terminal: switch to scrollback when doing mouse scroll (0dd3c3b)
• tmux: entering normal mode in a tmux terminal, now loads the whole tmux scrollback (a453f76)
• tmux: some tools won't process input if they don't have focus, so tools can now set mux_focus = true (41dec4d)
• tool: tools can now further format text before it's sent. See #130, see #59 (28f8a07)
• util: weak ref util method (8036aea)

Bug Fixes

• cli.prompt: proper way of rendering templates with highlights (30b7b9e)
• cli.select: sort terminal sessions before external sessions (c487d53)
• cli.state: allow creating new sessions for tools that have only external sessions (c588efb)
• cli: allow sending a newlline msg="\n" (fc0067a)
• cli: don't send empty messages (63f626c)
• location: different format that should work for most cli tools. Closes #59 (d570e1f)
• nes: added triggerKind. Maybe that's needed for nes? (e535808)
• nes: better didFocus tracking (3669eae)
• nes: don't clear NES on TextChanged or BufWritePre. Closes #91 (32fa55c)
• nes: don't process unloaded buffers. Closes #86 (620adf0)
• nes: exec nes commands AFTER edits have been applied (80d1604)
• nes: skip old edits early (8395007)
• nes: textDocument/didFocus (b7085d7)
• nes: trigger on ModeChanged *:n instead of InsertLeave. See #125 (abbd051)
• opencode: check that open server is actually from an opencode process. Closes #87 (cb8485a)
• procs: handle case where USER is not set. Closes #82 (01f89b7)
• q: filer procs on qchat instead of q, which seems to be the actual binary. Closes #80 (4b65b8a)
• qwen: set mux_focus = true since qwen doesnt process input if unfocused. Fixes #104 (c262b25)
• sessions: load tools during session setup, since thet may register session backends (like opencode) (c7761eb)
• status: always return nil when copilot status is disabled in config (f908fec)
• terminal: allow auto split width/height (#111) (03cf9fb)
• terminal: better handling of crlf for send. See #119 (7185e08)
• terminal: blur on hide (81b2a85)
• terminal: cleanup scrollback buffer (9ef38db)
• terminal: don't error when it's the last window and hiding. Closes #124 (cab3ec4)
• terminal: keymap rhs fallback to rhs string (2b644f0)
• terminal: no need to check for mouse scroll when we're not in terminal mode (b52c3be)
• terminal: only show scrollback when entering normal mode and the terminal window is current. Closes #106 (1e03666)
• terminal: remove padding since it causes issues with terminal reflow (Neovim bug) (cc32068)
• terminal: safer way of entering terminal mode from scrollback buffer (#129) (2195213)
• terminal: safer way of entering terminal mode from scrollback buffer. Closes #103 (0bc6f88)
• terminal: scroll to last line in normal mode. Closes #101 (69eb7b7)
• terminal: send all text in one chunk with nvim_paste. Fixes #119. Fixes #118 (ca97ecd)
• terminal: use nvim_paste instead of nvim_chan_send to better simulate user input. Closes #110 (cebcd44)
• terminal: use nvim_put directly to paste into the terminal (bed1d65)
• text: handle empty virtual lines (98a33eb)
• tmux: use paste-buffer with the -r flag to preserve newlines. Fixes #93 (2fdc4d4)
• zellij: attach to existing isolated session (9deb771)
• zellij: zellij:create -> zellij:start (4bd0df2)

Performance Improvements

• nes: only send didFocus events for regular buffers and if different (39a1638)
• terminal: only load scrollback buffer when needed (628c3d0)