sinelaw/fresh v0.3.4

fresh-editor 0.3.4

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0.3.4

Features

• Live Grep floating overlay + Utility Dock (#1796): Live Grep now opens as a centered floating overlay with results on the left and a real-buffer file preview on the right (full syntax highlighting, gutter, soft-wrap). Esc returns you to your prior layout exactly. Resume (Alt+r) reopens the last query with cached results. Export to Quickfix (Alt+M) sends results into a dockable list.

• New Utility Dock at the workspace root hosts the terminal (Alt+`), Quickfix, Diagnostics, and Find References — they share one pane spanning the full width instead of nesting under whichever split was focused.

• Pluggable Live Grep providers: Built-in chain is now ripgrep → git-grep (default in repos) → grep, with ag / ack available via plugin registration. Alt+P cycles to the next available provider; the active one shows in the overlay's title bar. Plugins can register custom backends via editor.getPluginApi("live-grep").

• Settings tree-view: The left category list is now an expandable tree — categories with multiple sections show chevrons, expanding reveals jumpable section rows, and the tree cursor follows scrolling so you can see where you are in the body. Section jumps snap to the top of the section. Toggle controls render as a chip-style [ ✓ ACTIVE ] indicator.

• HDL language support (#1528, reported by @bqinTT): Syntax highlighting for Verilog (.v left mapped to vlang for compatibility, .vh/.verilog), SystemVerilog (.sv/.svh/.svi/.svp), and VHDL (.vhd/.vhdl/.vho). svls wired as the default LSP for Verilog/SystemVerilog (opt-in per project).

• New terminal built-in theme (#1457, #1798, reported by @AmethystGosling169 and @BrettKinny): Colors come from your terminal's own palette instead of hard-coded RGB — backgrounds use Default so transparency and your terminal's background show through; accents use ANSI named colors that remap to whatever your terminal colorscheme defines. Selection uses reverse-video so it inverts whatever colors are already on screen.

• Theme inheritance with extends: User themes can now extends: "builtin://light" (or dark / high-contrast / nostalgia / terminal) and layer overrides on top — the same model VSCode/Helix/Sublime/Zed use. With no extends, an explicit editor.bg triggers luminance-based auto-inference (bright bg → light base, dim → dark), so partial light themes no longer end up with dark UI chrome (#1281, reported by @nico2004444).

• File explorer context-menu additions (#1576, reported by @RandomGHUser): Duplicate (creates name copy[.ext] next to the source, multi-select supported), Copy Full Path and Copy Relative Path (newline-joined for multi-select). The new entries don't appear on the project root.

• Distribute clipboard across cursors (#1057, reported by @graphixillusion): With N cursors and an N-line clipboard, paste now gives each cursor one line in top-to-bottom order — VSCode / Notepad++ "column-mode paste" semantics. A block-selected copy/paste round-trip preserves its rectangular shape. Behavior is unchanged when counts don't match.

• Discard option in quit prompt (#1839, reported by @turkishmaid): With hot_exit on (the default), the unsaved-changes prompt now offers "(d)iscard and quit" so accidental edits no longer require disabling hot_exit globally to throw away. Picking "save" on quit also chains a Save As prompt for each dirty unnamed buffer instead of silently dropping it.

• Project name in window title (#1793, reported by @dAnjou): Title is now <file> — <project> — Fresh so multiple Fresh sessions in different projects are distinguishable in your taskbar/window list.

• Cursor-jump animation toggle (#1788): New editor.cursor_jump_animation setting lets you keep ambient animations (tab slides, dashboard) while disabling just the cursor-jump trail. The master editor.animations setting still wins.

Improvements

• Search & Replace across project no longer hangs on large binary files (#1342, reported by @dragonfyre13): Hardcoded extension fast-path skips known-binary files (compiled artifacts, archives, media, ML weights, fonts) before any I/O. Per-file size cap and stronger header sniff (PNG, ZIP-based archives like .pth, ELF) catch the formats whose first bytes can look text-like.

• POSIX ACL writability (#1765, reported by @cherouize): A file granted write access via setfacl -m u:NAME:rw is no longer reported read-only — Fresh now asks the kernel via faccessat(W_OK) instead of walking inode mode bits, so ACLs, capabilities, and read-only mounts are all honored.

• LSP status popup doesn't auto-show: Auto-popping on first file open stole focus and swallowed keystrokes for users who hadn't asked to enable LSP. The LSP indicator is now a manual click target; its Off state (configured but not running) is rendered with a more prominent attention-grabbing color so discoverability isn't lost.

• Hover popup no longer flickers on mouse moves (#692) inside the editor (gutter, end-of-line, between words). It only dismisses when the mouse leaves the editor area entirely. New hover responses replace the existing popup instead of stacking.

• Multi-cursor Ctrl-D after substring search (#1697, reported by @dtwilliamson): When the cursor is inside an active search match, "Add cursor at next match" selects the next search match instead of expanding to the surrounding word.

• JavaScript syntax highlighting (#899, reported by @comesuccingfuccsloot): Routed through tree-sitter, so template literals containing arrow functions or ${expr} no longer leak @string styling across the rest of the file.

• Smarter auto-indent for Lua / Ruby / Bash / Pascal: Tree-sitter indents.scm is now the single source of truth for keyword-delimited languages, so ( opening a function call no longer gets treated as a block-opening delimiter.

• Enter at column 0 doesn't push the line right anymore (#1425, reported by @goszlanyi): Auto-indent now detects "cursor at column 0 of a non-empty line" and inserts a bare newline. Closing-delimiter lines still get the established indent-before-close behavior.

• Live Diff virtual lines soft-wrap (#1787) instead of being truncated at the right edge.

• Per-workspace hot-exit recovery (#1550, reported by @goszlanyi): Standalone-mode recovery files are now scoped per working directory. Quitting Fresh in folder B no longer wipes folder A's recovered unnamed-buffer state.

• Terminal PTY resyncs on tab reveal (#1795): Resizing the host while a terminal was hidden behind another tab now correctly forwards SIGWINCH when you switch back — $COLUMNS / stty size stay accurate.

• Open File dialog scrolls correctly on small terminals (#245): Selection no longer slides past the bottom of the visible list.

• Keybinding editor scrollbar responds to mouse (#1593, reported by @Kodiak-01): Click and drag both work; wheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the selection (so a scrollbar drag isn't undone by the next wheel tick).

• Settings Number controls (#1825, e.g. Tab Size): Tab now commits and exits the input; clicking the value cell enters edit mode (matches Enter).

• Plugin keybinding labels refresh on every prompt open so plugins surfacing key hints ("Alt+P to cycle", overlay headers, etc.) reflect mid-session rebinds without restart.

• New plugin hook after_file_explorer_change fires on FS-mutating explorer actions (Duplicate, Paste, New File, Rename, Delete) so plugins like git_explorer can refresh badges immediately.

• Theme picker consistency: The Theme Editor plugin's picker now shows the same set of themes as the native Select Theme prompt — no more divergence from a separate cwd/themes scan or normalization mismatches. New plugin API editor.getAllThemes() returns the cached map directly so plugins can drop their own filesystem walks.

Bug Fixes

• Crash fixes: Option::unwrap() panic when pasting in the Theme Editor (event apply used the wrong split). DeleteBackward panics on stale cursor state in vi-mode count prefixes and plugin action batches. Theme editor crash on the new terminal theme's modifier fields. Embedded-plugin extraction race across concurrent test processes.

• Search (#1537, reported by @pstahle): Find Selection Next/Previous on a non-word character (e.g. } after goto-matching-bracket) no longer hijacks the search query — it now navigates the existing search instead.

• OpenLine (Emacs C-o): Cursor stays on the original line instead of advancing — was previously indistinguishable from Enter.

• Markdown compose (#1789, #1790): Wrap budget widened by one column to prevent orphan-word re-wrapping on Windows; current-line highlight now extends across soft-wrapped sub-rows.

• Viewport (#1794): Popup anchoring counts true visual rows under wrap, so completion popups appear next to the cursor instead of several rows above in heavily-wrapped buffers.

Under the Hood

• Smaller release binaries: New dist cargo profile (strip=true, lto=fat, codegen-units=1, opt-level=z) is now applied to release builds. Binary shrinks from 62.4 MB → ~46 MB (-26%). Backtraces are still included in panics.

• Build performance: oxc and rquickjs now build at opt-level=3 in dev/test profiles to keep iteration fast despite their size.

• Semantic test framework + ~250 migrated cases: A new "scenario" test layer dispatches Actions straight against an isolated editor instance, skipping plugin loading where the assertion surface (buffer text + caret) can't observe it — about 440 ms saved per test harness. ~250 e2e claims have been migrated across multicursor, block selection, auto-indent, paste, undo/redo, search-modal flows, multibyte handling, and many regression repros (issues #191, #1147, #1305, #1574, #1697, etc.). Property-based theorems over generated action sequences caught two real production crashes in no-render dispatch paths (vi-mode count prefixes, plugin action batches) — both fixed in this release. A pre-existing race in concurrent embedded-plugin extraction (could leave half-written plugins for parallel test processes) is also fixed.