sinelaw/fresh v0.3.6

fresh-editor 0.3.6

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0.3.6

This version includes a major internal refactoring to support multiple windows in a single Fresh process. The work will be used to add a multi-window orchestrator in a future version.

Features

• Go to line with selection (#1764, thanks @PavelLoparev!): New action extends the selection from cursor to target line. Supports absolute and relative (+10) jumps.

• File explorer "follow active buffer" (#1569, #1803, thanks @ko3n1g!): New file_explorer.follow_active_buffer setting (default off). When on, switching tabs expands and highlights the corresponding file without stealing focus.

• Live Diff: Near-identical lines now render as modified lines, with new words decorated as underline (instead of two separate add/remove rows). Deletion virtual lines get gutter markers. Fixed live diff colors in terminal theme.

• Auto-start vi_mode (#1086, reported by @jmcblane): Vi mode plugin now exposes toggle / enable / disable so init.ts can flip vi mode at startup. Add this to your init.ts to enable: editor.getPluginApi("vi-mode")?.enable();.

In the future I plan to add a way for plugins to register custom config sections in the Settings UI, and then enabling vi-mode auto-start will be available through the UI.

Improvements

• openSUSE install instructions (#1897, thanks @ilmanzo!) added to the README.

• Quick Open ranking: Matches at the start of a path segment now beat arbitrary substring hits — ts surfaces tsconfig.json and tsc/... before random .ts files.

• Search & Replace no longer freezes on result sets in the thousands.

• Rust code actions (#1915): rust-analyzer now returns WorkspaceEdit-based assists like "Fill struct fields" instead of "No code actions available" — Fresh wasn't advertising the capability.

• Status-bar indicator menus: Clicking another indicator's icon dismisses the currently-open menu instead of stacking a second one on top.

• LSP-Servers popup is extensible: Plugins (starting with the bundled rust-lsp) can contribute their own rows.

• terminal built-in theme (#1914): Diff backgrounds no longer collide with syntax foregrounds, so keywords on deletion lines and strings on addition lines stay readable on terminals (e.g. xfce-terminal) where each ANSI palette index renders identically for fg and bg.

• Dashboard matches the editor background and no longer slides in.

• AppImage install script has error handling and a /tmp fallback so it no longer silently fails when the target directory isn't writable.

Bug Fixes

• Crash on startup from a corrupt workspace (#1939, reported by @zdooder): Restoring a session whose persisted split pointed at a buffer no longer in the buffer map crashed in render.rs. The active-buffer pointer is now validated and falls back to a live buffer if it's stale.

• Completion popup + multicursor (#1901, reported by @dtwilliamson): Typing a word character or Backspace while the popup was open only edited the primary cursor — secondary cursors silently went out of sync after the first keystroke. Accepting a completion now also applies at every cursor.

• LSP indicator click (#1941): Bugs fixed: plugin popup stacked under the built-in one; plugin popup ignored the active theme's popup_bg; state stayed stale after the LSP process was killed externally; "Disable LSP" didn't actually stop the running server; repeated clicks stacked further popups.

• Scrollbar theme overrides (#1554, reported by @klonuo): User themes setting ui.scrollbar_track_fg, ui.scrollbar_track_hover_fg, or ui.scrollbar_thumb_hover_fg had their overrides silently dropped.

• Utility dock routing (#1932): Ctrl+P → filename now opens the file in the editor area instead of inside the bottom dock when the dock has focus. The split tab-bar □ button now maximizes the split you clicked, not the active one.

• Tab drag: Dropping a tab onto a fresh split (e.g. a Search & Replace result row) no longer panics on the next keystroke.

• File explorer: A directory whose .gitignore filters out all its contents (e.g. build/ with * inside) stays visible when expanded.

• Live Diff visual-line motion: Down/Up no longer freezes when traversing a deletion block that starts with a blank line.

• S-Tab plugin bindings now register correctly (terminals deliver Shift+Tab as BackTab).