sinelaw/fresh v0.4.9

fresh-editor 0.4.9

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0.4.9

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Most options below can be changed in the Settings UI - run Open Settings from the command palette (Ctrl+P).

Features

• Installing and updating Fresh - the preferred install method for Linux is now a single self-contained, self-updating, statically linked (musl) binary - one install that works everywhere, instead of a dozen fragile packaging channels.
• LSP completions can offer auto-imports - servers like rust-analyzer now suggest unimported symbols, and accepting one inserts the use/import line (#2603).
• The scripting API can manage the whole Orchestrator dock - create, rename, move, archive, delete and list workspaces, including over SSH, not just create them.
• A new workspace opens the moment you ask for it - a progress page shows while git worktree add still runs, the workspace can be renamed, moved or deleted mid-build, and the build finishing no longer steals focus. The dock also got tidier: compact by default, uniform full-width menu rows.
• The mouse wheel pans the tab strip - tabs scroll into view under the pointer without changing the active tab.
• fresh +50 file.txt opens the file at that line, vim-style (#1926, requested by @asukaminato0721).
• F3/Shift+F3 step through search matches without closing the search bar first (#2111).
• Choose which files are too ephemeral to remember - a configurable pattern list keeps cursor positions from being saved for build output, generated sources and the like; git's own scratch files are excluded by default.
• Bulgarian locale (by @ci4ic4).
• Unparseable keybinding config entries are now logged instead of silently dropped (#1128, reported by @michelpado).

Bug Fixes

• Ctrl+/ (toggle-comment) works on every terminal, not just kitty - including non-US layouts where / needs Shift (#2933).
• Hover popups no longer render on top of modal dialogs (#2912, reported by @maxco1d).
• Long text in the search/open-file/palette input scrolls so the cursor stays visible (#2876, reported by @asukaminato0721).
• Vi dot-repeat (.) after o/O/a/A no longer corrupts the buffer (#2443).
• Mouse wheel scrolls the view, not the selection
  • Settings search results - hover and clicks also land on the row under the pointer once the list is scrolled (#2860, #1112, reported by @asukaminato0721).
  • Prompt dropdowns (command palette, Select Locale, …), which also gained a scrollbar when they overflow (#623, #1593, reported by @asukaminato0721 and @Kodiak-01).
• A wheel over the menu, tab or status bar no longer scrolls the focused pane - chrome wheel events used to land on whatever had focus, dropping a focused terminal into scrollback (#2969).
• Plugin dock panels get their geometry right - opening one (like a code tour) now resizes terminals above it so shell output doesn't vanish off-screen, panels reflow when the file explorer toggles instead of spilling at their old width, and dock hover/selection highlights span the whole row (#2969).
• A code tour opens every step into the same pane - stepping through one while clicking between splits used to scatter its files across all of them (#2969).
• Auto-indent
  • Typing else:, except: or a custom dedent keyword re-indents the line on the spot, like } always did (#2582).
  • Braceless if/for/while bodies indent correctly in TypeScript/JavaScript (#2492).
  • Enter on a blank line between an indented block and an unindented line below no longer inherits the deeper indent (a #1425 corner case).
• Format-on-save keeps the cursor on the text it was on - a formatter deleting lines above no longer drops it into an unrelated word (#2777, #2706, reported by @720720).
• Workspaces
  • Workspaces made with Extract Tab to New Workspace survive a restart, and --no-restore truly writes no session state (#2735).
  • The Search & Replace panel and dock terminals open as a split again after the last editor split is closed - a stale dock tag used to stick, even across restarts (#2415, reported by @mandolyte).
  • Git's COMMIT_EDITMSG/MERGE_MSG/etc. no longer restore a stale cursor position into freshly regenerated content (#2761, reported by @skostojohn).
• Keybindings
  • Context-specific bindings outrank global ones, so a global chord can no longer shadow one; disabling menu-bar mnemonics genuinely frees the Alt+letter keys (#2941, reported by @chrismo).
  • Legacy (non-kitty) terminals resolve Alt+]/Alt+[ correctly again (#2930, reported by @FreekyFrank).
• Malformed ssh:// URLs fail loudly instead of silently opening a same-named local file (#2221).
• Review Diff: stage/unstage/discard confirmations no longer vanish - they used to be overwritten within the same frame by the status refresh they triggered.
• The bundled help manual no longer shows literal <0D> characters on Windows (by @ci4ic4).
• Four small fixes: bun.lock highlights as JSONC (#2921); generated tsconfigs use moduleResolution: bundler for TypeScript 7 (#2872); docs no longer claim Ctrl+H opens Find & Replace (#2109); the Rust LSP mode-switching doc references the real palette command name.

Internals

• Input handling split into a pure decision core plus an imperative shell, GitHub Actions workflows now lint in CI, and a round of flaky-e2e-test stabilization across the settings, vi-mode, LSP, review-diff and orchestrator-scripting suites.