sinelaw/fresh v0.5.4

fresh-editor 0.5.4

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0.5.4

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

Features

• Simple launch by default - based on your feedback, some defaults are dialed back so launching is simple. Nothing was removed (#3555, #3556, #3568, reported by @zipproth)
  • fresh FILE opens just that file, with no restored session, dock or Welcome tab (even if you left the dock open). This makes Fresh a better $EDITOR / git core.editor; fresh --simple does the same without a file
  • With Auto Attach on, a bare fresh is fresh -a (no name): the one shared background editor (a fresh -a that names a remote host, or finds a per-directory daemon already running in its directory, still goes to that one). Typed in a Fresh terminal, with Auto Attach on or off, either one now leaves that editor as it is and says you are already in it, instead of starting a second editor inside the terminal; fresh --simple, fresh -a NAME and piped input are refused there with an error. The message says how to start a separate editor anyway (FRESH_SESSION= fresh --simple)
  • Orchestrator mode is now Auto Attach (auto_attach): what the setting does is attach a bare fresh to the shared background editor, so it is named for that. orchestrator_mode in an existing config is still read, and moves to the new name the next time a setting is saved
  • The Orchestrator dock starts closed, for a bare fresh too and for existing users whose dock was open at their last quit; open it from View ▸ Orchestrator Dock and it stays open from then on
  • A bare fresh opens the directory you typed it in, also when it reattaches to a running daemon, instead of the workspace you used last. The new Open Last Workspace setting (open_last_workspace, off by default) brings back the old behaviour, with Auto Attach on or off
  • An empty workspace behaves the same for a bare fresh as in any launch: a [No Name] buffer on a first run, and closing the last tab follows auto_create_empty_buffer_on_last_buffer_close and file_explorer.auto_open_on_last_buffer_close instead of always leaving a blank pane
  • fresh DIR still restores that directory's previous workspace (open files, layout) and shows the Welcome tab; fresh --restore FILE does the same for a file launch
  • fresh DIR opens the file explorer unless you closed it in that directory yourself; fresh --simple (with or without a directory) starts with it closed
  • Startup is faster with many workspaces, which now load on first use
• Markdown Source / Rendered / Source+Compose modes - new commands switch a Markdown pane between the raw text and the composed view, and a dual mode shows both side by side in one scroll-synced tab (edit on the source side; closing the tab leaves your file and panes as they were). "Cycle View Mode" steps through all three (#3562, by @PilotLeoYan)
• Debian testing/unstable package - each release also attaches a .debian-testing.deb built from Debian's own packaged crates (#3519)
• New config option: close a shell's tab when the shell exits - with it on, exit or Ctrl+D in an integrated terminal closes its tab (and the pane, if it was the only tab). Off by default; enable it in the Settings UI (#3537, by @cychitivav)
• Middle-click closes a tab (#3284, #3286, by @CnsMaple)
• Clickable "Palette: Ctrl+P" status hint opens the command palette (#3250, #3576, requested by @Korkman, by @peyton-durand)
• Duplicate Line Above command, and duplicated lines keep carets and selections on the copy (#3244, by @kimprap)
• Terminal programs can set your clipboard - OSC 52 writes from the integrated terminal reach the host clipboard (#3572, #3573, by @mycloa)

Bug Fixes

• Unsaved changes carry over between the background daemon and a direct launch - an edit left unsaved in a bare fresh now comes back in fresh FILE or with Auto Attach off, and the other way round; each mode used to keep its own recovery store
• A detached daemon no longer shuts itself down - it used to exit after an hour with no terminal attached, taking running agents with it; it now runs until you quit it
• Markdown compose layout with emoji and CJK text - code-block frames keep their edges and wrapped table cells no longer start with a stray space or break early (#3562)
• Clear error in mintty / Git Bash - Fresh now explains it needs a real console instead of failing with os error 6 (#3547, #3549, reported by @netoffice-zz)
• git no longer hangs on a detached daemon - --wait against a daemon with nothing attached no longer waits on an invisible editor (#3555)
• Plugin bundling uses a private temp directory, closing a local-user file-overwrite risk (#3557)
• fresh -a works in deeply nested directories - the daemon no longer dies at startup when the directory path is too long for a Unix socket name; such directories get a shortened, hashed socket name, and every other directory keeps the name it had
• macOS file-descriptor leak - the daemon no longer runs out of fds after files change in the project root (#3523, #3584, reported by @IconRunner05)
• Windows fixes
  • formatters given as absolute paths (D:\...) are found again (#3281, #3289, by @CnsMaple)
  • Copy Path no longer pastes \\?\ prefixed paths (#3296, #3297, by @CnsMaple)
  • removing an Orchestrator worktree no longer fails with "Permission denied" (#3545)
• Stale syntax colors after commenting a block of lines (#3551, by @kimprap)
• Closing a discarded or saved last tab now closes its empty split (#3552, by @kimprap)
• Rename works with servers lacking prepareRename, such as pylsp (#3540, by @cychitivav)
• Regex replace keeps non-ASCII text in the replacement intact (#3571, by @neatsorg)
• Unnamed buffers honor editor settings such as auto-close and occurrence highlight after restore (#3570, by @neatsorg)
• A half-open client connection can't stall the daemon (#3542)
• Hidden/ignored files are treated consistently across Quick Open, the explorer and project search (#3368, #3580, by @lixin-wei)
• Bundled grammars load before bundle plugins (#3544)
• Docs clarify textmate_grammar only supports .sublime-syntax (#3115, #3583, reported by @sgon00, by @peyton-durand)

Internals

• Plugin buffer groups can show a file the user has open as an editable panel, with a new buffer_group_closed hook (#3560, #3562)
• Virtual text always invalidates the wrap cache (#3311, #3485, by @anodicpassion); CI artifact usage reduced (#3577)