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  • v0.6.0 98855a73e4

    Release 0.6.0 Stable

    neurocyte released this 2025-11-05 22:00:11 +00:00 | 25 commits to master since this release

    Signed by neurocyte
    GPG key ID: 8EB1E1BB660E3FB9

    New Features

    Many features with new default keybindings have been added. Keybinding mentioned
    in these release notes are for Flow mode unless otherwise mentioned. Please
    check the command palette or the online command & keybinding reference
    (ctrl+f2 or ctrl+k ctrl+s) for the active keybindings in other modes.

    LSP Completion

    LSP completion suggestions support has been added. Completion requests are
    triggered with ctrl+space and supports fuzzy search of completion suggestions.
    Accept a suggestiong with Return or Tab.

    Clipboard history

    A history of cut & copy operations can be opened with shift+alt+v. The history
    is grouped by multi-cursor operations, so you can copy with multiple cursors and
    then paste with a single cursor or multiple cursors. Paste operations now accept
    an integer argument (alt+1, alt+2, etc.) to select a group from the history
    to paste without first opening the clipboard history.

    Tabbar Tab Improvements

    Tabs in the tabbar have received many quality of life improvements. There is now
    a file type icon, and on hover, a close icon. Tabs can be dragged to a new
    position with the mouse, or re-ordered with the keyboard with the new keybindings
    ctrl+shift+page_up and ctrl+shift+page_down. Recently closed tabs can be
    re-opened with ctrl+shift+t.

    AST selection & navigation improvements

    The expand_selection command to expand the selection to the parent AST node
    has been improved and now should work in any sitution. shrink_selection and
    the various sibling node selection commands will now select the node at the
    cursor if there is no selection.

    Tasks

    Tasks can now be added and deleted directly from the run task menu. Also the
    run_task command now accepts a string and with add and run a task in one step,
    which is useful for running tasks directly from the command line. For example:

    flow --exec 'run_task:git grep -n TODO'

    Automatic Light & Dark mode selection

    If your terminal supports it, flow will now select a theme to use based on the
    system color scheme. The light mode and dark mode themes are independently
    configurable. There is also a toggle command in flow to manually switch modes
    bound to alt+f11, and a command line argument.

    Widget styles

    Palettes and menus can now be display in a range of different styles. You can
    switch through the available styles while a widget has focus with the alt+f9
    keybinding. The selected widget style is persisted on a per widget type basis.

    Goto & Byte Offsets

    The goto mini mode now supports {row}:{column} syntax. Also, pressing b in
    goto mini mode will toggle goto byte offset mode. Byte offsets are also
    supported on the command line by prefixing the offset with the letter 'b'. For
    example:

    flow src/main.zig:b123

    Also, goto and goto_offset commands now accept integer parameters to directly
    jump.

    Underline mode

    Underline mode, triggered with ctrl+_, ctrl+= or ctrl+plus, will underline
    the current line with various characters.

    Git status

    A new git status palette lists changed and untracked files and lets you open
    them. It may be opened with the ctrl+shift+g keybind or by clicking on the
    git branch widget in the status bar.

    Kitty extensions for unicode widths & multi cursors

    We now support kitty char width protocol extension for much better unicode
    support in kitty. We also support kitty's multi-cursor protocol extensions to
    show proper terminal cursors when editing with multiple cursors.

    Tab width settings

    The tab width may now be interactively changed on a per buffer basis and there
    are new commands to set the tab width for the current buffer, session and
    globally.

    FreeBSD

    We now produce binary release for FreeBSD, thanks to Zig 0.15 support for
    FreeBSD cross-compilation.

    Win32 improvements

    The win32 GUI renderer now supports wide characters. Also, filesystems without
    proper support for fstat will work. This means flow now works correctly under
    WSL1 and WSL2 on windows filesystems.

    Helix mode improvements

    Helix mode has seen major improvments, mostly thanks to Igor Támara.

    • :x alias for :wq
    • % select_all
    • zz scroll_view_center
    • shorcuts for buffers
    • closing and saving including close all and save all
    • close other buffers and reload all
    • feature parity with helix copy paste (P before, R replace, r after)
    • zt zc zb scroll keybinds and G support
    • space g bound to open changed and new files reported by git
    • F, T, t, f select and extension movements
    • match helix clipboard behaviour on delete
    • r to replace with a character
    • extend word to right

    Vim mode improvements

    Vim mode now has vim style aliases for buffer commands and a :qa! aliase for
    quit_without_saving.

    New file types

    • fsharp
    • commonlisp
    • csproj
    • msbuild props
    • gettext-po
    • awk
    • latex
    • nickel
    • elm
    • hcl
    • perl
    • verilog
    • reStructuredText

    New themes

    • kanagawa
    • alabaster

    Zig 0.15.2

    Flow now builds with Zig 0.15 and has been fully ported to the new std.Io.Writer
    interfaces.

    Misc Minor Changes

    • delete_line & select_line: bound to ctrl+shift+k and shift+alt+e
      respectively, with full multi-cursor and integer argument (repeat) support

    • insert_command_name (command & keybind reference) is now additionally bound to
      ctrl+k ctrl+s

    • plain move_begin is now bound to ctrl+k home

    • selections are sensibly merged if they overlap

    • files & projects

      • add open_most_recent_file command
      • allow open_file to open projects (directories)
      • make change_project call open_recent instead of jumping to last file
      • refresh open_recent palette when the project is done loading the file list
      • add flow mode keybind for find_in_files to overlay/palette mode
      • always list the active project first in the recent projects list
      • use case insenstive matching for file_browser completion
      • file_browser now completes into subdirs when there is only one match

    • display indent mode in status bar

    • improve markdown highlighting

    • configuration

      • make hover_time configurable
      • add option lsp_output "quiet" to reduce LSP log verbosity

    • add keybinds for keypad keys

    Fixes

    Many, many fixes. Too many to really list here. See commits marked fix: in the
    full git changelog for the full list of fixes.

    Contributors

    CJ van den Berg
    Igor Támara
    Jonathan Marler
    Loris Cro
    geemili
    Alex Rønne Petersen
    Daggerfall-is-the-best-TES-game
    jmcaine
    n0n
    zai1208

    Downloads

    flow-control.dev (source only)
    github.com (binaries & source)
    codeberg.org (binaries & source)

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  • v0.4.0 7177da5a89

    v0.4.0 Stable

    neurocyte released this 2025-07-17 13:39:06 +00:00 | 587 commits to master since this release

    Signed by neurocyte
    GPG key ID: 8EB1E1BB660E3FB9

    Celebrating 1000 github stars!

    New Features:

    • File type configuration - File types are now user configurable. Flow comes with a built-in
      list of file types that you can now modify and save to the configuration directory with the
      Edit file type configuration command. You can also create whole new file types simply by adding
      new files to the configuration directory in the file_type folder. The file type configuration
      defines the name, icon, description, formatter and language server, extensions and first line
      matching rules for a file type.

    • Auto Save - Enable auto save for the current buffer with the Toggle auto save command. This
      will automatically save the current buffer on every change. Debounce time is the currently
      configured frame rate. You can also enable auto save globally with the enable_auto_save
      configuration option, and limit which file type have auto save automatically enabled with the
      limit_auto_save_file_types configuration option (which is a list of file types, e.g.
      ["zig","rust"])

    • Highlight columns - Use the Toggle highlight columns (toggle_highlight_columns) command
      (bound to shift+f11 in flow mode) to enable a background dim effect at the configured column
      positions. The columns to highlight are configured via the highlight_columns configuration
      option.

    • Smart insert & delete - Brace pairs like (), [], {} and "" are now handled intelligently like
      in most code editors. Also, leading whitespace is now intelligently deleted in indent_size
      steps.

    • Format on save toggle - Format on save can now be toggled for the current buffer with the
      Toggle format on save command (toggle_format_on_save).

    • Git support - The status bar now shows a summary of the project's git status include current
      branch, number of changed files and number of unpushed/unpulled/stashed commits. Also, Flow now
      respects all of git's file ignore machanisms. Diffs do not yet use git, but that is planned.

    • Auto create parent directories - Flow will now automatically create parent directies if
      necessary when creating new files.

    • Tilde expansion - The Open file and Save as commands now correctly support expanding ~
      to the user's home directory.

    • Improved panic handling - Flow now has much improved panic handling and will leave the
      terminal in a known good state for all panics and segfaults. Additionally, release and nightly
      builds are now available with full debug information that will produce fully detailed backtraces
      on crash. This should help catch and fix those rare but pesky crashes. Please submit issues!
      Additionally, there is a configuration option to automatically start and connect gdb to a
      crashing flow instance. (linux only)

    • Terminal support - Flow now supports the kitty explicit text width protocol. This improves
      unicode character rendering on terminals that support it and superceeds wcwidth when available.

    • Language server protocol - Flow language server protocol backend is now fully asynchronous.
      This means that slow language servers cannot cause pauses while editing.

    • Language support

      • Added powershell syntax highlighting
      • Added hurl syntax highlighting
      • Added rpmspec syntax highlighting
      • Added protobuf syntax highlighting
      • Added uxntal syntax highlighting
      • Added C# formatter (csharpier)
      • Added PHP language server (intelephense)

    • Themes

      • Themes can now be customized with the Customise theme command
      • Added the entire base16 theme collection
      • Added the hypersubatomic theme

    • Home screen - The home screen text and list of commands can now be customized. Also, the
      current build version and build type are now shown in the bottom right corner of the home screen.

    • tree-sitter - Queries are now biniary compiled and stored in the flow executable. This
      greatly improves load times and reduces binary size. Also, incremental tree-sitter parsing is
      now checked for parsing errors and will fallback to a full re-parse if errors occur.

    • Integer arguments - Flow now supports integer arguments to many commands similar to emacs and
      vim. Related bindings have been added to Flow, Emacs, Vim and Helix modes. Pending integer
      arguments are shown in the status bar.

    • Vim mode improvements - Insert mode now produces automic undo steps, much more like Vim. Many
      vim mode bindings have been improved to more closely match Vim in their behaviour. Visual line
      mode was added.

    • Helix mode improvements - Many helix mode bindings have been improved to more closely match
      Helix in their behaviour.

    • New keybindings

      • Flow mode
        home/end now work in palettes
        ctrl+shift+F5 => reload file

      • Vim mode
        ctrl-c => exit insert mode
        :e! => reload file
        gt => next tab
        gT => previous tab
        ctrl-v => enter visual block mode
        < => unindent
        > => indent
        * => find work at cursor
        J => join line
        dgg => cut to beginning of buffer
        dG => cut to end of buffer
        f => move/select forward to char
        F => move/select backwards to char
        t => move/select forward until char
        T => move/select backwards until char
        N => goto previous match
        cc => change whole line
        C => change to end of line
        D => delete to end of line
        cw => change word right
        cb => change word left
        zz => scroll view to center
        w => [VISUAL] select word right (vim)
        W => [VISUAL] select word right
        e => [VISUAL] select to end of word right (vim)
        b => [VISUAL] select word left (vim)
        B => [VISUAL] select word left
        gg => [VISUAL] select to beginning of buffer
        G => [VISUAL] select to end of buffer
        c => [VISUAL] change word right
        C => [VISUAL] change to end of line
        D => [VISUAL] delete to end of line

    • New & updated commands

      • copy_file_name => [NEW] Copy the current buffer file name (and optionally line number) to the
        clipboard.
      • reload_file => [NEW] Reload the current file from disk (mainting undo).
      • find_file => [NEW] Alias for open_recent.
      • save_file_with_formatting => [NEW] Format and save the current file. Independant of the current
        value of enable_format_on_save.
      • save_file_without_formatting => [NEW] Save the current file without first formatting it.
        Independant of the current value of enable_format_on_save.
      • open_file => [UPDATED] Open file will now detect if the current selection contains a valid file
        path, including optional line number. If it does, it will be opened immediately without first
        prompting.
      • join_next_line => [UPDATED] Join next line will now collapse whitespace.
      • shell_execute_stream_output => [UPDATED] Will now follow output tail if cursor is at buffer
        end.

    • Command line improvements

      • --new-file => Create a new file when starting Flow.
      • --scratch => Create a new scratch (ephemeral) buffer when starting Flow.
      • --exec => You can now pass string arguments to commands by separating them from the command
        name with a colon.

    • UI improvements - Many minor usability and visual UI improvments

      • The results pane now closes if Find in files mode is cancelled
      • The clock widget now supports multiple digit styles
      • Status bar widgets can support parameters for width or style depending on the widget
      • Scrollbars and file icons can be enabled/disabled via configuration options
      • Inline diagnostics (and gutter symbols) can now be toggled with the
        Toggle display of diagnostics inline command
      • Line numbers can now be displayed in various styles (toggled via middle click and/or config)

    Fixes:

    • Add legacy input encoding compatible undo keybinding in emacs mode
    • Allow .cmd along with .exe for Windows executables
    • Fixed broken shifted keybinds for Helix mode
    • Fix palette crashing when its items's length is exceeded
    • Fix restoring of last_find_query from editor state
    • Fix make keybind module respect command.suppressed_errors list
    • Allow font names longer than 31 characters in win32
    • Fix panic on extra long plane names
    • Don't stop unindenting on blank or full unindented lines
    • Make sure to show_home if no files are opened via command line
    • Add workaround for LSPs sending junk null messages (omnisharp)
    • Don't truncate scratch buffer names in tabs and terminal title
    • Prevent unexpected message errors on missing LSP binary
    • Replace std.unicode.utf8Decode with safe function that cannot panic on invalid UTF-8 input
    • nudge_delete should handle cursor moving to same line as delete
    • Remove multithreaded buffer access in background async differ
    • Remove multithreaded buffer access in project_manager
    • Word/line wise dragging should keep the original word/line selected
    • Remove prefix from paths in ripgrep results
    • Use iso date format for default date instert keybind
    • Workaround broken dir.statFile on WSL1
    • Left an right movements jump to selection boundary
    • Prefer targetSelectionRange over targeRange if both are provided by LSP
    • Fix flicker: home screen should not load if we have a file to open
    • Update thespian to fix subprocess file descriptor race
    • Force ripgrep to never try search stdin
    • Bracketed paste should check for ctrl+j and insert \n
    • Render control codes in mini buffer input with unicode control code symbols
    • Proactive close subprocesses on early exit in shell module
    • Fix paste in goto mode
    • Don't match against legacy unshifted keys when we have extended input text
    • Remove blocking project manager call on startup
    • Never double free LSP init queue
    • Remove arbitrary limit to command buffer size
    • Remove ctrl+p command palette binding
    • Stop after removing widget in Widget.remove (fixes ReleaseFast crash)
    • Fix potention dangling pointer in mainview on view list realloc
    • MRU position should not override line numbers on command line
    • Don't restore editor view rows and cols
    • Prevent task palette from being too short to show palette label
    • Refresh hover on tab changes
    • Add workaround for conpty ul color escape sequence parser bug
    • get_mru_position should not hang if file not found in project
    • Fix row & column in get_mru_position
    • Remove initial empty frame render on startup
    • Make move_cursor_up/_down fallback to move_begin/_end
    • Don't get stuck in an overlay mode if it is triggered from the command line
    • Update cursor target column after nudge_insert/_delete
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