1.2.0

[lhecker]

As Steve Ballmer famously said: Fixes! Fixes! Fixes! We do one better and also have new features.
I expect the rate of releases to rise quadratically from now on. 1.1e19.0 should be out in a few weeks.

To Linux package maintainers: We now added an official recommendation for package names to our README.

Changes

• The Open/Save file dialog now features filename autocompletion (Add filename autocompletion to Open/Save dialog #185, Make file picker autocompletion case-insensitive #464) (thanks @haoruilee)
• The encoding picker is now 100% less confusing and has a fuzzy search field (Add filtering & Use MIME aliases for the encoding picker #255) (thanks @b6k)
  If you couldn't find Shift-JIS before, because we called it "ibm-943_P15A-2003", rest easy: It's now called "Shift_JIS" as you'd expect.
• Control characters are now shown in yellow (buffer: show control char visualizers in yellow #378)
  This will make it a lot easier to spot them at a glance!
• You can now duplicate lines by simply pressing Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V (Large clipboard handling overhaul #405)
• We'll now detect if your terminal treats "ambiguous" characters as "wide" (Implement support for Ambiguous = Wide #406)
  This may be a welcome change for those of you who use CJK characters on Linux. It also fixes issues with the older Windows Console when you used fonts such as "MS Gothic".
• Seeking across lines is now up to hundreds of times faster (Add specialized SIMD line seeking routines #408)
  If you had issues browsing 1GB+ files before: Now you don't. On my CPU it runs at up to 160GB/s!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a virtual memory leak on Windows (Fix a virtual memory leak on Windows #404)
• Fixed a bug preventing you from selecting tabs (Fix cursor_move_to_visual not moving backward #412)
• We're experimenting with fixes for those of you who see random input or hangs when you launch Edit (Experiment with a 100ms timeout on ESC #416, Use blocking reads for setup_terminal #424)
• The line number margin now gets properly updated at all times (Make sure margin gets updated #436) (thanks @Link1J)
• Find & Replace now works with empty replacements (Fix Find & Replace with empty replacements #457)
• We fixed another freeze when using Find & Replace (Fix another ICU Find & Replace hang #459)

Smaller Changes

• Pressing F3 will now jump to the next search result (Jump to the next search result with F3 #453) (thanks @keircn)
• Alt+Up in the Open/Save file dialog will now navigate upwards (Add support for Alt+Up in the File Picker #458)

Smaller Bug Fixes

• If you're using an older terminal which doesn't support color reporting, Edit should now look a bit prettier (Fix the fallback theme colors #417)
• Documents are now closed after you were prompted for saving them (Close documents after saving them #429)
• The View menu is now properly hidden, when there aren't any files open (Do not render View menu when no documents are active #447) (thanks @Shivix)
• We fixed an issue preventing you from selecting ".." twice in a row in the Open/Save file dialog (Fix state management of the file picker list #454)
• Overlapping modals will now clear underlines under them (Fix modals not clearing attributes #460)

Improvements to our use of Rust

• We also remove a redundant heap allocation in DisplayablePathBuf::from_string (Remove redundant heap allocation in DisplayablePathBuf::from_string #336) (thanks @rhysd)
• We removed our dependency on the os_string_truncate feature (Remove dependency on os_string_truncate #421) (thanks @matthew-e-brown)
• scratch_arena had some UB and was fixed (Fix UB in scratch_arena #455) (thanks @comex)

Localization, Internationalization, Documentation

• Ellipses in localizations are now more consistently applied (Fix inconsistent ellipses in localization #282) (thanks @ivanovkirilg)
• The "Go to Line" dialog now uses : instead of / to clarify that you have to type "line:column" (Use colon : Instead of forward slash / for clarity #354) (thanks @sharshi)
• We improved the grammar for LargeClipboardWarning in German (Improved grammar for German LargeClipboardWarning #384) (thanks @keks137)
• readme and categories fields were added to Cargo.toml (Add readme/categories to Cargo.toml #415) (thanks @sorairolake)
• A rudimentary .desktop file was added (Add a rudimentary .desktop file #420)
• Fixed formatting of Vec<T> in our docs (Fix Vec<T> formatting in docs #435) (thanks @SakuraM)
• The "Document Picker" was renamed to "Go to File" to make it easier to find (Rename "Document Picker" to "Go to File" #456)

Miscellaneous

• We add a CI check for PRs now, which should prevent future "oopsies" (Add a CI check for PRs #360, ci: rename and add [push] to triggers #365)
• We added a LineCache struct in advance of adding syntax highlighting in the future (Add LineCache to optimize newlines lookup #352) (thanks @L1quidH2O)
• Benchmarks were added to make it easier to spot any future regressions (Add buffer benchmarks #403)
• If you prefer CodeLLDB, the project now has a launch option for it (Add a CodeLLDB launch option for VSCode #444) (thanks @Nikitf777)

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This discussion was created from the release 1.2.0.

[creeperlv]

Developers! Developers! Developers! ;D

By the way, is there any plan of extension support, vertical and horizontal splitting editor pane?

[keircn]

extensions likely not as the point of the editor is to be as small as possible, and extensions add a lot of overhead. Splitting windows could be something worth thinking about, though

[Consolatis]

My two cents: with features like splitting windows / having multiple documents on screen at the same time it doesn't feel like a minimal editor anymore (at least to me). There is vim or emacs for that. Or on the terminal side things like tmux or screen. And since msedit supports correct clipboard sharing out of the box you can also share content between two separate instances of msedit when they run for example in tmux.

[MattE4]

At some point the MS Team has to decide, how much functionality they want to add - or how minimalistic they want to keep it. Maybe it makes sense to split the project at a future point and have one minimalistic version and one feature rich version.

[keircn]

they could bundle a stripped down version in win11 and then have a more feature rich version available via winget

[sharshi]

The first line of the readme:

A simple editor for simple needs.

This is a stripped down editor.