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@syl20bnr syl20bnr released this 13 Apr 06:55
v0.101.5
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These release notes cover the versions from 0.101.0 to 0.101.5

Release 0.101.x (2015/04/13)

Hot new features

Choose your own editing style

Thanks to the new holy-mode Spacemacs can now be used by Vim users
or Emacs users by setting the dotspacemacs-editing-style variable to
'vim or 'emacs in the dotfile. In Emacs style the leader is
available on M-m. It is possible to dynamically switch between the
two style with SPC P tab.

Mandatory init function and new Pre and Post init functions

A package is now considered to be used only if there is a corresponding
<layer>/init-<package> function explicitly defined.
There is now two new functions to initialize a given package:

  • <layer>/pre-init-<package> which is called before the init function
  • <layer>/post-init-<package> which is called after the init function

Even if a pre or post function exist for a given package, an init
function is still required to consider the package to be used.

Auto-completion

Spacemacs now officially support auto-completion. The old layer
company-mode has been removed and auto-complete has been removed
from the spacemacs layer.
They are now part of a new layer called auto-completion.
You'll have to this add layer to your dotfile to enable auto-completion.

Syntax checking

Flycheck has been removed from the Spacemacs layer and moved to a new
layer called syntax-checking.
You'll have to add this layer to your dotfile to enable the fly syntax
checking.

Org

Org packages have been removed from Spacemacs layer and moved to a new
org layer.
You'll have to add this layer to your dotfile to enable the Org
configuration of Spacemacs.

New shortcuts in startup buffer

Recent files, project and bookmarks can be displayed on the startup
buffer. Check for the new dotfile variable dotspacemacs-startup-lists.
(thanks to CarlQLange)

New lighter in the mode line

Lighter letters have been updated, now the letter corresponds to the
key binding to toggle the associated mode. For instance auto-completion
is on ⓐ and thus can be toggled with SPC t a.

Better package update

The package update should now prevent even more errors when upgrading
a batch of packages.

Initial Release

New layers

  • evil-commentary: Alternative to evil-nerd-commenter
    (thanks to person808)
  • better-defaults: layer providing better defaults for Emacs commands,
    rather empty for now. (thanks to tuhdo)
  • ERC: an IRC client (thanks to swaroopch)
  • Racket: a lisp dialect (thanks to trishume)
  • xkcd: browse for XKCD in Emacs (thanks to CestDiego)
  • shell-scripts: layer containing shell specific modes like fish-mode
  • editorconfig: add support for EditorConfig (thanks to jupl)

New dotfile variables:

  • dotspacemacs-editing-style can be either vim or emacs.
  • dotspacemacs-verbose-loading if non nil the loading prints logs in
    the *Messages* buffer. Default value is nil.
  • dotspacemacs-startup-lists is a list of symbols to display recent
    items in the startup buffer, possible values are: recents,
    bookmarks and projects (thanks to CarlQLange)

Auto-complete

  • Move to auto-completion layer

C/C++

  • Add key bindings SPC m g a and SPC m g A for open alternate file
    (thanks to mijoharas)

Clojure

  • Add SPC m e f eval function at point
  • Add cider-eval-sexp-fu
  • Fix for cider-send-function-to-repl (thanks to nashamri)
  • Replace auto-complete by company for auto-completion
  • Move SPC d commands on SPC h to meet Spacemacs convetions (thanks to
    cpaulik)
  • Open cider-doc without asking for symbol, close it with q (thanks to
    cpaulik)

Company

  • Move to auto-completion layer
  • Refactoring of company configuration, it is now lazy-loaded and the
    company-backends list is now a buffer local variable. company is
    not enabled globally anymore.
  • Set company-delay to 0.2 instead of 0
  • Ignore company-quickhelp for Emacs version < 24.4
  • Add support for company in various languages (thanks to trishume)

Emacs Lisp

  • Add eval-sexp-fu (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Enable eldoc in eval-expression and IELM (thanks to tuhdo)
  • New key bindings SPC m e b, SPC m e c and SPC m e r to evaluate
    the buffer, the current form starting by set or def and the region
    respectively (thanks to ralesi)

Ess

  • Fix loading of ess-R-object-popup and ess-R-data-view
    (thanks to jcpetkovich)

Extra-Lang layer

  • Add Nim language (thanks to trishume)

Flycheck

  • Move to syntax-checking layer
  • Add flycheck-pos-tip (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Enable flycheck for lua files (thanks rphillips)

Git

  • Add gitconfig-mode and git-commit-mode (thanks to ralesi)
  • Add gitattributes-mode and gitignore-mode (thanks to r4ts0n)
  • Add key bindings in rebase mode
  • Add git-link package (thanks to CestDiego)
  • Enable Magit authentication on Windows (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Loads magit-gh-pulls only after requesting it (thanks to cpaulik)

Go

  • Add run-package-tests command on SPC m t p (thanks to robmerrell)
  • Fix path to go-oracle (thanks to Pursuit92)

Haskell

  • Move SPC m t and SPC m i under SPC m h
  • Remove hi2 (it is now integrated in haskell-mode)
  • Disable eletric-indent-mode
  • Fix flycheck-haskell autoload (thanks to jcpetkovich)
  • Fix flycheck loading
  • Move SPC m t to SPC m h t according to Spacemacs conventions (thanks
    to jeremyjh)
  • Add C– cmm-mode (thanks to bgamari)

Helm

  • Add helm-colors key binding on SPC C l (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Make helm-ff-doted-directory consistent (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Disable popwin-mode when a Helm session is active (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Fix lazy-loading of helm for describe commands
  • Add support for pt the platinum searcher (thanks to ralesi)
  • Add support for helm-ag-edit
  • Add function spacemacs/helm-projectile-search-dwim which select the
    first available external search tool (pt, ag, ack or grep) (thanks to
    ralesi)
  • Enable helm-descbinds globally (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Add key bindings for useful Helm commands: helm-info-at-point,
    helm-man-woman, helm-locate-library and helm-minibuffer-history
    (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Add key bindings for searching the web using helm-suggest (thanks to
    cpaulik)

Holy-mode

  • New package providing Emacs edition style to Spacemacs

IRC

  • rcirc: Create rcirc logging directory during init
    (thanks to jcpetkovich)
  • New ERC layer (thanks to swaroopch)
  • Add ERC keybindings (thans to cpaulik)
  • Move startup key bindings to prefix SPC a i

Markdown

  • Associate .mkd with markdown-mode (thanks to bgamari)

Org

  • Move to org layer
  • Bind evil-leader in org-agenda-map (thanks to luxbock)
  • Add org-pomodoro on SPC m p (thanks to swaroopch)
  • Add key bindings for org-clock-cancel on SPC m q,
    and org-set-effort on SPC m f (thanks to swaroopch)
  • Fix diminish of org-indent

Perspective

  • Rebind spacemacs/persp-switch-project to SPC p p
    (thanks to CestDiego)

Projectile

  • Move projectile switch project from SPC p S to SPC p p

Python

  • Add helm-pydoc on SPC m h d (thanks to danielwuz)
  • Fix pylookup configuration

Racket

  • Add key bindings for REPL interaction

Ruby

  • Lazy-load projectile-rails
  • Remove mode-line lighter for robe

Scala

  • Do not enable ensime in non-file buffers (thanks to chrisbarrett)

SLIME

  • Use slime for indentation (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Add extension for SBCL (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Allow to create a common lisp scratch buffer with slime-scratch
    (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Enable fuzzy completion with score (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Don't enable SLIME in Emacs Lisp (thanks to tuhdo)

Smartparens

  • Enable smartparens in eval-expression (thanks to tuhdo)

Themes

  • Fix themes-megapack layer where themes could not be browsed in Helm.
  • Add material theme (thanks to cpaulik)
  • Add darktooth theme (thanks to person808)
  • Add gotham theme (thanks to person808)

ycmd

  • Set global config only if not already set (thanks naseer)

Web

  • Add sass-mode (thanks to ryanartecona)
  • Ensure that less gets loaded (thanks to mijoharas)

Various Improvements and Changes

  • New evil state called evilified which is used in evilified
    buffers.
  • Remove the following packages from Spacemacs layer: dired+,
    fancy-narrow, string-edit, visual-regexp-steroids and wdired
  • Rename *-declarep functions to *-usedp functions
  • Display block selection info in the mode line
    (thanks to emmanueltouzery)
  • Bind K in normal state to SPC m h h if it exists
    (thanks to person808)
  • Add key binding for balancing windows on SPC w = (thanks to kini)
  • Add key binding to indent region on SPC j = (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Add key binding SPC w SPC for ace-window (thanks to ralesi)
  • Add key binding SPC b h to open the startup buffer (thanks to ralesi)
  • Add key binding SPC t ~ to toggle Vim tildes
  • Add adaptive wrap which appropriately indents wrapped lines (thanks to
    person808)
  • Add mouse support to line number column (thanks to ralesi)
  • single click selects line
  • double click selects text block
  • drag across lines selects all lines dragged across
  • Add highlight-numbers (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Add highlight-indentation on SPC t h i and SPC t h c (thanks to
    cpaulik)
  • Add ace-link package to spacemacs layer (thanks to danielwuz)
  • Add indent-guide on SPC t i (thanks to ralesi)
  • Add link to cpaulik tutorial to use the Spacemacs icons in Ubuntu Unity
  • Add C-w and brackets [] to guide-key-sequence (thanks to ralesi)
  • Add info+ to improve Info reading experience (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Add default layers to dotfile template: auto-completion,
    better-defaults, git, markdown, org and syntax-checking
    (thanks to CarlQLange)
  • Move some toggles on SPC T: fringe, menu bar, tool bar,
    frame maximize, frame fullscreen, frame transparency
  • Restore rectangle-mark-mode key binding (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Make quit the isearch-mode like vim (thanks to dsdshcym)
  • Enable goto-address-prog-mode which makes URL in code comments clickable
    (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Disable aggressive indent for ediff buffers (thanks chrisbarrett)
  • Prevent cursor from moving into minibuffer prompt (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Remove tildes in Spacemacs buffer and read-only buffers like Info and
    help (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Ask user editing style when creating .spacemacs file (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Fix for persistent-server if server never got started (thanks to ralesi)
  • Fix nyan cat starting rainbow on a light background
  • Fix some double loading of some packages
  • Fix double loading of extensions.el files
  • Fix question for preferred coding systems on Microsoft Windows
  • Properly enable saveplace (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Don't bind C-d in ido-completion-map to ido-delete-file-at-head
    (thanks to segv)
  • Don't refer to ~/.emacs.d/ directly at various places
    (thanks to jcpetkovich)
  • Don't want paste-micro-state to pop up when pasting in ex command
    prompt (thanks to ralesi)
  • Don't cycle when press TAB in eshell (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Don't insert extra quote in dotspacemacs-mode (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Adapt some micro-states to the micro-state macro (thanks to ralesi)
  • Improve smooth scrolling configuration (reduce some point jump)
    (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Improve doge banner grammar (thanks to mathpunk)
  • New HOTOWs.md file in /doc
  • Add Buy A Drink badge to README.md
  • Typo and documentation updates (thanks to danielwuz, swaroopch,
    CestDiego, IvanMalison, agevelt, nwolfe)

Hot Fixes

Startup Buffer

  • Don't display the release notes in the startup buffer when Emacs is restarted
    after a fresh install
  • Startup buffer: fix widget activation in holy-mode (thanks to tuhdo)
  • Startup buffer: Don't fontify the startup buffer when rainbow-identifiers

Auto-completion

  • Fix error when toggling auto-completion in some buffers

Haskell

  • Add new haskell-snippets package (fixes error with required haskell-yas)
  • Fix missing quote in haskell-indentation

Org

  • Org layer: exclude ox-gfm since it seems problematic for some users.
    package is used

Ruby

  • Fix auto-completion activation.

Themes

  • Fix conflict between official Spacemacs solarized theme and
    color-theme-solarized declared in themes-megapack layer.
  • Add rules for all base16 themes (thanks to mkaito)

Various Fixes

  • revert back ag as the default search tool instead of pt, pt can
    conflict with pt command line tool from TCL parser tools.
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