Orbiton 2.66.0

UX

• When the status line is enabled AND a maximum column width is specified, the column limit is indicated with | characters, behind the text.
• ctrl-g can now toggle "block mode" where multiple lines can be edited at once (this is an experimental feature).
• Replace the "Insert time" menu choice with a "Toggle status line" menu choice.

AI

• Remove support for "fix as you type" and inserting generated text with OpenAI / GPT3. Initial support for Gemini is in the gemini branch, but the whole interaction with AI /LLMs was not as useful as I thought. Perhaps a future menu option for fixing bugs would be more useful.

Performance and size improvements

• Noticeably faster rendering, due to improvements in the github.com/xyproto/vt100 package.
• Much smaller executable (12 MiB vs 24 MiB) due to the temporary removal of AI-support.
• Update the default profile guided optimization file.
• Let some string variables be constants.
• Detect the current platform at build-time rather than at run-time.

Editing Markdown

• Let ctrl-w in a Markdown file attempt to sort all tables in the document, when the cursor is not over a specific table.

Programming language and file support

• Better handling of tabs and spaces when saving Makefiles.
• Recognize more GLSL shader types.
• When pressing ctrl-w in an empty Python file named __init__.py, leave it empty and don't insert a Python template.

Building and testing

• Make it possible to run tests when ctrl-space is pressed in a Go file with a _test.go suffix.
• Add initial support for the C3 programming language, including "jump to error" when ctrl-space is pressed.
• Make it possible to compile some GLSL shaders to SPIR-V by pressing ctrl-space.

Man page related

• Let the space key scroll down when viewing man pages.
• Also make it possible to quit with q when viewing man pages.

Syntax highlighting

• Add initial syntax highlighting for the C3 programming language.
• Improve syntax highlighting for Python.
• Improve syntax highlighting for Hare.

Build-related

• Revert a .PHONY-related change to the Makefile.
• Remove --sort-common from the default Arch Linux LDFLAGS in the Makefile.

Various changes

• Minor improvements, as suggested by staticcheck.
• Update the URL to the web page.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.
• Performance improvements.

Orbiton 2.65.12

New features

• Copy to the clipboard if the executable starts with c. For example, if /usr/local/bin/copyfile is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/o, then copyfile somefile.txt will copy that file into the clipboard.
• Paste the clipboard into a file if the executable starts with p. For example, if /usr/local/bin/pastefile is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/o, then pastefile somefile.txt will paste the contents of the clipboard into that file. pastefile -f can be used if the file already exists and should be overwritten.

Fixes

• Fix an issue that could happen if the terminal was resized, while signals were sent, and while the user was hammering the Esc button.

Improvements

• Adjust the placement of a menu item in the ctrl-o menu, when editing HTML or XML.
• Move the cursor to the start of the first line when sorting a block of lines.
• Do not try to expand XML and HTML tags by default. This can be enabled in the ctrl-o menu.
• Skip the status message if SIGTERM is received.
• Better syntax highlighting when editing Dockerfiles.
• Temporarily remove the HTML formatting feature since it could not handle JS within HTML and was annoying.
• Modify how ctrl-a and ctrl-e behaves if a macro is being replayed.

Various

• Build the release binaries with Go 1.22.4.
• Minor changes to the Makefile.
• Minor changes to the GTK-3 front-end.
• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.

Orbiton 2.65.11

• Fix an issue with a mutex when redrawing, in connection with signals and ctrl-c.
• Make ctrl-k a bit faster, when removing lines or deleting to the end of the current line.
• Add initial support for CSS.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.

Orbiton 2.65.10

• Add a file that was missing from the vendored dependencies.

Orbiton 2.65.9

Improvements

• Disregard copy/paste portals that are older than 25 minutes when starting o.
• Improve the status message when copying lines to the clipboard.
• Improve the text/binary detection to also support UTF-16.
• Improve how signals are handled.

Language support

• Respect # as the single line comment marker for R and Ruby.
• Add initial support for Objective-C.
• Switch from autopep8 to black as the tool used to format Python code when ctrl-w is pressed.
• Adjust the ktlint parameters (for formatting Kotlin).

Syntax highlighting

• Minor improvements to the JavaScript syntax highlighting.
• Minor improvements to the C syntax highlighting.

Various

• Improve the OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD support.
• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.

Orbiton 2.65.8

• Revert a commit that made tests stop working in the GitHub workflow.

Orbiton 2.65.7

Redrawing

• Lock the statusbar for redrawing when ctrl-c is pressed.
• Try a different approach to redrawing if SIGWINCH happens.
• Fix the redraw if esc is pressed after ctrl-l has been pressed.

User interface

• Use a better placement for the initial "quick help" box.
• Adjust the right hand side progress bar movement.
• Let the run output box have smarter resizing.

Programming

• Use exact imports when formatting Java or Kotlin code (not x.*).
• Add an -i flag for being able to specify an input file for when the program is being built and run with double ctrl-space. This can be useful when solving Advent of Code tasks. The default input file is input.txt, if it exists.
• Let ctrl-g look for more files when searching for definitions.
• Do not use kotlin-native by default for Kotlin code if kotlin-native is installed. Look for kotlinx.cinterop.

User experience

• Improve the filename completion at start.
• If a search is active and ctrl-g is pressed, then clear the search, but don't stop there.
• Fix the Export menu option on macOS, for exporting Markdown to HTML if ctrl-space might not be available.
• Minor changes to the (experimental) screenshot feature (available when the high-score has been beaten in the little built-in game).

Syntax highlighting

• Improve the syntax highlighting for Go.
• Improve the syntax highlighting for configuration files.

Improvements to the code

• Simplify the Makefile.
• Remove several unused functions with the help of the deadcode utility.

General

• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.

Orbiton 2.65.6

Markdown

• Add a template for Markdown so that a simple template can be inserted by pressing ctrl-w in a blank file.
• Disable ctrl-t as an alias for toggling checkboxes in Markdown. ctrl-space can still be used.

User experience

• When browsing up and down with ctrl-n or ctrl-p, do not insert an n or p if it is pressed within 50 ms of browsing up and down. This helps avoid stray n or p letters by accident after browsing up and down repeatedly.
• When displaying the last run command with o -l on the command line, strings that looks like filenames are double quoted.

Programming

• Make the indentation smarter for switch/case statements.
• When displaying the output from running programs by pressing ctrl-space twice, only trim whitespace from the right side of the output (and also display a couple more lines).
• Use the IntelliJ style when formatting code with ktlint.
• Fix a bug where the editor tried to insert parenthesis for a bare while { statement in Kotlin.

New language support

• Add initial support for Swift.
• Add initial support for Inko.
• Improve syntax highlighting of single line comment markers.

Syntax highlighting

• Improve syntax highlighting for Kotlin.
• Improve syntax highlighting for configuration files.
• Improve syntax highlighting for Makefiles.

General

• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.

Orbiton 2.65.5

• Fix a bug with the progress indicator that appears when pressing ctrl-n or ctrl-p.
• Improve how the tutorial and the quick help text is presented.

Orbiton 2.65.4

Performance

• Allocate memory before loading data from a file.

Editor Behavior

• When pasting code at a place that is indented, try to respect the current indentation level.
• After pressing ctrl-l to jump somewhere, also let ctrl-n and ctrl-p work in this mode.
• Use a scroll-bar like indicator on the right hand side instead of the experimental mini-map.

Syntax Highlighting

• Improve syntax highlighting for configuration files.
• Handle backticks (`) in Markdown in a more correct way.
• Improve syntax highlighting for code blocks in Markdown.

User Help

• Adjust the wording of the --help output.
• Improve how the Quick Help box is being drawn.
• If the user opens up a source code file, edits and saves it within 30 seconds, recognize the user as a developer and disable the quick help screen.

General

• Build releases with (and also require) Go 1.21.
• Update CI configuration.
• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.