Micro 2.0.15

Get well into 2026 and have a happy new year! :fireworks:

What's Changed

New options

• truecolor (supersedes the MICRO_TRUECOLOR environment variable) (by @JoeKar in #2867)
• showchars (deprecates indentchar) (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3760)
• lockbindings for completely disallowing plugins to modify keybindings (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3618)
• helpsplit for changing default split type for the help command (by @JoeKar in #3502)
• pageoverlap for setting number of lines kept during page up/page down (by @nimishjha in #3518)

New actions

• FirstTab, LastTab, FirstSplit and LastSplit (by @masmu in #3403)
  • Note: also changed the behavior of NextTab, PreviousTab, NextSplit, PreviousSplit
  • But adjusted the default keybindings so the default behavior remains unchanged
• SkipMultiCursorBack as a counterpart to SkipMultiCursor (by @masmu in #3404)
• CursorToViewTop, CursorToViewCenter, CursorToViewBottom (by @nimishjha in #3506)
• Duplicate for duplicating the selection only, not the whole line (by @dmaluka in #3335)

Improved actions

• Improve and unify CopyLine, CutLine, DeleteLine, DuplicateLine actions (by @dmaluka in #3335 and #3519)
  • Note: changed the behavior of those actions
  • But also adjusted the default keybindings so the default behavior remains unchanged
• Restore pre-2.0.14 behavior of SpawnMultiCursor{Up,Down} (by @dmaluka in #3503)
• Nano-like page up/page down functionality (by @nimishjha in #3518 and @dmaluka in #3555)

Lua improvements

• Plugins never write to settings.json or bindings.json anymore (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3618)
• Add onBufferOptionChanged callback (by @JoeKar in #2962)
• Add SpawnCursorAtLoc() (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3441)
• Expose bufpane's DoubleClick and TripleClick to plugins (by @cutelisp in #3720)
• Pass mouse info to {on,pre}MouseXXX callbacks (by @dmaluka in #3779)
• Support goto statement from Lua 5.2 (by @matthias314 in #3597)

Syntax highlighting improvements

• Haskell syntax: various improvements and fixes (by @Andriamanitra in #3373)
• Rust syntax:
  • Recognize byte strings and C strings (by @jmcorey in #3452)
  • Add more keywords and types (by @edwloef in #3677 and @codemanticism in #3759)
• C++ syntax:
  • Highlight binary and hex literals with single-quote separator per C++14 (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3310, #3870, #3891)
  • Highlight auto as data type per C++17 (by @2013ZRZ in #3836)
  • Improve C++ filetype detection by using more keywords (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3310)
• Shell syntax:
  • Correctly match parameter expansions without braces (by @niten94 in #3663)
  • Match variables with leading underscore (by @Andriamanitra in #3833)
  • Match --options-with-hyphens (by @nabeelsherazi in #3863)
• Asm syntax: highlight C-like comments (by @dmaluka in #3696)
• Ruby syntax: highlight predefined variables (by @Andriamanitra in #3778)
• CSS syntax: add more commands (by @mystieneko in #3436)
• Swift syntax: add shebang (by @frkd-dev in #3451)
• Java syntax: add var keyword (by @owencmcgrath in #3526)
• Javascript syntax: add .cjs extension (by @med-ab in #3539)
• Groovy syntax: fix triple quotes highlighting (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3858)
• Fish syntax: fix variable expansion (by @remisalmon in #3830)
• Raku syntax: add .rakutest extension (by @juanfra684 in #3406)
• Arduino syntax: make filetype detection less aggressive (by @Andriamanitra in #3848)
• Add OpenSCAD syntax (by @jmcorey in #3410)
• Add PRQL syntax (by @vanillajonathan in #3313)
• Add meson syntax (by @asakovets in #3236)
• Add nftables config syntax (by @theredcmdcraft in #3325 and #3517)

Various improvements

• Save files safely, writing to the backup file first (by @JoeKar in #3273, #3806, #3814, @Neko-Box-Coder in #3807 and @dmaluka in #3822)
  • Also write settings.json, bindings.json etc safely as well, using a temporary file
• Support vim-like +/text search in command-line args (by @luca020400 in #3767)
• Add toggle & togglelocal commands for toggling boolean options (by @cutelisp in #3783)
• Add -vsplit & -hsplit as optional arguments for help (by @JoeKar in #3502)
• Make textfilter work with multicursors (by @dmaluka in #3511)
• Support \x syntax for raw escape sequences in bindings.json (by @JoeKar in #3595)
• Add overwrite mode indicator to the status line (by @JoeKar in #3620)
• Support showing git commit hash and branch in the status line (by @niten94 in #3673)
• Support terminal emulation on Solaris, OpenBSD* and NetBSD (by @niten94 in #3714)
  • OpenBSD - on 32-bit only
• Display name "Raw event viewer" instead of "No Name" for raw pane (by @blamedrop in #3791)
• Differentiate built-in plugins when listing (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3810)
• Disable sudo save prompt on Windows (by @niten94 in #3866)
• Only set buffer type to stdout when no file args are passed (by @AndydeCleyre in #3910)
• Linter: add ruff for Python (by @Andriamanitra in #3657)
• Linter: ldc2 and gdc for D (by @kodesettings in #3892)
• Add comment support for typescript (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3857)
• README: Update micro's version for the Go Report Card (by @JoeKar in #3835)

Bugfixes

• Fix cd a\ causing crash on Windows (by @JoeKar in #3596)
• Fix SIGINT killing micro when saving with sudo (by @dmaluka in #3495)
• Fix crash when exiting terminal in some cases (by @JoeKar in #3738)
• Fix crash when shell.JobSpawn is called from Lua while no callback is set (by @matthias314 in #3554)
• Fix 2.0.14 regression: inconsistently working cursor up/down after selection (by @JoeKar in #3540)
• Fix 2.0.14 regression: colorscheme plugins not working (by @dmaluka in #3761)
• Fix non-working raw escape bindings after restarting the screen (by @dmaluka in #3468)
• Fix spurious backups of unmodified files (by @dmaluka in #3822)
• Fix drawing wide characters in the info bar (by @Andriamanitra in #3919)
• Search / replace fixes:
  • Fix infinite loop in replace when empty string matches (by @matthias314 in #3566)
  • Make FindNext and FindPrevious work with empty matches (by @matthias314 in #3572)
  • Match beginning and end of line correctly (by @matthias314 in #3575 and #3914)
• Fixes related to saving files:
  • Don't prompt to save file if the same file is opened in another buffer (by @matthias314 in #3559 and @niten94 in #3719)
  • Prompt to save new file regardless of autosave enabled (by @yz778 in #3626)
  • Fix per-filetype settings not being applied when saving as a new file (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3625, #3688 and @JoeKar in #3662)
  • Support saving with sudo in more cases (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3689)
  • Update displayed name when saving file with a different name (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3689)
• Fix comment plugin not using user settings when overriding default setting (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3424)
  • Introduces comment.type option which deprecates existing commenttype
• Fix rendering Unicode 14.0+ emojis (by @JoeKar in #3601)
• Properly handle escaped and quoted characters in keybindings (by @matthias314 in #3612)
• Fix tabs suddenly becoming invisible after tabmove (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3619)
• Fix cycling through completion suggestions stopping at non-word character (by @Andriamanitra in #3650)
• Fix scrollbar covering cursor (by @cutelisp in #3741)
• Fix ruler drawn on top of the tab bar (by @cutelisp in #3744)
• Relocate buffer view after setting options that affect it (by @dmaluka in #3743)
• Fix non-working proportional resize after closing a nested VSplit inside a HSplit (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3708)
• Fix non-working matching brace highlighting in sunny-day colorscheme (by @tautte in #3735)
• Fix micro broken on OpenBSD (by @niten94 in #3561 and #3895)

Documentation improvements

• Update and improve man page and micro -help output (by @dmaluka in #3812)
• List more bindable actions in help keybindings (by @Andriamanitra in #3685 and @dmaluka in #3799)
• Document binding keys to Lua functions (by @dmaluka in #3799)
• Document passing *tcell.EventMouse to mouse action callbacks (by @dmaluka in #3799)
• Update and correct documentation for onAction return value (by @dmaluka in #3799)
• Some small improvements (by @cutelisp in #3786, #3818)

Build system changes

• Minimum supported Go version changed from 1.16 to 1.19 (by @alexandear in #3461 and @JoeKar in #3595)
• Make all builds explicitly fully static (disable CGO) (by @JoeKar in #3466)
• Add build target for Windows ARM64 (by @creeperlv in #3512)
• Add build targets for Solaris and Illumos (by @niten94 in #3714)
• Set version as release when there are no commits ahead (by @niten94 in #3515)
• Fetch tags with --force (by @JoeKar in #3448)
• Micro's dependencies (the forked tcell and others) moved to https://github.com/micro-editor (by @JoeKar in #3593, #3595, #3596, #3601, #3600)

New Contributors

• @mystieneko made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3436
• @jmcorey made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3410
• @frkd-dev made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3451
• @JonathanBerkeley made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3469
• @alexandear made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3467
• @theredcmdcraft made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3325
• @creeperlv made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3512
• @nimishjha made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3506
• @owencmcgrath made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3526
• @med-ab made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3539
• @antoine2711 made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3615
• @yz778 made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3626
• @usfbih8u made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3647
• @edwloef made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3677
• @cutelisp made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3716
• @tautte made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3735
• @codemanticism made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3759
• @vanillajonathan made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3313
• @blamedrop made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3791
• @asakovets made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3236
• @remisalmon made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3830
• @deepdring made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3834
• @2013ZRZ made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3836
• @luca020400 made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3767
• @kodesettings made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3892
• @nabeelsherazi made their first contribution in https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/pull/3863

Full Changelog: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/compare/v2.0.14...v2.0.15