0.8.1

TL;DR: Search/replace and reduced memory usage per line

New features:

• Find/replace strings with range (9acc88e, 0ae5ef1, 769d458)
  • Boyer Moore algorithm or multithreaded character search (b9a4878)
• Warn for unsaved changes (02d161d)
• Delete whole line with Ctrl-K (9cfd730)
• Syntax highlighting for more types (f32de98)
• Command for terminal commands are inline, except from replace (fd8ae71)
• Compile with $(nproc) threads, don't reinstall packages on Arch (3a0b6b4)

Optimizations:

• Reduce memory usage of empty line by 50%
  • Shrink gap buffer struct to 16 bytes, 128-bit with bit packing (4b2e6d5)
• Arrays > 1KiB are heap-allocated (360a96e)

Bug fixes:

• Delete on EOF does backspace (7d95b51)
• Snap to tab on x after maxx (9809917)
• Insert character at x = maxx; cut line (1f154b6)
• Reprint characters after deleting, if line is cut (e11b9e3)
• Syntax highlighting on new files (e11b9e3)

Kri packaged for Arch Linux by @adamperkowsk, available in the AUR (#27)

Full Changelog: b89f695...v0.8.1

0.8

Finally, the first stable release is here!

New features:

• Go to previous/next word with shift + arrow key (379e04b, 00a7446)
• Build faster by allowing parallel compilation

Optimizations:

• 42% (19ns) faster syntax highlighting (7570974)

Bug fixes:

• Memory leak when resizing window, saving (8af9b81, 3519a33)
• Go back from tab + space rather than pure tab (659636b)

Refactorings / Cleanups:

• Add function descriptions comments where missing (b55fea7)
• Apply highlighting macro to function
• Declarations on header files, definition on source files (2b179dd)

Full Changelog: v0.8-rc2...v0.8

0.8 rc 2

Optimizations:

• Resize buffer on next power of 2 (a5d2f41)

Missing features:

• Indicate line has been cut by adding a highlighted > character. (7cc45c8)
• Print rest of line after inserting at maxx (26f27e5)
• Use actual tab by default

Bug fixes:

• Delete key on unicode (4f67029)
• Merge lines with delete (41f959c)
• Go to last char of last line (68c591f)
• Window resize signal handled (1020191)
• Backspace on tab (eedf4e5)
• Uncut line with unicode or tab cut in half (c54cd69. 9f7fa1e)
• Syntax highlighting regression (96db7ba)

Refactor/Cleanup:

• Merge usual patterns of move+print to a macro (68bc256)
• ifdef highlight + highlight into macro (b90c309)
• Refactor key_left, key_right (eedf4e5, 7cc45c8)

View more info about release schedule.
Full Changelog: v0.8-rc1...v0.8-rc2

0.8 rc 1

No significant new features as this is release focused on bug fixing (mostly tabs and offsets).

New:

• shrink command now also show how many bytes were freed (64b091b)

Fixes:

• Tabs (e1c91be, cea7f27, 4e18543)
  • Calculate offset of tab when traversing
  • Properly delete tabs
  • Better home/end
  • Print enough spaces to match tab
  • Do not scroll when inserting before tab
• Go to end-of-line with trailing whitespace, tabs, or unicode (d28b970, 0102bbd, 8c42dab)
• data() function in gap buffer (97b68be)
• Cut lines multiple times (227359f, 73d93eb, 28ad86c)
• Merge lines with delete key (cca4041)
• Shrink lines (64b091b)
• Calculate offset of x by up/down arrow (ed65eea)
• Various bugs in wizard.sh (59e2fbc, 64b091b)
  • Detect correctly install/uninstall path
  • Fix hard-coded strings/paths for configurations
• printline() with offset > 2x bytes (73d93eb, d28b970)

Removed obsolete commands: setgap, fixgap and fixstr (59e2fbc, 5ea0b9a)

Full Changelog: v0.8-beta4...v0.8-rc1

0.8 beta 4

New:

• Syntax highlighting (48333d7)
• RAM usage now is the PSS (0ccdc12)
• View line after wrap point (when line length > maxx) (0ccdc12)
• Shrink buffers to just fit lines (gap = 0) (a08bcc0)

Optimizations:

• 2.5x performance boost in reading (3edb996)
• data function with zero memory allocations

Fixes:

• Line wrapping with unicode characters
• Memory leaks and errors (as detected by valgrind)

Full Changelog: v0.8-beta3...v0.8-beta4

0.8 beta 3

New:

• Optimizations
  • 2x faster reading of file (buffering) (14c87b0)
  • 3x faster in moving cursor (SIMD) (3360e94)
• Scroll to specific line command (scroll)
• Renamed some commands (628e3f2)
• Read-only mode (no processing of text) (bcfb3a1)
• --help to view usage guide

Fixes:

• Compilation on ncurses 6 and GCC 13 (42bb91c)
• Install/Uninstall via wizard script (284a938)
• Insert newline at non-end of line and text

Full Changelog: v0.8-beta2...v0.8-beta3

0.8 beta 2

New:

• Performance improvements on moving cursor (5de99e7, 2d50028, ba611a8)
• Improve reading performance by 36% (e46bcf2)
• Open another file (ba611a8)

Fixes:

• Backspace when cursor is at x=0 merges the two line (bb9b251)
• Save multiple times (89f10aa)
• Memory leaks (15510f6, e46bcf2)

Full Changelog: v0.8-beta1...v0.8-beta2

0.8 beta 1

First Beta of 0.8

Gapped buffer data structure #23
Switch to a custom gap buffer, rather than rope

Benefits:

• Less RAM usage
• multithreaded with OpenMP
• faster amortized insertion

The container which wraps lines is now a linked list for O(1) insertion of lines.

Other changes include:

• performance gains
• better handling of newlines
• command prompt in top bar
• more robust reading/saving/printing
• modular code

Full Changelog: v0.8-alpha3...v0.8-beta1

0.8 alpha 3

New features:

• Customizable keybindings

Bug fixes:

• Enter
• Line numbering

Full Changelog: v0.8-alpha2...v0.8-alpha3

0.8 alpha 2

Changes Include:

1. Makefile
2. Rope data structure
3. Completely fixed writing
4. Unicode supported with wchar_t

Full Changelog: v0.8-alpha1...v0.8-alpha2