Release 0.11.0

release

New fuzzy picker in town, major hipatterns update, and many more

Author

Evgeni Chasnovski

Published

November 17, 2023

Hello, Neovim users!

Today is the day to update mini.nvim to version 0.11.0. It includes two big plugins coming out of beta-testing and many small updates to other modules as a result of backlog cleanup.

Here is a full release description if you are curious.

Two new modules are about making a performant picker with minimal UI and a lot of preconfigured pickers:

mini.pick - pick anything. A general picker as alternative to Telescope and Fzf-Lua. Both of these plugins are great, but I wanted to have a slightly different UI and UX: a one window design with on demand preview. I am daily driving it for about two and a half months now and don’t miss anything. Here is a link to the announcement.
mini.extra - extra functionality for ‘mini.nvim’ modules. Its main goal is mostly to contain 20+ preconfigured pickers for ‘mini.pick’ (like for built-in diagnostic, LSP, Neovim histories, etc.) and several textobject specifications for ‘mini.ai’ (line, buffer, indent, etc.), while still allowing more diverse functionality in the future. Here is a link to the announcement.

‘mini.hipatterns’ got a substantial update:

Highlighter can now have an array of patterns to highlight, not just a single one.
Highlighter can now define more general extmark_opts. This allows highlighting not only with single highlight group over the matched range, but adding virtual text (like covering some sensitive words with x), highlighting whole line of the match, add sign, etc.
Built-in hex color highlighter now can highlight using inline extmarks (so that colored symbols appear to the left of the color and not over it). But only on Neovim>=0.10.
There is a new get_matches() function to get current matches with their positions. This powers the pickers.hipatterns picker form ‘mini.extra’.

There are also small-ish feature updates for ‘mini.bufremove’, ‘mini.clue’, ‘mini.comment’, ‘mini.completion’, ‘mini.files’, ‘mini.map’, ‘mini.misc’, ‘mini.starter’, and ‘mini.test’.

On another note, ‘mini.nvim’ just passed the 3000 GitHub stars mark. Thank you all for continuous support. I love you 3000!

Thanks for reading! Hope to see you in the next module release!