Release 0.13.0

release

Two new modules, visible updates to ‘mini.comment’ and ‘mini.statusline’

Author

Evgeni Chasnovski

Published

June 13, 2024

Hello, Neovim users!

Today is the release day of mini.nvim version 0.13.0. It includes two new quite feature-rich modules coming out of beta-testing, some breaking features for existing modules, and a few small updates for other modules.

This release marks the crossing of curiously aligned milestones. The ‘mini.nvim’ project now has: - 40+ modules. - 4000+ GitHub stars (thank you all for your support ❤️). - 4000+ test cases.

Here is a full release description if you are curious.

Two new modules coming out of beta-testing:

mini.diff - module to interactively visualize difference between buffer text and its reference. This is basically a ‘mini.nvim’ version of ‘lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim’, but with more general design towards reference text (not only from Git index) and a bit different way to show inline difference (called “overlay”).
mini.git - module for a tighter Git integration. Its primary goal is to track per buffer Git related data to be shown in statusline. However, it also includes two other big sets of features: :Git command for a more direct use of Git within current Neovim session and helper functions for a more interactive Git history exploration. It is not intended as ‘tpope/vim-fugitive’ or full featured Git client replacement.

Two plugins got visible breaking updates:

‘mini.comment’ now treats whitespace more coherently (updated during the preparation for its essentially upstreaming to core):
- Blank lines are ignored when deciding whether to comment or uncomment. In practice it means that region with commented and blank lines will be uncommented rather than commented.
- Whitespace in ‘commentstring’ is now treated more explicitly. With default config this is rarely noticeable, but might matter for people using options.pad_comment_parts = false.
‘mini.statusline’ got several big updates:
- The new ‘mini.diff’ and ‘mini.git’ modules now take precedence over ‘lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim’. Meaning the latter now is not required for ‘mini.statusline’ to show its full potential.
- section_diagnostics() now does not depend on whether there is an LSP server attached to the buffer (which is more aligned with section’s purpose).
- There are two new sections added and immediately are now used in default active statusline content: section_diff() and section_lsp(). For users with default ‘mini.statusline’ config this mostly means that diff is shown with extra icon and there is an indicator for the number of attached LSP servers.

Several plugins got small-ish but useful updates:

‘mini.deps’ now highlights commit messages which indicate breaking change in a conventional commit style (which ‘mini.nvim’ itself now uses and I am very happy with it).
‘mini.map’ got gen_integration.diff() integration to highlight hunks from ‘mini.diff’.
‘mini.tabline’ got an option to format tab labels.
And more…

Thanks for reading and showing interest in ‘mini.nvim’ project!

Hope to see you soon in the next module release (there are some really nice things planned)!