Release 0.15.0

release

Snippets plus various features here and there

Author

Evgeni Chasnovski

Published

January 30, 2025

Hello, Neovim users!

The mini.nvim plugin has released a new 0.15.0 version. It has been a bit more than four months and 168 commits since the latest release, so the new one is long overdue. Here is a full release description if you are curious.

The main new feature is that one (big and important) module is coming out of beta-testing:

mini.snippets - manage and expand snippets. It is a minimal yet feature-rich way of managing snippets combined with own implementation of LSP snippet parsing/insert. You can read more in this release post.

It proved to be one of the most tasking module to write, for various reasons. But we’ve overcome this :)

The rest of release cycle I wanted to dedicate to adding snippet support to ‘mini.completion’ (including ‘mini.snippets’ integration through in-process LSP server) and overall backlog cleaning. The cleaning is taking too long (for again various reasons) and is not even finished yet. So I decided to make a release now (especially with so much time after the previous one) and improve ‘mini.completion’ later.

A lot of existing plugins got new updates. Here are the highlights:

‘mini.files’ confirm approach was updated:
- Synchronization can now be canceled (instead of only skipping applying file system actions). This will return to the explorer’s state as it was prior to sync start.
- Closing explorer now asks for confirmation only if there are pending file system actions (and not just modified buffers).
‘mini.hues’ has two more saturation levels: 'lowmedium' and 'mediumhigh'.
‘mini.indentscope’ now is:
- More responsive on huge (10K+) scopes via introducing n_lines option that limits the scope computation.
- More customizable via draw.predicate, which can be used to decide when a scope is drawn.
‘mini.pick’ got substantial updates:
- grep and grep_live pickers now allow globs to limit search in particular globs. There is also a new built-in <C-o> mapping to add a single glob pattern.
- Picker window now sets window-local working directory (the one that is printed with :pwd) to picker’s working directory for a more correct processing when picker’s cwd differs from a Neovim’s one.
- A new MiniPickMatch event allows customizing picker on every query match update (like customizing height to only fit matches).
And more.

Thanks for the continued support of ‘mini.nvim’ project! We are past 6.4K stars now ❤️

Hope to see you soon with new and exciting updates!