Release 0.18.0

Featureful user input, ‘mini.deps’ freeze, ‘mini.files’ LSP integration, and a heap of module tweaks

Hello, Neovim users!

Today is the release day of ‘mini.nvim’ version 0.18.0. Almost half a year and 188 commits after the previous release. Arguably, the wait is a bit too much: I prefer to have around three months between releases, but with at least one new module (this was the bottleneck in this release).

Here is a full version changelog if you are curious.

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There is one new module:

• ‘mini.input’ - Get user input with fully customizable key and view handling. Can show as floating window, statusline/tabline/winbar, virtual line/text. Provides a vim.ui.input() implementation. You can read more in its release post.

  This was a module number 45. Its tests also pushed total ‘mini.nvim’ test case count to be over 5000!

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Notable changes include:

• Update all relevant modules to prefer using ‘mini.input’ functionality (if module is enabled). Like when asking for function/tag name in ‘mini.ai’ + ‘mini.surround’ or interactive glob filtering in grep_live ‘mini.pick’ picker.

• Neovim 0.9 is soft deprecated. Its support will be soon fully removed on the main branch.

• Development of ‘mini.deps’ is frozen in favor of suggesting to use vim.pack. See ‘mini.deps’ README for more details.

• ‘mini.files’ now has LSP integration, i.e. this makes some file system actions (create, delete, rename) LSP aware.

• ‘mini.misc’ got a new safely() function to act as a replacement for MiniDeps.now() and MiniDeps.later().

• ‘mini.sessions’ got a new restart() function that enhances :restart command added in Neovim 0.12. It allows restarting while preserving current session. This is meant as a temporary solution until upstream adjusts the behavior, which will hopefully be relatively soon.

• ‘mini.pick’ had several notable improvements:

  • It now supports upstream vim.ui.select() preview interface. This means that plugins that want to provide custom picker with preview now can use vim.ui.select() + opts.preview_item and preview will work with ‘mini.pick’ implementation of vim.ui.select().

  • Non-streaming paste from the system clipboard (i.e. what is usually a Cmd+Shift+C) is now supported when a picker is active.

  • Update grep and grep_live pickers to allow new method local option to control pattern matching method (regex or plain).

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Thank you all for using and supporting the MINI project! There is an ambitious plan for its evolution, but let’s hope it is not too ambitious :)