Ivy 0.12.0 is out

20 Jul 2019

Intro

Ivy is a completion method that's similar to Ido, but with emphasis on simplicity and customizability.

Overview

The current release constitutes of 398 commits and 6 months of progress since 0.11.0. Many issues ranging from #1904 to #2151 were fixed. The number of people who contributed code as grown to 148. Thanks, everyone!

Details on changes

Changelog.org has been a part of the repository since 0.6.0, you can get the details of the current and past changes:

• in org-mode
• in HTML

Highlights

Many improvements are incremental and don't require any extra code to enable. I'll go over a few selected features that require a bit of information to make a good use of them.

New bindings

• counsel-descbinds
  • M-o x execute action.
• counsel-file-jump
  • M-o d dired.
• counsel-find-file
  • M-o c copy file.
  • ` bookmarks: efficiently jump between recent directories.
  • $ directories stored in environment variables.
  • C-DEL go up directory. Customize: counsel-up-directory-level.
  • RET open file. Customize: counsel-find-file-extern-extensions.
  • // when on remote, cd to remote root.
  • / C-j select local root.
  • ~ when on remote, cd to remote home.
  • / C-j ~ cd to local home from remote.
• counsel-git-log
  • M-o v open the current commit in magit.
• counsel-rg
  • C-x C-d change the current directory for grep.
• ivy-avy
  • C-v to scroll down.
  • M-v to scroll up.
• ivy-read C-o
  • m mark and move down.
  • u unmark and move down.
  • DEL move up and unmark.
  • t toggle marks.
  • d perform the action on all marked elements.
• ivy-switch-buffer
  • C-k kill buffer.
  • M-o x open buffer file externally.
• ivy-reverse-i-search
  • C-k remove item from the history.

New Commands extensions

These commands are new variants and adaptations of existing commands.

Thing at point variants:

• swiper-all-thing-at-point.
• swiper-isearch-thing-at-point.
• swiper-thing-at-point.

Search variants that go backwards:

• swiper-backward.
• counsel-grep-or-swiper-backward.
• swiper-isearch-backward.

A variant of ivy-switch-buffer with live preview:

• counsel-switch-buffer.
• counsel-switch-buffer-other-window.

And finally:

• counsel-dired - like counsel-find-file, but open dired.
• swiper-isearch-toggle - toggle between swiper and isearch.

New Commands

I have put these separately so they don't get lost in the crowd. Be sure to try them out.

• counsel-compile - completion for compile.
• counsel-register - completion for registers.
• counsel-minor - completion for minor modes.
• swiper-isearch - a faster swiper that's not line-based.

Outro

Again, thanks to all the contributors. Happy hacking!