Ivy CHANGELOG

Not all windows. See #117.

See #118.

See #50.

See #145.

See #144.

See #145.

"/ssh:foo" should not be cut off See #145.

See #155.

See #157.

See #150.

See #153.

See #151.

See #160.

See #171.

See #176.

Execute the current action for the current candidate without exiting the minibuffer. Bound to C-M-m or M-RET or C-o g.

Forward to find-file with Ivy completion.

ivy-next-line-and-call as well as ivy-resume should work for this command.

The variable counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp allows to ignore certain files, like dot files. Input a leading dot to see all files.

The variable counsel-find-file-at-point allows to automatically use ffap. You also can do it manually with M-n when the point is on a file name.

The variable counsel-find-file-map allows to customize the minibuffer key bindings for this command.

Recommended binding:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-f") 'counsel-find-file)

You can peek at files with C-M-n and C-M-p.

See #122 and #123.

See #152 about M-n, M-p and M-i switching directories when necessary.

Find a file on recentf-list.

Note that if your set ivy-use-virtual-buffers, recentf-list is merged into candidates list for ivy-switch-buffer. But if you want it separately, you can use this command.

See #124.

Add word at point to minibuffer input.

This is similar to what C-w does for isearch. However it's bound to M-j instead of C-w, since C-w is bound to kill-region - a useful command.

See #125.

Forward to execute-extended-command with Ivy completion. The candidate list will also display the key binding for each bound command.

This command will piggyback on smex for sorting, if smex is installed.

Use counsel-M-x-initial-input to customize the initial input for this command. By default, it's "^" - the regex character that indicates beginning of string. This results in much faster matching, since you usually type the command name from the start.

See #136 and #138.

Press C-o to toggle the Hydra for Ivy. It gives access to shorter bindings and many customizable options.

Use C-o > to grow the minibuffer. Use C-o < to shrink the minibuffer.

See #151.

Toggle executing the current action each time a new candidate is selected.

This command is bound to C-o c.

To explain how this is useful: C-M-m C-M-f C-M-f C-M-f is equivalent to C-o cjjj.

Inserts the current candidate into the minibuffer.

Press M-i if you want something close to the current candidate. You can follow up with an edit and select.

I find this very useful when creating new files with a similar name to the existing file: C-x C-f M-i + a bit of editing is very fast.

See #141.

Forward to load-theme with Ivy completion. Allows to rapidly try themes (e.g. with C-M-n).

Allow to recursively match history with C-r.

I like this command from bash shell. The usual way to search through history is with M-p and M-n. Using ivy-reverse-i-search will open a recursive completion session with the current history as the candidates.

Control Rhythmbox from Emacs.

Select an action for the current candidate and execute it. Bound to M-o.

Some commands that support M-o:

• counsel-rhythmbox
• counsel-describe-function
• counsel-describe-variable
• ivy-switch-buffer
• counsel-locate

Forward to org-set-tags with Ivy completion.

Selecting any tag each time will toggle it on/off. The current list of selected tags will be displayed in the prompt.

See #177 and #91.

Forward to org-agenda-set-tags with Ivy completion. See #177.

Interactively ag using Ivy completion.

Use recoll with Ivy completion. See Using Recoll desktop search database with Emacs.

Install recoll with sudo apt-get install recoll.

Start swiper from the current isearch input.

Use this command to exit the minibuffer choosing not the current candidate, but the current text. Bound to C-M-j or C-u C-j.

See #183.

See #195.

See #198.

See #198 and #161 and #220.

See #237, #229 and #77.

Allows ivy-read to return a propertized string.

Use counsel-delete-process as :unwind.

See #245.

See #266.

See #245.

See #270.

When completing file names, expand the file name properly. See #275.

See #278.

So now it's possible to e.g. counsel-describe-function -> M-o d -> ivy-resume -> M-o o -> ivy-resume -> M-o i.

See #290.

See #295.

The syntax for whitespace, separators etc. is different for modes. See #298.

Bound to C-c C-o. Store the current completion session to its own buffer. You can have an unlimited amount of these buffers.

Bound to C-'.

Speeds up selecting a candidate that's currently visible in the minibuffer.

Bound to M-w.

When the region is active, call kill-ring-save. Otherwise, store all selected candidates to the kill ring.

Bound to C-M-o.

This is a non-exiting version of M-o (ivy-dispatching-done).

Bound to C-M-a. Select the current action. Don't call it yet.

Use swiper in multiple buffers. See #182.

Basic usage tips for selecting multiple buffers:

• Use C-M-m (ivy-call) to add or remove one more buffer without exiting.
• Use C-m (ivy-done) to add one last buffer.
• Or use C-M-j (ivy-immediate-done) to finish without adding more buffers.
• Hold C-M-n (ivy-next-line-and-call) to add a lot of buffers at once.

Open multiple cursors at all selected candidates.

New command to launch swiper for all open file buffers. Note that this can be excruciatingly slow if you don't clean up your buffer list often.

This is essentially swiper for huge files. It's not as smooth as swiper for small files, but has a faster startup and faster matching for files that measure in megabytes.

Bound to M-q. Perform query-replace on all matches in all buffers.

Complete Python symbols using Jedi.

Complete Common Lisp symbols using SLIME.

Give completion for inserting from the kill ring. See counsel-yank-pop-truncate defcustom and #218.

Allow to exit with no candidates.

See #324.

Allows to customize ivy-occur per-command.

New defcustom group. See #389.

New variable. Configure when flx is used. See #207.

New variable. See #363.

New defcustom. See #367.

New defcustom.

When non nil, fix the height of the minibuffer during ivy completion at ivy-height. This effectively sets the minimum height at this level and tries to ensure that it does not change depending on the number of candidates.

See #353.

New API function.

Now used by switch-to-buffer and read-file-name.

See #399.

New defcustom similar to ido-ignore-buffers.

See #382 and #366.

New defcustom.

See #451.

New defcustom

See #477.

New variable for major modes that misbehave with font-lock-ensure. See #346.

A minor-mode that remaps built-in functions that have counsel replacements available.

See #414.

Display hex codes in left column.

New defcustom.

New defcustom

See #424 and #425.

Completion for the menu bar items. For example:

counsel-tmm -> Options -> Set Default Font....

Thanks to completion, the latter stages of the chain would look like: op RET set RET.

Jump to a buffer position indexed by imenu.

Show a list of all defined keys, and their definitions. Describe the selected candidate. See #332.

Offer completion for process-list

The default action deletes the selected process. An extra action allows to switch to the process buffer.

See #357 and #398.

Remap switch-to-buffer-other-window to ivy-switch-buffer-other-window for ivy-mode.

See #361.

Search through all available git stashes.

See #374.

Call the git log --grep shell command and search through the output.

Grep for a string in the current directory using pt.

See #434.

Launch a Linux desktop application, similar to Alt-<F2>.

See #446.

Ivy completion for ace-link.

Browse Eshell history.

See #459.

Browse shell history.

New command: automatically use swiper for smaller buffers and counsel-grep for larger buffers.

Adjust with:

(setq counsel-grep-swiper-limit 300000)

By default, the splitting predicate is 300K bytes in a file.

Fix color parsing in terminal. See #541 and #543.

Check for an additional 141 return code.

Use cdr for action. See #835.

Quote :preselect.

Don't grep on compressed files. See #536.

Fix doc, see #721. Add preselect, see #722.

Add noconfirm flag in counsel-load-theme-action.

Perform in the minibuffer. See #890.

Add shell-quote-argument. See #713.

No longer depends on helm-rhythmbox.

Fix candidates not showing sometimes.

Recompute index after filter.

See #491.

Improve. See #843.

Fix for ivy-display-style nil. See #828.

Fix max-mini-window-height. See #732.

Scroll to first command. See #829.

Ensure it returns legal regexps. See #765.

Simplify. See #827.

Don't modify recentfs or bookmarks. See #821.

Set default-directory, see #717, #760, #779, #810. Recursive logic, see #924, #937.

Fix double insert bug. Fix common length bug. See #528. Remove :require-match, see #907.

Remove string properties, see #517. Remove with-ivy-window, see #928.

Add correction. See #737.

Define with defconst, see #938.

See #464, #512.

Update docstring, see #525.

Pass the whole cons cell to action, see #634.

Fix for :dynamic-collection. See #946.

Use a lighter color for dark themes, see #646.

The original default-directory will be restored, see #591.

Improve. See #870.

Obey ivy-ignore-buffers. See #745.

See #738.

See #764, #402.

Require avy, see #593.

Add forth-mode, see #526. Add forth-block-mode, see #527. Add bookmark-bmenu-mode. Add nix-mode, see #879. Add circe-mode, see #900, #901.

Fix regression, See #673. Don't use virtual buffers, See #705.

Add initial-input arg. See #757.

Completion for bookmark-jump.

Can delete and rename bookmarks, see #758.

See #815, #921.

See #815.

See #826.

Picks up company's candidates and inserts the result into the buffer. See #331, #547.

See #585, #703.

Like, counsel-file-jump, but for directories.

Completion for dpkg -l.

See #815.

Jump to a file from a list of all files in the current directory, see #609, #610.

A helpful and unsurprising alternative to using C-. with counsel-load-library. See #794, #801.

Call a head of the current/last hydra by name. See #696.

Inline C++ completion using Irony.

See #834.

See #825.

Completion for outlines in the current buffer.

Manage packages. Allows installing, deleting, describing etc. See #869, #872.

Renamed from ivy-recentf, see #624.

Added actions in #701:

• j for find-file-other-window
• x for counsel-find-file-extern

Remove text properties, see #770.

Grep for a string in the current directory using rg. Use counsel-rg-base-command to customize. See #784, #785, #795, #796.

Call the rpm shell command. See #695.

Completion for semantic tags.

Completion for setting a variable to a value. See #544, #546, #549, #550, #556.

Search through history in shell-mode. See #689.

When counsel-mode is on, M-! C-r will call counsel-shell-command-history.

And ivy-pop-view.

1. Use ivy-push-view to store a view - your current window tree. This contains: all windows on the current frame, and their configuration w.r.t. horizontal or vertical splits. The point positions in each window are stored as well.
2. Use ivy-switch-buffer to select stored views.
3. Use ivy-pop-view to delete a stored view that you don't want any more.

See #584.

Modify ivy-sort-functions-alist to allow a list of sorting functions to apply to a collection. The car of this list is the current one. ivy-rotate-sort then rotates this list through the different possibilities. Bound to C-c C-s. Here is a simple example to illustrate.

(setq ivy-sort-functions-alist
      '((read-file-name-internal .
                                (ivy-sort-file-function-default string-lessp string-greaterp))
       (internal-complete-buffer . nil)
       (counsel-git-grep-function . nil)
       (Man-goto-section . nil)
       (org-refile . nil)
       (t . string-lessp)))

M-x find-file RET C-c C-s now switches from the default sorting to using string-lessp. C-c C-s again switches to string-greaterp and so on.

See #845, #927.

Fix default ag command on Windows, see #1221.

Don't break when search string begins with "-", see #1048.

Fix quoting, see #1240.

Various fixes, see #969.

Fix regex, see #1089.

Obey find-program, see #1181.

Fix C-y when pasting a file path.

Fix magic slash regression, see #1027.

Don't quote regex for initial-input.

Don't bind find-file-hook if not necessary, see #627, #1118.

Fix completion of relative directories, see #1055.

Make sure foo/ directory goes before foo-bar/ directory, see #1315.

Use xargs -d '\n', see #1323.

Fix error on 24.5, see #1107. Fix for Windows, see #1176.

Fix output with negative pattern, see #1173.

Fix bug, see #1225.

Fix warning, see #1097.

Optimize text props, see #1264.

Ignore blank candidates, see #1122.

Fix regex, see #1299.

Add "–", see #1266.

Add trailing space to prompt, see #1245.

Various fixes, see #1018.

Handle cygwin, see #1314.

Don't rebuild cache on every call, see #1085. Add own history, see #1185.

Fix package removal, see #970.

Handle defcustom with multiple entries, see #960.

Work around ring-elements, see #1148.

Handle cons arg, see #1322.

Various fixes, see #997, #1327, #1334, #1336.

Don't add :preselect to collection, see #1017.

Avoid setting ivy window as minibuffer, see #1051, #1053.

Init index with 0, see #1080.

ivy-initial-inputs-alist should use :caller first, see #1068.

ivy--sorted-files should always use predicate, see #1121.

Simplify re-builder / highlight, see #1147.

Ensure bookmarks are loaded, see #1160.

Fix arrows not working for ivy--regex-ignore-order, see #1159.

Fix C-M-j for ivy-completion-in-region-action, see #1178.

Correct spelling, see #1179.

Ensure action and display transformer are called from initial buffer. See #1182.

Allow "!" and space to be escaped in ivy--regex-ignore-order. See #976.

Call ivy-overlay-cleanup only when needed, see #1211.

Don't require prompt to end in ": ", see #1207.

Remove empty string from collection, see #1230, #1236.

Fix "/sudo::" in current dir, see #1232.

Fix prefix issue, see #1244.

Update prompt even if there are no candidates. See #1183.

Also check this-command for sorting, see #1294.

Delete action duplicates by key, see #1296.

Fix logic when scrolled, see #1004.

Exit silently, see #1073.

Select correct candidate when using display transformer, see #1255.

Add some entries, and tests. See #1049.

Fix length bug, see #1251.

Fix sole match case, see #1252.

Fall back when there's no space, see #1136. Fall back when there's no vertical space, see #1136. Check for point-min, see #1267. Fix for org-indent-mode.

Check if git is present, see #1216.

Fixup, see #1004.

Fix entry for man, see #1226.

Fix double pop-to-buffer issue, see #1284.

Don't fail if buffer was killed.

Fix regex passed to grep, see #1299.

Use setq-local, see #1318.

Add ivy--dirname-p, see #1317.

Fix interaction with case-folding, see #1019, #1021. Fix downcase for non-string, see #1024, #1036.

Should not insert the last history item unless the currently-selected completion candidate is the first in the list, otherwise it's impossible to navigate back up with successive applications of this command, see #1137.

Extend docstring, see #1308.

Use with-output-to-string, see #1300.

Protect against match-beginning / match-end not integerp. See #1188, #1192.

Turn off reveal-mode for the duration, see #1312.

Various mode additions.

Add treemacs-mode, see #1212.

Add magit-popup-mode, see #1274.

Add adoc-mode, see #1275.

Add bbdb-mode, see #1276.

When an external program output is used, first check if the program is installed, see #1076.

Allow async commands on Tramp buffers, see #1229, #1233.

Configure async delay. See #1149.

New defcustom. See #1122.

Highlight interactive functions, see #981, #982.

Customize counsel-describe-function. Useful for https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful. See #1321.

Customize which symbol will be initial for counsel-describe-function, see #1088, #1330.

Highlight custom variables, see #980, #982.

Offer completion-ignored-extensions, see #1092.

Allow to customize fzf work directory.

Add optional initial-input, see #1074.

New defcustom, see #524, #1042.

New defcustom. See #1122.

Don't attempt to save readonly files, see #999.

Prevent opening an already opened file, see #1001.

Improve logic, see #1290.

More uniform interface, see #1313.

Allows to use C-l to recenter. See #1180.

Various improvements, see #897, #959.

Press M-o d to open the desktop file, see #897.

Sort by location, see #1006.

Fixes, see #1328, #1329.

Add counsel-faces, see #1259.

Limit results to 150 columns, see #988.

Never use color results, see #1060.

Search whole Git repository, not the current directory.

Show candidates in order, see #1003.

Adapt to ucs-names being a hash table in emacs-26, see #1223.

Make lazy, see #1204.

If the current directory is remote and it's not possible to go up any further, make the remote prefix editable. See #1242, #1227.

Added to ivy-ffap-url-functions by default.

Customize counsel-url-expansions to be able to browse various links with C-x C-f M-n. See #1164.

Don't restrict to 3 chars or more, see #973.

Press M-o d to remove an item from the kill ring.

Ignore empty candidates, see #1043.

Off by default. When on, and there's only one candidate, use it automatically without a completion session.

Preselect last dir, see #1257.

Use :initial-input and :unwind. Previously, Ivy's "prefixing" and "perfect match" index logic was messed up for completion-in-region. The reason being is that the initial prefix was never passed to Ivy: instead, the collection was pre-filtered on the prefix and a "new" completion session didn't know about it.

Quit with C-g, see #922.

Break hint into columns, see #953.

Customize what / does when completing file names, see #998, #1009.

When completing file names, counsel-cmd-to-dired is called, resulting in a Dired buffer.

Bind R to read-only-mode, see #1273.

Add new argument def, see #1047, #1049, #1052, #1112.

Allow to quit with ESC for better work with evil, see #952.

Bound to C-o m. Customize with ivy-preferred-re-builders. See #1093, #1094.

Compose faces better, see #992.

M-o f will call counsel-find-file from current directory, see #1298, #1295.

New defcustom. See #1110.

When non-nil, make the prompt line selectable like a candidate.

Calling ivy-done or ivy-alt-done on a selected prompt forwards to ivy-immediate-done, thus exiting with the current user input instead of the selected candidate.

See #1059, #1063, #1090.

Disable read-only for the duration, see #1273.

Like counsel-ag, but with ack. See #1075.

Completion for apropos, see #1014.

Completion for file registers, see #1057, #1066.

Completion for fzf. See #1151, #1263.

Completion for git-worktree. See #989, #1114, #1115.

Completion for git-checkout. See #1187.

Supersedes counsel-expression-history and counsel-shell-command-history. See #1237.

Completion for org-capture. See #1320.

Browse all attachments for the current Org file.

Completion for Org headings. See #1005, #1008, #1011, #1012, #1013.

Completion for Org headings in all open buffers. See #1005.

Switch to a shell buffer, or create one. See #990.

Bound to C-d in ivy-occur-mode. Allows a sort of a todo-list workflow.

Switch to one of the window views stored by ivy-push-view. You can use it separately from ivy-switch-buffer now. See #929, #1109.

Add hack for :foreground. Related to ansi-color-apply. See #1293.

Make process sentinels more robust. See #1483.

Fix behavior on remote. See #1522.

Extend unquote-regex-parens tests. See #1704, #1708, #1863.

Use counsel-async-split-string-re more. See #1384, #1778.

Use start-file-process for counsel--async-command. See #1821.

counsel--async-filter should write candidates only in the minibuffer. See #1772, #1837, #1857.

Robustify grep-like ivy-occur. See #1845, #1800, #1835.

Allow no space before "–" when specifying extra args. See #1498.

Allow to override the minimum search term length. See #1780.

Fix "./" issue. See #1841.

Specify :history. See #1698.

Improve the display of the current candidate. See #921, #1436.

Protect against invalid input. See #1854.

Unwind with company-abort. See #1793.

Add caller. See #1619.

Fix erroring. See #1647, #1649.

Describe also unbound but documented function symbols. See #1707.

Don't treat URLs as dirs. See #1398.

Allow use of "$" in dirs. See #1316.

Fix for ignore-order. See #1466.

Fix file expansion. See #1494.

Fix ivy-resume not working when the current candidate was a directory. See #1508.

counsel-find-file-mkdir-action should use ivy-text. See #1513.

Fix dir or file logic error. See #1103, #1623.

Fix inability to create a file. See #1623.

Fix issue of minibuffer height 1. See #1667.

Remove the change to post-command-hook by ESS. See #1660.

Update minibuffer state after counsel-find-file-delete. See #1726.

Fix for partial match of TRAMP method.

Fix Emacs26 regression when completing TRAMP methods. See #1733.

Fix Emacs25/26 compat for ivy--cd.

Avoid TRAMP related errors in ZIP files. See #1797.

Check if dirs in load-path exist. See #1720.

Add quotes to counsel-fzf-cmd. See #1544.

Remove 2nd prompt colon. See #1768.

Fix conflicting directories in two ivy-occur buffers. See #1392.

Run count in base directory. See #1402.

Rely on du -s for repo size. See #1402.

Ignore du errors. See #1502.

Run du only on .git.

Call du directly. See #1502, #1827.

Reject file-less buffers. See #1343.

Don't pass too long lines as :preselect. See #1644.

Obey current matcher. See #1801.

Don't mess up the current buffer with a header line.

Fix for es.exe. Fixes #1633.

Fix xdg-open on Ubuntu. See #863, #1401, #1759.

Simplify xdg-open call. See #1537, #1759, #1760.

Use start-process-shell-command. See #1401.

Add delete-dups. See #1358.

Prefer "<f2>" over "C-x 6". See #1534.

Add counsel-key-binding face. See #1548.

Require org. See #1642.

Don't overlook templates contexts. See #1669.

Support org-attach-directory variable. See #1340.

Use org-attach API. See #1345.

Increase org-goto/org-agenda-headlines UI consistency. See #1324.

Support older Org. See #1422, 1431.

Fix for Org 9. See #1654, #1656, #1896.

No need to bind org-setting-tags. See #1656.

Only look for outline regexp at bol. See #1681.

Store command persistently. See #1474.

Various improvements. See #1570.

Optimize. See #1704.

Liken to yank-pop. Respects kill-ring-yank-pointer. See #1190, #1356.

Interoperate better with kill-ring. See #1133, #1360.

Save window-start to avoid recentering of the buffer. See #1370.

Make position more robust. See #1420.

Make it work in read-only buffers. See #1523.

Work with interprogram-paste-function. See #1523.

Fixed typos. See #1405, #1412, #1448, #1477, #1483, #1519, #1521, #1535, #1539, #1540, #1575, #1602, #1612, #1620, #1624, #1625, #1627, #1629, #1630, #1672, #1675, #1677, #1678, #1682, #1684, #1700, #1710, #1715, #1717, #1738, #1804, #1816, 1794, #1817, #1828, #1849.

Disable ivy-auto-select-single-candidate for user@host entry. See #1326, #1338.

Handle ivy-state-buffer getting killed. See #572.

Correct highlighting for negation, e.g. counsel-M-x "vi mo!ew". See #1418.

Fold case during index recomputation. See #1447, #1449.

Simplify string splitting logic. See #1453.

Fix :preselect getting deselected with new input. When there's new input, and it still matches :preselect, the current candidate should not change.

Handle fallback in ivy--sort-function. See #1561, #1565, #1567.

ivy--sort-function should handle anonymous fns. See #1574.

Use ivy-sort-max-size for collection functions. See #1592.

Use copy-sequence when sorting to avoid corrupting external data. See #1617.

Default :caller to this-command. See #1297, #1606, #1619, #1621.

ivy-call should restore previous buffer. See #1607.

ivy--insert-prompt should use ivy-add-face-text-property for compat. See #1634.

Use compat shim for add-face-text-property. See #1635.

Move colir require to top-level to improve performance. See #1571.

Fix :predicate not getting applied. See #1158.

Drop preselected candidate after input. See #1563, #1573.

Fix ivy-left-pad when there's horizontal scroll.

Fix ivy-state-collection alist idx not in sync. See #1680.

Support :annotation-function of completion-extra-properties. See #1489.

Fix for alists that require sorting. See #1687.

Fontify completion annotations. See #1489, #1702.

Filter sorted alist. See #1705.

Avoid modifying alist collection. See #1706.

Use string-match-p where applicable. See #1517.

Strip text properties from returned alist candidate. See #1706, #1724.

Don't trigger ivy--magic-file-slash from TAB. See #1716.

Fix for terminals. See #199, #1528, #1728.

Fix overlay interacting with org-mode src blocks. See #1732.

Don't restore buffer after action. See #1766, #1767.

Remove webjump completing-read handler. See #1802, #1049.

Use ivy-truncate-lines also for non-graphical Emacs. See #1809.

For non-graphical Emacs set resize-mini-windows to 'grow-only. See #1809.

Fix minibuffer truncation and resizing. See #1811.

Work around void Info-complete-menu-buffer. See #1814.

Handle Windows path separator for ivy-occur. See #1817.

Don't switch to a killed buffer for ivy-occur-press. See #1834, #1842.

Improve performance ivy--select-occur-buffer by avoiding pop-to-buffer.

Use all-completions and add test. See #1832.

Do not let ivy virtual buffer faces creep into the recentf file. See #1898.

Add compat for non-string defaults. See #1526, #1810.

Simplify. See #1606.

Expand (s-c-t-s) appropriately. See #1361.

Allow sorting. See #1432.

Don't apply predicate twice. See #1648.

Remove virtual buffers from recentf-list. See #1888. -----* ivy–magic-file-slash Misc fixes. See #1831.

Fix incorrect regexp. See #1846.

Speed up regex from 5s to 0.01s for 4000 cands.

Don't hard-code display-buffer. See #1838, #1865.

Don't inherit existing face. See #1488, #1547, #1016, 1520, #1808, #1825.

Can change current dir when completing files. See #86.

Regexp-quote chars to improve performance for searches like ".env.foo". See #1435.

Generalize. Fix ivy-occur highlighting. See #1795.

Optimize regex "(a).*?(b)" -> "(a)[^b]*(b)". See #848.

Improve handling of invalid regexes. See #1545.

Update and add test for "add path!" input. See #1418.

Search "defun \([^ ]+\)" now works.

Update in the documentation. See #1376.

Handle heterogeneous args. See #1743, #1744.

Prevent error when url-handler-mode is on. See #1446.

Strip text properties. See #1594.

Fix history modified on each char. Fix history duplicate. See #1391.

Don't replace tabs with spaces (prevents wgrep from working correctly). See #1468.

Allow scroll-other-window use. See #1504.

Replace obsolete isearch-lazy-highlight-face. See #1591.

Highlight multiple regexps correctly. See #654, #1550, #1551, #1587, #1600.

Fix when re-builder returns list. See #1692.

Add inhibit-field-text-motion. See #1713.

Fix incorrect jump to first match. See #1791.

Fix when there's scroll. See #1541.

Fix off-by-one. See #1775.

Fix for ivy-format-function-arrow. See #1885.

Add text property buffer to candidates. See #1491, #1492.

New var counsel-more-chars-alist to customize per-function the minimum amount of chars. See #1663.

New face counsel-variable-documentation, counsel-application-name, counsel-outline-1, …, counsel-outline-8, counsel-outline-default. See #1847.

Add two actions. See #948, #1385.

New var counsel-dired-jump-args. See #1889. -----* counsel-find-file New var counsel-find-file-occur-cmd. Use it to customize what C-c C-o calls. See #1299, #1351, #1441.

New var counsel-preselect-current-file. When non-nil, preselect the current file in the list of candidates. See #1363.

Bind C-M-y to counsel-yank-directory. Useful when you want to edit part of the directory name. See #1333.

Bind M-o d to new action counsel-find-file-mkdir-action. See #1471.

Bind M-o f to find-file-other-frame. See #1510.

Bind M-o k to counsel-find-file-delete. See #1671.

Bind M-o m to counsel-find-file-move. See #1671.

counsel-find-file-occur-use-find defaults to t on Linux. See #1686.

Make counsel-find-file-delete ask for confirmation. See #1774.

Make counsel-find-file-delete clean up buffers. See #1779.

New var counsel-file-jump-args. See #1889.

Support universal-argument. See #1281, #1279.

Also works on remote. See #1463.

New var counsel--git-grep-count-threshold. See #1470.

Add "-I" to counsel-git-grep-cmd-default to ignore binaries. Files are marked as binary in .gitattributes.

Calculate the repo size correctly for submodules. See #1558.

New var counsel-grep-map. Bind swiper-avy there. See #1711.

Show functions as "Functions: func". See #775.

Add ~/.local/share/applications/. See #1390.

Add guixsd's application directory. See #1476.

Call gtk-launch asynchronously. See #1537.

Add dir for flatpack. See #1754.

Ignore non-readable desktop files. See #1757.

Show also hidden desktop files with prefix arg.

Add XDG defaults. See #1851.

Truncate Exec to 45 chars.

Bind M-o r to counsel-find-file-as-root. See #1676.

Works over TRAMP. See #1735.

Add counsel-bookmark. See #1381.

Add more info to the docs. See #1400.

Add counsel-apropos. See #1582.

Display local keymap in mode doc. See #1718.

Support amx in addition to smex. See #1557, #1585, #1613, #1615.

Filter obsolete commands. See #1843, #1844.

Read extra args when current-prefix-arg is given. See #851.

Use smart case "-S" in counsel-rg-base-command. See #1393.

To look for e.g. "map}", input "map\}". See #1566.

Interactively specify switches. Example in this repo: "-g*.el – require", "-g*.org – require", "-g!*.el – require". See #1408, #1512, #1688, #1559.

Refresh list with prefix arg.

Re-launch rhythmbox if not playing.

Bind M-o s to counsel-rhythmbox-toggle-shuffle.

Add pretty formatting, expand types recursively. See #702.

Can also be used non-interactively. See #1409.

Show docstring if lv is available. See #1595.

Add prefix arg behavior: filter out vars without custom-type properties. See #1643.

New var counsel-yank-pop-height: configure ivy-height. See #1365.

New var counsel-yank-pop-filter: All elements of kill-ring for which this function returns nil will be permanently deleted from kill-ring before completion. See #1356, #1367.

New var counsel-yank-pop-preselect-last: customize whether preselect the last kill by default. See #1371, #1373, #1374.

New var counsel-yank-pop-after-point. See #884, #1761, #1762.

New face ivy-separator. See #1815.

Interpret mouse events in the minibuffer managed by ivy. You can now scroll with the mouse wheel and click to select a candidate. See #1278, #1279.

Support multi-character action keys. See #1394.

ivy-display-functions-alist can use t key as fallback. See #1443.

New var ivy-display-functions-props useful when customizing display functions. See #1443.

New cmd ivy-kill-whole-line overrides kill-whole-line in the minibuffer. See #1456.

New option for ivy-virtual-abbreviate: 'abbreviate. See #1460.

New var ivy-height-alist. Customize ivy-height per-command. See #1531, #1722.

New var ivy-completing-read-dynamic-collection. See #1524.

New cmd ivy-yank-char similar to isearch-yank-char. See #1588.

New cmd ivy-yank-symbol. See #1604.

Bind <right> to ivy-forward-char. See #1622.

New var ivy-highlight-grep-commands that lists counsel grep-like commands. See #1661.

New face ivy-modified-outside-buffer. See #1742, #1745.

Propertize matches in ivy-occur buffers. See #1795.

ivy-immediate-done with empty input will return the default. See #1170, #1719.

ivy-read argument prompt is no longer a format string. Use only ivy-count-format to add/remove candidate count. See #1350.

New face ivy-grep-info and ivy-grep-line-number. See #1839, #1840.

New face ivy-org, ivy-completions-annotations. See #1847.

Highlight yanked word. New face ivy-yanked-word. See #1581, #1850, #1856, #1859, #1861.

New var ivy-pulse-delay. See #1859.

ivy-initial-inputs-alist entries can be functions. See #1867, #1868.

New var ivy-hooks-alist. See #1899.

Press w for ivy-wgrep-change-to-wgrep-mode. See #1341.

Useful also in the original buffer.

Jump to first candidate when in header.

Renamed from ivy-preferred-re-builders.

Overwrite view with prefix arg. See #1737.

Extract all actions to defuns so that they can be advised or reused. See #1490.

Add test to history even for C-g. See #1305.

New var swiper-stay-on-quit. When non-nil don't go back to search start on abort. See #1319.

Add integration with evil s expressions. See #1406, #1452.

Obey dired-isearch-filenames. See #1415.

Better negation highlighting. For example, in ivy.el search for "ivy len!–". See #1418.

Add optional initial-input arg. See #1375.

Add eshell-mode, helpful-mode. See #1416.

Add matrix-client-mode. See #1886.

Add deadgrep-mode. See #1902.

Allow to capture groups from input. Example: "defvar \([a-z-]+\)" C-c C-o.

Completion for bookmarked directories. See #1657.

Descend into a directory for counsel-find-file. See #1891.

Ivy replacement for evil-show-registers. See #1368.

Completion for ibuffer. See #1467, #1569.

Insert an Org entity using ivy. See #1459.

New command that uses either counsel-semantic or counsel-imenu. See #702, #1389.

Select a desktop window with completion.

New command bound to C-c C-k for ivy-switch-buffer. Use this to kill one or more buffers while still in the minibuffer.

Don't allow newlines in wildcards when using ivy--regex-fuzzy. See #1907.

Add caller. See #2051.

Use company-prefix. See #2054, #2074.

Don't rely on company-point See #2071.

Fix "-type d". See #1965.

Fix for OSX. See #1990.

Fix file expansion. See #1903.

Fix dotfiles not being shown. See #1820.

Add nested hidden dotfiles to counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp. See #1820.

Add lockfiles to counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp. See #2117.

Improve mkdir action with ivy-call: cd into the created directory.

Improve delete action with ivy-call: stay in the directory.

Improve copy and move actions. See #2053.

Quote branch names. See #1905, #1906.

Change counsel-git-log-split-string-re. See #2129.

Fix ivy-resume. See #2133.

Use a non-regex locate on BSD. See #1950.

Handle ATTACH_DIR property. Re-use org-attach-dir. See #2042.

Use org-mode outline settings. See #1947.

Fix due to Org 9.2.3 API change. See #1997.

Fix org-version testing. See #2006.

Strip space from the initial input. See #1998.

Require match. See #2043.

Add :require-match.

Don't sort every time. See #1204, #1988.

Modify copy action to use actual result. See #2075.

ivy-initial-inputs-alist is now a defcustom.

swiper-mc docstring. See #1879.

Update ivy.org. See #1951, #2046, #2143.

Mention char-fold-to-regexp. See #1977.

Mention automatically integrated packages in ivy.org. See #1674.

Remove outdated magit customization. See #2035.

ivy-read docstring. See #2107.

ivy-reverse-i-search docstring. See #2126.

Add autoloads for various commands. See #2131.

Fix when there's a scroll.

Don't insert initial-input if nil. See #2086.

Don't assume in-buffer completion. See #2048, #2049.

Set org-hide-emphasis-markers. Reveal all Org contents. See #2021. Hide Org markup locally. See #2085.

Improve for make-directory. See #1170, #1719, #2139.

Insert text without properties. See #2040.

Use minibuffer-default for dired-dwim-target.

(setq dired-dwim-target t)

Is a nice productivity boost. Except for the situation when you want to copy the file to the current directory, and a different directory is preselected instead. When this happens, you can now press M-n to select the current directory.

Make ivy-switch-buffer-occur work with multi-pass regex builders. See #1973.

Make find-file-occur work with multi-pass regex builders. See #1984.

Make grep-occur work with multi-pass regex builders. See #2033.

Make swiper occur wgrep work for narrowed buffers. See #1848.

Don't setq-local ivy--directory. See #1866.

Don't hightlight the file name part. See #2073.

Fix missing line numbers. See #2076.

Fix for counsel-find-file. See #2094.

ivy-occur-revert-buffer should stay on the same line.

Improve when the window config was changed.

Works better when selecting files. See #2103.

Improve. See #2137, #2138, #1137.

Allow to override global actions per command. See #1873.

Require TRAMP earlier so that there's completion. See #1918.

Allow all re-builders to use ivy-highlight-grep-commands. See #1983.

Improve column calculation in ivy-dispatching-done-hydra.

Allow recursive minibuffers to use ivy-display-functions-alist. See #1995.

Don't use invalid :preselect as a regexp. See #2002.

Allow to select "" when prompt is selectable. See #1924.

Fix all-completions returning $$. See #2012.

Fix matcher not called on input "". See #2013.

Fix filter for ivy--regex-ignore-order. See #2015.

Don't offer virtual buffers for plain switch-to-buffer. See #839.

ivy-completion-in-region-action obeys :exit-function.

Shrink ivy window after reading action. See #2079.

Use single face for highlighting adjacent groups. See #2080.

Use ivy-flx-limit more. See #2081.

Fix ivy-read-action. See #2082.

Set line-spacing to nil in the minibuffer. See #2118.

Don't bind ivy-recursive-restore to nil. See #1215.

Higher priority for ivy-sort-matches-functions-alist. See #2136.

Preserve the index after kill. See #1787, #1910.

Fix M-o f for virtual buffers. See #2111.

Extend. See #1871.

Don't highlight if not needed.

Fix blinks in non-graphical Emacs. See #1921, #1923.

Documentation. See #643.

Don't rely on window-start in terminal. window-start and window-end is not reliable when in a terminal. It can be made reliable if a redisplay is performed, but then we get annoying blinking. See #1928.

Add extra condition to recenter in terminal. See #2059.

Fix overlays clean up. See #2064.

Obey search-invisible. See #1739.

Improve highlighting with char-fold-to-regexp. See #2124.

Add group for faces. See #2135.

If the input is 1 char, re-highlight. See #1915.

Warn if no input.

Fix for swiper-background-faces. See #2019.

Handle quit. See #2062.

Work for swiper-isearch. See #2134.

Exclude xref--xref-buffer-mode from font-lock. See #1917.

Try checking for non prog-mode.

Misc fixes. See #2101, #2102.

Fix for ivy--regex-ignore-order.

Check for empty input. See #2066.

Add M-o x counsel-descbinds-action-exec. See #2024.

Add M-o d that opens the item in dired. See #2057.

Press ` to get completion for bookmarks. This allows you to efficiently jump between recent directories. See #1956, #1958.

Press $ to get completion for your environment variables that are directories. See #1932, #1937.

New action: M-o c counsel-find-file-copy. See #1955.

New var counsel-up-directory-level that customizes C-DEL. See #1096.

New var counsel-find-file-extern-extensions. Allows to press RET instead of M-o x for selected file types, for which it doesn't make sense to be opened in Emacs.

When on a remote, // will cd to the remote root, instead of the local root. If you want to go to the local root, use / C-j. See #1487.

When on a remote, ~ will cd to the remote home, instead of the local home. If you want to go to the local home, use / C-j ~. You can also try `.

New binding when completing file names C-M-y ivy-insert-current-full that obsoletes counsel-yank-directory. See #2092.

You can now use RET or C-m (in place of C-M-j) to create a directory, even if it matches an existing file.

New variable counsel-git-grep-cmd-function. Customize how git-grep is called based on input.

Bind M-o v counsel-git-log-show-commit-action to visit the item in magit-show-commit. See #2129, #2148.

Add counsel-grep-history. See #1914.

When this function returns non-nil, counsel-grep-or-swiper will call swiper, else counsel-grep-or-swiper. See #1908.

Automatically call updatedb when your home folder is encrypted. Use counsel-locate-db-path to customize.

Add preview and highlight by candidate. See #2078.

New variable counsel-descbinds-function. See #1876, #2091.

Optionally expand aliases. For example, if rb is aliased to revert-buffer, and bound to C-c r, counsel-M-x will show: rb (revert-buffer) (C-c r). Customize with counsel-alias-expand, enabled by default. See #1904.

Dynamically handle look-arounds. See #1935.

Anchor pcre lookarounds to bol. See #1976, #1979.

Add an example of inclusion patterns to the doc.

Press C-x C-d calls counsel-cd that allows you to change the current directory.

Add dynamic case folding. Make sure counsel-ag-base-command or counsel-rg-base-command does not include "-i": it will be added automatically based on your input and ivy-case-fold-search. See #1869.

Better annotations for options. If the option is e.g.:

(const :tag "Dotfiles and Lockfiles" "\\(?:\\`\\|[/\\]\\)\\(?:[#.]\\)")

then display:

Dotfiles and Lockfiles: \(?:\`\|[/\]\)\(?:[#.]\)

instead of:

\\(?:\\`\\|[/\\]\\)\\(?:[#.]\\)

If the option's value is nil, but a :tag is present, display the option.

Allow to scroll with C-v and M-v.

New variable ivy-dispatching-done-hydra-exit-keys. In case you bind ivy-dispatching-done-hydra to a custom key.

Allow to mark/unmark candidates with m, u, DEL, t. The bindings are similar to what dired provides. They are available in the C-o hydra. See #561.

Add :multi-action argument. If multiple candidates are marked and this argument is present, call it with the whole list of marked candidates, instead of calling :action in turn for each marked candidate. See #561, #2068.

ivy-inhibit-action can be a function. This allows you to effectively override the :action argument to ivy-read.

New var ivy-dispatching-done-idle can delay the hint by a specified amount of seconds.

:update-fn argument can now be 'auto. This will call :action each time the current candidate changes.

New var ivy-format-functions-alist that obsoletes ivy-format-function. See #2083, #2084, #2130.

New var ivy-display-functions-alist that obsoletes ivy-display-function. See #2089.

Add ability to resume dynamic collections. See #1095, #2112.

Match initial dot in the input as a literal dot. This brings much more usability, e.g. enter ".org" to switch between Org-mode files, ".el" for Elisp etc.

New binding C-k ivy-reverse-i-search-kill. Remove elements from history.

Sort shorter matches first for ivy-completion-in-region.

Add M-o x counsel-open-buffer-file-externally. See #2108, #2115.

Move C-c C-k ivy-switch-buffer-kill to C-k.