Reduce the width of the listed key bindings by:
Moving the range and highlighted symbols counter to the right of the transient
state title.
Shorten some key description names.
Reduce three instances of "search" to just one.
And reorder the listed keys based on their search scope, small to large:
swoop, buffers, files, project.
This idea is to have the spacemacs-base distribution only configure defaults for
built-in packages. Those buit-in packages are now configured in the new layer
spacemacs-defaults.
Additionally some other packages of spacemacs-base have been dispatched to
better suiting spacemacs layers.
Projectile has been moved to the new layer spacemacs-project
- Move the following packages to bootsrap distributio layer:
- exec-path-from-shell
- evil-evilified-state
- holy-mode
- hybrid-mode
- spacemacs-theme
- ace-window has been moved to spacemacs-navigation
- centered-buffer-mode has been moved to spacemacs-editing-visual
- pcre2el has been moved to spacemacs-editing
- evil-escape and evil-visualstar have been moved to spacemacs-evil
This reverts commit 29c78ce841 and all other fixes
that have been made afterwards.
The motivation is that use-package is seen by many as a replacement for
`require`. Is use-package always defer the loading of packages then is breaks
this use case, this does not respect POLA so even if it was making Spacemacs
loading faster (up to 3s faster on some startup on my machine) we just cannot
use it, it would be irresponsible. Spacemacs should be easy to use, loading
performance will come with time but it is not a priority.
Add two new functions: `spacemacs/transient-state-register-add-bindings`
and `spacemacs/transient-state-register-remove-bindings` to prevent layer
authors and end users from dealing with the underlying variables' subtleties.
Highlight should already be done automatocally.
This highlight is not desirable because it breaks `n` and `N` search of
occurences and it breaks `:nohl:` as well making it impossible to revert an
highlighted word.
These drawbacks were maybe intentional since it was about highlighting
_permanently_ but it goes against principle of least astonishement, users will
be consufed about an highlight that cannot be reverted whatsoever.
We need an highlighting facility in Spacemacs, there was one at some point with
the package `hl-anything` but at the time it was buggy and removed from
Spacemacs (see layer spacemacs-editing-visual). Maybe we could try it again.
Create new layers:
- spacemacs-navigation: contains packages whose principal goal is navigation
- spacemacs-modeline: contains packages about mode line
Merge spacemacs-ui and spacemacs-ui-visual into layer spacemacs-visual.
