The script used to identify and update the change is added into the GitHub
workflows script directory. A workflow action can be created to trigger the
script to update the headers on the first of every new year. Possibly a task for
a consequent PR.
problem
`SPC f J` (`spacemacs/open-junk-file`) shows:
cond: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, helm
cause
`spacemacs/open-junk-file`
expects the completion layer to be either: `helm` or `ivy`
notes
The junk file function searches through the junk files,
when the ARG parameter is non-nil
(when it's called with a prefix argument: `SPC u SPC f J`)
The helm and ivy search functions might be choosing the search tool,
based on the first search tool it finds in the variable:
`dotspacemacs-search-tools`
`("rg" "ag" "pt" "ack" "grep")`
The consult package has these two search functions:
`consult-grep`
`consult-ripgrep`
This fix only uses those two for searching.
It checks for the executable: `rg` before `grep`
problem
opening a prompt, ex: `M-x`
while the Symbol Highlight Transient State (`SPC s h`) is open,
leaves `auto-highlight-symbol-mode` enabled
cause
when the idle timer runs,
it tries to disable ahs mode in the prompt window
problem
The Symbol Highlight Transient State (`SPC s h`) counter
ex: [2/7]
Shows: [0/0]
when opening the TS, either with `SPC s h`, `SPC s H`
or when navigating between symbols with: `#` or `*`
cause
The symbols haven't been counted yet, when the TS is opened.
And the counter is reset when `auto-highlight-symbol-mode` is disabled,
this happens when the TS is restarted, which happens when navigating to the
next/previous symbol with `#` and `*`.
solution
Highlight the symbol before opening the TS.
And only disable `auto-highlight-symbol-mode` when the TS is closed.
(when the TS buffer " *LV*" doesn't exist)
notes
This also shows the "No previously searched for symbol found" message,
when the variable `spacemacs-last-ahs-highlight-p` is void on startup.
problem
navigating to the next/prev symbol,
in the symbol highlight transient state: `SPC s h`
with: `n`, `N` or `p`
soft freezes Emacs (the freeze can be canceled with `C-g` twice)
cause
the upstream variable: `ahs-current-overlay` has been removed
solution
it was replaced with a function called: `ahs-current-overlay-window`
* fix `Symbol’s function definition is void: ahs-highlight-p`
* get rid of 2 instances of `eval`
* improve advicing code with the use of `advice-add`
* eliminate 2 redundant calls to `ahs-highlight-now` in adviced functions
* eliminate redundant `spacemacs/ahs-highlight-now-wrapper`
Fixed an issue where ahs-mode was being enabled before the check for it
already being enabled.
Switched the toggle to be based on the mode instead of the timer hack.
problems:
- Symbol highlighting is enabled on startup.
- The highlight isn't cleared when closing the
Symbol Highlight Transient State
- The `SPC t h a` symbol highlight toggle,
only shows a disabled message,
but the highlighting remains enabled.
cause:
Changes in the upstream package: auto-highlight-symbol
Pressing o `(spacemacs/ace-buffer-links)`
on the Spacemacs home buffer `SPC b h`.
Adds an ace link (one or more highlighted letters),
at the menu buttons, and the startup list entries.
problem:
The text: `[S P A C E M A C S]` gets an ace link,
but it isn't a button.
When the [?] button has been pressed, and the Quick Help
is open, then ace links appear on the open square brackets
for each key binding, but they aren't buttons.
In the lists: recent files, projects, etc.
The ace links appear before the first / (slash).
This means that in windows they appear after `c:`.
solution:
Add the ace links at the beginning of each widget-button.
This is a squash commit including below commits
Add dotspacemacs--pretty-ignore-subdirs
Within the specified subdirs of `dotspacemacs-start-dir`,
spacemacs/prettify-org-buffer (and hence space-doc-mode) will not be called.
Without this variable, using spacemacs/open-junk-file to create an Org file will
result in prettification, which is not necessarily the desired behavior.
Call make-directory in spacemacs/open-junk-file
This imitates the behavior of open-junk-file.
Prevent spacemacs/open-junk-file from getting confused by Dired
If we're in a dired buffer, counsel-find-file will ignore
current-directory (i.e. junk-dir) and use (dired-current-directory) instead. We
fool Counsel by shadowing major-mode to nil.
Update CHANGELOG.develop re spacemacs/open-junk-file
Before this, `evil-ex-search-direction` would be left set to 'backward after:
- entering symbol highlight transient state mode (SPC s h)
- exiting the transient state
That means that pressing 'n' would go to the previous result instead of the next one.
problem:
Canceling "spacemacs/ace-buffer-links" with "C-g" showed the error message:
"goto-char: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, t"
solution:
Only go to and press the link if it's a position (number).
Defines a transient state for symbol-overlay, and bind it to ~SPC s o~ and ~SPC s O~.
Updates:
* update due to the signature change of `symbol-overlay-get-list`.
* align the docstring using `^^` and add `quit` button.
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
Since we have now a variable for the mode-line theme, it makes sense to move
the scaling of the mode-line to this variable. Thus the property
=:powerline-scale= of variable dotspacemacs-default-font has been removed and
it is replace by the property =:separator-scale= used in the variable
=dotspacemacs-mode-line-theme=.
This commit also adds a the property =:sperator= for the variable
=dotspacemacs-mode-line-theme= which allows to set the separator type.
Example of the final result:
dotspacemacs-mode-line-theme '(all-the-icons
:separator cup
:separator-scale 1.5)
Documentation has been updated to reflect the changes.
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.
