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• Release 0.103.x (next)
  • 0.103.0
    • Hot new features
    • IMPORTANT: Breaking changes
    • Layer changes
      • Spacemacs
      • Auto-completion
      • Autohotkey
      • C/C++
      • Erlang-Elixir
      • Latex
      • Osx
      • Python
      • Rust
      • Scala
      • Themes
    • Core
    • Other fixes and improvements
• Release 0.102.x
  • 0.102.2 (2015/06/03)
    • Layer changes
      • Org
    • Core
  • 0.102.1 (2015/06/01)
    • Layer changes
      • Org
    • Core
  • 0.102.0 (2015/05/31)
    • IMPORTANT: Breaking changes
    • New Layers
    • Dotfile changes
    • New conventions
    • Layer changes
      • Spacemacs
        • Helm
        • Evil
      • Auctex
      • Auto-completion
      • Autohotkey
      • C/C++
      • Chrome
      • Clojure
      • Colors
      • Emacs-lisp
      • Erc
      • ESS
      • Extra-langs
      • Git
      • Gtags
      • Haskell
      • Html
      • Javascript
      • Lua
      • Markdown
      • Ocaml
      • Org
      • Osx
      • Perforce
      • Puppet
      • Python
      • Rcirc
      • Ruby
      • Rust
      • Scala
      • Semantic
      • Shell
      • Slime
      • Smex
      • Syntax-checking
      • Themes
      • Tmux
      • Vim-empty-lines
      • Ycmd
    • Core
    • Other fixes
• Release 0.101.x
  • Hot new features
    • Choose your own editing style
    • Mandatory init function and new Pre and Post init functions
    • Auto-completion
    • Syntax checking
    • Org
    • New shortcuts in startup buffer
    • New lighter in the mode line
    • Better package update
  • Initial Release (2015/04/13)
    • New layers
    • New dotfile variables:
    • Auto-complete
    • C/C++
    • Clojure
    • Company
    • Emacs Lisp
    • Ess
    • Extra-Lang layer
    • Flycheck
    • Git
    • Go
    • Haskell
    • Helm
    • Holy-mode
    • IRC
    • Markdown
    • Org
    • Perspective
    • Projectile
    • Python
    • Racket
    • Ruby
    • Scala
    • SLIME
    • Smartparens
    • Themes
    • ycmd
    • Web
    • Various Improvements and Changes
  • Hot Fixes
    • Startup Buffer
    • Auto-completion
    • Haskell
    • Org
    • Ruby
    • Themes
    • Various Fixes
• Previous Releases

Release 0.103.x (next)

0.103.0

Hot new features

• New interactive function spacemacs/switch-to-version, it will ask for a version number and warn if the current branch is not master. Users on develop branch cannot use this function.
• Clicking on the up arrow will now update Spacemacs. A prompt asks for confirmation before updating.

IMPORTANT: Breaking changes

• auctex layer has been renamed latex, be sure to update your dotfile if you use this layer.

Layer changes

Spacemacs

• Remove the kill ring from savehist-additional-variables to avoid an issue with abnormal high size of savehist file (thanks to tuhdo)

Auto-completion

• Yasnippet: Default helm-yas-display-key-on-candidate to t (thanks to BrianHicks)

Autohotkey

• Fix .ahk file extension declaration (thanks to ralesi)

C/C++

• Add package gdb-mi (gdb-many-windows) which enables an IDE like debugger frontend for Emacs (thanks to tuhdo)

Erlang-Elixir

• List all Elixir key bindings in README

Latex

• Add support for RefTeX (thanks to JP-Ellis)
• Add support for LatexMk, to enable it set the layer variable latex-build-command to "LatexMk" (thanks to JP-Ellis)
• Use auto-fill-mode, with an environment-aware auto-fill function, you can enable auto-fill support by setting the layer variable latex-enable-auto-fill to t. You can also inhibit it in some environments with the variable latex-nofill-env (thanks to JP-Ellis)
• Remove build-view in favour of just build as it seemed to be broken and introduce SPC m v to view (thanks to JP-Ellis)
• General settings should now be easier to override in dotspacemacs/config

Osx

• Add ⌘ + and ⌘ - key bindings to scale text (thanks to JoshTGreenwood)

Python

• Set indent-tabs-mode to t in REPLs, should fix indent errors (thanks to tuhdo)

Rust

• Add support for flycheck (thanks to swaroopch)

Scala

• Set classpath directory of ensime to .cache/ensime (thanks to cyrillk)

Themes

• Add spacemacs-theme

Core

• New interactive function spacemacs/switch-to-version
• Clicking on the up arrow will now update Spacemacs
• Enable use-package-verbose when dotspacemacs-verbose-loading is set to t
• Better name for placeholders in layer templates (thanks to kini)
• Layers are now auto-discovered recursively which allow arbitrary directory hierarchy. Directory names starting with ! are categories. (thanks to TheBB)

Other fixes and improvements

• Add a guide for Vimmers in doc directory (thanks to person808)
• Typos and documentation improvements (thanks to JoshTGreenwood)

Release 0.102.x

0.102.2 (2015/06/03)

Layer changes

Org

• Fix bug with ox-gfm by moving it to extensions

Core

• Fix detection of new versions by correctly fetch latest changes

0.102.1 (2015/06/01)

Layer changes

Org

• Fix lazy-loading of ox-gfm package.

Core

• Catch layer variables syntax errors

0.102.0 (2015/05/31)

IMPORTANT: Breaking changes

• All Emacs Lisp related configuration has been moved to its own layer called emacs-lisp, be sure to add this layer to your dotfile.
• All shell related configuration has been move to its own layer called shell, be sure to add this layer to your dotfile if you use a shell inside Emacs.
• Key binding to reload the dotfile is now SPC f e R instead of C-c C-c or SPC m c c. Note that SPC f e R can be triggered anywhere (it is not restricted to the doftile anymore).
• Key binding to switch buffer is now SPC b b instead of SPC b s.
• SPC f f now uses helm-find-files instead of ido, use the new dotfile variable dotspacemacs-use-ido to get the old behavior back.
• Helm TAB and C-z key bindings have been swapped.
• By default single space sentence delimiter is defined.
• Layer variable values set with :variables keyword need to be quoted like in a regular setq expression.

New Layers

• Agda (thanks to ocharles)
• Chrome (thanks to beardedprojamz)
• D (thanks to trishume)
• Deft (thanks to trishume)
• Emacs-lisp
• Emoji
• Eyebrowse
• Games (thanks to nashamri)
• Gnus (thanks to cpaulik)
• Gtags (thanks to tuhdo)
• iBuffer (thanks to alex-glv)
• Pandoc (thanks to cpaulik)
• Prodigy (thanks to CestDiego)
• Purescript (thanks to kofno)
• Rust (thanks to mkaito)
• Salt (thanks to beardedprojamz)
• Search Engine (thanks to CestDiego)
• Semantic (thanks to tuhdo)
• Shell
• Spotify (thanks to BrianHicks)
• Sql (thanks to BrianHicks)
• TypeScript
• Vim-powerline

Dotfile changes

• New variable dotspacemacs-search-tools which is a list of search tool executable names. Spacemacs uses the first installed tool of the list with search related key bindings (SPC /, SPC s ...). Supported tools are `ag', `pt', `ack' and `grep'."
• New variable dotspacemacs-highlight-delimiters which selects a scope to highlight delimiters. Possible value is all, current or nil. Default is all. (thanks to tuhdo)
• New variable dotspacemacs-additional-packages. Adding packages to this list will install them without needing them to be wrapped in a layer. Ideal for quickly add a package. The package configuration can be put in dotspacemas/config.
• New variable dotspacemacs-use-ido. If non nil then ido replaces helm for some commands. For now only find-files (SPC f f) is replaced.
• New key binding SPC f e D to open an ediff buffer between the user dotfile and the current template.
• Disable paste micro-state by default, i.e. set the variable dotspacemacs-enable-paste-micro-state to nil in the dotfile template.

New conventions

• Add conventions for markup languages like markdown or org (thanks to cpaulik)

Layer changes

Spacemacs

• Auto-indent when pasting use the universal argument to not auto-indent (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix global-mode-string for mode-line (thanks to 3marcusw)
• Display guide-key buffer at the bottom instead of the right so we get more space. Also fix some issues with other popup interaction.
• Use single space sentence delimiter (thanks to roryk)
• Restore maximized frame state with zoom-frm (thanks to ralesi)
• Improve golden-ratio excluded buffers coverage (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add missing evil-window-* commands to golden-ratio managed commands (thanks to riclima)
• Add CamelCase motion toggle to subword-mode (thanks to mkcode)
• Add open-junk-file package which allows to quickly create a junk file in .cache directory. Bound to SPC f J (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add SPC T s to toggle semantic-stickyfunc (thanks to cpaulik)
• Add SPC b Y and SPC b P to copy/paste whole buffer (thanks to swaroopch)
• Add SPC h d b to describe-bindings (thanks to mkcode)
• Add toggle to hide/show the mode line on SPC t m t (thanks to jupl)
• Add move-text micro-state
• Add highlight-parentheses package which can activated by setting dotspacemacs-highlight-delimiters to current (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add clean-aindent-mode package to cleanly delete virtual indentation (thanks to tuhdo)
• Move yasnippet and hippie-exp to auto-completion layer.
• Move multi-term and shell packages to new shell layer
• Move flyspell and helm-flyspell to syntax-checking layer
• Move SPC b r to SPC f R (rename file)

• Move some toggles key bindings which are now:

  • SPC t s for syntax checking
  • SPC t S for spelling checking
  • SPC t f for fill column
  • SPC t F for auto-fill
  • SPC t c for camelcase
• Move sp-local-pair to :config of smartparens so user can override them (thanks to person808)
• Remove SPC b 0 and SPC b $ redundant key bindings (thanks to tuhdo)
• Remove all themes from the layer (since now themes are not automatically uninstalled).
• Don't use the minibuffer for scroll micro-state
• Don't close compilation buffer after success (thanks to TheBB)
• Make trailing-whitespace face more subtle (thanks to tuhdo)
• Beautify whitespace highlighting (thanks to tuhdo)
• Make inactive window face of mode-line compatible with more themes (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix the recentf-exclude variable, now cache folder is correctly excluded (thanks to rcherrueau)
• Fix global toggle for whitespace.
• Fix for new line insertions with 'SPC i' (thanks to nashamri)
• Fix spray cursor issue when quitting.
• Tweak fci-mode face color, should be better in most themes (thanks to tuhdo)
• Improve smooth-scroll configuration (thanks to sooheon)
• Refactor spacemacs/init-evil-lisp-state to use use-package (thanks to mveytsman)

Helm

• Switch commands for Tab and C-z in Helm (thanks to darkfeline)
• Remove Helm header line to make it clearer (thanks to tuhdo)
• Manually manage popwin to improve popup window interactions (thanks to tuhdo)
• Enable fuzzy matching in Helm (thanks to ralesi)
• Turn on colors in helm-swoop (thanks to danielwuz)
• Render README.md file of layers with Open README action of helm-spacemacs, use the universal argument C-u to open the file without rendering it (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add dotfile variables helm source to helm-spacemac
• Add support for extensions in helm-spacemacs
• Use helm-pp-bookmarks instead of helm-bookmarks (thanks to darkfeline)
• Move C-SPC on M-SPC and S-M-SPC for helm and ido micro-states.
• Make helm-find-files backspace key behave like ido (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix aggressive manipulation of face-remapping-alist in helm and ido
• Automatically create directories if needed when renaming a file (thanks to env0der)
• Replace helm-projectile-vc (which does not exist) by projectile-vc (thanks to swaroopch)
• Fix toggle-maximize-buffer (thanks to tuhdo)

Evil

• Use non-visual lines for j/k navigation (thanks to mlsteele)
• Enable evil-execute-in-normal-state in holy-mode
• Better default face for evil-search-highlight-persist-highlight-face (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add visual state mapping for < and > to <gv and >gv respectively (allow to indent a region several times).
• Add spacemacs/smart-goto-definition which attempts to call SPC m g g and falls back to evil-goto-definition if that fails (thanks to luxbock)
• Replace C-o with M-o in dired buffer since C-o is replaced with evil-execute-in-normal-state (thanks to tuhdo)
• Make evil-smart-* functions respect the leader key (thanks to person808)
• Advice evil-jump-to-var with evil-set-jump (thanks to luxbock)
• Temporary hack to speed up ace-jump-line (SPC l) as an evil motion.

Auctex

• Add RefTeX package (thanks to rpglover64)
• Add flycheck support
• build-view always recompile TeX (thanks to kvelicka)

Auto-completion

• New variables:

  • auto-completion-return-key-behavior set the action to perform when the RET key is pressed, the possible values are complete and nil.
  • auto-completion-tab-key-behavior set the action to perform when the TAB key is pressed, the possible values are complete, cycle and nil
  • auto-completion-complete-with-key-sequence is a string of two characters denoting a key sequence that will perform a complete action if the sequence has been entered quickly enough. If its value is nil then the feature is disabled.
  • Default values are RET -> complete, TAB -> cycle and sequence is nil
• Rename auto-completion-enable-company-help-tooltip to auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip
• Add support for company-statistics, to activate it set the layer variable auto-completion-enable-sort-by-usage to t (thanks to person808)
• Add auto-yasnippet package on SPC i S (thanks to tuhdo)
• Disable company-tooltip-flip (thanks to tuhdo)
• Allow a snippet to wrap around a selected region when expanded, press C-x C-x to go to the original mark and run yas-expand to wrap the selected region in expanded snippet. (thanks to tuhdo)
• Allow hippie-expand to expand snippets (thanks to tuhdo)
• Remove company-yasnippet backends use SPC i s and C-p
• Fix company and fci-mode incompatibility (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix wrong creation location for new snippets with yas-new-snippet (thanks to CestDiego)
• SPC t a now correctly toggle company by default.
• Remove unneeded yasnippet-snippets submodule (thanks mkcode)
• Better lazy-loading of yasnippet (thanks to tuhdo)

Autohotkey

• Use MELPA package (thanks to ralesi)

C/C++

• New layer variable c-c++-enable-clang-support
• New layer variable c-c++-default-mode-for-headers (thanks to ceales)
• Remove unnecessary auto-mode-alist (thanks ceales)
• Add clang-format support (thanks to gnzlbg)

Chrome

• Add better integration with edit-server package (thanks to CestDiego)
• Added Gmail messages support with ham mode (thanks to CestDiego)

Clojure

• Add binding to connect to REPL in Cider on SPC m s c (thanks to jcsims)
• Add SPC m t a to reload test namespace before running all tests (thanks to voxdolo)
• Add SPC m t r to reload test namespace and re-run failed tests (thanks to voxdolo)
• Add SPC m t t to reload test namespace and run focused test (thanks to voxdolo)

Colors

• Add rainbow indentifiers color profiles for gotham and material themes.
• Add colorization of keywords and function names for rainbow indentifiers.
• New variable colors-theme-identifiers-sat&light to set default lightness and saturation for a given theme.

Emacs-lisp

• Move SPC m f bindings for code formatting to SPC m =
• Add macrostep package with a micro-state on SPC m d m (thanks to person808)

Erc

• Add ERC channels to mode-line (thanks to swaroopch)
• Add SPC a i i key binding to switch to active ERC channels (thanks to swaroopch)
• Highlight nicks using erc-hl-nicks (thanks to CestDiego)
• Image inline support using erc-image (thanks to CestDiego)
• Logging to ~/.emacs.d/.cache/erc-logs (thanks to CestDiego)
• ViewLogMode for viewing logs (thanks to CestDiego)
• YouTube videos Thumbnails inline using erc-yt (thanks to CestDiego)
• Social Graph for ERC messages using erc-social-graph (thanks to CestDiego)

ESS

• Fix lazy-loading of packages (thanks to jcpetkovich)
• Update to take care of the merge of company-ess in ess (thanks to jcpetkovich)

Extra-langs

• Add matlab package (thanks to TheBB)

Git

• Make git-gutter key bindings work with or without the fringe (thanks to person808)
• Fix git-gutter and linum-mode integration (thanks to person808)
• Fix s key binding to stage item in visual state.
• Replace with-eval-after-load by eval-after-load (compatible with 24.3) (thanks to person808)
• Disable evil-snipe in magit-status-mode (thanks to person808)
• Enable fci-mode (fill column) in git-commit-mode (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add helm-gitignore package on SPC g I (thanks to jupl)

Gtags

• Add helm-gtags-dwim-other-window on SPC m g G (thanks to mijoharas)

Haskell

• ensure haskell-indentation is loaded before calling members (thanks to chrisbarrett)
• fix misspelled references to keymaps (thanks to chrisbarrett)
• fix function names identation instead of indentation (thanks to chrisbarrett)
• Fix haskell-indentation eval-after-load (thanks to chrisbarrett)
• Fix ghci-ng key bindings being overridden (thanks to bjarkevad)
• Use new package haskell-snippets
• Use ghci-ng for function haskell-process-do-type-on-prev-line (thanks to bjarkevad)

Html

• Improve web micro-state key bindings (thanks to CestDiego)
• emmet key bindings fixes (thanks to louy2 and mkcode)
• Use only smartparens in web-mode (thanks to louy2 and mkcode)
• Add eco to web-mode auto-mode-alist (thanks to louy2 and mkcode)
• Fix buggy T key with emmet
• Add company-web package (thanks to CestDiego)
• Add a bunch of new pairs to sp-local-pair (thanks to CestDiego)
• Turn on rainbow-delimiters for LESS and SCSS (thanks to jupl)

Javascript

• Add js-doc package (thanks to geksilla)
• Add web-beautify package on SPC m = (thanks to elliotec)
• Apply key bindings conventions to some tern key bindings.

Lua

• Add support for auto-completion (thanks to mijoharas)

Markdown

• Add a bunch of new key bindings to improve consistency of key bindings for markup languages, see commit (thanks to cpaulik)
• Add markdown render buffer command on SPC m c r (thanks to CarlQLange)
• Add SPC m i k to insert <kbd>...</kbd> pairs (thanks to CestDiego)

Ocaml

• Add REPL using utop (thanks to edwintorok)
• Auto-indentation using ocp-indent (thanks to edwintorok)
• Add support for company auto-completion (thanks to edwintorok)
• Add support for flycheck syntax checking (thanks to edwintorok)
• New merlin key bindings (thanks to edwintorok)

Org

• Add a bunch of new key bindings to improve consistency of key bindings for markup languages, see commit (thanks to cpaulik)
• Use org-startup-indented instead of a hook so users can easily

remove org-indent-mode (thanks to darkfeline)

• Add support for org-pomodoro-clock to mode-line (thanks to swaroopch)
• Add org-present package (thanks to swaroopch)
• Add SPC m j for helm-org-in-buffer-headings (thanks to swaroopch)
• Add SPC m n for org-narrow-to-subtree (thanks to mattly)
• Add SPC m N for widen (thanks to mattly)
• Add SPC m i k to insert <kbd>...</kbd> pairs (thanks to CestDiego)
• Add htmlize package to enable syntax highlight in export HTML (thanks to tetsusoh)
• Fix error with org-async (thanks to justbur)

Osx

• Make Command-s work with other modes (thanks to linktohack)
• Make dired use coreutils gls if installed (thanks to usharf)

Perforce

• Add a bunch of key bindings see commit (thanks to snandan)

Puppet

• Add auto-completion support (thanks to PierreR)

Python

• Add YAPF extension for buffer formatting (thanks to kennethlove)
• nose.el is now compatible with virtualenv (thanks to danielwuz)
• Add a function to remove unused imports python-remove-unused-imports on SPC m c i (thanks to danielwuz)
• Add pip-requirement package (thanks to CestDiego)
• Enable company in Python REPL for code completion (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix wrong extra parenthesis when inserting a breakpoint (thanks to CestDiego)
• Don't enable Vim key bindings in REPL if holy-mode is active (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix Python and Semantic integration when no python executable can be found on the system (thanks to tuhdo)

Rcirc

• Add rcirc-track-minor-mode to the rcirc-mode-hooks (thanks to luxbock)

Ruby

• Fix ruby-test-mode initialization
• Fix auto-completion (thanks to trishume)
• Fix Rails mappings showing up in non rails projects (thanks to horrorvacui)
• Add :A ex-command which switches between implementation and test (thanks to naliwajek)
• Remove overloading of function erm-darken-color

Rust

• Add key bindings for cargo build, run, test (thanks to swaroopch)

Scala

• Add SPC m d A to attach to remote debugger (thanks to siegelzero)

Semantic

• Create directory for semanticdb if it doesn't exist (thanks to CestDiego)

Shell

• Use shell-pop to toggle shell/eshell and terminals (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add binding for EOF (^D) in term (thanks to darkfeline)
• Bind term-send-tab only in insert state (thanks to darkfeline)
• up and down in shell to cycle through previous commands (thanks to ralesi)
• Fix for paste command in multi-term.
• Add SPC p $ t to run multi-term at project root

Slime

• Disable smartparens in SLIME REPL (thanks to tuhdo)

Smex

• Fix smex prompt whitespace (thanks to TheBB)

Syntax-checking

• New variable syntax-checking-flycheck-pos-tip to enable or disable documentation popup (thanks to beardedprojamz)

Themes

• Add apropospriate-theme to megapack
• Add jazz-theme to megapack (thanks to matDobek)
• Fix theme-to-package rules for base16 (thanks to mkaito)

Tmux

• Add support for motion state (thanks to rphillips)

Vim-empty-lines

• Update with last patches (thanks to person808)
• Exclude terminal modes (thanks to tonylotts)

Ycmd

• Move C/C++ related configuration to c-c++ layer.

Core

• Add support for use-package injected hooks (not yet documented)
• It is now possible to create a layer directly in a known configuration layer path. A helm buffer will ask for a known path or a new path (thanks to justbur)
• The :variables keyword now behaves like regular setq.
• Add org elpa repository
• Use archive instead of package-alist to detect orphans (fix false orphan positives when the dependencies of a package change)
• Improve support for images in Spacemacs banner, it is now possible to use any image format supported by Emacs (thanks to jupl)
• Prefix all category folders in contrib with ! (thanks to trishume)
• Smarter buffer switching which tries to avoid special buffers, you can customize spacemacs-useless-buffers-regexp to define other buffers to avoid (thanks to person808)
• Warn about duplicated layers
• Improvements to home buffer: Quick Help, Content toggles, link faces, better key bindings (thanks to tuhdo)
• dotspacemacs/location now respect dotspacemacs-filepath value (thanks to coldnew)
• Avoid conflict with hydra's lv.el (thanks to edwintorok)
• Update layer templates to use setq instead of defvar (thanks to person808)

Other fixes

• Replace defvar with setq for variable definition <layer>-packages, <layer>-pre-extensions and <layer>-pre-extensions.
• Themes in dotspacemacs-themes are not considered orphans anymore
• Fix "Unable to check for new version." if .emacs.d is a symlink (thanks to louy2)
• Fix non unicode number spacing in mode-line
• Typos (thanks to Andrea, atamis, CarlQLange, charl, ctjhoa, Devagamster, dguilak, edwintorok, fhzerorubigd, jackwilsonv, jupl, kini, latkins, MadAnd, mlsteel, mosic, person808, skwuent, srid, swaroopch and zimbatm)

Release 0.101.x

Hot new features

Choose your own editing style

Thanks to the new holy-mode Spacemacs can now be used by Vim users or Emacs users by setting the dotspacemacs-editing-style variable to 'vim or 'emacs in the dotfile. In Emacs style the leader is available on M-m. It is possible to dynamically switch between the two style with SPC P tab.

Mandatory init function and new Pre and Post init functions

A package is now considered to be used only if there is a corresponding <layer>/init-<package> function explicitly defined. There is now two new functions to initialize a given package:

• <layer>/pre-init-<package> which is called before the init function
• <layer>/post-init-<package> which is called after the init function

Even if a pre or post function exist for a given package, an init function is still required to consider the package to be used.

Auto-completion

Spacemacs now officially support auto-completion. The old layer company-mode has been removed and auto-complete has been removed from the spacemacs layer. They are now part of a new layer called auto-completion. You'll have to this add layer to your dotfile to enable auto-completion.

Syntax checking

Flycheck has been removed from the Spacemacs layer and moved to a new layer called syntax-checking. You'll have to add this layer to your dotfile to enable the fly syntax checking.

Org

Org packages have been removed from Spacemacs layer and moved to a new org layer. You'll have to add this layer to your dotfile to enable the Org configuration of Spacemacs.

New shortcuts in startup buffer

Recent files, project and bookmarks can be displayed on the startup buffer. Check for the new dotfile variable dotspacemacs-startup-lists. (thanks to CarlQLange)

New lighter in the mode line

Lighter letters have been updated, now the letter corresponds to the key binding to toggle the associated mode. For instance auto-completion is on ⓐ and thus can be toggled with SPC t a.

Better package update

The package update should now prevent even more errors when upgrading a batch of packages.

Initial Release (2015/04/13)

New layers

• evil-commentary: Alternative to evil-nerd-commenter (thanks to person808)
• better-defaults: layer providing better defaults for Emacs commands, rather empty for now. (thanks to tuhdo)
• ERC: an IRC client (thanks to swaroopch)
• Racket: a lisp dialect (thanks to trishume)
• xkcd: browse for XKCD in Emacs (thanks to CestDiego)
• shell-scripts: layer containing shell specific modes like fish-mode
• editorconfig: add support for EditorConfig (thanks to jupl)

New dotfile variables:

• dotspacemacs-editing-style can be either vim or emacs.
• dotspacemacs-verbose-loading if non nil the loading prints logs in the *Messages* buffer. Default value is nil.
• dotspacemacs-startup-lists is a list of symbols to display recent items in the startup buffer, possible values are: recents, bookmarks and projects (thanks to CarlQLange)

Auto-complete

• Move to auto-completion layer

C/C++

• Add key bindings SPC m g a and SPC m g A for open alternate file (thanks to mijoharas)

Clojure

• Add SPC m e f eval function at point
• Add cider-eval-sexp-fu
• Fix for cider-send-function-to-repl (thanks to nashamri)
• Replace auto-complete by company for auto-completion
• Move SPC d commands on SPC h to meet Spacemacs convetions (thanks to cpaulik)
• Open cider-doc without asking for symbol, close it with q (thanks to cpaulik)

Company

• Move to auto-completion layer
• Refactoring of company configuration, it is now lazy-loaded and the company-backends list is now a buffer local variable. company is not enabled globally anymore.
• Set company-delay to 0.2 instead of 0
• Ignore company-quickhelp for Emacs version < 24.4
• Add support for company in various languages (thanks to trishume)

Emacs Lisp

• Add eval-sexp-fu (thanks to tuhdo)
• Enable eldoc in eval-expression and IELM (thanks to tuhdo)
• New key bindings SPC m e b, SPC m e c and SPC m e r to evaluate the buffer, the current form starting by set or def and the region respectively (thanks to ralesi)

Ess

• Fix loading of ess-R-object-popup and ess-R-data-view (thanks to jcpetkovich)

Extra-Lang layer

• Add Nim language (thanks to trishume)

Flycheck

• Move to syntax-checking layer
• Add flycheck-pos-tip (thanks to tuhdo)
• Enable flycheck for lua files (thanks rphillips)

Git

• Add gitconfig-mode and git-commit-mode (thanks to ralesi)
• Add gitattributes-mode and gitignore-mode (thanks to r4ts0n)
• Add key bindings in rebase mode
• Add git-link package (thanks to CestDiego)
• Enable Magit authentication on Windows (thanks to tuhdo)
• Loads magit-gh-pulls only after requesting it (thanks to cpaulik)

Go

• Add run-package-tests command on SPC m t p (thanks to robmerrell)
• Fix path to go-oracle (thanks to Pursuit92)

Haskell

• Move SPC m t and SPC m i under SPC m h
• Remove hi2 (it is now integrated in haskell-mode)
• Disable eletric-indent-mode
• Fix flycheck-haskell autoload (thanks to jcpetkovich)
• Fix flycheck loading
• Move SPC m t to SPC m h t according to Spacemacs conventions (thanks to jeremyjh)
• Add C– cmm-mode (thanks to bgamari)

Helm

• Add helm-colors key binding on SPC C l (thanks to tuhdo)
• Make helm-ff-doted-directory consistent (thanks to tuhdo)
• Disable popwin-mode when a Helm session is active (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix lazy-loading of helm for describe commands
• Add support for pt the platinum searcher (thanks to ralesi)
• Add support for helm-ag-edit
• Add function spacemacs/helm-projectile-search-dwim which select the first available external search tool (pt, ag, ack or grep) (thanks to ralesi)
• Enable helm-descbinds globally (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add key bindings for useful Helm commands: helm-info-at-point, helm-man-woman, helm-locate-library and helm-minibuffer-history (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add key bindings for searching the web using helm-suggest (thanks to cpaulik)

Holy-mode

• New package providing Emacs edition style to Spacemacs

IRC

• rcirc: Create rcirc logging directory during init (thanks to jcpetkovich)
• New ERC layer (thanks to swaroopch)
• Add ERC keybindings (thans to cpaulik)
• Move startup key bindings to prefix SPC a i

Markdown

• Associate .mkd with markdown-mode (thanks to bgamari)

Org

• Move to org layer
• Bind evil-leader in org-agenda-map (thanks to luxbock)
• Add org-pomodoro on SPC m p (thanks to swaroopch)
• Add key bindings for org-clock-cancel on SPC m q, and org-set-effort on SPC m f (thanks to swaroopch)
• Fix diminish of org-indent

Perspective

• Rebind spacemacs/persp-switch-project to SPC p p (thanks to CestDiego)

Projectile

• Move projectile switch project from SPC p S to SPC p p

Python

• Add helm-pydoc on SPC m h d (thanks to danielwuz)
• Fix pylookup configuration

Racket

• Add key bindings for REPL interaction

Ruby

• Lazy-load projectile-rails
• Remove mode-line lighter for robe

Scala

• Do not enable ensime in non-file buffers (thanks to chrisbarrett)

SLIME

• Use slime for indentation (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add extension for SBCL (thanks to tuhdo)
• Allow to create a common lisp scratch buffer with slime-scratch (thanks to tuhdo)
• Enable fuzzy completion with score (thanks to tuhdo)
• Don't enable SLIME in Emacs Lisp (thanks to tuhdo)

Smartparens

• Enable smartparens in eval-expression (thanks to tuhdo)

Themes

• Fix themes-megapack layer where themes could not be browsed in Helm.
• Add material theme (thanks to cpaulik)
• Add darktooth theme (thanks to person808)
• Add gotham theme (thanks to person808)

ycmd

• Set global config only if not already set (thanks naseer)

Web

• Add sass-mode (thanks to ryanartecona)
• Ensure that less gets loaded (thanks to mijoharas)

Various Improvements and Changes

• New evil state called evilified which is used in evilified buffers.
• Remove the following packages from Spacemacs layer: dired+, fancy-narrow, string-edit, visual-regexp-steroids and wdired
• Rename *-declarep functions to *-usedp functions
• Display block selection info in the mode line (thanks to emmanueltouzery)
• Bind K in normal state to SPC m h h if it exists (thanks to person808)
• Add key binding for balancing windows on SPC w = (thanks to kini)
• Add key binding to indent region on SPC j = (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add key binding SPC w SPC for ace-window (thanks to ralesi)
• Add key binding SPC b h to open the startup buffer (thanks to ralesi)
• Add key binding SPC t ~ to toggle Vim tildes
• Add adaptive wrap which appropriately indents wrapped lines (thanks to person808)

• Add mouse support to line number column (thanks to ralesi)

  • single click selects line
  • double click selects text block
  • drag across lines selects all lines dragged across
• Add highlight-numbers (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add highlight-indentation on SPC t h i and SPC t h c (thanks to cpaulik)
• Add ace-link package to spacemacs layer (thanks to danielwuz)
• Add indent-guide on SPC t i (thanks to ralesi)
• Add link to cpaulik tutorial to use the Spacemacs icons in Ubuntu Unity
• Add C-w and brackets [] to guide-key-sequence (thanks to ralesi)
• Add info+ to improve Info reading experience (thanks to tuhdo)
• Add default layers to dotfile template: auto-completion, better-defaults, git, markdown, org and syntax-checking (thanks to CarlQLange)
• Move some toggles on SPC T: fringe, menu bar, tool bar, frame maximize, frame fullscreen, frame transparency
• Restore rectangle-mark-mode key binding (thanks to tuhdo)
• Make <escape> quit the isearch-mode like vim (thanks to dsdshcym)
• Enable goto-address-prog-mode which makes URL in code comments clickable (thanks to tuhdo)
• Disable aggressive indent for ediff buffers (thanks chrisbarrett)
• Prevent cursor from moving into minibuffer prompt (thanks to tuhdo)
• Remove tildes in Spacemacs buffer and read-only buffers like Info and help (thanks to tuhdo)
• Ask user editing style when creating .spacemacs file (thanks to tuhdo)
• Fix for persistent-server if server never got started (thanks to ralesi)
• Fix nyan cat starting rainbow on a light background
• Fix some double loading of some packages
• Fix double loading of extensions.el files
• Fix question for preferred coding systems on Microsoft Windows
• Properly enable saveplace (thanks to tuhdo)
• Don't bind C-d in ido-completion-map to ido-delete-file-at-head (thanks to segv)
• Don't refer to ~/.emacs.d/ directly at various places (thanks to jcpetkovich)
• Don't want paste-micro-state to pop up when pasting in ex command prompt (thanks to ralesi)
• Don't cycle when press TAB in eshell (thanks to tuhdo)
• Don't insert extra quote in dotspacemacs-mode (thanks to tuhdo)
• Adapt some micro-states to the micro-state macro (thanks to ralesi)
• Improve smooth scrolling configuration (reduce some point jump) (thanks to tuhdo)
• Improve doge banner grammar (thanks to mathpunk)
• New HOTOWs.md file in /doc
• Add Buy A Drink badge to README.md
• Typo and documentation updates (thanks to danielwuz, swaroopch, CestDiego, IvanMalison, agevelt, nwolfe)

Hot Fixes

Startup Buffer

• Don't display the release notes in the startup buffer when Emacs is restarted after a fresh install
• Startup buffer: fix widget activation in holy-mode (thanks to tuhdo)
• Startup buffer: Don't fontify the startup buffer when rainbow-identifiers

Auto-completion

• Fix error when toggling auto-completion in some buffers

Haskell

• Add new haskell-snippets package (fixes error with required haskell-yas)
• Fix missing quote in haskell-indentation

Org

• Org layer: exclude ox-gfm since it seems problematic for some users. package is used

Ruby

• Fix auto-completion activation.

Themes

• Fix conflict between official Spacemacs solarized theme and color-theme-solarized declared in themes-megapack layer.
• Add rules for all base16 themes (thanks to mkaito)

Various Fixes

• revert back ag as the default search tool instead of pt, pt can conflict with pt command line tool from TCL parser tools.

Previous Releases

• See Github release page