avy 0.5.0 is out

This release consists of 109 commits done over the course of the last 3 years by me and many contributors. Similarly to the 0.4.0 release, the release notes are in Changelog.org. I recommend reading them inside Emacs.

Highlights

A lot of new code is just straight upgrades, you don't need to do anything extra to use them. Below, I'll describe the other part of the new code, which is new commands and custom vars.

New API functions

New functions have been added as drop-in replacements of double-dash (private) Avy functions that were used in other packages and configs. Please replace the references to the obsolete functions.

avy-jump is a drop-in replacement of avy--generic-jump ,

is a drop-in replacement of , avy-process is a drop-in replacement of avy--process .

New dispatch actions

The concept of dispatch actions was introduced in 0.4.0. Suppose you have bound:

( global-set-key ( kbd "M-t" ) 'avy-goto-word-1 )

and a word that starts with a "w" and is select-able with "a". Here's what you can do now:

M-t w a to jump there

to jump there M-t w x a - avy-action-kill-move : kill the word and move there,

- : kill the word and move there, M-t w X a - avy-action-kill-stay : kill the word without moving the point,

- : kill the word without moving the point, M-t w i a - avy-action-ispell : use ispell/flyspell to correct the word,

- : use ispell/flyspell to correct the word, M-t w y a - avy-action-yank : yank the word at point,

- : yank the word at point, M-t w t a - avy-action-teleport : kill the word and yank it at point,

- : kill the word and yank it at point, M-t w z a - avy-action-zap-to-char : kill from point up to selected point.

You can customize avy-dispatch-alist to modify these actions, and also ensure that there's no overlap with your avy-keys , if you customized them.

New avy-style setting: 'words

You can now customize:

( setq avy-style 'words )

And you'll see overlays like "by", "if", "is", "it", "my" for 2-letter sequences, and "can", "car", "cog" for 3-letter sequences. You might find them easier to type than "hla", "lls" and "jhl". But you will have to adjust your avy-dispatch-alist , e.g. to use only upper case characters.

avy-linum-mode

This is feature is a mix of linum-mode and ace-window-display-mode . You'll see the overlays when you enable this mode, so that there's less context switch when you call avy-goto-line .

Restarting an avy search

Suppose you jumped to a word that starts with "a". Now you want to jump to a different word that also starts with "a". You can use avy-resume for this.

Additionally, you can use avy-next and avy-prev to cycle between the last avy candidates. Here's an example hydra to facilitate it:

( defhydra hydra-avy-cycle () ( "j" avy-next "next" ) ( "k" avy-prev "prev" ) ( "q" nil "quit" )) ( global-set-key ( kbd "C-M-'" ) 'hydra-avy-cycle/body )

Outro

Big thanks to all contributors, and I hope you enjoy the new release. Happy hacking!