Ivy 0.12.0 is out

Intro

Ivy is a completion method that's similar to Ido , but with emphasis on simplicity and customizability.

Overview

The current release constitutes of 398 commits and 6 months of progress since 0.11.0 . Many issues ranging from #1904 to #2151 were fixed. The number of people who contributed code as grown to 148. Thanks, everyone!

Details on changes

Changelog.org has been a part of the repository since 0.6.0 , you can get the details of the current and past changes:

in org-mode

in HTML

Highlights

Many improvements are incremental and don't require any extra code to enable. I'll go over a few selected features that require a bit of information to make a good use of them.

New bindings

counsel-descbinds M-o x execute action.

counsel-file-jump M-o d dired.

counsel-find-file M-o c copy file. ` bookmarks: efficiently jump between recent directories. $ directories stored in environment variables. C-DEL go up directory. Customize: counsel-up-directory-level . RET open file. Customize: counsel-find-file-extern-extensions . // when on remote, cd to remote root. / C-j select local root. ~ when on remote, cd to remote home. / C-j ~ cd to local home from remote.

counsel-git-log M-o v open the current commit in magit .

counsel-rg C-x C-d change the current directory for grep.

ivy-avy C-v to scroll down. M-v to scroll up.

ivy-read C-o m mark and move down. u unmark and move down. DEL move up and unmark. t toggle marks. d perform the action on all marked elements.

ivy-switch-buffer C-k kill buffer. M-o x open buffer file externally.

ivy-reverse-i-search C-k remove item from the history.



New Commands extensions

These commands are new variants and adaptations of existing commands.

Thing at point variants:

swiper-all-thing-at-point .

. swiper-isearch-thing-at-point .

. swiper-thing-at-point .

Search variants that go backwards:

swiper-backward .

. counsel-grep-or-swiper-backward .

. swiper-isearch-backward.

A variant of ivy-switch-buffer with live preview:

counsel-switch-buffer .

. counsel-switch-buffer-other-window .

And finally:

counsel-dired - like counsel-find-file , but open dired .

- like , but open . swiper-isearch-toggle - toggle between swiper and isearch .

New Commands

I have put these separately so they don't get lost in the crowd. Be sure to try them out.

counsel-compile - completion for compile .

- completion for . counsel-register - completion for registers.

- completion for registers. counsel-minor - completion for minor modes.

- completion for minor modes. swiper-isearch - a faster swiper that's not line-based.

Outro

Again, thanks to all the contributors. Happy hacking!