Ivy CHANGELOG

Table of Contents

0.6.0


Fixes

swiper-avy should use only the current window

Not all windows. See #117.


fix wrap-around for ivy-next-line

See #118.


swiper-avy should do nothing for empty input

See #50.


ivy-alt-done should require TRAMP if necessary

See #145.


swiper-query-replace shouldn't miss the first occurrence

See #144.


swiper should not deactivate mark

ivy-mode should not switch to TRAMP for certain input

See #145.


counsel-find-file should work better with TRAMP

"/ssh:foo" should not be cut off See #145.


counsel-find-file supports Windows drive letters

See #155.


counsel-file-file should work better with files that contain "~"

See #157.


counsel-M-x should respect ivy-format-function

See #150.


counsel-git-grep should position better on exit

See #153.


ivy-mode should re-scale text to minibuffer height

See #151.


counsel-unicode-char should use action-style call

See #160.


ivy-read should allow % in prompt string

See #171.


ivy-call should execute in proper window

See #176.

New Features

ivy-mode

Open an Info file on the file system

When in Info-mode, press g and select either "(./)" or "(../)" to switch to file name completion. That file will be opened with Info.


Account for minibuffer-depth-indication-mode

If you have minibuffer-depth-indication-mode on, the minibuffer prompt will indicate the current depth. See #134.


Add fuzzy matching function

To enable fuzzy matching, set your ivy-re-builders-alist accordingly:

(setq ivy-re-builders-alist
      '((t . ivy--regex-fuzzy)))

See #136.

See also #142 for toggling fuzzy matching with C-o m.


case-fold-search optimization

Bind case-fold-search to t when the input is all lower-case:

  • input "the" matches both "the" and "The".
  • input "The" matches only "The".

See #166.


Allow to see the candidate index a la anzu via ivy-count-format

To have this feature, use something like this:

(setq ivy-count-format "(%d/%d) ")

See #167.

You can also set this to "", if you don't want any count, see #188.


Allow to add additional exit points for any command

Example for ivy-switch-to-buffer:

(ivy-set-actions
 'ivy-switch-buffer
 '(("k"
    (lambda (x)
      (kill-buffer x)
      (ivy--reset-state ivy-last))
    "kill")
   ("j"
    ivy--switch-buffer-other-window-action
    "other")))

After this:

  • use M-o k to kill a buffer
  • use M-o j to switch to a buffer in other window

You can always use M-o o to access the default action. When there is only one action, M-o does the same as C-m.

See #164.


counsel-describe-function and counsel-decribe-variable

Add a binding to look up the symbol in info

Press C-, to look up the symbol in info, instead of the default describe action. See #121.


Handle symbol-at-point better in non-Elisp buffers

See #126.


ivy-switch-buffer

New face ivy-virtual

See #129.


Deal better with invisible buffers

See #135.


Add custom keymap

You can customize ivy-switch-buffer-map.

See #164.


Add extra actions

Add a kill-buffer action, and switch-to-buffer-other-window action.


counsel-git-grep

Add Async

Make it fully async: the process git grep will be killed and restarted on new input. This results in almost no keyboard delay.


Own history variable

swiper

Own history variable

Having own history variable allows to get more use of M-p, M-n and C-r.


counsel-el

Switch to action-style call

This allows to make use of C-M-n and C-M-p.


counsel-locate

Add Async
Add extra actions

In addition to the default action of opening a file add:

  • xdg-open action
  • dired action

Press M-o or C-o to access these actions.


Add own history

API

Add :matcher

A matcher is a function that accepts a regexp and a list of candidates and returns the filtered list of candidates.

The default matcher is basically cl-remove-if-not + string-match. If you'd like to customize this, pass your own matcher.

See counsel-git-grep-matcher for an example.


Allow to customize the initial input for all commands

Customize ivy-initial-inputs-alist for this. See #140.


ivy-sort-functions-alist should also examine this-command
:dynamic-collection is now a boolean

Pass the collection function as the second var instead.

New Commands

ivy-call

Execute the current action for the current candidate without exiting the minibuffer. Bound to C-M-m or M-RET or C-o g.


counsel-find-file

Forward to find-file with Ivy completion.

ivy-next-line-and-call as well as ivy-resume should work for this command.

The variable counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp allows to ignore certain files, like dot files. Input a leading dot to see all files.

The variable counsel-find-file-at-point allows to automatically use ffap. You also can do it manually with M-n when the point is on a file name.

The variable counsel-find-file-map allows to customize the minibuffer key bindings for this command.

Recommended binding:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-f") 'counsel-find-file)

You can peek at files with C-M-n and C-M-p.

See #122 and #123.

See #152 about M-n, M-p and M-i switching directories when necessary.


ivy-recentf

Find a file on recentf-list.

Note that if your set ivy-use-virtual-buffers, recentf-list is merged into candidates list for ivy-switch-buffer. But if you want it separately, you can use this command.

See #124.


ivy-yank-word

Add word at point to minibuffer input.

This is similar to what C-w does for isearch. However it's bound to M-j instead of C-w, since C-w is bound to kill-region - a useful command.

See #125.


counsel-M-x

Forward to execute-extended-command with Ivy completion. The candidate list will also display the key binding for each bound command.

This command will piggyback on smex for sorting, if smex is installed.

Use counsel-M-x-initial-input to customize the initial input for this command. By default, it's "^" - the regex character that indicates beginning of string. This results in much faster matching, since you usually type the command name from the start.

See #136 and #138.


hydra-ivy

Press C-o to toggle the Hydra for Ivy. It gives access to shorter bindings and many customizable options.

Use C-o > to grow the minibuffer. Use C-o < to shrink the minibuffer.

See #151.


ivy-toggle-calling

Toggle executing the current action each time a new candidate is selected.

This command is bound to C-o c.

To explain how this is useful: C-M-m C-M-f C-M-f C-M-f is equivalent to C-o cjjj.


ivy-insert-current

Inserts the current candidate into the minibuffer.

Press M-i if you want something close to the current candidate. You can follow up with an edit and select.

I find this very useful when creating new files with a similar name to the existing file: C-x C-f M-i + a bit of editing is very fast.

See #141.


counsel-load-theme

Forward to load-theme with Ivy completion. Allows to rapidly try themes (e.g. with C-M-n).


counsel-rhythmbox

ivy-dispatching-done

Select an action for the current candidate and execute it. Bound to M-o.

Some commands that support M-o:

  • counsel-rhythmbox
  • counsel-describe-function
  • counsel-describe-variable
  • ivy-switch-buffer
  • counsel-locate

counsel-org-tag

Forward to org-set-tags with Ivy completion.

Selecting any tag each time will toggle it on/off. The current list of selected tags will be displayed in the prompt.

See #177 and #91.


counsel-org-tag-agenda

Forward to org-agenda-set-tags with Ivy completion. See #177.


counsel-ag

Interactively ag using Ivy completion.


counsel-recoll

Use recoll with Ivy completion. See Using Recoll desktop search database with Emacs.

Install recoll with sudo apt-get install recoll.


swiper-from-isearch

Start swiper from the current isearch input.


ivy-immediate-done

Use this command to exit the minibuffer choosing not the current candidate, but the current text. Bound to C-M-j or C-u C-j.

See #183.


0.7.0


Fixes

Fix :dynamic-collection not being sorted

When :initial-input contains a plus, escape it

See #195.


Set line-spacing to 0 in the minibuffer

See #198.


Enlarge the minibuffer window if the candidate list doesn't fit

See #198 and #161 and #220.


Fix minibuffer collapsing to one line

See #237, #229 and #77.


Use minibuffer-allow-text-properties

Allows ivy-read to return a propertized string.


Improve C-g out of a long-running async process

Use counsel-delete-process as :unwind.


Don't regexp-quote :preselect

See #245.


Fix ivy-partial for fuzzy completion

See #266.


ivy-resume should pass :caller

See #245.


Fix the regression in perfect match logic

See #270.


Fix pasting file paths on Windows

C-j should no stop completion for a pasted file path

C-M-j should use ivy--directory

When completing file names, expand the file name properly. See #275.


Use a specific blend method for dark themes

See #278.


Fix one-off bug in ivy-scroll-up-command and ivy-scroll-down-command

M-o shouldn't set the action permanently

So now it's possible to e.g. counsel-describe-function -> M-o d -> ivy-resume -> M-o o -> ivy-resume -> M-o i.


Fix swiper preselect issue with similar or identical lines

See #290.


Make ivy-completing-read handle history as cons

See #295.


Perform string-match in the original buffer

The syntax for whitespace, separators etc. is different for modes. See #298.

New Features

swiper

Make line numbers into display properties

Each candidate is now a single space plus the original string. The display property of the single space holds the line number. This means that it's no longer possible to match line numbers in queries, which is a good thing if you're searching for numbers.


Extend swiper-font-lock-ensure

Add mu4e-view-mode, mu4e-headers-mode, help-mode, elfeed-show-mode, emms-stream-mode, debbugs-gnu-mode, occur-mode, occur-edit-mode, bongo-mode, eww-mode, vc-dir-mode.


Add support for evil-jumper/backward

See #268.


Make compatible with visual-line-mode

swiper will split the lines when visual-line-mode is on. This is convenient for small buffers. For large buffers, it can be very slow, since visual-line-mode is slow. See #227.


Add swiper-toggle-face-matching

Bound to C-c C-f. At each start of swiper, the face at point will be stored. Use this command to toggle matching only the candidates with that face. See #288.


push-mark only if exited the minibuffer

C-M-n and C-M-p will no longer push mark and annoy with messages.


ivy-resume should restore the buffer for swiper

See #302.


Enable recursive swiper calls

While you swiper buffer-1, you can switch out of the minibuffer into buffer-2 and call swiper again. Exiting the second minibuffer will restore the first minibuffer.

To use this, you need to enable recursive minibuffers.

(setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)

It's also useful to indicate the current depth:

(minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode 1)

See #309.


Fix for twittering-mode

The field text property is now removed before inserting text into the minibuffer. This fixes the swiper problems with twittering-mode. See #310.


ivy

Add manual

In the current state, the manual covers the most basic topics, like the minibuffer key bindings and the regexp builders.


Make <left> and <right> behave as in fundamental-mode
Truncate minibuffer prompts longer than window-width

See #240.


C-M-n should not leave the minibuffer

Make sure that the minibuffer window remains selected as long as the completion hasn't finished. For example, <f1> f to call counsel-describe-function, input "forward" and spam C-M-n to read the doc for each function that starts with "forward". The *Help* window popup would move the window focus, but this change moves it back to the minibuffer.


Add flx sorting

See #207. Since flx is costly, move the caching to an earlier point. This means immediate return for when the input hasn't changed, i.e. for C-n or C-p. When flx is installed, and (eq ivy--regex-function 'ivy--regex-fuzzy) for current function (through ivy-re-builders-alist), then sort the final candidates with ivy--flx-sort.

In the worst case, when some error pops up, return the same list. In the best case sort the cands that all match name by closeness to name.

How to use:

  1. Have flx installed - (require 'flx) should succeed.
  2. Configure ivy-re-builders-alist appropriately to use ivy--regex-fuzzy.

For example:

(setq ivy-re-builders-alist
      '((t . ivy--regex-fuzzy)))

Support hash tables

Since all-completions also works for hash tables, no reason not to support them.


Improve documentation of ivy-count-format

Now possible to set it with Customize.


Add ivy-index-functions-alist

Customize this to decide how the index, i.e. the currently selected candidate, is updated with new input. For example, one strategy is not reset it to 0 after each change.

Another strategy, used for swiper, is to try to select the first appropriate candidate after (inclusive) the first previously selected candidate. This way, if you're typing something that matches what is currently selected, the selection won't change.

See #253.


Add ivy-virtual-abbreviate

The mode of abbreviation for virtual buffer names.


Add ivy-case-fold-search

Used to override case-fold-search. See #259.


Add feedback for long-running async processes

Each time 0.5s pass after the last input, if the external process hasn't finished yet, update minibuffer with the amount of candidates collected so far. This is useful to see that long running commands like counsel-locate or counsel-ag (when in a very large directory) aren't stuck.


Promote ivy-extra-directories to defcustom
Promote ivy-sort-function-alist to defcustom
M-n should prefer url at point to symbol at point
C-x C-f M-n calls ffap-url-fetcher when at URL
Highlight modified file buffers with ivy-modified-buffer face

This new face is blank by default, but you can use e.g.:

(custom-set-faces
 '(ivy-modified-buffer ((t (:background "#ff7777")))))

Work with enable-recursive-minibuffers

Store the old ivy-last in case ivy-read is called while inside the minibuffer. Restore it after ivy-call.


Allow user-specified matched candidate sorting

New defcustom ivy-sort-matches-functions-alist. See #269 #265 #213.

By default, Ivy doesn't sort the matched candidates, they remain in the same order as in the original collection. This option is the default, since it's fast and simple.

A small problem with this approach is that we usually want prefix matches to be displayed first. One solution to this is to input "^" to see only the prefix matches.

Now, another solution is to can set:

(setq ivy-sort-matches-functions-alist
      '((t . ivy--prefix-sort)))

Here's another example of using this defcustom:

(add-to-list
     'ivy-sort-matches-functions-alist
     '(read-file-name-internal . ivy--sort-files-by-date))

After this, during file name completion, most recently changed files will be ahead.


ivy-display-style

Adds fancy highlighting to the minibuffer. See #212, #217, .


ivy-hydra

Bind t to toggle-truncate-lines

See #214.


Bind a to ivy-read-action

ivy-switch-buffer

Make M-o r rename the buffer instead of switching.

See #233.


counsel-locate

Allow customizing locate options

See counsel-locate-options. The current setting is:

(setq counsel-locate-options '("-i" "--regex"))

Support OSX

Use open instead of xdg-open. Modify counsel-locate-options for OSX, since there locate doesn't support --regex.


Use single quotes for the regex

See #194.


Add initial-input argument

See #289.


counsel-org-tag

Now works in agenda

See #200.


counsel-unicode-char

Add own history

counsel-M-x

Add "definition" action

Use M-o d to jump to definition.


Show current-prefix-arg in the prompt

See #287.


counsel-find-file

Input '/sudo::' goes to current directory instead of root's home

See #283.


Fix directory validity check

See #283 #284.


Improve TRAMP support

Selecting items after // now works properly.


counsel-git-grep

Use prefix arg to specify the shell command.

Remember to use M-i to insert the current candidate into the minibuffer.

See #244.


Allow counsel-git-grep -> ivy-occur -> wgrep

Using C-c C-o (ivy-occur) while in counsel-git-grep will produce a wgrep-compatible buffer.


ivy-occur gives full candidates

This means that the " | head -n 200" speed-up isn't used and full candidates are returned.


counsel--find-symbol

Allow to jump back with pop-tag-mark

Using C-. in:

  • counsel-describe-function
  • counsel-describe-variable
  • counsel-load-library

will change the current buffer. The buffer and point can be restored with M-* (pop-tag-mark).

I also recommend this binding:

(global-set-key (kbd "M-,") 'pop-tag-mark)

Resolve the name clash better

When the symbol is both bound and fbound, prefer the fbound one, unless the :caller is counsel-describe-variable.


counsel-ag

Add initial-directory

Support alternative initial directory which helps other packages call this function with their unique starting directory.


Fix on Windows

Using the "–vimgrep" argument improves things.

New Commands

ivy-occur

Bound to C-c C-o. Store the current completion session to its own buffer. You can have an unlimited amount of these buffers.


ivy-avy

Bound to C-'.

Speeds up selecting a candidate that's currently visible in the minibuffer.


ivy-kill-ring-save

Bound to M-w.

When the region is active, call kill-ring-save. Otherwise, store all selected candidates to the kill ring.


ivy-dispatching-call

Bound to C-M-o.

This is a non-exiting version of M-o (ivy-dispatching-done).


ivy-read-action

Bound to C-M-a. Select the current action. Don't call it yet.


swiper-multi

Use swiper in multiple buffers. See #182.

Basic usage tips for selecting multiple buffers:

  • Use C-M-m (ivy-call) to add or remove one more buffer without exiting.
  • Use C-m (ivy-done) to add one last buffer.
  • Or use C-M-j (ivy-immediate-done) to finish without adding more buffers.
  • Hold C-M-n (ivy-next-line-and-call) to add a lot of buffers at once.

swiper-mc

Open multiple cursors at all selected candidates.


swiper-all

New command to launch swiper for all open file buffers. Note that this can be excruciatingly slow if you don't clean up your buffer list often.


counsel-grep

This is essentially swiper for huge files. It's not as smooth as swiper for small files, but has a faster startup and faster matching for files that measure in megabytes.


counsel-git-grep-query-replace

Bound to M-q. Perform query-replace on all matches in all buffers.


counsel-jedi

Complete Python symbols using Jedi.


counsel-cl

Complete Common Lisp symbols using SLIME.


counsel-yank-pop

Give completion for inserting from the kill ring. See counsel-yank-pop-truncate defcustom and #218.


0.8.0


Package rename

Due to popular demand, swiper-0.7.0 is succeeded by ivy-0.8.0 in GNU ELPA. The contents of the package don't change, only the name. Make sure to remove the ~/.emacs.d/elpa/swiper-0.7.0 directory if you have it and M-x package-install ivy.

Documentation

HTML documentation is available at https://oremacs.com/swiper/.

Texinfo documentation is in doc/ivy.texi.

The HTML file shouldn't be in this repository to avoid bloat, instead it's in the gh-pages branch at https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/tree/gh-pages.

Fixes

ivy-read

Fix recursive minibuffer exit with C-g

Make it so e.g. C-h f C-h v C-g goes back to the describe-function selection.


Ensure the return result

In some cases, read-from-minibuffer will return the whole minibuffer contents (i.e. all available candidates). Return ivy--current instead.


Properly support matching ignoring order

See #296 and #329.


Insert intermediate candidates during async completions

See #340.


Initialize ivy-last to empty state

See #352.


Fix extra actions for completing-read

See #337.


Support a list of symbols as collection

See #375.


Define setq-local and defvar-local unless defined

With this commit, Ivy works on emacs-24.2. See #415.


Make M-o not modify the action

See #454.


Make sure user keybindings are respected

See #466.


Fix read-file-name with a specified dir

See #475.


Don't highlight the match in the file part

See #483.


Add a few tests for alists

ivy-occur

Fix default-directory

This way, next-error etc will work properly.


ivy--resize-minibuffer-to-fit

Fix for small delta

See #339.


Check frame-root-window-p

See #380.


ivy-completing-read

Use completing-read-default for tmm

See #316.


ivy--regex-plus

Recognize ! at the beginning of the str

See #318.


Prettify a bit

See #344.


Don't consider \\(?...\) a group

See #393.


ivy--get-window

Always return a valid window

Even if state is invalid.


ivy--recompute-index

Update cl-position logic

See #207.


Fix due to recursive update

See #323.


ivy--reset-state

Don't null initial-input

This is specifically for 'read-file-name-internal collection. The input needs to be set to nil for e.g. rgrep, which supplies the absolute path as initial-input, resulting in a mess.

For now, don't set input to nil if :action was passed to ivy-read. See #336.


Don't deactivate region

See #377.


ivy-completion-in-region

Use completion-all-completions

See #341.


Optimize for 1 candidate

When there's only one candidate, call the action immediately.


Add feedback for 1 candidate

When the sole completion is the same as the input, notify the user. See #350.


Bind completion-ignore-case

It's convenient to have it the same value as case-fold-search.


ivy-read-action

Give enough minibuffer space

See #402.


Allow to customize the action hint formatter

See #469.


ivy-count-format

Fix for nil value

See #349.


ivy-switch-buffer

Don't fall back to switch-to-buffer

See #410.


ivy-next-history-element

No "\\_<" for dynamic-collection

"\\_<" regex is Emacs-specific and should only be done if :dynamic-collection is nil. It is nil for counsel-git-grep with repositories < 20000 lines, but non-nil for larger ones.

Fixes #409.


ivy-occur-press

Pulse no longer

Repeated pulses within a short time span resulted in horrible window flickering.


ivy-resume

Add a guard against null :action

ivy-avy

Make C-g cancel gracefully

See abo-abo/avy#140.


ivy-dispatching-done

Allow to exit with no candidates.


swiper

Improve for multiple occurrences on one line

See #314.


Fix "backward" search

When none of the previous candidates after the point match the current input, instead of returning 0, return the index of the last matching candidate. This is a good choice, because that candidate is the closest to the point of the initial search start.

See #319.


Return point

See #370.


Update regexp-search-ring

See #89.


Always remove '(field) text property

Allows to search better in modes for shell interaction.


swiper-font-lock-ensure

Add modes

Add bongo-library-mode, bongo-playlist-mode, sauron-mode.

See #19.


Don't fail when font-lock is off

See #400.


swiper--multi-candidates

Add check for make-string

See #481.


counsel--async-sentinel

Fix issue with ivy--regex-ignore-order

See #342.


Re-display when no cands
Recognize error codes other than 1

See #394.


counsel-git

Fix window selection.

Use with-ivy-window, so that each new file chosen with e.g. C-M-n is selected in the same window.


counsel-recoll

Add :unwind

See #403.


compilation warnings

See #324.


New Features

ivy-read

Use flx for highlighting fuzzy matches

See #207.


Simplify the signature for :dynamic-collection functions

When given :dynamic-collection, assume the collection function only needs one argument - the string input.


Modify M-n prediction when region is active

When the region is active and M-n is called, insert the region contents into the minibuffer and deactivate the region. The region deactivation is done for swiper, to make it easier to search for multiple words or a subword.


Allow to compose collections
  • Example 1: async collection

    Stack recentf on top of counsel-locate:

    (defun small-test ()
      (cl-subseq recentf-list 0 10))
    
    (ivy-set-sources
     'counsel-locate
     '((small-test)
       (original-source)))
    

    Here, (original-source) represents the async candidates of counsel-locate. All extra sources are static - each function is called once to generate a list of strings, which will be filtered later.

    The order matters, so you can have e.g.:

    (ivy-set-sources
     'counsel-locate
     '((original-source)
       (small-test)))
    

    See #373.


  • Example 2: sync collection
    (defun my-extra-source ()
      (append
       (when (eq 'Git (vc-backend (buffer-file-name)))
         (list "git1" "git2" "git3"))
       (when (file-exists-p "doc/Changelog.org")
         (list (propertize "doc/Changelog.org" 'face '(:background "red"))))))
    
    (defun my-find-file ()
      (interactive)
      (ivy-read "Find file: " 'read-file-name-internal
                :action (lambda (x)
                          (with-ivy-window
                            (find-file (expand-file-name x ivy--directory))))
                :require-match 'confirm-after-completion
                :history 'file-name-history
                :caller 'my-find-file))
    
    (ivy-set-sources
     'my-find-file
     '((my-extra-source)
       (original-source)))
    

    The function my-find-file knows nothing about the extra source, it's only purpose is to introduce a :caller to attach things to, as to not to mess up e.g. counsel-find-file.

    The function my-extra-source gets called once in ivy-read via ivy--reset-state. It takes no args and returns a list of strings, possibly empty.


Improve documentation UI

Bind C-h m to ivy-help.

ivy-help-file is a new defvar pointing to the ivy-help.org file.

Bind D in hydra-ivy to go to hydra's definition.

See #376 and #379.


Add ignore pattern toggling

C-c C-a is bound to ivy-toggle-ignore - a new command to toggle ignore patterns (user-configured filtering). If the ignore patterns are enabled and there are zero candidates after ignoring, display the ones that match the current text. This feature currently works for ivy-switch-buffer and counsel-find-file.

See #369.


ivy-mode

Set completion-in-region-function

See #331.


Improve M-n for 'read-file-name-internal

ivy-set-occur

Allows to customize ivy-occur per-command.


Add custom occur for ivy-switch-buffer

See #438 and #440.


ivy-occur-mode

New commands on j, k, c

(ivy-occur-toggle-calling): New command bound to c. (ivy-occur-next-line): New command bound to j. (ivy-occur-previous-line): New command bound to k.

This makes ivy-occur much more convenient, instead of gjgjgjg, just cjjj. Especially good for commands that change the contents of the other window, like describe-function or counsel-git-grep.

Example:

  • C-h f (describe-funtion)
  • run (self-insert-command)
  • C-c C-o (ivy-occur); C-o u also works.
  • cjjjjkkkk

New command ivy-occur-revert-buffer on g

Does what e.g. revert-buffer does for Help buffers.

Has special handling for counsel-git-grep, counsel-ag and counsel-grep: will run the shell command once more and reflect the updates in files.

Move ivy-occur-press from g to f.


Improve the feedback for j and k

The overlays will be more responsive now.


ivy-re-builders-alist

Allow this-command to be a key

Example:

(defun asdf ()
  (interactive)
  (completing-read "prompt: " '("abc" "abcd" "def")))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'asdf)

(setq ivy-re-builders-alist
      '(
        (asdf . ivy--regex-fuzzy)
        (t . ivy--regex-plus)))

This is useful for commands that you didn't write. For new commands that you write, consider using ivy-read and :caller.

See #330.


ivy-set-actions

Call with t to affect all commands

Example:

(ivy-set-actions
 t
 '(("i" insert "insert")))

Now an "insert" action will be available for all ivy-read sessions when pressing M-o.

See #337.


ivy-faces

New defcustom group. See #389.


ivy-flx-limit

New variable. Configure when flx is used. See #207.


ivy-inhibit-action

New variable. See #363.


ivy-do-completion-in-region

New defcustom. See #367.


ivy-fixed-height-minibuffer

New defcustom.

When non nil, fix the height of the minibuffer during ivy completion at ivy-height. This effectively sets the minimum height at this level and tries to ensure that it does not change depending on the number of candidates.

See #353.


ivy-set-display-transformer

New API function.

Now used by switch-to-buffer and read-file-name.

See #399.


ivy-ignore-buffers

New defcustom similar to ido-ignore-buffers.

See #382 and #366.


ivy-add-newline-after-prompt

New defcustom.

See #451.


ivy-switch-buffer

Add virtual views

ivy-views variable stores pre-defined views. Allows to set a window configuration with many buffers from ivy-switch-buffer.

How to use: just set ivy-views appropriately. An example value is provided (but nulled, so that it's empty initially).


ivy-use-ignore-default

New defcustom

See #477.


swiper

Improve swiper-query-replace

To replace a symbol with a similar symbol,

  1. Press C-s M-n for swiper and select the symbol at point as input.
  2. Press M-q for swiper-query-replace
  3. Press M-n to yank the symbol to replace.
  4. Edit the replacement and RET.

Here step-3 was modified to yank e.g. "symbol" instead of "\_<symbol\_>" previously.


swiper-font-lock-exclude

New variable for major modes that misbehave with font-lock-ensure. See #346.


swiper-all

New auto-updates position

See #401.


counsel-mode

A minor-mode that remaps built-in functions that have counsel replacements available.

See #414.


Allow use of describe-prefix-bindings

See #441.


counsel-find-file

Add initial-input

See #336.


Change tramp prompt from "Find File: " to "user@host: "
Bind counsel-up-directory to C-DEL

New function that moves up to the parent directory and at the same time preselects the current directory. This is useful for moving up and down a file tree quickly.

See #343.


Customize M-n action

This feature allows to quickly visit Github issues from either magit-commit-mode or from a version-controlled file. The point has to be at the "#" char in e.g. "#123", that represents an issue.

It's possible to customize ivy-ffap-url-functions to do a similar thing for places other than Github.

The C-x C-f M-n key binding will work better with counsel-find-file, for plain find-file it will open a dired buffer in addition to opening the URL.


Can un-ignore dotfiles with a leading dot input

When ivy-text starts with a dot, don't use counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp. The generic way to do this is with C-c C-a (ivy-toggle-ignore), but this is faster and more convenient.

See #408.


Bind M-o f to find-file-other-window
Correctly expand file name at point

See #430.


Add display transformer

See #458.


Add magic slash that changes the directory

Update to the behavior: the slash ("/") will enter a directory even if its name isn't completely typed out if either:

  1. It's the only candidate.
  2. The candidate index isn't 0, i.e. "C-n" has been typed at least once.
  3. The input isn't "/".

The above rules still allow to keep the old behavior with "//" moving to root and "/ssh:" opening tramp.

This is an experimental feature, please report if it breaks someone's workflow.

See #321 and #480.


counsel-git-grep

Bind C-c C-m to counsel-git-grep-switch-cmd

The initial command always runs on all files.

To run only on *.el files, C-c C-m followed by M-i -- *.el. To run on *.c and *.h files, C-c C-m followed by M-i -- *.c *.h. To switch to all files again, C-c C-m and select the appropriate entry.

See #420.


counsel-locate

counsel-locate-cmd

New defcustom that replaces counsel-locate-options.

See #385.


counsel-locate-cmd-mdfind

New function. See #390.


counsel-locate-cmd-es

New function. See #426.


counsel-yank-pop

Truncate during display

During the completion, only the context around the match will be shown. By default, the context is +2 lines above and +2 lines below the match. It can be adjusted with counsel-yank-pop-truncate-radius. Additionally, ivy-height is temporarily bound to 5 during completion. This way, the maximum minibuffer height should be 1+4*5=21 lines.

See #315.


counsel-unicode-char

Display hex codes in left column.


counsel-rhythmbox

Preselect the current song

counsel-ag

counsel-ag-base-command

Allows the command run by counsel-ag-function to be customized. There are several reasons to allow this: The vimgrep option is a recent addition; on windows it's more convenient to use pt; and the user might want to customize ignored files.

Standard value:

(setq counsel-ag-base-command "ag --nocolor --nogroup %s -- .")

See #335.


Add dir prompt for C-u

See #429.


Add counsel-ag-map

See #462.


counsel-async-split-string-re

New defcustom.


counsel--async-cmd

Add optional exit-code table

This argument can be used to associate exit codes with the underlying reason. Used in counsel-ag-function to signal that an exit code of 1 means that no matches were found.

See #421.


counsel-prompt-function

New defcustom

See #424 and #425.


counsel-grep

Reveal outlines

Just like swiper.


Should pick candidates closest to point

Fixes the algorithm selecting the first matching candidate in case there are 0 matching candidates following point. Now the last matching candidate will be selected, resulting in less scrolling.


Speed up x40 times

The default shell command will not use --ignore-case switch for grep. It's a bit less convenient, but results in a huge speed-up.


counsel-M-x

Add help action

Bound to M-o h by default.

See #452.

New Commands

counsel-tmm

Completion for the menu bar items. For example:

counsel-tmm -> Options -> Set Default Font....

Thanks to completion, the latter stages of the chain would look like: op RET set RET.


counsel-imenu

Jump to a buffer position indexed by imenu.


counsel-decbinds

Show a list of all defined keys, and their definitions. Describe the selected candidate. See #332.


counsel-list-processes

Offer completion for process-list

The default action deletes the selected process. An extra action allows to switch to the process buffer.

See #357 and #398.


ivy-switch-buffer-other-window

Remap switch-to-buffer-other-window to ivy-switch-buffer-other-window for ivy-mode.

See #361.


counsel-git-stash

Search through all available git stashes.

See #374.


counsel-git-log

Call the git log --grep shell command and search through the output.


counsel-pt

Grep for a string in the current directory using pt.

See #434.


counsel-linux-app

Launch a Linux desktop application, similar to Alt-<F2>.

See #446.


counsel-esh-history

Browse Eshell history.

See #459.


counsel-shell-history

Browse shell history.


counsel-grep-or-swiper

New command: automatically use swiper for smaller buffers and counsel-grep for larger buffers.

Adjust with:

(setq counsel-grep-swiper-limit 300000)

By default, the splitting predicate is 300K bytes in a file.





















































0.9.0


Fixes

colir-parse-color

Fix color parsing in terminal. See #541 and #543.


counsel--gg-sentinel

Check for an additional 141 return code.


counsel-ag

Use sync on remote

See #669.

Add missing parameter

See #858, #861.


counsel-find-file

Improve stability on arcane systems

It can happen that (all-completions "" 'read-file-name-internal) may fail on systems with symlinks. I think it's related to the file functions trying to compute occupied space. In any case, a plain directory-files is roughly the equivalent and is less likely to fail.

Check compat between preselect and initial-input

See #514, #515.

Prevent expand-file-name nil

See #518.

Don't crash if default-directory is nil

See #586.

Allow to C-y a "/ssh:" file
Press M-n on issue works for newer magit version

See #692.

Fix when initial input is a file name

See #744.

Account for file-name-directory returning nil

See #780.

Fix RET on no input

See #782.

Fix RET when file exists

See #792.


counsel-git

Add a better error message.

See #537.

Add x action

To open externally.


counsel-grep

Quote :preselect.


counsel-grep-or-swiper

Don't grep on compressed files. See #536.


counsel-imenu

Improve readability

See #558.

Force rescan if requested

See #631.


counsel-info-lookup-symbol

Fix doc, see #721. Add preselect, see #722.


counsel-linux-app

Don't quit on bad data

See #604.

Check if dir exists

See #896.


counsel-load-theme

Add noconfirm flag in counsel-load-theme-action.


counsel-locate

Make counsel-locate-action-extern interactive

See #605.

Add w32 support to counsel-locate-action-extern

See #607, #688.


counsel-M-x

Fix interaction with repeat

See #564.

Preserve last-command

See #891, #893.


counsel-org-tag-action

Perform in the minibuffer. See #890.


counsel-recoll

Add shell-quote-argument. See #713.


counsel-rhythmbox

No longer depends on helm-rhythmbox.


counsel-yank-pop

Fix candidates not showing sometimes.


doc

Fixed typos in the doc

See #497, #809.

Added ivy-format-function to the doc

See #577.

Added info on generating the doc

See #601.

Added info on associating values

See #714.

Update package names on ELPA/MELPA

See #833.


ivy--filter

Recompute index after filter.

See #491.


ivy--flx-sort

Improve. See #843.


ivy--format-minibuffer-line

Fix for ivy-display-style nil. See #828.


ivy--minibuffer-setup

Fix max-mini-window-height. See #732.


ivy--occur-insert-lines

Scroll to first command. See #829.


ivy--regex-ignore-order

Ensure it returns legal regexps. See #765.


ivy--reset-state

Simplify. See #827.


ivy--virtual-buffers

Don't modify recentfs or bookmarks. See #821.


ivy-call

Set default-directory, see #717, #760, #779, #810. Recursive logic, see #924, #937.


ivy-completion-in-region

Fix double insert bug. Fix common length bug. See #528. Remove :require-match, see #907.


ivy-completion-in-region-action

Remove string properties, see #517. Remove with-ivy-window, see #928.


ivy-fixed-height-minibuffer

Add correction. See #737.


ivy-help-file

Define with defconst, see #938.


ivy-hydra is now a separate package on MELPA

See #464, #512.


ivy-immediate-done

Update docstring, see #525.


ivy-minibuffer-map

Move ivy-toggle-regexp-quote from M-q to M-r.

See #566.

Remap scroll-up/down-command

Instead of assigning C-v / M-v so page up/down works. See #797, #798.

Remap backward-delete-char-untabify to ivy-backward-delete-char
Rebind C-v and M-v

The ultimate solution to have PgUp and PgDown and whatever else was mapped to scroll-up-command bound in ivy-minibuffer-map. While still having the standard C-v and M-v bindings.

See #797, #798, #535.


ivy-occur-press

Pass the whole cons cell to action, see #634.


ivy-partial

Fix for :dynamic-collection. See #946.


ivy-read

Document all args

See #533.

Use predicate when reading file names

See #804.


ivy-remote

Use a lighter color for dark themes, see #646.


ivy-resume

The original default-directory will be restored, see #591.


ivy-sort-functions-alist

Improve. See #870.


ivy-switch-buffer

Reset index to 0 on input

See #522, #513.


ivy-switch-buffer-other-window

Obey ivy-ignore-buffers. See #745.


Recursive minibuffers with two emacsclients

See #738.


shrink minibuffer after reading actions

See #764, #402.


swiper

Fix "foo!bar" syntax

See #565.

Now respects ivy-re-builders-alist

See #613.

Example:

(setq ivy-re-builders-alist
	  '((swiper . ivy--regex-fuzzy)
	    (t . ivy--regex-plus)))

swiper-avy

Require avy, see #593.


swiper-font-lock-exclude

Add forth-mode, see #526. Add forth-block-mode, see #527. Add bookmark-bmenu-mode. Add nix-mode, see #879. Add circe-mode, see #900, #901.


swiper-multi

Fix regression, See #673. Don't use virtual buffers, See #705.


New Features

counsel-ag

Extend more

See #576.

Prompt for extra args when using prefix arg

See #774.

Support limiting in files

See #820, #822, #823.

counsel-grep-post-action-hook

New hook for counsel-ag/grep/pt. See #800, #751.


counsel-bookmark

counsel-bookmark-avoid-dired

When non-nil and a directory is selected from counsel-bookmark, forward the choice to counsel-find-file instead of opening a dired buffer. See #813.


counsel-find-file

Add binding to jump to a bookmarked directory without quit

Press M-o b to set the current directory to one of the virtual buffers' directories. You continue to select a file from that directory.

See #531.

Add counsel-find-file-root

Press M-o r to find the current file as root. See #948.


counsel-git

Add counsel-git-cmd

See #590.

counsel-git-grep

Support custom per-project commands

The idea is to grep several Git repositories at once. For example, my Emacs config is a Git repository with many Git submodule repositories inside.

When used with C-u, and inside counsel-git-grep-projects-alist, use the corresponding command instead. Additionally, counsel-git-grep-proj-function is used.

For a possible implementation of the custom git-grep command, see: https://github.com/abo-abo/oremacs/commit/c7effdb94749dc600b1204ea7a9db319ebdb0f00

See #616.

Reveal text hidden in outlines
Works with "Git for Windows" and native Emacs build
Fix for files with spaces in the name

See #700.

Fix g (counsel-git-grep-occur)

Things go wrong when `ivy-text' is changed from the original value. Extract ivy-text from the buffer name.

Quote the directory name. See #811.

Update quoting

See #876.

counsel-git-grep-cmd-default

The initial value for counsel-git-grep-cmd.


counsel-git-log

Add counsel-git-log-cmd

Allows to customize the command, see #652.


counsel-linux-app

counsel-linux-apps-directories

Customize the search path.


counsel-load-library

Allow to find library with an action

See #873.


counsel-mode

Bind counsel-info-lookup-symbol

Substitutes info-lookup-symbol, see #493.

Bind C-r for eval-expression and shell-command

Press C-r while inside the minibuffer during eval-expression or shell-command to get completion for history.


counsel-pt

Add initial-input arg. See #757.


counsel-unicode-char

Add leading zeros to the display

See #662.

Support universal argument

See #868.


counsel-yank-pop

Add counsel-yank-pop-separator

Allows to customize the separator. See #660.


ivy

completion at point
ivy-display-functions-alist
New defcustom, which decides how to display the candidates.

ivy-completion-in-region will use completion at point by default.

Related: #707, #712, #788.

ivy-action-wrap

Set this to have ivy-next-action and ivy-prev-action wrap around.

ivy-add-actions

This is a convenience extension to the existing ivy-set-actions. See #470.

ivy-case-fold-search additional value 'always

If the value of ivy-case-fold-search is set to 'always, the search is always case-insensive, regardless of the input. See #916.

ivy-completion-in-region-action

Add support for multiple-cursors, see #547.

ivy-highlight-functions-alist

Customize the highlighters. See #691, #654, #827.

ivy-magic-tilde

New defcustom. Decide if ~ or ~/ should cd home.

See #687, #679.

ivy-set-prompt

Allow to set the prompt using the :caller as key.

ivy-set-prompt-text-properties-function

An advanced override of the prompt string.

ivy-sort-file-function-using-ido

Extends the options for sorting file names. See #498.


ivy-completing-read

Set :caller to this-command

Improves sorting customization. See #899.

Don't :require-match for null

See #909.

ivy-completing-read-handlers-alist

New defcustom. See #892.


ivy-minibuffer-map

Alternative action list M-o using Hydra

Not hiding the candidates and using a single line for actions results in a more distraction-free experience.

Use this code to turn it on:

(require 'ivy-hydra)

ivy-occur-mode

RET now switches to candidate window
read-only-mode is enabled

See #720.

Set view-read-only locally

See #789.

Run wgrep-setup

See #904.


ivy-read

Make key binding for other window action consistent

By default, M-o j will select the file or buffer in other window, for both ivy-switch-buffer and counsel-find-file.

Facilitate sorting of cons cells

See #554.

(defvar ivy-sorter-data '(("b 1" . 1) ("a 2" . 2) ("d 0" . 0) ("c 5" . 5)))

(defun isn (a b)
  (< (cdr a) (cdr b)))

(add-to-list 'ivy-sort-functions-alist '(ivy-sorter . isn))

(ivy-read "string: " ivy-sorter-data
          :sort t
          :caller 'ivy-sorter)
Add prefix arg for action functions

See #552.

Single actions:

C-m ivy-done store prefix
M-o ivy-dispatching-done store prefix
C-j ivy-alt-done store prefix
C-M-j ivy-immediate-done store prefix
TAB TAB ivy-partial-or-done unsupported
C-' ivy-avy unsupported

Multiple actions:

C-M-m ivy-call store prefix, type prefix again for next call
C-M-o ivy-dispatching-call store prefix, type prefix again for next call
C-M-n ivy-next-line-and-call store prefix, type prefix again for next call
C-M-p ivy-previous-line-and-call store prefix, type prefix again for next call

An example application:

no prefix prints first number in a message-box one prefix prints last number in a message-box numeric prefix selects the index to print in a message-box

(ivy-read "choose: " '(("a" 1 2 3)
                       ("b" 3 4 5))
          :action
          (lambda (x)
            (message-box "%s"
                         (cond
                           ((null ivy-current-prefix-arg)
                            (elt x 0))
                           ((equal '(4) ivy-current-prefix-arg)
                            (car (last x)))
                           (t
                            (elt x (prefix-numeric-value ivy-current-prefix-arg)))))))
Breaking change for alist type collection actions

The action will be called with collection's ITEM, instead of (cdr ITEM) like before. This allows to simplify the logic of complex action functions: they don't have to look up the full item by string in their own collection, moreover they don't have to know anything about their collection.

Implement unique index for alist completion

The uniqueness assumption is that the completion system is passed a list of unique strings, of which one (or more) are selected.

Unlike plain string completion, alists may require violating the uniqueness assumption: there may be two elements with the same car but different cdr. Example: C function declaration and definition for tag completion.

Until now, whenever two equal strings were sent to ivy-read, only the first one could be selected. Now, each alist car gets an integer index assigned to it as a text property 'idx. So it's possible to differentiate two alist items with the same key.

Make with-ivy-window not necessary in the action function

This allows for a lot of simplification, e.g. use insert instead of (lambda (x) (with-ivy-window (insert x))).

See #639.


ivy-switch-buffer

Add ivy-sort-function-buffer

Puts e.g. the *scratch* buffer ahead of the misc buffer if the input is "sc", since it's almost like a prefix match.

See #595.

Sort virtual buffers after open buffers

See #706, #743.

ivy-switch-buffer-faces-alist

Allow to customize faces in ivy-switch-buffer by the mode of each buffer.

Example:

(setq ivy-switch-buffer-faces-alist
      '((emacs-lisp-mode . swiper-match-face-1)
        (dired-mode . ivy-subdir)
        (org-mode . org-level-4)))

swiper

Add option for swiper line number to be searchable

See swiper-include-line-number-in-search and #562.

Restore window position after using swiper.

Relevant for high settings of scroll-conservatively. See #643.

Improve fuzzy highlight

If you've set the regex builder to fuzzy (non-default), you'll get a highlight quality on par with the default one. See #651, #653.

Add char-fold-to-regexp

See #622.

Add compatibility with evil-ex-search

See #887.

Apply evil search highlighting

See #888.

Set evil-ex-search-direction

See #947.

swiper-goto-start-of-match

New defcustom. When non-nil, swiper default action will go to the beginning of the match instead of on its end. This behavior is inspired by vim's and evil's way of searching.

See #944, #942.

swiper-avy works with more regexp builders

See #932.


swiper-all

Is now async

This means extremely fast startup time.

Additionally, the feedback to input is quite fast even with a hundred buffers. This is because, unlike swiper, line numbers are not computed. Computing line numbers, while situationally useful, is really slow for huge buffers, and even slower for dozens of huge buffers.

See #620.

Press M-q for query-replace

See #623.

Ignore TAGS buffers

See #787.

Consider magit stash buffers

See #819.

Fix case-fold-search

See #880.


New Commands

counsel-bookmark

Completion for bookmark-jump.

Can delete and rename bookmarks, see #758.


counsel-colors-emacs

See #815, #921.


counsel-colors-web

See #815.


counsel-command-history

See #826.


counsel-company

Picks up company's candidates and inserts the result into the buffer. See #331, #547.


counsel-describe-face

See #585, #703.


counsel-dired-jump

Like, counsel-file-jump, but for directories.


counsel-dpkg

Completion for dpkg -l.


counsel-faces

See #815.


counsel-file-jump

Jump to a file from a list of all files in the current directory, see #609, #610.


counsel-find-library

A helpful and unsurprising alternative to using C-. with counsel-load-library. See #794, #801.


counsel-hydra-heads

Call a head of the current/last hydra by name. See #696.


counsel-irony

Inline C++ completion using Irony.


counsel-mark-ring

See #834.


counsel-org-agenda-headlines

See #825.


counsel-outline

Completion for outlines in the current buffer.


counsel-package

Manage packages. Allows installing, deleting, describing etc. See #869, #872.


counsel-recentf

Renamed from ivy-recentf, see #624.

Added actions in #701:

  • j for find-file-other-window
  • x for counsel-find-file-extern

Remove text properties, see #770.


counsel-rg

Grep for a string in the current directory using rg. Use counsel-rg-base-command to customize. See #784, #785, #795, #796.


counsel-rpm

Call the rpm shell command. See #695.


counsel-semantic

Completion for semantic tags.


counsel-set-variable

Completion for setting a variable to a value. See #544, #546, #549, #550, #556.


counsel-shell-command-history

Search through history in shell-mode. See #689.

When counsel-mode is on, M-! C-r will call counsel-shell-command-history.


ivy-push-view

And ivy-pop-view.

  1. Use ivy-push-view to store a view - your current window tree. This contains: all windows on the current frame, and their configuration w.r.t. horizontal or vertical splits. The point positions in each window are stored as well.
  2. Use ivy-switch-buffer to select stored views.
  3. Use ivy-pop-view to delete a stored view that you don't want any more.

See #584.


ivy-rotate-sort

Modify ivy-sort-functions-alist to allow a list of sorting functions to apply to a collection. The car of this list is the current one. ivy-rotate-sort then rotates this list through the different possibilities. Bound to C-c C-s. Here is a simple example to illustrate.

(setq ivy-sort-functions-alist
      '((read-file-name-internal .
                                (ivy-sort-file-function-default string-lessp string-greaterp))
       (internal-complete-buffer . nil)
       (counsel-git-grep-function . nil)
       (Man-goto-section . nil)
       (org-refile . nil)
       (t . string-lessp)))

M-x find-file RET C-c C-s now switches from the default sorting to using string-lessp. C-c C-s again switches to string-greaterp and so on.

See #845, #927.





















































0.10.0


Fixes

counsel-ag

Fix default ag command on Windows, see #1221.


counsel-ag-occur

Don't break when search string begins with "-", see #1048.

Fix quoting, see #1240.


counsel-company

Various fixes, see #969.


counsel-descbinds

Fix regex, see #1089.


counsel-dired-jump

Obey find-program, see #1181.


counsel-find-file

Fix C-y when pasting a file path.

Fix magic slash regression, see #1027.

Don't quote regex for initial-input.

Don't bind find-file-hook if not necessary, see #627, #1118.

Fix completion of relative directories, see #1055.

Make sure foo/ directory goes before foo-bar/ directory, see #1315.


counsel-find-file-occur

Use xargs -d '\n', see #1323.


counsel-git-grep

Fix error on 24.5, see #1107. Fix for Windows, see #1176.


counsel-git-grep-occur

Fix output with negative pattern, see #1173.

Fix bug, see #1225.


counsel-git-grep-recenter

Fix warning, see #1097.


counsel-git-grep-transformer

Optimize text props, see #1264.


counsel-git-log

Ignore blank candidates, see #1122.


counsel-git-occur

Fix regex, see #1299.


counsel-grep-base-command

Add "–", see #1266.


counsel-imenu

Add trailing space to prompt, see #1245.


counsel-irony

Various fixes, see #1018.


counsel-locate-action-extern

Handle cygwin, see #1314.


counsel-M-x

Don't rebuild cache on every call, see #1085. Add own history, see #1185.


counsel-package

Fix package removal, see #970.


counsel-set-variable

Handle defcustom with multiple entries, see #960.


counsel-shell-history

Work around ring-elements, see #1148.


counsel-unquote-regex-parens

Handle cons arg, see #1322.


ivy

Various fixes, see #997, #1327, #1334, #1336.

Don't add :preselect to collection, see #1017.

Avoid setting ivy window as minibuffer, see #1051, #1053.

Init index with 0, see #1080.

ivy-initial-inputs-alist should use :caller first, see #1068.

ivy--sorted-files should always use predicate, see #1121.

Simplify re-builder / highlight, see #1147.

Ensure bookmarks are loaded, see #1160.

Fix arrows not working for ivy--regex-ignore-order, see #1159.

Fix C-M-j for ivy-completion-in-region-action, see #1178.

Correct spelling, see #1179.

Ensure action and display transformer are called from initial buffer. See #1182.

Allow "!" and space to be escaped in ivy--regex-ignore-order. See #976.

Call ivy-overlay-cleanup only when needed, see #1211.

Don't require prompt to end in ": ", see #1207.

Remove empty string from collection, see #1230, #1236.

Fix "/sudo::" in current dir, see #1232.

Fix prefix issue, see #1244.

Update prompt even if there are no candidates. See #1183.

Also check this-command for sorting, see #1294.


ivy-add-actions

Delete action duplicates by key, see #1296.


ivy-avy

Fix logic when scrolled, see #1004.

Exit silently, see #1073.

Select correct candidate when using display transformer, see #1255.


ivy-completing-read-handlers-alist

Add some entries, and tests. See #1049.


ivy-completion-in-region

Fix length bug, see #1251.

Fix sole match case, see #1252.


ivy-display-function-overlay

Fall back when there's no space, see #1136. Fall back when there's no vertical space, see #1136. Check for point-min, see #1267. Fix for org-indent-mode.


ivy-ffap-url-functions

Check if git is present, see #1216.


ivy-format-function-arrow

Fixup, see #1004.


ivy-initial-inputs-alist

Fix entry for man, see #1226.


ivy-occur

Fix double pop-to-buffer issue, see #1284.

Don't fail if buffer was killed.

Fix regex passed to grep, see #1299.

Use setq-local, see #1318.

Add ivy--dirname-p, see #1317.


ivy-partial

Fix interaction with case-folding, see #1019, #1021. Fix downcase for non-string, see #1024, #1036.


ivy-previous-line-or-history

Should not insert the last history item unless the currently-selected completion candidate is the first in the list, otherwise it's impossible to navigate back up with successive applications of this command, see #1137.


ivy-re-builders-alist

Extend docstring, see #1308.


ivy-with-r

Use with-output-to-string, see #1300.


swiper

Protect against match-beginning / match-end not integerp. See #1188, #1192.


swiper–init

Turn off reveal-mode for the duration, see #1312.


swiper-all-buffer-p

Various mode additions.


swiper-font-lock-exclude

Add treemacs-mode, see #1212.

Add magit-popup-mode, see #1274.

Add adoc-mode, see #1275.

Add bbdb-mode, see #1276.


New Features

counsel

When an external program output is used, first check if the program is installed, see #1076.

Allow async commands on Tramp buffers, see #1229, #1233.


counsel-async-filter-update-time

Configure async delay. See #1149.


counsel-async-ignore-re

New defcustom. See #1122.


counsel-describe-function

Highlight interactive functions, see #981, #982.


counsel-describe-function-function

Customize counsel-describe-function. Useful for https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful. See #1321.


counsel-describe-function-preselect

Customize which symbol will be initial for counsel-describe-function, see #1088, #1330.


counsel-describe-variable

Highlight custom variables, see #980, #982.


counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp

Offer completion-ignored-extensions, see #1092.


counsel-fzf-dir-function

Allow to customize fzf work directory.


counsel-git

Add optional initial-input, see #1074.


counsel-git-grep-skip-counting-lines

New defcustom, see #524, #1042.


counsel-git-log-split-string-re

New defcustom. See #1122.


counsel-grep-or-swiper

Don't attempt to save readonly files, see #999.

Prevent opening an already opened file, see #1001.

Improve logic, see #1290.

More uniform interface, see #1313.


counsel-imenu-map

Allows to use C-l to recenter. See #1180.


counsel-linux-app

Various improvements, see #897, #959.

Press M-o d to open the desktop file, see #897.


counsel-mark-ring

Sort by location, see #1006.

Fixes, see #1328, #1329.


counsel-mode-map

Add counsel-faces, see #1259.


counsel-rg

Limit results to 150 columns, see #988.

Never use color results, see #1060.

Search whole Git repository, not the current directory.


counsel-unicode-char

Show candidates in order, see #1003.

Adapt to ucs-names being a hash table in emacs-26, see #1223.

Make lazy, see #1204.


counsel-up-directory

If the current directory is remote and it's not possible to go up any further, make the remote prefix editable. See #1242, #1227.


counsel-url-expand

Added to ivy-ffap-url-functions by default.

Customize counsel-url-expansions to be able to browse various links with C-x C-f M-n. See #1164.


counsel-yank-pop

Don't restrict to 3 chars or more, see #973.

Press M-o d to remove an item from the kill ring.

Ignore empty candidates, see #1043.


ivy

Add i and w as global actions

In any completion session:

  • Press M-o w to copy the current candidate to the kill ring.
  • Press M-o i to insert the current candidate into the buffer.
Bind <next> and <prior>
Add CONTRIBUTING.org

See #1260, #1332.


ivy-auto-select-single-candidate

Off by default. When on, and there's only one candidate, use it automatically without a completion session.


ivy-backward-delete-char

Preselect last dir, see #1257.


ivy-completion-in-region

Use :initial-input and :unwind. Previously, Ivy's "prefixing" and "perfect match" index logic was messed up for completion-in-region. The reason being is that the initial prefix was never passed to Ivy: instead, the collection was pre-filtered on the prefix and a "new" completion session didn't know about it.


ivy-dispatching-done-hydra

Quit with C-g, see #922.

Break hint into columns, see #953.


ivy-magic-slash-non-match-action

Customize what / does when completing file names, see #998, #1009.


ivy-occur

When completing file names, counsel-cmd-to-dired is called, resulting in a Dired buffer.


ivy-occur-mode-map

Bind R to read-only-mode, see #1273.


ivy-read

Add new argument def, see #1047, #1049, #1052, #1112.


ivy-read-action

Allow to quit with ESC for better work with evil, see #952.


ivy-rotate-preferred-builders

Bound to C-o m. Customize with ivy-preferred-re-builders. See #1093, #1094.


ivy-switch-buffer

Compose faces better, see #992.

M-o f will call counsel-find-file from current directory, see #1298, #1295.


ivy-truncate-lines

New defcustom. See #1110.


ivy-use-selectable-prompt

When non-nil, make the prompt line selectable like a candidate.

Calling ivy-done or ivy-alt-done on a selected prompt forwards to ivy-immediate-done, thus exiting with the current user input instead of the selected candidate.

See #1059, #1063, #1090.


swiper-query-replace

Disable read-only for the duration, see #1273.


New Commands

counsel-ack

Like counsel-ag, but with ack. See #1075.


counsel-apropos

Completion for apropos, see #1014.


counsel-file-register

Completion for file registers, see #1057, #1066.


counsel-fzf

Completion for fzf. See #1151, #1263.


counsel-git-change-worktree

Completion for git-worktree. See #989, #1114, #1115.


counsel-git-checkout

Completion for git-checkout. See #1187.


counsel-minibuffer-history

Supersedes counsel-expression-history and counsel-shell-command-history. See #1237.


counsel-org-capture

Completion for org-capture. See #1320.


counsel-org-file

Browse all attachments for the current Org file.


counsel-org-goto

Completion for Org headings. See #1005, #1008, #1011, #1012, #1013.


counsel-org-goto-all

Completion for Org headings in all open buffers. See #1005.


counsel-switch-to-shell-buffer

Switch to a shell buffer, or create one. See #990.


ivy-occur-delete-candidate

Bound to C-d in ivy-occur-mode. Allows a sort of a todo-list workflow.


ivy-switch-view

Switch to one of the window views stored by ivy-push-view. You can use it separately from ivy-switch-buffer now. See #929, #1109.


0.11.0


Fixes

colir-blend-face-foreground

Add hack for :foreground. Related to ansi-color-apply. See #1293.


counsel

Make process sentinels more robust. See #1483.

Fix behavior on remote. See #1522.

Extend unquote-regex-parens tests. See #1704, #1708, #1863.

Use counsel-async-split-string-re more. See #1384, #1778.

Use start-file-process for counsel--async-command. See #1821.

counsel--async-filter should write candidates only in the minibuffer. See #1772, #1837, #1857.

Robustify grep-like ivy-occur. See #1845, #1800, #1835.


counsel-ag

Allow no space before "–" when specifying extra args. See #1498.

Allow to override the minimum search term length. See #1780.

Fix "./" issue. See #1841.


counsel-bookmark

Specify :history. See #1698.


counsel-colors-list

Improve the display of the current candidate. See #921, #1436.

Protect against invalid input. See #1854.


counsel-company

Unwind with company-abort. See #1793.


counsel-describe-face

Add caller. See #1619.


counsel-describe-function

Fix erroring. See #1647, #1649.

Describe also unbound but documented function symbols. See #1707.


counsel-find-file

Don't treat URLs as dirs. See #1398.

Allow use of "$" in dirs. See #1316.

Fix for ignore-order. See #1466.

Fix file expansion. See #1494.

Fix ivy-resume not working when the current candidate was a directory. See #1508.

counsel-find-file-mkdir-action should use ivy-text. See #1513.

Fix dir or file logic error. See #1103, #1623.

Fix inability to create a file. See #1623.

Fix issue of minibuffer height 1. See #1667.

Remove the change to post-command-hook by ESS. See #1660.

Update minibuffer state after counsel-find-file-delete. See #1726.

Fix for partial match of TRAMP method.

Fix Emacs26 regression when completing TRAMP methods. See #1733.

Fix Emacs25/26 compat for ivy--cd.

Avoid TRAMP related errors in ZIP files. See #1797.


counsel-find-library

Check if dirs in load-path exist. See #1720.


counsel-fzf

Add quotes to counsel-fzf-cmd. See #1544.

Remove 2nd prompt colon. See #1768.


counsel-git-grep

Fix conflicting directories in two ivy-occur buffers. See #1392.

Run count in base directory. See #1402.

Rely on du -s for repo size. See #1402.

Ignore du errors. See #1502.

Run du only on .git.

Call du directly. See #1502, #1827.


counsel-grep

Reject file-less buffers. See #1343.

Don't pass too long lines as :preselect. See #1644.

Obey current matcher. See #1801.


counsel-list-processes

Don't mess up the current buffer with a header line.


counsel-locate

Fix for es.exe. Fixes #1633.

Fix xdg-open on Ubuntu. See #863, #1401, #1759.

Simplify xdg-open call. See #1537, #1759, #1760.


counsel-locate-action-extern

Use start-process-shell-command. See #1401.


counsel-minibuffer-history

Add delete-dups. See #1358.


counsel-M-x

Prefer "<f2>" over "C-x 6". See #1534.

Add counsel-key-binding face. See #1548.


counsel-org-agenda-headlines

Require org. See #1642.


counsel-org-capture

Don't overlook templates contexts. See #1669.


counsel-org-files

Support org-attach-directory variable. See #1340.

Use org-attach API. See #1345.


counsel-org-goto

Increase org-goto/org-agenda-headlines UI consistency. See #1324.

Support older Org. See #1422, 1431.


counsel-org-tag

Fix for Org 9. See #1654, #1656, #1896.

No need to bind org-setting-tags. See #1656.


counsel-outline

Only look for outline regexp at bol. See #1681.


counsel-rg

Store command persistently. See #1474.


counsel-switch-to-shell-buffer

Various improvements. See #1570.


counsel-unicode-char

Optimize. See #1704.


counsel-yank-pop

Liken to yank-pop. Respects kill-ring-yank-pointer. See #1190, #1356.

Interoperate better with kill-ring. See #1133, #1360.

Save window-start to avoid recentering of the buffer. See #1370.

Make position more robust. See #1420.

Make it work in read-only buffers. See #1523.

Work with interprogram-paste-function. See #1523.


ivy

Disable ivy-auto-select-single-candidate for user@host entry. See #1326, #1338.

Handle ivy-state-buffer getting killed. See #572.

Correct highlighting for negation, e.g. counsel-M-x "vi mo!ew". See #1418.

Fold case during index recomputation. See #1447, #1449.

Simplify string splitting logic. See #1453.

Fix :preselect getting deselected with new input. When there's new input, and it still matches :preselect, the current candidate should not change.

Handle fallback in ivy--sort-function. See #1561, #1565, #1567.

ivy--sort-function should handle anonymous fns. See #1574.

Use ivy-sort-max-size for collection functions. See #1592.

Use copy-sequence when sorting to avoid corrupting external data. See #1617.

Default :caller to this-command. See #1297, #1606, #1619, #1621.

ivy-call should restore previous buffer. See #1607.

ivy--insert-prompt should use ivy-add-face-text-property for compat. See #1634.

Use compat shim for add-face-text-property. See #1635.

Move colir require to top-level to improve performance. See #1571.

Fix :predicate not getting applied. See #1158.

Drop preselected candidate after input. See #1563, #1573.

Fix ivy-left-pad when there's horizontal scroll.

Fix ivy-state-collection alist idx not in sync. See #1680.

Support :annotation-function of completion-extra-properties. See #1489.

Fix for alists that require sorting. See #1687.

Fontify completion annotations. See #1489, #1702.

Filter sorted alist. See #1705.

Avoid modifying alist collection. See #1706.

Use string-match-p where applicable. See #1517.

Strip text properties from returned alist candidate. See #1706, #1724.

Don't trigger ivy--magic-file-slash from TAB. See #1716.

Fix for terminals. See #199, #1528, #1728.

Fix overlay interacting with org-mode src blocks. See #1732.

Don't restore buffer after action. See #1766, #1767.

Remove webjump completing-read handler. See #1802, #1049.

Use ivy-truncate-lines also for non-graphical Emacs. See #1809.

For non-graphical Emacs set resize-mini-windows to 'grow-only. See #1809.

Fix minibuffer truncation and resizing. See #1811.

Work around void Info-complete-menu-buffer. See #1814.

Handle Windows path separator for ivy-occur. See #1817.

Don't switch to a killed buffer for ivy-occur-press. See #1834, #1842.

Improve performance ivy--select-occur-buffer by avoiding pop-to-buffer.

Use all-completions and add test. See #1832.

Do not let ivy virtual buffer faces creep into the recentf file. See #1898.


ivy-completing-read

Add compat for non-string defaults. See #1526, #1810.

Simplify. See #1606.


ivy-completion-in-region

Expand (s-c-t-s) appropriately. See #1361.

Allow sorting. See #1432.

Don't apply predicate twice. See #1648.


ivy–kill-buffer-action

Remove virtual buffers from recentf-list. See #1888. -----* ivy–magic-file-slash Misc fixes. See #1831.


ivy–occur-insert-lines

Fix incorrect regexp. See #1846.

Speed up regex from 5s to 0.01s for 4000 cands.


ivy-occur-press

Don't hard-code display-buffer. See #1838, #1865.


ivy-overlay-show-after

Don't inherit existing face. See #1488, #1547, #1016, 1520, #1808, #1825.


ivy-partial

Can change current dir when completing files. See #86.


ivy–regex-fuzzy

Regexp-quote chars to improve performance for searches like ".env.foo". See #1435.

Generalize. Fix ivy-occur highlighting. See #1795.

Optimize regex "(a).*?(b)" -> "(a)[b]*(b)". See #848.


ivy–regex-ignore-order

Improve handling of invalid regexes. See #1545.


ivy–regex-plus

Update and add test for "add path!" input. See #1418.

Search "defun \([^ ]+\)" now works.


ivy-rotate-preferred-builders

Update in the documentation. See #1376.


ivy-string<

Handle heterogeneous args. See #1743, #1744.


ivy-thing-at-point

Prevent error when url-handler-mode is on. See #1446.

Strip text properties. See #1594.


swiper

Fix history modified on each char. Fix history duplicate. See #1391.

Don't replace tabs with spaces (prevents wgrep from working correctly). See #1468.

Allow scroll-other-window use. See #1504.

Replace obsolete isearch-lazy-highlight-face. See #1591.

Highlight multiple regexps correctly. See #654, #1550, #1551, #1587, #1600.

Fix when re-builder returns list. See #1692.

Add inhibit-field-text-motion. See #1713.

Fix incorrect jump to first match. See #1791.


swiper-avy

Fix when there's scroll. See #1541.

Fix off-by-one. See #1775.

Fix for ivy-format-function-arrow. See #1885.


swiper-multi

Add text property buffer to candidates. See #1491, #1492.


New Features

counsel

New var counsel-more-chars-alist to customize per-function the minimum amount of chars. See #1663.

New face counsel-variable-documentation, counsel-application-name, counsel-outline-1, …, counsel-outline-8, counsel-outline-default. See #1847.


counsel-bookmark

Add two actions. See #948, #1385.


counsel-dired-jump

New var counsel-dired-jump-args. See #1889. -----* counsel-find-file New var counsel-find-file-occur-cmd. Use it to customize what C-c C-o calls. See #1299, #1351, #1441.

New var counsel-preselect-current-file. When non-nil, preselect the current file in the list of candidates. See #1363.

Bind C-M-y to counsel-yank-directory. Useful when you want to edit part of the directory name. See #1333.

Bind M-o d to new action counsel-find-file-mkdir-action. See #1471.

Bind M-o f to find-file-other-frame. See #1510.

Bind M-o k to counsel-find-file-delete. See #1671.

Bind M-o m to counsel-find-file-move. See #1671.

counsel-find-file-occur-use-find defaults to t on Linux. See #1686.

Make counsel-find-file-delete ask for confirmation. See #1774.

Make counsel-find-file-delete clean up buffers. See #1779.


counsel-find-file-jump

New var counsel-file-jump-args. See #1889.


counsel-fzf

Support universal-argument. See #1281, #1279.


counsel-git-grep

Also works on remote. See #1463.

New var counsel--git-grep-count-threshold. See #1470.

Add "-I" to counsel-git-grep-cmd-default to ignore binaries. Files are marked as binary in .gitattributes.

Calculate the repo size correctly for submodules. See #1558.


counsel-grep

New var counsel-grep-map. Bind swiper-avy there. See #1711.


counsel-imenu

Show functions as "Functions: func". See #775.


counsel-linux-app

Add ~/.local/share/applications/. See #1390.

Add guixsd's application directory. See #1476.

Call gtk-launch asynchronously. See #1537.

Add dir for flatpack. See #1754.

Ignore non-readable desktop files. See #1757.

Show also hidden desktop files with prefix arg.

Add XDG defaults. See #1851.

Truncate Exec to 45 chars.


counsel-locate

Bind M-o r to counsel-find-file-as-root. See #1676.

Works over TRAMP. See #1735.


counsel-mode

Add counsel-bookmark. See #1381.

Add more info to the docs. See #1400.

Add counsel-apropos. See #1582.

Display local keymap in mode doc. See #1718.


counsel-M-x

Support amx in addition to smex. See #1557, #1585, #1613, #1615.

Filter obsolete commands. See #1843, #1844.


counsel-rg

Read extra args when current-prefix-arg is given. See #851.

Use smart case "-S" in counsel-rg-base-command. See #1393.

To look for e.g. "map}", input "map\}". See #1566.

Interactively specify switches. Example in this repo: "-g*.el – require", "-g*.org – require", "-g!*.el – require". See #1408, #1512, #1688, #1559.


counsel-rhythmbox

Refresh list with prefix arg.

Re-launch rhythmbox if not playing.

Bind M-o s to counsel-rhythmbox-toggle-shuffle.


counsel-semantic

Add pretty formatting, expand types recursively. See #702.


counsel-set-variable

Can also be used non-interactively. See #1409.

Show docstring if lv is available. See #1595.

Add prefix arg behavior: filter out vars without custom-type properties. See #1643.


counsel-yank-pop

New var counsel-yank-pop-height: configure ivy-height. See #1365.

New var counsel-yank-pop-filter: All elements of kill-ring for which this function returns nil will be permanently deleted from kill-ring before completion. See #1356, #1367.

New var counsel-yank-pop-preselect-last: customize whether preselect the last kill by default. See #1371, #1373, #1374.

New var counsel-yank-pop-after-point. See #884, #1761, #1762.

New face ivy-separator. See #1815.


ivy

Interpret mouse events in the minibuffer managed by ivy. You can now scroll with the mouse wheel and click to select a candidate. See #1278, #1279.

Support multi-character action keys. See #1394.

ivy-display-functions-alist can use t key as fallback. See #1443.

New var ivy-display-functions-props useful when customizing display functions. See #1443.

New cmd ivy-kill-whole-line overrides kill-whole-line in the minibuffer. See #1456.

New option for ivy-virtual-abbreviate: 'abbreviate. See #1460.

New var ivy-height-alist. Customize ivy-height per-command. See #1531, #1722.

New var ivy-completing-read-dynamic-collection. See #1524.

New cmd ivy-yank-char similar to isearch-yank-char. See #1588.

New cmd ivy-yank-symbol. See #1604.

Bind <right> to ivy-forward-char. See #1622.

New var ivy-highlight-grep-commands that lists counsel grep-like commands. See #1661.

New face ivy-modified-outside-buffer. See #1742, #1745.

Propertize matches in ivy-occur buffers. See #1795.

ivy-immediate-done with empty input will return the default. See #1170, #1719.

ivy-read argument prompt is no longer a format string. Use only ivy-count-format to add/remove candidate count. See #1350.

New face ivy-grep-info and ivy-grep-line-number. See #1839, #1840.

New face ivy-org, ivy-completions-annotations. See #1847.

Highlight yanked word. New face ivy-yanked-word. See #1581, #1850, #1856, #1859, #1861.

New var ivy-pulse-delay. See #1859.

ivy-initial-inputs-alist entries can be functions. See #1867, #1868.

New var ivy-hooks-alist. See #1899.


ivy-occur-grep-mode

Press w for ivy-wgrep-change-to-wgrep-mode. See #1341.


ivy-occur-next-line

Useful also in the original buffer.

Jump to first candidate when in header.


ivy-preferred-re-builders

Renamed from ivy-preferred-re-builders.


ivy-push-view

Overwrite view with prefix arg. See #1737.


ivy-switch-buffer

Extract all actions to defuns so that they can be advised or reused. See #1490.


swiper

Add test to history even for C-g. See #1305.

New var swiper-stay-on-quit. When non-nil don't go back to search start on abort. See #1319.

Add integration with evil s expressions. See #1406, #1452.

Obey dired-isearch-filenames. See #1415.

Better negation highlighting. For example, in ivy.el search for "ivy len!–". See #1418.


swiper-all

Add optional initial-input arg. See #1375.


swiper-font-lock-exclude

Add eshell-mode, helpful-mode. See #1416.

Add matrix-client-mode. See #1886.

Add deadgrep-mode. See #1902.


swiper-occur

Allow to capture groups from input. Example: "defvar \([a-z-]+\)" C-c C-o.


New Commands


counsel-bookmarked-directory

Completion for bookmarked directories. See #1657.


counsel-down-directory

Descend into a directory for counsel-find-file. See #1891.


counsel-evil-registers

Ivy replacement for evil-show-registers. See #1368.


counsel-ibuffer

Completion for ibuffer. See #1467, #1569.


counsel-org-entity

Insert an Org entity using ivy. See #1459.


counsel-semantic-or-imenu

New command that uses either counsel-semantic or counsel-imenu. See #702, #1389.


counsel-wmctrl

Select a desktop window with completion.


ivy-switch-buffer-kill

New command bound to C-c C-k for ivy-switch-buffer. Use this to kill one or more buffers while still in the minibuffer.





















































0.12.0


Fixes


counsel-ag

Don't allow newlines in wildcards when using ivy--regex-fuzzy. See #1907.


counsel-company

Add caller. See #2051.

Use company-prefix. See #2054, #2074.

Don't rely on company-point See #2071.


counsel-dired-jump

Fix "-type d". See #1965.

Fix for OSX. See #1990.


counsel-file-jump

Fix file expansion. See #1903.

Fix dotfiles not being shown. See #1820.


counsel-find-file

Add nested hidden dotfiles to counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp. See #1820.

Add lockfiles to counsel-find-file-ignore-regexp. See #2117.

Improve mkdir action with ivy-call: cd into the created directory.

Improve delete action with ivy-call: stay in the directory.

Improve copy and move actions. See #2053.


counsel-git-checkout

Quote branch names. See #1905, #1906.


counsel-git-log

Change counsel-git-log-split-string-re. See #2129.

Fix ivy-resume. See #2133.


counsel-locate

Use a non-regex locate on BSD. See #1950.


counsel-org-file

Handle ATTACH_DIR property. Re-use org-attach-dir. See #2042.


counsel-org-goto-all

Use org-mode outline settings. See #1947.


counsel-org-tag-agenda

Fix due to Org 9.2.3 API change. See #1997.

Fix org-version testing. See #2006.


counsel-package

Strip space from the initial input. See #1998.


counsel-recentf

Require match. See #2043.


counsel-rhythmbox

Add :require-match.


counsel-unicode-char

Don't sort every time. See #1204, #1988.

Modify copy action to use actual result. See #2075.


documentation

ivy-initial-inputs-alist is now a defcustom.

swiper-mc docstring. See #1879.

Update ivy.org. See #1951, #2046, #2143.

Mention char-fold-to-regexp. See #1977.

Mention automatically integrated packages in ivy.org. See #1674.

Remove outdated magit customization. See #2035.

ivy-read docstring. See #2107.

ivy-reverse-i-search docstring. See #2126.

Add autoloads for various commands. See #2131.


ivy-avy

Fix when there's a scroll.


ivy-completion-in-region

Don't insert initial-input if nil. See #2086.


ivy-display-function-overlay

Don't assume in-buffer completion. See #2048, #2049.


ivy-help

Set org-hide-emphasis-markers. Reveal all Org contents. See #2021. Hide Org markup locally. See #2085.


ivy-immediate-done

Improve for make-directory. See #1170, #1719, #2139.


ivy-insert-current

Insert text without properties. See #2040.


ivy-next-history-element

Use minibuffer-default for dired-dwim-target.

(setq dired-dwim-target t)

Is a nice productivity boost. Except for the situation when you want to copy the file to the current directory, and a different directory is preselected instead. When this happens, you can now press M-n to select the current directory.


ivy-occur

Make ivy-switch-buffer-occur work with multi-pass regex builders. See #1973.

Make find-file-occur work with multi-pass regex builders. See #1984.

Make grep-occur work with multi-pass regex builders. See #2033.

Make swiper occur wgrep work for narrowed buffers. See #1848.

Don't setq-local ivy--directory. See #1866.

Don't hightlight the file name part. See #2073.

Fix missing line numbers. See #2076.

Fix for counsel-find-file. See #2094.

ivy-occur-revert-buffer should stay on the same line.


ivy-occur-press

Improve when the window config was changed.


ivy-partial

Works better when selecting files. See #2103.


ivy-previous-line-or-history

Improve. See #2137, #2138, #1137.


ivy-read

Allow to override global actions per command. See #1873.

Require TRAMP earlier so that there's completion. See #1918.

Allow all re-builders to use ivy-highlight-grep-commands. See #1983.

Improve column calculation in ivy-dispatching-done-hydra.

Allow recursive minibuffers to use ivy-display-functions-alist. See #1995.

Don't use invalid :preselect as a regexp. See #2002.

Allow to select "" when prompt is selectable. See #1924.

Fix all-completions returning $$. See #2012.

Fix matcher not called on input "". See #2013.

Fix filter for ivy--regex-ignore-order. See #2015.

Don't offer virtual buffers for plain switch-to-buffer. See #839.

ivy-completion-in-region-action obeys :exit-function.

Shrink ivy window after reading action. See #2079.

Use single face for highlighting adjacent groups. See #2080.

Use ivy-flx-limit more. See #2081.

Fix ivy-read-action. See #2082.

Set line-spacing to nil in the minibuffer. See #2118.


ivy–sort

Higher priority for ivy-sort-matches-functions-alist. See #2136.


ivy-switch-buffer

Preserve the index after kill. See #1787, #1910.

Fix M-o f for virtual buffers. See #2111.


ivy-thing-at-point

Extend. See #1871.


ivy-use-selectable-prompt

Don't highlight if not needed.


swiper

Fix blinks in non-graphical Emacs. See #1921, #1923.

Documentation. See #643.

Don't rely on window-start in terminal. window-start and window-end is not reliable when in a terminal. It can be made reliable if a redisplay is performed, but then we get annoying blinking. See #1928.

Add extra condition to recenter in terminal. See #2059.

Fix overlays clean up. See #2064.

Obey search-invisible. See #1739.

Improve highlighting with char-fold-to-regexp. See #2124.

Add group for faces. See #2135.


swiper-avy

If the input is 1 char, re-highlight. See #1915.

Warn if no input.

Fix for swiper-background-faces. See #2019.

Handle quit. See #2062.

Work for swiper-isearch. See #2134.


swiper-font-lock-exclude-p

Exclude xref--xref-buffer-mode from font-lock. See #1917.

Try checking for non prog-mode.


swiper-multi

Misc fixes. See #2101, #2102.


swiper-query-replace

Fix for ivy--regex-ignore-order.

Check for empty input. See #2066.

New Features


counsel-descbinds

Add M-o x counsel-descbinds-action-exec. See #2024.


counsel-file-jump

Add M-o d that opens the item in dired. See #2057.


counsel-find-file

Press ` to get completion for bookmarks. This allows you to efficiently jump between recent directories. See #1956, #1958.

Press $ to get completion for your environment variables that are directories. See #1932, #1937.

New action: M-o c counsel-find-file-copy. See #1955.

New var counsel-up-directory-level that customizes C-DEL. See #1096.

New var counsel-find-file-extern-extensions. Allows to press RET instead of M-o x for selected file types, for which it doesn't make sense to be opened in Emacs.

When on a remote, // will cd to the remote root, instead of the local root. If you want to go to the local root, use / C-j. See #1487.

When on a remote, ~ will cd to the remote home, instead of the local home. If you want to go to the local home, use / C-j ~. You can also try `.

New binding when completing file names C-M-y ivy-insert-current-full that obsoletes counsel-yank-directory. See #2092.

You can now use RET or C-m (in place of C-M-j) to create a directory, even if it matches an existing file.


counsel-git-grep

New variable counsel-git-grep-cmd-function. Customize how git-grep is called based on input.


counsel-git-log

Bind M-o v counsel-git-log-show-commit-action to visit the item in magit-show-commit. See #2129, #2148.


counsel-grep

Add counsel-grep-history. See #1914.


counsel-grep-use-swiper-p

When this function returns non-nil, counsel-grep-or-swiper will call swiper, else counsel-grep-or-swiper. See #1908.


counsel-locate

Automatically call updatedb when your home folder is encrypted. Use counsel-locate-db-path to customize.


counsel-mark-ring

Add preview and highlight by candidate. See #2078.

New variable counsel-descbinds-function. See #1876, #2091.


counsel-M-x

Optionally expand aliases. For example, if rb is aliased to revert-buffer, and bound to C-c r, counsel-M-x will show: rb (revert-buffer) (C-c r). Customize with counsel-alias-expand, enabled by default. See #1904.


counsel-rg

Dynamically handle look-arounds. See #1935.

Anchor pcre lookarounds to bol. See #1976, #1979.

Add an example of inclusion patterns to the doc.

Press C-x C-d calls counsel-cd that allows you to change the current directory.

Add dynamic case folding. Make sure counsel-ag-base-command or counsel-rg-base-command does not include "-i": it will be added automatically based on your input and ivy-case-fold-search. See #1869.


counsel-set-variable

Better annotations for options. If the option is e.g.:

(const :tag "Dotfiles and Lockfiles" "\\(?:\\`\\|[/\\]\\)\\(?:[#.]\\)")

then display:

Dotfiles and Lockfiles: \(?:\`\|[/\]\)\(?:[#.]\)

instead of:

\\(?:\\`\\|[/\\]\\)\\(?:[#.]\\)

If the option's value is nil, but a :tag is present, display the option.


ivy-avy

Allow to scroll with C-v and M-v.


ivy-dispatching-done-hydra

New variable ivy-dispatching-done-hydra-exit-keys. In case you bind ivy-dispatching-done-hydra to a custom key.


ivy-read

Allow to mark/unmark candidates with m, u, DEL, t. The bindings are similar to what dired provides. They are available in the C-o hydra. See #561.

Add :multi-action argument. If multiple candidates are marked and this argument is present, call it with the whole list of marked candidates, instead of calling :action in turn for each marked candidate. See #561, #2068.

ivy-inhibit-action can be a function. This allows you to effectively override the :action argument to ivy-read.

New var ivy-dispatching-done-idle can delay the hint by a specified amount of seconds.

:update-fn argument can now be 'auto. This will call :action each time the current candidate changes.

New var ivy-format-functions-alist that obsoletes ivy-format-function. See #2083, #2084, #2130.

New var ivy-display-functions-alist that obsoletes ivy-display-function. See #2089.

Add ability to resume dynamic collections. See #1095, #2112.


ivy–regex

Match initial dot in the input as a literal dot. This brings much more usability, e.g. enter ".org" to switch between Org-mode files, ".el" for Elisp etc.


ivy-sort-matches-functions-alist

Sort shorter matches first for ivy-completion-in-region.


ivy-switch-buffer

Add M-o x counsel-open-buffer-file-externally. See #2108, #2115.

Move C-c C-k ivy-switch-buffer-kill to C-k.

Fix ivy-push-view windows layout. See #2109.


swiper

New variable swiper-use-visual-line-p. Configure to prevent swiper from becoming slow in huge buffers where visual-line-mode is enabled.

Add preview overlays. See #1948.


swiper-query-replace

Use query-replace-compile-replacement to allow using Elisp in replacements. Simply use M-i to insert and edit the suggested replacement. See #2096.

For example, suppose in swiper.el, we want to rename:

(defTYPE swiper- to (defTYPE ivy

where TYPE is (group, face, fun, var …).

  1. swiper-isearch for (def\sw+ swiper
  2. M-q to replace and TAB to get: \,(concat \1 " " \2)
  3. Modify it to \,(concat \1 " ivy")

New Commands


counsel-compile

Call compile, completing with smart suggestions. See #1941, #1963, #1966, #1968, #1972, #2077.

Add counsel-compile-env. See #2030.


counsel-dired

Like counsel-find-file, but open dired instead. See #1993, #1999.


counsel-minor

Toggle minor mode. The interface is similar to counsel-package, you enable modes with "+mode" and disable with "-mode". See #2000, #2070.


counsel-register

Completion for registers: buffer positions, text, rectangles, window configs, frame configs, macros etc. See #2056.


counsel-switch-buffer

Like ivy-switch-buffer, but you get automatic live preview. See #1895, #1897, #1954, #1971, #1959, #2009, #2113.


counsel-switch-buffer-other-window

Switch to another buffer in another window, with preview. See #2022, #2067.


swiper-all-thing-at-point

Start swiper-all with symbol-at-point as input. See #2106.


swiper-isearch

A faster version of swiper that's not line-based:

  • Much faster startup
  • When there are many matches on the same line, you can select each on individually

See #1931, #2014, #2018, #2029, #2031, #2034, #2039, #2058, #2069, #2119, #2146, #2151.

New variable swiper-isearch-highlight-delay. Used to delay matches that are just one character by 0.2s. Usually in that time frame a second key will be added to the input.

Obey search-default-mode. See #622, #2095.


swiper-isearch-thing-at-point

Start swiper-isearch with symbol-at-point as input. See #2025, #2029.


swiper-isearch-toggle

A two-way toggle between swiper and isearch-mode. See #2061, #2065.


swiper-thing-at-point

Start swiper with symbol-at-point as input. See #2027.


swiper-backward

isearch-backward with an overview. See #1172, #2132.


counsel-grep-or-swiper-backward

See #2132.


swiper-isearch-backward

See #2125.


0.13.0


Fixes


counsel–async-last-command

New variable. Store the last command ran by counsel--async-command.


counsel–async-last-error-string

New variable. If a command that relies on counsel--async-command returns non-0, store the output here. See #2160.


counsel-cd

Fix for counsel-ag. See #2261.


counsel-compile

Delete duplicates. Favor project root over default-directory. See #2253.


counsel-compile-env-pattern

Fix regex typo. See #2193.


counsel-file-jump

Use temp buffer instead of split-string. See #2120.

Make counsel--find-return-list work with or without the "./" prefix. See #2196.


counsel-git-grep-action

Check the result of re-search-forward. See #2209.


counsel-imenu

Work with :update-fn 'auto. See #2188.


counsel-locate-cmd-es

Encode the command to local codepage. See #2278.


counsel-mark-ring

Refactor. See #2237.

Add the latest mark to selection. See #2252.

Go to actual point instead of line. See #2254.

Fix highlight line. See #2255.

Handle read-only strings. See #2258, #2262.


counsel-M-x

Respect counsel-describe-function-function. See #2251.


counsel–py-action

Don't auto-insert parens. See #2229.


counsel-rg-base-command

Don't include directory on non-Windows. See #795, #2180.

Ensure / is the path-separator on Windows. See #2279.


Documentation

ivy.info is not installed from GNU ELPA. See #697.

Fix typo. See #2170.

Fix ivy-read docstring. See #2201.

Add full text of licences. See #2206.

Document the marking feature. See #2214.

Update GFDL licence. See #2187.

Ivy now requires at least Emacs-24.5 (released on 2015-04-10). Up from Emacs-24.1 (released 2012-06-10).


hydra-ivy

Use ivy-read-action-by-key. See #2239, #2250.


ivy

Lazy load ffap. See #2215.


ivy-completion-in-region

Add workaround for package-menu-filter. See #2244.


ivy–directory-done

Handle / C-j on remote. See #2205.


ivy-dispatching-done-hydra

Fix for ivy-resume. Modify the action list non-desctructively. See #2195.


ivy–done

Check if given a string. See #2200.


ivy-immediate-done

Add copy-sequence to fix read-directory-name. See #1170, #2149, #2165.

Fix for when C-j changed cwd. See #2165.

Fix parent dirs for read-directory-name. See #2165, #2198.


ivy–input

Fix point moving in TRAMP sessions sometimes. See #2160.

Fix for ediff. See #2175.


ivy–magic-file-slash

Make less aggressive. Check that the prompt is not selected before performing the ivy-magic-slash-non-match-cd-selected action. See #2240.


ivy-occur

Set up for next-error. See #1354, #2257.


ivy-occur-revert-buffer

Don't error if the swiper buffer was killed.


ivy-overlay-show-after

Check window height better. See #2161.


ivy-partial

Fix trailing space issue. See #2103.

Use ivy--filter in place of all-completions. See #2199.


ivy-read

Fix conflict with an existing read-key session. See #2230.


ivy-resume

Restore use-ignore setting. See #2179.


ivy-yank-word

Handle case fold. See #2194.


swiper

Fix overlay faces using ivy--regex-ignore-order. See #2162.

Fix symbol bounds with char-fold-to-regexp. See #2177.


swiper-isearch

Improve matching. See #2154.

Fix for ivy-resume. See #2153, 2154.

Make swiper-isearch-function work with ivy--regex-ignore-order. See #2155.

Fix return value. See #2163.

Fix regexes for ivy--regex-ignore-order. See #2164.

Fix scroll on RET. See #2159.

Set case-fold-search. See #2226.


swiper-isearch-action

Make ivy-previous-line-or-history work. See #2158.


swiper-occur

Fix for wgrep. See #2156.


swiper-query-replace

For for "^$" search term. See #2232.


swiper-recenter-top-bottom

Now works for swiper-isearch.


swiper-thing-at-point

Fix for swiper-isearch. See #2157.


Tests

Keep the test files in worktree instead of in a test branch. See #2187.

Fix tests using file names on Windows. See #2217.


New Features


counsel-dired

Filter to directories only. See #2275.


counsel-dired-jump-args

The variable is now a list. See #2120.


counsel-file-jump-args

The variable is now a list. See #2120.


counsel-find-file

Use ~~ to move to the local home directory from remote. Using / RET ~ is still an option, but more cumbersome. This also works for /sudo::. See #2276.

Use file-name-at-point-functions. See #1446, #2181, #2184.

Use dired-current-directory if in dired. See #2274.

Bind M-o R to find-file-read-only. See #2236.


counsel-find-file-mkdir-action

Make parents too. See #2178.


counsel-git-grep

Use C-x C-d to switch current directory. See #2259.

Works with ivy--regex-fuzzy. ivy-occur works as well. See #2243.

Nicer message when no match was found. See #2265.


counsel-M-x

Propertize names of active modes with counsel-active-mode. See #2189, #2258.

Some commands are intended to be called only via their key binding. Make them disappear from counsel-M-x like this:

(put 'counsel-find-symbol 'no-counsel-M-x t)

See #2270.


counsel-package

Refresh contents automatically.


counsel-rg

Ivy will add "-i" appropriately, based on ivy-case-fold-search-default. You should remove the "-S" flag from counsel-rg-base-command if you customized it.

When in dired, operate on marked files. This also applies to ivy-occur buffers of counsel-find-file and counsel-git.


counsel-switch-buffer

Add actions. See #2233.


ivy-configure

New function to configure many things at once. Example:

(ivy-configure 'counsel-find-file
  :occur #'counsel-find-file-occur
  :display-transformer-fn #'ivy-read-file-transformer)

Instead of configuring many alists separately using the :caller key of ivy-read, configure everything together.


ivy-ffap-url-functions

ivy-partial

ivy-partial-or-done

Work with completion-cycle-threshold. See #2225. If you set this to an integer, and the amount of candidates is less than that number, pressing TAB will cycle to the next candidate.


ivy-pre-prompt-function

When non-nil, add strings before the ivy-read prompt. See #2185.


ivy-read

New API for asynchronous calls. See #2263.

To use it, pass to ivy-read: :dynamic-collection t, and a collection function that takes a user input string, starts some asynchronous process based on that input, and returns 0. The 0 return result tells Ivy that no candidates were returned; instead, ivy-update-candidates is used in the async callback.

See counsel-google for a reference implementation.


ivy-read-action-function

New defcustom that allows you to read the action via: key, or Ivy, or Hydra. See #2176.


ivy-restrict-to-matches

Work for dynamic collection. See #2168.


ivy-update-fns-alist

Allow to customize :update-fn. See #2188. Example:

(ivy-configure 'counsel-imenu
  :update-fn 'auto)

ivy-use-virtual-buffers

Allow to choose beween: recent files, or bookmarks, or both, or none. See #2169, #2172.


swiper-goto-start-of-match

Also works for counsel-grep and counsel-git-grep. See #2209.


swiper-isearch

Bind M-o w to copy the current line.


New Commands


counsel-buffer-or-recentf

Lists buffers visiting files (highlighted) then the recentf file list. See #2182.


counsel-fonts

Show a list of all supported font families for a particular frame. See #2220.


counsel-google

Asynchronously query the Google predictive search API.


counsel-major

Switch major-mode. See #378.


counsel-slime-repl-history

Browse Slime REPL history. See #2234.