Release / 3 Jan 2025

Helix 25.01

See diagnostics inline at the end of the line or under it.

Before you upgrade to 25.01

1 to fix

display-messages now controls window/showMessage messages; set editor.lsp.display-progress-messages = true to keep progress messages.

Action requiredGet completion, diagnostics, go to definition, hover and rename from language servers without installing plugins.Affects: Configs that set editor.lsp.display-messages to see progress messages

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What changed in 25.01

Pickers use a table layout filterable by column and global search can change its query live; inline diagnostics; keybindings as macros; path completion; switchable clipboard providers; Super key bindings.

Also: Line comments continue on o/O and Enter; snippet tabstops; camelCase and snake_case word motions.

25.01.

New things you can do

Show language server diagnostics inline next to the code.

Added

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Fixed and improved

Pickers show a table that can be filtered by column, and global search updates as you change the query.

ImprovedOpen files, buffers and symbols, and search the workspace, from fuzzy pickers.

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Keys can be bound to macros, Super can be used in bindings, and clipboard providers can be configured and switched at runtime.

ImprovedConfigure the editor, keys, themes and languages in config.toml and languages.toml.

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Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido), from the release's public sources. Each change links to its evidence.

Before you upgrade to 25.01

display-messages now controls window/showMessage messages; set editor.lsp.display-progress-messages = true to keep progress messages.

* now runs search_selection_detect_word_boundaries; the old search_selection moved to A-*.

What changed in 25.01

New things you can do

Show language server diagnostics inline next to the code.

Fixed and improved

Pickers show a table that can be filtered by column, and global search updates as you change the query.

Keys can be bound to macros, Super can be used in bindings, and clipboard providers can be configured and switched at runtime.