Orbiton 2.68.2

Fixes

• When editing Nroff, let ctrl-space toggle the man page preview properly.
• Let the bookmark functionality display status bar messages again, when ctrl-b is pressed.
• Fix a bug in the vt100 dependency in connection with pasting in text with shift-insert.

New features

• Add built-in support for formatting Go/Plan9 style Assembly by pressing ctrl-w by using the asmfmt and lookslikegoasm packages. (Thanks @klauspost!)
• Add tab completion with Ollama/LLMs, if the -o or --ollama flag is given. This is an experimental feature!
• Let ctrl-o,b trigger block editing.
• Let ctrl-o,space open the command prompt.

Improvements

• Improve how format commands are looked up, for various programming languages.
• Improve the C function signature detection.
• Improve the "go to definition" feature (activated by pressing ctrl-g over a symbol).
• Show the progress indicator after jumping with ctrl-l.
• Simplify the man page syntax highlighting code a bit.
• Add usage help for the Pico/Nano mode flag (-e or --nano).

General

• Confirm that Orbiton passes the "Moby Dick Workout", and document it in the README.md file.
• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.
• Some refactoring.

2.68.1

• Fix an issue with using Orbiton as a man page viewer (ref #22, thanks @razielanarki).
• Improve the function signature detection (for the status text in the upper right corner).
• After going to a definition with ctrl-g, add a way to clear the back history.

Orbiton 2.68.0

Performance improvements

• Improve the performance when scrolling.
• Disable/enable the cursor less often when redrawing the text of the editor.
• Just check once if the parent process is man when needed, not at every editor start.
• Seldom allocate memory when rendering and highlighting text.

Fixes

• Use atomic bools to fix a race condition.
• Improve how signal handlers are cleared and set up.
• Adjust the logic for when the undo buffer is full.
• Fix the file monitoring mode (the -m flag).

Look and feel

• Highlight the current line when moving up and down with the arrow keys.
• Improve a status message for the Nano/Pico compatibility mode.
• Remove Toggle status bar from the ctrl-o menu, but add a Toggle block editing option.
• Stop ctrl-g from toggling multiline/block editing.
• Let ctrl-g toggle the status bar if no definition is found (like it was before).
• Let ctrl-space toggle between Nroff and Man page mode (experimental feature).
• Also support home, end, pgup, pgdown and ctrl-insert (as an "undocumented feature").
• Let ctrl-g also try to jump to a matching parenthesis or bracket (only for characters currently on screen, for now).
• Make the pacman spinner just a bit nicer.

Syntax highlighting

• Initial support for Nmap scripts.
• Improve single line comment syntax highlighting in Elm.
• Improve syntax highlighting for configuration files.
• Improve syntax highlighting for C.

Programming related

• Let the name of the function the cursor currently is in appear in the upper right corner for ~2 seconds (very handy when navigating lengthy functions).
• Adjust the package building command for when ctrl-space is pressed in a PKGBUILD file.

Themes

• Do not try to set a theme if NO_COLOR=1 is specified.
• Add a new theme named Orb.
• Add a new theme named Pinetree.
• Improve themes so that they work better on light backgrounds (such as default xterm).
• Adjust the synthwave theme.
• Adjust the blueedit theme.

General

• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.
• Refactor.
• Remove unused functions.
• Follow the advice of go vet, staticcheck and betteralign.
• Update test files.

Orbiton 2.67.1

• Recuce the executable size by around 20%.
• Let Esc also cancel block edit mode.
• Make it possible to build Makefiles with ctrl-space.
• Disable the initial tutorial screen when on Android, to make it easier to operate in Termux.
• Add a template for .gitignore and .ignore files (for when ctrl-w is pressed in an empty file).
• Remove support for using Guessica (archived) for PKGBUILD and APKBUILD files (for finding the latest release version). Arch now has a different system for tracking new releases, and LLMs are also becoming more capable for this purpose.
• Update documentation.
• Update the tutorial.
• Update dependencies.

Orbiton 2.67.0

Performance

• Let platform checks be defined as constants at compile time.
• Cache checks for if executables exists in PATH.
• Update the default.pgo file (used for profile guided optimization).

Programming and Markdown

• Remove a check for if Go code is valid while typing.
• Improve syntax highlighting for Scheme.
• Also support the default indentation of go.mod files.
• Improve the detection of JSON content for files without a .json extension.
• Fix an issue where formatting Markdown documents with ctrl-w would misinterpret ----style headlines as tables.
• Add a template for the C3 programming language.

Block editing

• Show an informative status bar when toggling block edit mode with ctrl-g.
• Let ctrl-d and backspace also work in block edit mode.

Arch Linux

• Let ctrl-space when editing PKGBUILD files not launch a terminal emulator but simply start building and replace the current process with an exec syscall.
• Do not chmod +x shell scripts with the .install extension.

Look and feel

• Adjust the color of the max column indicator.
• Improve the wording and ordering in the ctrl-o menu.
• Add a menu option for the max column indicator.
• Improve two error messages.
• Update the spinner animation.

General

• Compile the release files with Go 1.23.0, which is the latest version.
• Showcase one of the light themes in the README.md file by adding a screenshot.
• Update the built-in tutorial.
• Update CI configuration.
• Update dependencies.

Orbiton 2.66.0

UX

• When the status line is enabled AND a maximum column width is specified, the column limit is indicated with | characters, behind the text.
• ctrl-g can now toggle "block mode" where multiple lines can be edited at once (this is an experimental feature).
• Replace the "Insert time" menu choice with a "Toggle status line" menu choice.

AI

• Remove support for "fix as you type" and inserting generated text with OpenAI / GPT3. Initial support for Gemini is in the gemini branch, but the whole interaction with AI /LLMs was not as useful as I thought. Perhaps a future menu option for fixing bugs would be more useful.

Performance and size improvements

• Noticeably faster rendering, due to improvements in the github.com/xyproto/vt100 package.
• Much smaller executable (12 MiB vs 24 MiB) due to the temporary removal of AI-support.
• Update the default profile guided optimization file.
• Let some string variables be constants.
• Detect the current platform at build-time rather than at run-time.

Editing Markdown

• Let ctrl-w in a Markdown file attempt to sort all tables in the document, when the cursor is not over a specific table.

Programming language and file support

• Better handling of tabs and spaces when saving Makefiles.
• Recognize more GLSL shader types.
• When pressing ctrl-w in an empty Python file named __init__.py, leave it empty and don't insert a Python template.

Building and testing

• Make it possible to run tests when ctrl-space is pressed in a Go file with a _test.go suffix.
• Add initial support for the C3 programming language, including "jump to error" when ctrl-space is pressed.
• Make it possible to compile some GLSL shaders to SPIR-V by pressing ctrl-space.

Man page related

• Let the space key scroll down when viewing man pages.
• Also make it possible to quit with q when viewing man pages.

Syntax highlighting

• Add initial syntax highlighting for the C3 programming language.
• Improve syntax highlighting for Python.
• Improve syntax highlighting for Hare.

Build-related

• Revert a .PHONY-related change to the Makefile.
• Remove --sort-common from the default Arch Linux LDFLAGS in the Makefile.

Various changes

• Minor improvements, as suggested by staticcheck.
• Update the URL to the web page.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.
• Performance improvements.

Orbiton 2.65.12

New features

• Copy to the clipboard if the executable starts with c. For example, if /usr/local/bin/copyfile is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/o, then copyfile somefile.txt will copy that file into the clipboard.
• Paste the clipboard into a file if the executable starts with p. For example, if /usr/local/bin/pastefile is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/o, then pastefile somefile.txt will paste the contents of the clipboard into that file. pastefile -f can be used if the file already exists and should be overwritten.

Fixes

• Fix an issue that could happen if the terminal was resized, while signals were sent, and while the user was hammering the Esc button.

Improvements

• Adjust the placement of a menu item in the ctrl-o menu, when editing HTML or XML.
• Move the cursor to the start of the first line when sorting a block of lines.
• Do not try to expand XML and HTML tags by default. This can be enabled in the ctrl-o menu.
• Skip the status message if SIGTERM is received.
• Better syntax highlighting when editing Dockerfiles.
• Temporarily remove the HTML formatting feature since it could not handle JS within HTML and was annoying.
• Modify how ctrl-a and ctrl-e behaves if a macro is being replayed.

Various

• Build the release binaries with Go 1.22.4.
• Minor changes to the Makefile.
• Minor changes to the GTK-3 front-end.
• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.

Orbiton 2.65.11

• Fix an issue with a mutex when redrawing, in connection with signals and ctrl-c.
• Make ctrl-k a bit faster, when removing lines or deleting to the end of the current line.
• Add initial support for CSS.
• Update dependencies.
• Update documentation.

Orbiton 2.65.10

• Add a file that was missing from the vendored dependencies.

Orbiton 2.65.9

Improvements

• Disregard copy/paste portals that are older than 25 minutes when starting o.
• Improve the status message when copying lines to the clipboard.
• Improve the text/binary detection to also support UTF-16.
• Improve how signals are handled.

Language support

• Respect # as the single line comment marker for R and Ruby.
• Add initial support for Objective-C.
• Switch from autopep8 to black as the tool used to format Python code when ctrl-w is pressed.
• Adjust the ktlint parameters (for formatting Kotlin).

Syntax highlighting

• Minor improvements to the JavaScript syntax highlighting.
• Minor improvements to the C syntax highlighting.

Various

• Improve the OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD support.
• Update documentation.
• Update dependencies.