micro 2.0.15

What's new in 2.0.15

Micro 2.0.15
Get well into 2026 and have a happy new year! 🎆
What's Changed
New options
- truecolor (supersedes the MICRO_TRUECOLOR environment variable) (by @JoeKar in #2867)
- showchars (deprecates indentchar) (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3760)
- lockbindings for completely disallowing plugins to modify keybindings (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3618)
- helpsplit for changing default split type for the help command (by @JoeKar in #3502)
- pageoverlap for setting number of lines kept during page up/page down (by @nimishjha in #3518)
New actions
- FirstTab, LastTab, FirstSplit and LastSplit (by @masmu in #3403)
- Note: also changed the behavior of NextTab, PreviousTab, NextSplit, PreviousSplit
- But adjusted the default keybindings so the default behavior remains unchanged
- SkipMultiCursorBack as a counterpart to SkipMultiCursor (by @masmu in #3404)
- CursorToViewTop, CursorToViewCenter, CursorToViewBottom (by @nimishjha in #3506)
- Duplicate for duplicating the selection only, not the whole line (by @dmaluka in #3503)
Improved actions
- Improve and unify CopyLine, CutLine, DeleteLine, DuplicateLine actions (by @dmaluka in #3335 and #3519)
- Note: changed the behavior of those actions
- But also adjusted the default keybindings so the default behavior remains unchanged
- Restore pre-2.0.14 behavior of SpawnMultiCursor{Up,Down} (by @dmaluka in #3503)
- Nano-like page up/page down functionality (by @nimishjha in #3518 and @dmaluka in #3555)
Lua improvements
- Plugins never write to settings.json or bindings.json anymore (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3618)
- Add onBufferOptionChanged callback (by @JoeKar in #2962)
- Add SpawnCursorAtLoc() (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3441)
- Expose bufpane's DoubleClick and TripleClick to plugins (by @cutelisp in #3720)
- Pass mouse info to {on,pre}MouseXXX callbacks (by @dmaluka in #3779)
- Support goto statement from Lua 5.2 (by @matthias314 in #3597)
Syntax highlighting improvements
- Haskell syntax: various improvements and fixes (by @Andriamanitra in #3373)
- Rust syntax:
- Recognize byte strings and C strings (by @jmcorey in #3452)
- Add more keywords and types (by @edwloef in #3677 and @codemanticism in #3759)
- C++ syntax:
- Highlight binary and hex literals with single-quote separator per C++14 (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3310, #3870, #3891)
- Highlight auto as data type per C++17 (by @2013ZRZ in #3836)
- Improve C++ filetype detection by using more keywords (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3310)
- Shell syntax: …

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