micro 2.0.15

Micro 2.0.15

Get well into 2026 and have a happy new year! :fireworks:

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 #3335)

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:
• Correctly match parameter expansions without braces (by @niten94 in #3663)
• Match variables with leading underscore (by @Andriamanitra in #3833)
• Match --options-with-hyphens (by @nabeelsherazi in #3863)
• Asm syntax: highlight C-like comments (by @dmaluka in #3696)
• Ruby syntax: highlight predefined variables (by @Andriamanitra in #3778)
• CSS syntax: add more commands (by @mystieneko in #3436)
• Swift syntax: add shebang (by @frkd-dev in #3451)
• Java syntax: add var keyword (by @owencmcgrath in #3526)
• Javascript syntax: add .cjs extension (by @med-ab in #3539)
• Groovy syntax: fix triple quotes highlighting (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3858)
• Fish syntax: fix variable expansion (by @remisalmon in #3830)
• Raku syntax: add .rakutest extension (by @juanfra684 in #3406)
• Arduino syntax: make filetype detection less aggressive (by @Andriamanitra in #3848)
• Add OpenSCAD syntax (by @jmcorey in #3410)
• Add PRQL syntax (by @vanillajonathan in #3313)
• Add meson syntax (by @asakovets in #3236)
• Add nftables config syntax (by @theredcmdcraft in #3325 and #3517)

Various improvements

• Save files safely, writing to the backup file first (by @JoeKar in #3273, #3806, #3814, @Neko-Box-Coder in #3807 and @dmaluka in #3822)
• Also write settings.json, bindings.json etc safely as well, using a temporary file
• Support vim-like +/text search in command-line args (by @luca020400 in #3767)
• Add toggle & togglelocal commands for toggling boolean options (by @cutelisp in #3783)
• Add -vsplit & -hsplit as optional arguments for help (by @JoeKar in #3502)
• Make textfilter work with multicursors (by @dmaluka in #3511)
• Support \x syntax for raw escape sequences in bindings.json (by @JoeKar in #3595)
• Add overwrite mode indicator to the status line (by @JoeKar in #3620)
• Support showing git commit hash and branch in the status line (by @niten94 in #3673)
• Support terminal emulation on Solaris, OpenBSD* and NetBSD (by @niten94 in #3714)
• OpenBSD - on 32-bit only
• Display name "Raw event viewer" instead of "No Name" for raw pane (by @blamedrop in #3791)
• Differentiate built-in plugins when listing (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3810)
• Disable sudo save prompt on Windows (by @niten94 in #3866)
• Only set buffer type to stdout when no file args are passed (by @AndydeCleyre in #3910)
• Linter: add ruff for Python (by @Andriamanitra in #3657)
• Linter: ldc2 and gdc for D (by @kodesettings in #3892)
• Add comment support for typescript (by @Neko-Box-Coder in #3857)
• README: Update micro's version for the Go Report Card (by @JoeKar in #3835)

Bugfixes

• Fix cd a\ causing crash on Windows (by @JoeKar in #3596)
• Fix SIGINT killing micro when saving with sudo (by @dmaluka in #3495)
• Fix crash when exiting terminal in some cases (by @JoeKar in #3738)
• Fix crash when shell.JobSpawn is called from Lua while no callback is set (by @matthias314 in #3554)
• Fix 2.0.14 regression: inconsistently working cursor up/down after selection (by @JoeKar in #3540)
• Fix 2.0.14 regression: colorscheme plugins not working (by @dmaluka in #3761)
• Fix non-working raw escape bindings after restarting the screen (by @dmaluka in #3468)
• Fix spurious backups of unmodified files (by @dmaluka in #3822)
• Fix drawing wide characters in the info bar (by @Andriamanitra in #3