Release vis-0.9

[rnpnr]

It has been a while since the last release and there have been a number
of bug fixes and new features. This came up on the mailing list and I
think we are about ready for a new release.

There are a few outstanding items I was thinking of completing first:

• use terminal cursor #953
  • Needs a comment on a commit. It's not clear what it's doing.
• build: allow incremental rebuilds #1113
  • Needs someone else to review
• vis-open: allow to show files vertically #914
  • I can probably just merge this
• Improve word and file name completion with non-ASCII characters #946
  • Maybe. Needs review in more detail.
• [Lua API] Non-blocking subprocess runner #675
  • Would be nice to have so that more people will use it and find
    any bugs. It still has a couple issues that need to be fixed.
  • Applied in 0b01532.
• Prevent flickering in curses #1061
  • Ideally someone who cares about transparency should test and indicate
    if there is a regression.
  • Applied in d1f2c27.
• resync scintillua lexers
  • I think this is probably appropriate before each release.
  • See syntax highlight for conky, remind and groff #961 (comment)
  • In progress: Update lexers #1133
• update changelog
  • I can do this, it shouldn't be difficult.

Suggestions for anything else?

[erf]

Maybe review this issue regarding "Prevent flickering in curses".

[rnpnr]

Sure I can look at that one. I don't use window transparency though so
it would better if someone who cares about it tests and indicates if
there is a regression.

[mcepl]

You should add martanne/vis-test#12

[mcepl]

And we should probably add martanne/vis-test#29 and martanne/vis-test#22, although that may wait on the merge of vis-test repo into the main one.

[rnpnr]

Unfortunately I am unable to merge things in that repo. If they aren't
applied by someone else I will make sure they are applied here after
moving the test repo.

[mcepl]

Also, #945 … it looks like something so simple that it could be easily approved or rejected, if reviewed by somebody who actually knows what she is talking about.

[ninewise]

I merged the mentioned tests, so we can have a clean history to join the repositories after release.

[mcepl]

I merged the mentioned tests, so we can have a clean history to join the repositories after release.

Did you? Where?

[bartgrantham]

I'd like to request that updates to the docker build mechanism be included in this release, if it isn't already. It's very useful to be able to build a fully-featured, static, current version of vis to quickly deploy to a new machine. Come to think of it, maybe I should also request that as a release artifact for 0.9: a "no install" static binary, at least for Linux x64 and arm.

Also, I don't know how many people use vis on macOS, but it'd be nice if 0.9 was available via brew/macports without too much delay. I assume that would happen anyways, I just wanted to voice my vote for macOS support.

[mcepl]

I'd like to request that updates to the docker build mechanism be included in this release, if it isn't already. It's very useful to be able to build a fully-featured, static, current version of vis to quickly deploy to a new machine. Come to think of it, maybe I should also request that as a release artifact for 0.9: a "no install" static binary, at least for Linux x64 and arm.

I am eagerly waiting on your PR for https://github.com/martanne/vis/blob/master/Dockerfile.

Also, I don't know how many people use vis on macOS, but it'd be nice if 0.9 was available via brew/macports without too much delay. I assume that would happen anyways, I just wanted to voice my vote for macOS support.

This project has absolutely nothing to do with Brew, it seems their page is https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vis and if you use it, then you probably know how to contact its owners.

[mcepl]

To the synchronizing with scintillua we have also orbitalquark/scintillua#99 there is something weird going on with lex:add_style and I am not sure what.

[rnpnr]

I wonder if I should just apply @mcepl's patch for updating the lexers
to scintillua 6.2. There is still an issue with the performance of
the bash lexer but I can just comment out that part of the code. Its
a feature that isn't supported in the current lexers so we aren't
downgrading anything. There is likely going to be some fall out in
some plugins. For example I know that the syntax aware part of the
vis-spellcheck plugin no longer works. I would like for them to have
a chance to update before the release.

Note the patch upgrading lexers was supposed to be sent to the
mailing list but sourcehut garbled it somehow. Matej emailed
me a copy and its sitting in my tree. You can also see it here:
https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/vis/log/devel_scintillua

[mcepl]

I wonder if I should just apply @mcepl's patch for updating the lexers to scintillua 6.2. There is still an issue with the performance of the bash lexer but I can just comment out that part of the code. Its a feature that isn't supported in the current lexers so we aren't downgrading anything. There is likely going to be some fall out in some plugins. For example I know that the syntax aware part of the vis-spellcheck plugin no longer works. I would like for them to have a chance to update before the release.

The problem with orbitalquark/scintillua#99 is that many types of texts are now broken. E.g., vis /tmp/patch.patch shows exactly zero colouring, because it is defined via construct like:

lex:add_rule('addition', token('addition', S('>+') * lexer.any^0))
lex:add_style('addition', {fore = lexer.colors.green})

and

.../lexers $ grep -l 'lex:add_style' *|wc -l
56
 $