Release Notes: Nova 5

Version 5

February 22, 2021

Hooray! Nova 5 brings you a brand-new (and much-requested) Color Picker, with a powerful feature set to make managing colors as easy as possible. It also adds improvements to Custom Tasks, the Find Sidebar, and more. Enjoy!

Color Picker

Visually manipulate colors. Create useful swatches that are stored with your project. Mix colors in different representations, with full support for sRGB and Display P3. Also includes a brand-new set of extension APIs.

Find Sidebar Improvements

A new scope selector, as well as additional text matching behaviors, make the Sidebar even better.

New

Tasks: Added a preference to auto-save open editors when invoking task actions
Custom Tasks: Added an option to automatically invoke the Build action before performing the Run action
Terminal: The scroll wheel now works in the alternate screen when mouse tracking is disabled, allowing the scroll wheel to be used in, for example, man
Files Sidebar: Added the ability to search selected folders from the contextual menu
Find Sidebar: Support for more text matching behaviors and search scope settings

New for Extensions

Commands API: Added support for commands with unmodified key events when an editor is focused to allow for emulation of alternative key binding schemes. (This lays the groundwork for the possibility of, for example, Vim modes in the future.)
Commands API: Added improvements to the Command when clauses and the nova.workspace.context object to support conditionally enabling commands
Completions API: Added a ScopeSelector extension class to inspect scope information when building completions
Text Editor API: Added the InsertTextFormat enumeration option to the .edit() API
Tasks API: Added support for dynamically resolving actions defined in the manifest taskTemplates
Symbols Sidebar: Added support for parsing the structure of JSON files

Improved

Opening a subfolder of an existing local workspace now creates a new window
Bracket matching should now be less aggressive in certain cases
Terminal: Reduced terminal CPU usage when running htop
Improved contrast of Source Control status markers in the Files and Git sidebar
Find Sidebar: Improved contrast of “Find” result highlight colors when using light themes

Fixed

“New Window” no longer ignores the “Create a new editor” Workspace preference
Fixed an issue where importing a key with a passphrase would not properly update on-disk storage after saving the passphrase to keychain
Spell check now works as expected for plain text files
Resolved an issue with the file split drag placeholder not being dismissed in some circumstances
Preferences: The Editor → Indentation → Wrap Guide field is now wide enough to show three digits
Big Sur: Running tasks at the minimum window width no longer causes toolbar elements to disappear in some cases
Terminal: Fixed an issue where Command-K wouldn’t clear scrollback until Command key is released
Terminal: Resolved a potential problem where incorrect text could be copied when spinners are running
Terminal: Fixed a potential hang when detecting URLs
Terminal: Resolved a terminal emulation issue that caused misaligned text in many programs, including tmux and htop
Terminal: Resolved a potential issue where characters could incorrectly be removed during deletion
Terminal: Resolved a potential issue where scrollback could be removed when opening a new Terminal split
Extensions: Fixed a potential issue with sorting extension issues in the sidebar
Extensions: Resolved a problem with issues in the editor potentially intersecting on hover
JavaScript: Fixed highlighting for inline arrow function values that span multiple lines
JavaScript: Improved highlighting complex string template expressions
JavaScript: Resolved an issue parsing string literal expressions that span multiple lines
JavaScript: Improved parsing to include bare-object fields and functions in the symbol tree
JavaScript: Fixed an issue with symbol parsing of classes which extend a class accessed by property
JavaScript: Improved the display of named arrow functions and anonymous functions set to a variable name in the Symbols sidebar
JSX: Fixed a potential issue with code folding when parsing component variables that contain inline JavaScript blocks
JSX: Resolved an issue parsing components that occur within variable literals
HTML: Tags with detected URLs between them should now be properly highlighted
CSS: Resolved an issue with highlighting comments within attribute values
CSS: Fixed an issue with autocompletion of !important
YAML: Fixed highlighting of bare symbol words that start with -
YAML: Resolved an issue parsing keys that contain spaces
YAML: Parsing symbols starting with a boolean character immediately followed by a non-ASCII word character no longer breaks highlighting
Ruby: Fixed an issue with highlighting of ERB comments that do not end with #
Ruby: Resolved a problem parsing class definitions that use a module prefix
Ruby: Fixed highlighting of Heredoc comments that use the <<- syntax
Ruby: Resolved an issue with highlighting of hook and bang methods in symbol names
Python: Improved highlighting of keywords within expression parenthesis
Python: Fixed an issue where methods and properties prefixed with except would highlight as a partial keyword
TypeScript: for loops using let bindings no longer interrupt parsing in some circumstances
Smarty: Resolved an issue with comment highlighting
Lua: Fixed highlighting of comments at the end of an import line
LESS: Resolved an issue parsing mixin blocks
PHP: Improved parsing of class and interface constants
Editing an SSH key using the list view no longer allows saving the key name as (null)
Fixed an issue where placeholder elements were still visible after initializing a Git repository from project settings