Release Notes: Nova 8

Version 8

November 8, 2021

We did it! Nova 8 brings a huge new feature to Nova: Vim mode. It was by far our most requested addition, it took a while to get there, and it's just the beginning (a lot of people use Vim in a lot of different ways!), but we really hope you enjoy it. For more information on our Vim mode and how it works, check out this library article.

Vim Support

Nova now includes support for Vim key bindings, emulating a Vim experience in the editor. Learn more.

Bitbucket account support

Access your Bitbucket Cloud, Server, and Data Center accounts from within Nova.

Save on focus shift

Auto-save documents when focus is changed to another tab or app.

New

CSS colors can now be displayed in-line in the editor
“Toggle Comment” now supports preferences for specifying line or block comments, as well as controlling space insertion
The Find sidebar now has a preference to adjust the level of contextual detail when displaying results
Nova’s CLI Tool now supports:
- Opening and activating an extension bundle
- Invoking extension commands by name, as well as passing arguments
- Signing in and out of your extension developer account
- Validating and submitting extensions to the Extension Library
- Setting the filetype of opened documents using the --type option
- Specifying cursor position(s) or selection range(s) when using the
  --line option when opening a document

New for Extensions

Added nova.path.relative(from, to) for calculating the relative path between two other paths

Improved

Case transformations will now automatically select the word at the cursor location if nothing is selected
The wait behavior of the CLI no longer requires manual exit; It will now observe for the file to be closed by Nova
Files opened using the CLI should much more predictably open in matching workspaces
Terminal: Bracketed paste mode is now supported
Terminal: Added support for Japanese Kana input
Added a user preference for opting out of important announcements
Nova will now display an alert banner when save operations take longer than 5 seconds due to extensions
Launcher projects whose stored resolution data has gone stale should now re-link more reliably
Launcher projects that have gone missing now display an option to re-link them manually when opened
Symbols sidebar improvements:
- Added support for alphabetical sorting
- View options now persist between sessions
- Symbols are now automatically selected as the cursor moves throughout the editor
- Scroll position is now maintained for documents when swapping between tabs
- HTML img tags now display their id, class, and src attributes
- Added support for showing separators by using a bookmark prefixed with a dash and space
- Improved visual contrast and differentiation of some symbols, especially bookmarks

Fixed

Resolved a potential crash when indexing files in the background
Fixed find sidebar filters not saving in all cases after editing
Code block selections made via the Symbols sidebar now include end tags
Fixed an issue preventing - from being used in key binding assignments
Addressed an issue with license status not updating on launch after being renewed
Resolved an issue with the extension console.log() API formatting not working as expected
Preview: Closing a tab now stops playback of audio and video content
Preview: Fixed an issue viewing documents not backed by a file on disk
Preview: Addressed a problem that prevented tab localStorage from working between sessions
Preview: Resolved a potential issue previewing Markdown files when another Markdown app is installed
Preview: Tabs reloaded in response to a document save now attempt to preserve their scroll position
Preview: Fixed an issue preventing routing for remote files whose servers have a relative base path specified
Terminal: Resolved potential drawing issues on macOS Monterey
Terminal: Addressed a potential issue with line spacing in certain programs, such as top
Terminal: Fixed a problem that could cause text corruption on paste in specific circumstances
Launcher: Improved filtering of project names with varying Unicode normalization forms
Launcher: Improved navigation using arrow keys when no selection is present in icon view
Resolved an issue with invoking some subprocesses from the extension service, such as PHP validation
Resolved an issue causing Language Server Protocol hovers to potentially show with incorrect theming
Dragging .textClipping files into the editor now insert their contents as expected
Clicking a color annotation when the color picker is open now dismisses the color picker
Addressed an issue where files that are Reverse Published could immediately re-appear in the publishing queue
The Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) will now display as an invisible / invalid character in editors
Fixed a potential crash when converting LF / Unix line endings to CR / Classic Mac OS line endings
Attempting to open certain special filesystem objects (like FIFO queues) will no longer hang the app
Fixed a potential text corruption issue when using Shift Right/Left on folded lines
Resolved an issue where the editor could unintentionally scroll when typing Japanese characters on the last line
nova.path.expanduser no longer not casts falsy values to strings
Resolved an issue with adjusting indentation of pasted text
Printing source code now works as expected