Yi/OldNews

• Bernardy gave a Yi demo at the Haskell symposium 2008. The abstract is a good 1-page introduction to Yi; there is also a video of the talk.
• support for cabal build
• Many more usability improvements (highlighted search, ...)
• I gave a talk about incremental parsing in Yi at the Chalmers' FP workshop. Find the slides here: http://code.haskell.org/yi/doc/IncrementalParsing.odp
• preliminary Haskell-specific support
• many small usability enhancements
• Buffer modes
• Context-free (ie. non-regular) syntax highlighters
• Fast (incremental) syntax highlighters
• XMonad-style, static configuration (fast load!)
• More Vim emulation
• Many bugfixes
• Yi 0.3 released
• 'sdist' functionality
• Haddocked API
• Reverse incremental search
• "rope-like" structure for buffer (eg. for reading/editing huge log files)
• Experimental Cocoa frontend (OS X)
• More functionality of emacs/vim implemented
• Andy wrote a nice Yi 0.3 tutorial: http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/index.html (note that this tutorial probably will not work for darcs Yi/Yi 0.4)
• Yi is now hosted on http://code.haskell.org/yi
• Further simplify build process
• Simplify creation of keybindings; More powerful combinators.
• Tons of fixes
• Support for templates
• Syntax hilight modes for Cabal & C++
• GHC 6.8 support (and Yi is ever easier to build)
• word completion infrastructure
• vim: more window commands implemented
• Very important architectural cleanups (07:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)):
  • Buffer implementation is purely functional
  • IO monad is only found at the toplevel (buffer-only and editor-only actions do not rely on IO)
  • Window management is frontend independent
  • Factored indent-code across keymaps
  • All dependency cycles removed (makes for an easier understanding of the code)
• C-code removed from Yi
• Dynamic selection of frontend
• Cleaned up the multiple package mess
• Console buffer (old news)
• Common buffer backend (across all frontends) (15:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC))
• Overlays (thanks Ben Moseley)
• per-buffer extensible state (11:44, 28 May 2007 (UTC))
• Synchronous keymaps: the behaviour of the keymap (ie. the underlying parser) can depend on the editor state.
• Full-dynamic Yi
  • it's now possible to change any part of the Yi codebase and see the result with a mere 'M-x reconfigE' (take that, Steve Yegge :))
• Yi is now hosted on darcs.haskell.org/yi
• Dired mode (thanks Ben Moseley)
• Yi 0.2 released!
• Buffer-specific code is now contained in BufferM monad
• Multiple marks per buffer
• All keymaps use a unified mechanism! (and are therefore potentially composable)
• Miniwindows for vty frontend
• Miniwindows for GTK frontend
• Basic support for query-replace (emacs)
• Rudimentary support for indentation
• Syntax highlighting in GTK frontend
• Completion for file names
• Incremental search (emacs)
• Completion for M-x, and buffer switch.
• History for emacs mode minibuffer
• New commands and keybindings can be defined easily and dynamically
• Yi is an haskell interpreter!
  • Possibility to run editor actions interactively (similar to emacs M-x)
  • Configuration is just a haskell module exporting (yiMain :: Action)
• Possibility to evaluate haskell expressions interactively.
• New, unified way to define Keybindings
• Vty frontend supports Haskell (lexical) syntax highlighting (thanks Stefan O'Rear)
• GTK frontend works in Win32
• GTK frontend (in addition of Vty frontend) (requires gtk>=0.9.10.4)
• Linewrap support
• Bugfixes in scrolling
• Lots of simplifications in the cursor management
• Keymaps can now process typed events instead of Chars (no extra decode step)
• Yi.Debug added for debugging
• Vty frontend replaces Curses frontend