Minor

Change

• If there is a syntax error in .vindrc at startup, use the default value and show the main error on the command line.
• Fixed some bugs.

New

• Support for dot command (#29). However, editing in insert mode will not be repeated. (ID: repeat_last_change)
• Support for block-style carets (#12, #31). There is a solid mode with fixed size and a flex mode with pseudo blocks by selection.

  set blockstylecaret                 " Enable
  set blockstylecaret_mode = solid    " Static size mode [Default]
  set blockstylecaret_mode = flex     " Variable size mode
  set blockstylecaret_width = 15      " Width on solid mode
  

Patch

Fix

• Fix an invalid width in ArrangeWindow.
• Fix a problem that freezes when there are no target windows in the exception list arrangewin_ignore.
• Fix the problem not terminating it after pressing the update button.

Minor

Fix

• Fix the problem that command in .vindrc is misinterpreted as cmap.

New

• Support cmap and cnoremap.
• Added a list option arrangewin_ignore to remove from the target in ArrangeWindows.

  set arrangewin_ignore = gvim, rainmeter
  

• Added option to perform UI scan asynchronously, which is required by EasyClick and autofocus_textarea, for performance rather than accuracy. (uiacachebuild, uiacachebuild_lifetime, uiacachebuild_staybegin, uiacachebuild_stayend). A performance improvement of about 30 times can be expected.

  set uiacachebuild
  set uiacachebuild_lifetime = 1000 "frequent update
  

• Add autofocus_textarea option to automatically focus the nearest text field to the mouse cursor when transitioning to Editor Normal Mode (#26).

Change (*Attention)

• Change the default binding of transition to Resident Mode to <Esc-Down> due to duplication of <C-i> shortcut for italicizing in MS Office.
• Also, change the default binding from Resident Mode to Insert Mode to <Esc-Up>.

Minor

Fix

• Fix the problem that command in .vindrc is misinterpreted as cmap.

New

• Support cmap and cnoremap.
• Add autofocus_textarea option to automatically focus the nearest text field to the mouse cursor when transitioning to Editor Normal Mode (#26).

Change

• Change the default binding of transition to Resident Mode to <Esc-Down> due to duplication of <C-i> shortcut for italicizing in MS Office.
• Also, change the default binding from Resident Mode to Insert Mode to <Esc-Up>.

Patch

Fix

• Fix the problem that the head number for repeating is shown in Resident Mode. (#24)

Major Update

New

• Support low-level key mapping (e.g. imap <capslock> <ctrl>) (#20)
• Support Run Commands style configuration .vindrc
• Support set, map, noremap, unmap, mapclear, command, delcommand, comclear, and source commands.
• Add a menu to check updates in the the task tray.
• Add a menu to register into the startup list in task tray.
• Support startup in zip version.
• Support win-vind.exe --help.
• Add winresizer for GUI.
• Add Instant GUI Mode to use as mapleader.
• Add ShellExecute wrapper binding (:execute, :e, :edit)
• Support real command line with your favorite shell in :! command
• Support automatic detection of keyboard layout
• Faster boot
• Change command in visual block (#22)

Change

• Eliminated GUI-based configuration
• Renew default mode layers (#19)
• Renew default bindings
• Eliminated settings of shortcut application.
• All bindings and options have been renamed, so it is not compatible with v3 and earlier.

Fix

• Fix the deadlock of LoweLevelKeyboardProc and SendInput.
• Fix the problem that when multiple characters were inputted at the same time, they are deleted with once BackSpace in Command Mode.
• And fixed minor bugs.

For Developer

• Updated the version of wxWidgets to 3.1.5.
• The source code for wxgui will not be built since we have discontinued GUI-based configuration, but we are keeping it in case there is a request for a GUI for configuration.

Minor

Improve

• EasyClick supports multi-thread drawing
• Supports for window rotation without window tiling
• Supports for multiple monitors with Exchange and Snap of a window
• SwitchWindow supports keystroke repeating when selecting a window
• Support a syntax like 2d2w in Vim emulation
• Support UNICODE in Suppress For Vim option

New

• Add <Esc> canceling to prevent freezing when passing very large values as the head number in a command (e.g. 100000h).

Fix

• Fix the problem referring to the screen metrics of the primary monitor in jump_top.
• Change the measurement points for the distance in Select or Exchange of a window
• Disable keystroke repeating for hints in EasyClick

Development

• Change the key matching system to an automaton based one
• Major refactoring of the bindings-selection algorithm
• Organized the directory hierarchy.
• Add global namespace vind
• Significantly reduced the number of arguments to BindedFunc::process by making the KeyLogger a polymorphism one instead of STL-based.
• Add architecture documentation for development.
• Add some test codes
• Fix a problem that setup_libs.bat over-install though the libraries are already installed.

Patch

Fix

• Fix the problem not working Add and Delete and Return to Default buttons in the Bindings tab of GUI. (#13)

Patch

Fix

• Changed the way to get the home directory. (#8)

Change

• Apply some delay when exists a lot of GUI objects in EasyClick, so it's a little faster.

Patch

Fix

• Fix a problem with misunderstanding the root directory when using it from the command line.
• Support Unicode in a feature to make a directory.

Minor

Change

• Support a 3-character hinting in EasyClick.
• The time required to scan GUI objects in EasyClick reduced BY A THIRD.
• Changed a function name from CloseOpenedFile to CloseCurrentTab.
• Changed some default bindings.
• Support Unicode filenames
• Refactored GUI of the settings panel.

New

• Add features to resize windows

  • Arrange all windows (<C-w>=)
  • Rotate arranged windows in a current monitor (<C-w>r)
  • Rotate arranged windows in a current monitor in reverse (<C-w>R)
  • Exchange a window with the most nearest one (<C-w>x)
  • Resize the width of a window (:vertical resize <num>)
  • Increase the width of a window (<C-w><gt>, :vertical resize +<num>)
  • Decrease the width of a window (<C-w><lt>, :vertical resize -<num>)
  • Resize the height of a window (:resize <num>)
  • Increase the height of a window (<C-w>+, :resize +<num>)
  • Decrease the height of a window (<C-w>-, :resize -<num>)
  • Snap a current window to left (<C-w>H)
  • Snap a current window to right (<C-w>L)
  • Snap a current window to top (<C-w>K)
  • Snap a current window to bottom (<C-w>J)

• Add features to select windows

  • Select a left window (<C-w>h)
  • Select a right window (<C-w>l)
  • Select an upper window (<C-w>k)
  • Select a lower window (<C-w>j)

• Add features to open windows

  • Open a new window with horizontal split (:split)
  • Open a new window with vertical split (:vsplit)

Minor

Fix

• Fix resource leaks

Change

• Generate log directory when it does not exist.
• Generate log files with a date.
• Fix the problem generating an unnamed .exe file.
• Improve the exception system of GUI.
• Disable showing -- TARGETING ON -- or -- TARGETING OFF -- when Dedicate to One Window is disabled.

New

• Add various versions of EasyClick (#5)
  • Easy Click Left (FF, Fo)
  • Easy Click Right (Fa)
  • Easy Click Middle (Fm)
  • Easy Click Hover (Fh)
• Implement a useful GUI for key-config.
  • Add a feature to search functions.
  • Add a feature to edit bindings with gVim.
  • Add guides of a key config file when editing with vim.
• Add Vim keybindings in the preferences window of win-vind.
  • Forward UI Navigation (l, <Right>)
  • Backward UI Navigation (h, <Left>)
  • Decide a Focused UI object (o)
  • My Config Window Normal Mode (<Esc>)
  • My Config Window Insert Mode (i, a)
• Add a feature to keep old settings.
• Supports the high DPI.
• Supports free GUI font change.

Patch

Fix

• Fix the problem not working scrolling (e.g. <c-e>, <c-y>).
• Fix the problem unintentionally inputting 4 after % command.

Patch

Fix

• Fix the problem repeating key-stroke infinity.
• Improve safety.
• Fix the problem of not absorbing key inputs when using Insert Mode.

Change

• Change the time to check the shared memory for inter-processing communication.
• Change UI design to modern (MSVC build).
• EasyClick always makes a center of a window a candidate as well.

New

• Support Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 64-bit / 32-bit
• Support providing 32-bit binary.
• Add some scripts to prepare environments for development.

Major

Fix

• fixed the problem that line's copying functions (e.g. dd, yy) are not working on Microsoft Office Word.
• fixed the problem repeating key-stroke infinity.
• fixed not working after BackSpace in Virtual Command Line.

Change

• The Command Mode was divided as KeyBindings from the inner matching system.
• This version requires C++17
• Improved Error out function.
• Supported appropriate exception-based error system.
• In bindings.json, changed command's syntax from a unique one to original-Vim.
• Some classes modified to STL-based simple ones.
• Supported file-properties of the installer
• Changed methods of the key eventer to the faster one.
• If a command called by !* does not exist, will print out a message.
• Prohibited multiple running of win-vind.

New

General

• supported repeating commands (e.g. 5->h is equel to h->h->h->h->h)
• add a CUI-based feature to call BindedFunc from another win-vind with the inter-process communication.
  (ex: $./win-vind --func change_to_normal)
• Supported the number keyword (e.g. <num>, +<num>, -<num>)

Options

• Char Cache Option for faster edit.
• Suppress For Vim; in order to disable win-vind in Vim.
• Enable EasyClick HWND Cache

Functions

• Change Lines And Start Insert (c->c, S)
• Change Characters And Start Insert (s)
• Change Text Until EOL And Start Insert (C)
• Delete Text by Motion (d{Motion})
• Change Text by Motion (c{Motion})
• Start Explorer (ex, explorer)
• Open Windows Start Menu (<Win>)
• Switch Case of characters (~)
• EasyClick; a feature like EasyMotion or Vimium. (F)

Patch

Fixed

• fixed the problem not jumping the cursor to positions of Ctrl, Shift, Win, Alt on Jump Cursor by Keyboard Mapping.

Changed

• Changed default key-bindings of Switch to Left Virtual Desktop and Switch to Right Virtual Desktop from g->T and g->t to Ctrl(+)v->h and Ctrl(+)v->l.
• Improved key matching algorithm.

Added

Some Virtual Desktop Utilities. (Ctrl(+)v->*)

• Create New Virtual Desktop (Ctrl(+)v->n, Ctrl(+)v->c)
• Close Current Virtual Desktop (Ctrl(+)v->q)
• Task View (Ctrl(+)v->s, :taskview, :tv, :vdesktop list)

Minor

Fix

• fixed the problem not to call d->d or g->g after IME-key.

Change

• abolished switching ways with the mouse of Dedicating Mode. Concretely, please refer next section.
• updated some build scripts.

New

• added EnableTargetingOfDedicate2Window and DisableTargetingOfDedicate2Window. You can switch Dedicate Mode by commands, for example, :enable d2w or :disable d2w.

Major

Bugs

• fixed the problem not to call Switch Virtual Desktop to Right and Switch Virtual Desktop to Left.
• Revised some small bugs.

Change Logs

• Remodeled Preferences/Bind Lists for customizing key-bindings to new UI Preferences/Bindings.
• Renovated Preferences/Settings.
• Removed Preferences/Options.
• Supported dynamically changing of settings.
• Changed settings' format from XML to JSON.
• Refactored all codes.
• Renovated Virtual Command Line. Its input system is better and it displays mode when changing mode. There are settings of the latter's fade-out time in Preferences/Settings/Virtual Command Line/Fade Out Time (s).
• Excluded Boost.

Useful Functions

• Added Dedicating Mode for the real-mouse user. If you push a left button of the mouse while pressing system keys(Shift, Alt, Ctrl), win-vind is only validated on a selected window. You can turn this function on Preferences/Settings/Options/Dedicate to One Window checkbox.
• Added Initial Mode setting into Preferences/Settings/Common. You can select one between GUI Normal, GUI Insert, Editor Normal, and Editor Insert.

New Functions Based Original Vim

• Insert BOL (I/gI)
• Append EOL (A)
• Begin New Line Above Caret (O)

Change Logs

• fixed bugs.
• supported GUI.
• supported Japanese.
• implemented the Vim emurator for general text editors and its functions.
• tidied up directory trees.
• added a white version of icon.
• added default settings.
• distinguished licenses of third party (THIRD_PARTY_LICENSED.txt) from a project licenses (LICENSE.txt).
• fixed create_ins.bat and create_zip.bat.
• supported command history system.

New Functions

Bindings

• Change to Editor Mode
• Change to Editor Normal
• Change to Editor Insert
• Change to Editor BackInsert
• Change to Editor NewLineInsert
• Change to Editor Visual
• Change to Editor Visual (Line unit)
• Move Caret Left
• Move Caret Right
• Move Caret Up
• Move Caret Down
• N-words Forward
• N-words Backward
• N-WORDS Forward
• N-WORDS Backward
• Jump Caret to BOL
• Jump Caret to EOL
• Jump Caret to BOF
• Jump Caret to EOF
• Yank Highlight Text
• Yank N-Lines
• Put Text After Caret
• Put Text Before Caret
• Delete Highlight Text
• Delete N-Lines
• Delete N-Lines Until EOL
• Delete N-Chars After Caret
• Delete N-Chars Before Caret
• Join Next Line
• Replace Char
• Replace Insert Mode

Commands

• Show Config Window
• Exit
• Open Other FIle
• Make Directory
• Open New Current Window
• Reload Current Window

• fixed a bug freezing a mouse cursor after changing from insert mode to normal.
• added windows script file(.bat). create_zip.bat make directories in order to compress. create_ins.bat make installers at the proper directories.