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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.15, Package name: ait-1.15, Maintainer: ktnb

ait is small yet mighty GNU Emacs style editor. It is inspired by GNU
Emacs, microEMACS, Plan 9's acme, mle, OpenBSD's mle, and
vi/vim/neovim. ait uses termbox2 giving it great portability across
most unix-like systems. Think of ait as microEMACS but with
traditional Emacs keybindings and some advanced features from the
editors mentioned above.

Some of ait's features are:
- Emacs-like keybindings
- basic window/buffer support
- isearch
- find/replace
- M-x to run shell commands
- M-o to open files with external command
- basic unlimited undo/redo
- keyboard macros
- jump/zap to char
- bracket highlighting
- syntax highlighting for strings and comments
- quick jump to line and word
- UTF-8/Unicode Support


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Filesize: 153.022 KB

Version history: (Expand)


CVS history: (Expand)


   2026-05-08 16:45:40 by Kevin Bloom | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
ait: fixed distinfo
   2026-05-07 18:48:59 by Kevin Bloom | Files touched by this commit (2) | 👁 Package updated
Log message:
ait: update to 1.15

Packaging updates:
- NotABug died due to AI, moved upstream elsewhere

Upstream updates:
New:
- added register system
 - set the registers location via -r
 - Use C-x r [s,i,<spc>,f,j,m,e,k,c,?] to use.
- indent/un-indent by single space
 - using the spacebar to indent and backspace to un-indent
- support commands and keybindings via -c
- dynamic-expand now supports completing words that contain any
 symbol in the Symbols Allowed In Variables (saiv) of the syntax
 mode. It will always assume an underscore (_) is valid since all
 common programming languages support it as a variable symbol.
- illumOS support

Enhancements:
- open in new buffer now will undo the yank on the current buffer
 when using it on a shell command
- cache the syntax highlighting to improve efficiency

Bugs:
- many many memory bugs found via address sanitation
   2025-10-02 15:26:29 by Kevin Bloom | Files touched by this commit (2) | 👁 Package updated
Log message:
ait: updated to 1.13

New:
- #112, added -S for default shell-command and -O for default open-
 command
- #118, `esc ^` indent-to added.
 - `esc ^` will indent to a char from the above line
 - `esc - esc ^` (negated version) will do it to the below line
- #119, regional indenting

Enhancements:
- #113, refactored options handling
- `esc i` now un-indents
 - you can still input tab chars and regional indent with tabs by
 using `C-q C-i`.
 - regional unindenting still works for tabs or spaces
- #120, you can now use numerical argument inside a keyboard macro
 now.

Bugs:
- #115, fixed issues with column numbers for long lines that wrap
- #114, made bracket matching a lot more efficient.
 - this fixed the bugs with super long lines
- #117, fixed jumpword's labels being off after unicode chars
- #102, dynamic-expand not working for words with recurring chars
 such as fallback when you query by fal
- fixed endless loop when doing a regional single-line comment if
 the point is on the end of the buffer
   2025-05-29 17:42:09 by Kevin Bloom | Files touched by this commit (2) | 👁 Package updated
Log message:
ait: update to 1.12

- many many bug fixes
- added shell command history
- added output shell command to buffer via > prefix
- added default switch-command when one isn't supplied
- added substitute in shell commands
- added ! prefix to disable temp file output to shell, open, and
 switch commands
- added kill ring to msgline
 - switch-command is now accessed via C-c
 - C-u is used to access king ring (C-u C-y)
- better syntax highlighting for supported file types
- improved dynamic-expand
- OpenBSD support added
- improved stability on GNU/Linux
- improved shell/open command abilities
- improved transpose-word undoing
   2025-01-14 19:50:15 by Kevin Bloom | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
exclude termbox-based editors from building on unsupported systems
   2024-12-06 17:31:13 by Kevin Bloom | Files touched by this commit (2) | 👁 Package updated
Log message:
ait: update to 1.10

Upstream changes from 1.9 -> 1.10:
New:
- better syntax highlighting (WIP)
- #97, M-. dynamic-expand

Enhancements:
- #92, made the buffer switching more sane
- #98, copy default value in msgline (M-y in msgline)
- slightly more efficient rendering
- #94 (kinda), you can search for `\t` now

Bugs:
- #98, fixed bug with eol and bol
- #99, multiline comments not encapsulating entire region
- comment multi-line point annoyance
- #101, fixed concatenating delete-words on NetBSD
- many minor bugs

Upstream changes from 1.8 -> 1.9:
New Features:
- #83, undoing/yanking from consecutive fwd-word-delete and
 back-word-delete. See man page for explanation.
- #88, use previous value as default for gotoline, gotocolumn,
 zap-/jump-to-char, and delete-between
- #91, added kill-ring
- New switch buffer command option
 - this allows you to specific a custom command to run when
 switching buffers. For example, if you want to be able to
 perform fuzzy searching to select your buffer you can put
 fzf(1) or pick(1) as the command. More information in the
 page in the commands section on switch buffer command flag.
- "C-x p" for previous-buffer, similar to next-buffer.
 - this removes the legacy "C-x l" command for last-buffer
- Comment out multilines with a single line string

Enhancements:
- #89, fixed "bug" with keyboard macros.
 - you can know use gotoline/column, zap-/jump-to-char,
 delete-between, jumptorow, jumptoword, isearch with kbd
 macros
- #8, tab completion on shell-/open-command
- improved tab completion across the board:
 - buffer tabbing now loops back to the start
 - file tabbing now puts in the / for the directory
 - use enter or type another char to enable tab completion inside
 the directory
- update line number when isearching
- update other windows' modelines if buffer name was updated

Bugs:
- #87, crash when terminal is resized and ait is suspended
- #65, fixed first line disappears again...
- #90, fixed universal argument not clearing
- more undo fixes
- reframe when using query-relace ! takes you off page
- fixed bugs with open-command messing up with colons
- fixed bug with isearch that caused duplciate query chars to not
 get highlighted
- fixed long time bug where if the newlines between matching
 brackets is greater than the difference between the previous
 point's row and the total window row
   2024-05-08 15:48:52 by Kevin Bloom | Files touched by this commit (4)
Log message:
ait: added version 1.8-rc3

ait is small yet mighty GNU Emacs style editor. It is inspired by GNU
Emacs, microEMACS, Plan 9's acme, mle, OpenBSD's mle, and
vi/vim/neovim. ait uses termbox2 giving it great portability across
most unix-like systems. Think of ait as microEMACS but with
traditional Emacs keybindings and some advanced features from the
editors mentioned above.

Some of ait's features are:
- Emacs-like keybindings
- basic window/buffer support
- isearch
- find/replace
- M-x to run shell commands
- M-o to open files with external command
- basic unlimited undo/redo
- keyboard macros
- jump/zap to char
- bracket highlighting
- syntax highlighting for strings and comments
- quick jump to line and word
- UTF-8/Unicode Support


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