NEWS.md

History of user-visible changes

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• Completion is not started automatically when a keyboard macro is being recorded (#374).
• New command company-indent-or-complete-common.
• Backend command doc-buffer now can also return a cons of buffer and window start position.
• Backend command ignore-case has been documented.
• company-template-c-like-templatify does not replace the default argument values with argN anymore (#336). This affects company-clang and all third-party backends that use this function.
• Likewise for company-clang-objc-templatify.
• company-template-add-field calling convention has changed.
• New user option company-dabbrev-ignore-invisible.
• company-ropemacs was removed. ropemacs supports completion via completion-at-point-functions starting with version 0.8.
• company-pysmell was removed.
• company-select-next, company-select-previous, company-select-next-or-abort, company-select-previous-or-abort and company-complete-common-or-cycle accept a numeric argument.
• The documentation buffer window can be scrolled with the mouse wheel.
• New command company-diag. Use it in bug reports.

2015-02-02 (0.8.10)

• New variable company-lighter-base.
• Better tracking of the current selection.
• Pressing M-0...M-9 works in the search mode.
• Pressing <up> or <down> doesn't quit the search mode.

2015-01-23 (0.8.9)

• New commands company-next-page and company-previous-page, remapping scroll-up-command and scroll-down-command during completion.

2015-01-13 (0.8.8)

• Pressing M-n or M-p doesn't quit the search mode.
• New command company-complete-common-or-cycle. No default binding.
• company-search-toggle-filtering replaced company-search-kill-others.
• Quitting the search mode resets the filtering.
• Pressing backspace in the search mode deletes the character at the end of the search string.
• company-semantic displays function arguments as annotations.
• New user option, company-bbdb-modes.
• company-show-numbers and company-complete-number now use visual numbering of the candidates, taking into account only the ones currently displayed.
• company-complete-number can be bound to keypad numbers directly, with or without modifiers.
• company-cmake expands <LANG> and <CONFIG> placeholders inside variable names.

2014-10-15 (0.8.6)

• company-clang and company-template-c-like-templatify support templated functions and arguments.
• company-dabbrev ignores "uninteresting" buffers by default. Depends on the new user option, company-dabbrev-ignore-buffers.
• company-files checks directory's last modification time.
• company-files supports relative paths and Windows drive letters.

2014-08-13 (0.8.4)

• company-ropemacs is only used when ropemacs-mode is on.
• company-gtags is enabled in all prog-mode derivatives by default.
• company-end-of-buffer-workaround is not used anymore.
• company-begin-commands includes some of cc-mode commands.

2014-08-27 (0.8.3)

• On Emacs 24.4 or newer, tooltip positioning takes line-spacing into account.
• New face company-tooltip-search, used for the search string in the tooltip.
• The default value of company-dabbrev-minimum-length is set to 4, independent of the company-minimum-prefix-length value.

2014-07-26 (0.8.2)

• New user option company-occurrence-weight-function, allowing to tweak the behavior of the transformer company-sort-by-occurrence.
• Setting company-idle-delay to t is deprecated. Use the value 0 instead.

2014-07-01 (0.8.1)

• company-require-match is not in effect when the new input doesn't continue the previous prefix, and that prefix was a match.
• The meaning of company-begin-commands value t has slightly changed.
• New transformer, company-sort-by-backend-importance.
• When grouped back-ends are used, the back-end of the current candidate is indicated in the mode-line, enclosed in angle brackets.
• New user option company-gtags-insert-arguments, t by default.
• company-css knows about CSS3.
• company-gtags supports meta and annotation.
• User option company-dabbrev-code-other-buffers can have a new value: code.
• New user option company-tooltip-flip-when-above.
• company-clang uses the standard header search paths by default.
• C-h is bound to company-show-doc-buffer (like f1).

2014-04-19 (0.8.0)

• company-capf is included in company-backends in any supported Emacs version (>= 24.1). company-elisp goes before it if Emacs version is < 24.4.
• New user option company-clang-insert-arguments, by default t.
• Default value of company-idle-delay lowered to 0.5.
• New user option company-tooltip-minimum-width, by default 0.
• New function company-grab-symbol-cons.
• company-clang fetches completion candidates asynchronously.
• Added support for asynchronous back-ends (experimental).
• Support for back-end command crop dropped (it was never documented).
• Support for Emacs 23 dropped.
• New user option company-abort-manual-when-too-short.

2014-03-25 (0.7.3)

• New user option company-etags-ignore-case.

2014-03-19 (0.7.2)

• Support for Emacs 22 officially dropped.
• company-clang supports indent-tabs-mode and multibyte chars before point.

2014-03-18 (0.7.1)

• Group of back-ends can now contain keyword :with, which makes all back-ends after it to be skipped for prefix calculation.
• New function company-version.
• New bundled back-end company-yasnippet.
• Completion candidates returned from grouped back-ends are tagged to remember which back-end each came from.
• New user option company-tooltip-align-annotations, off by default.
• New bundled back-end company-bbdb.

2014-02-18 (0.7)

• New back-end command, match, for non-prefix completion.
• New user option company-continue-commands. The default value aborts completion on buffer saving commands.
• New back-end command, annotation, for text displayed inline in the popup that's not a part of completion candidate.
• company-capf, company-clang and company-eclim use annotation.
• company-preview* faces inherit from company-tooltip-selection and company-tooltip-common-selection on light themes.
• New user option company-transformers.
• First transformer, company-sort-by-occurrence.
• New user options controlling company-dabbrev and company-dabbrev-code.

2014-01-25 (0.6.14)

• The tooltip front-end is rendered with scrollbar, controlled by the user option company-tooltip-offset-display.
• The tooltip front-end is rendered with margins, controlled by the user option company-tooltip-margin.

2014-01-14 (0.6.13)

• Experimental support for non-prefix completion.
• Starting with Emacs version 24.4, company-capf is included in company-backends and replaces company-elisp.
• company-capf supports completion tables that return non-default boundaries.
• company-elisp is enabled in inferior-emacs-lisp-mode.

2013-09-28 (0.6.12)

• Default value of company-begin-commands changed to (self-insert-command).
• Futher improvement in org-indent-mode compatibility.

2013-08-18 (0.6.11)

• company-template-c-like-templatify removes all text after closing paren, for use in backends that display additional info there.
• company-cmake is now bundled.
• Better linum compatibility in Emacs <= 24.2.
• company-global-modes: New option.

2013-05-26 (0.6.10)

• Plays nicer with org-indent-mode.
• Works in horizontally scrolled windows.

2013-05-10 (0.6.9)

• company-capf respects :exit-function completion property.
• company-backends: prefix command can return t in the cdr.
• company-clang-begin-after-member-access: New option.
• Mouse click outside the tooltip aborts completion.
• company-clang uses standard input to pass the contents of current buffer to Clang 2.9+, otherwise saves the buffer and passes the path to the file.
• company-clang-auto-save option has been removed.
• Better interaction with outline-minor-mode.
• company-dabbrev-code supports all prog-mode derivatives.

2013-04-16 (0.6.8)

• company-auto-complete is disabled by default.
• company-auto-complete-chars default value includes fewer syntax classes.
• In expanded function calls, arguments skipped by the user default to "argN".
• company-eclim and company-clang do not strip argument types from fields.
• company-clang expands function calls for all three modes now.
• company-clang supports c++-mode by default.

2013-04-05 (0.6.7)

• Two company-elisp tweaks.

2013-04-01 (0.6.6)

• company-elisp doesn't offer completions when typing the name and the arguments of a new function or macro definition, allowing to fall back to other back-ends like company-dabbrev-code.

2013-03-30 (0.6.5)

• Fixed keybindings when running in a terminal.
• company-elisp-show-locals-first: new customizable variable.
• company-elisp shows more accurate and comprehensive candidates list.

2013-03-26 (0.6.4)

• company-eclim shows valid completions after an opening paren.
• Expanded template does not get removed until the point leaves it. After your input the last argument in a method call expanded by company-eclim, you can press <tab> once more, to jump after the closing paren. No other bundled back-ends are affected.

2013-03-25 (0.6.3)

• New tooltip face colors used on themes with light background.
• Pseudo-tooltip stays up-to-date when text is inserted after the point.
• Fixed company-require-match mechanics.

2013-03-24 (0.6.2)

• global-company-mode is now autoloaded.

2013-03-23 (0.6.1)

• Documented init and post-completion back-end commands.
• company-eclim and company-clang only expand the template on explicit user action (such as company-complete-{selection,number,mouse}).
• company-template has some breaking changes. When point is at one of the fields, it's displayed at the beginning, not right after it; <tab> jumps to the next field, forward-word and subword-forward remappings are removed; when you jump to the next field, if the current one hasn't been edited, the overlay gets removed but the text remains.
• company-eclim shows method overloads and expands templates for calls.
• company-clang-objc-templatify does not insert spaces after colons anymore.
• company-clang is now only initialized in supported buffers. So, no error messages if you don't have Clang until you open a C file.
• company-clang recognizes Clang included in recent Xcode.
• New commands company-select-previous-or-abort and company-select-next-or-abort, bound to <up> and <down>.

2013-03-19 (0.6)

• Across-the-board bugfixing.
• company-pysmell is not used by default anymore.
• Loading of nxml, semantic, pymacs and ropemacs is now deferred.
• Candidates from grouped back-ends are merged more conservatively: only back-ends that return the same prefix at point are used.
• company-clang now shows meta information, too.
• Some performance improvements.
• Fixed two old tooltip annoyances.
• Instead of overrriding-terminal-local-map, we're now using emulation-mode-map-alists (experimental). This largely means that when the completion keymap is active, other minor modes' keymaps are still used, so, for example, it's not as easy to accidentally circumvent paredit-mode when it's enabled.
• company-elisp has seen some improvements.
• Added company-capf: completion adapter using completion-at-point-functions. (Stefan Monnier)
• Clang completions now include macros and are case-sensitive.
• Switching between tag files now works correctly with company-etags.

2010-02-24 (0.5)

• company-ropemacs now provides location and docs. (Fernando H. Silva)
• Added company-with-candidate-inserted macro.
• Added company-clang back-end.
• Added new mechanism for non-consecutive insertion. (So far only used by clang for ObjC.)
• The semantic back-end now shows meta information for local symbols.
• Added compatibility for CEDET in Emacs 23.2 and from CVS. (Oleg Andreev)

2009-05-07 (0.4.3)

• Added company-other-backend.
• Idle completion no longer interrupts multi-key command input.
• Added company-ropemacs and company-pysmell back-ends.

2009-04-25 (0.4.2)

• In C modes . and -> now count towards company-minimum-prefix-length.
• Reverted default front-end back to company-preview-if-just-one-frontend.
• The pseudo tooltip will no longer be clipped at the right window edge.
• Added company-tooltip-minimum.
• Windows compatibility fixes.

2009-04-19 (0.4.1)

• Added global-company-mode.
• Performance enhancements.
• Added company-eclim back-end.
• Added safer workaround for Emacs posn-col-row bug.

2009-04-18 (0.4)

• Automatic completion is now aborted if the prefix gets too short.
• Added option company-dabbrev-time-limit.
• company-backends now supports merging back-ends.
• Added back-end company-dabbrev-code for generic code.
• Fixed company-begin-with.

2009-04-15 (0.3.1)

• Added 'stop prefix to prevent dabbrev from completing inside of symbols.
• Fixed issues with tabbar-mode and line-spacing.
• Performance enhancements.

2009-04-12 (0.3)

• Added company-begin-commands option.
• Added abbrev, tempo and Xcode back-ends.
• Back-ends are now interactive. You can start them with M-x backend-name.
• Added company-begin-with for starting company from elisp-code.
• Added hooks.
• Added company-require-match and company-auto-complete options.

2009-04-05 (0.2.1)

• Improved Emacs Lisp back-end behavior for local variables.
• Added company-elisp-detect-function-context option.
• The mouse can now be used for selection.

2009-03-22 (0.2)

• Added company-show-location.
• Added etags back-end.
• Added work-around for end-of-buffer bug.
• Added company-filter-candidates.
• More local Lisp variables are now included in the candidates.

2009-03-21 (0.1.5)

• Fixed elisp documentation buffer always showing the same doc.
• Added company-echo-strip-common-frontend.
• Added company-show-numbers option and M-0 ... M-9 default bindings.
• Don't hide the echo message if it isn't shown.

2009-03-20 (0.1)

• Initial release.