NEWS.md

History of user-visible changes

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• company-files has been moved to right after company-capf in company-backends (#463).
• company-semantic-insert-arguments: New option. Like in company-clang.
• company-semantic-begin-after-member-access: New option. Similar to the one in company-clang.
• company-capf accepts :company-prefix-length property value.
• New face company-tooltip-annotation-selection, used for the annotation in the selected tooltip line.
• company-clang-objc-templatify has been renamed to company-template-objc-templatify.
• When duplicates are removed, completions without annotations are also removed in favor of completions with equal names that have annotations (experimental change) (#432).
• New user option company-etags-everywhere.
• company-yasnippet supports yas-key-syntaxes better. But we use them in the reverse order, preferring the longest key prefix that matches anything. And we only consider trigger key prefixes that are at least as long as the symbol at point, which effectively means skipping the "w" element (#422).
• New user option company-search-regexp-function.
• 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.