Neovide Files

What's Changed

This release adds two major things 1. You can now enable box drawing to be done by Neovide instead of by the fonts. This eliminates gaps between characters. The feature is still experimental, and needs to be enabled separately, see https://neovide.dev/config-file.html?highlight=box#box-drawing 2. The default cursor animation has been changed to feel more responsive. The front of the cursor now moves to the destination immediately, while the trail is animating. Many of the cursor effects have also been fixed. Furthermore, Neovide now supports multiple effects at the same time. Finally, the defaults for some of the effects have been changed.

To restore the feel of older Neovide versions, you can start by lowering neovide_cursor_trail_size (https://neovide.dev/configuration.html?highlight=trail#animation-trail-size) to 0.7 and then adjust that and https://neovide.dev/configuration.html?highlight=trail#animation-length to your liking.

We are also looking for feedback on theese new settings, so don't forget to share you favourite defaults here https://github.com/neovide/neovide/discussions/3077!

Breaking changes

• feat!: rename and deprecate neovide_transparency to neovide_opacity by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3024
• chore!: upgrade the Ubuntu runners to 22.04 by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3037
• This drops support for running the Neovide Appimage or binaries on older distributions.
• feat!: low latency cursor animation by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3054
• feat!: more configurable cursor animation by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3061
• This changes the default cursor animation, but it can be changed, see the main description.
• fix!: simplify and fix the launching of Neovim by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3045
• This bug will be present again https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/2060, but remain closed as won't fix due to the complexity of supporting it properly. The workaround is a wrapper shell script.
• fix!: The unit of neovide_cursor_vfx_particle_density is now particles per line by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3062

Bug fixes

• fix!: simplify and fix the launching of Neovim by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3045
• This fixes a lot of macOS startup issues, and also some WSL ones
• fix: Update swash to fix issues with some fonts by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3025
• fix: particle vfx not being emitted for short travels by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3052
• fix: point highlight cursor effects are properly emitted and animated by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3053
• fix: allow blinking when blinkwait is 0 by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3055
• fix: the z-index of message windows by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3063
• fix: don't draw shadows for the cmdline window unless it's scrolled and displaying a message by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3064
• fix: file drop with open in tabs set to false by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3074

New Features

• feat: native rendering for box drawing chars by @entombedvirus in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3033
• feat!: low latency cursor animation by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3054
• feat!: more configurable cursor animation by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3061
• This also makes it possible to lower the neovide_scroll_animation_length setting
• feat: background blur for Windows by @AntonDankov in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3021
• feat(env): add NEOVIDE_CONFIG env var by @amadaluzia in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3010
• feat(linux): Support xdg activation by @bbb651 in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3051
• feat: enabled remapping of Command+Q on macOS by @austinlongmn in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3048
• feat: make it possible to disable the cursor hack by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3035
• feat: Use multiple cursor_vfx at the same time by @zooeywm in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3009

Other Changes

• chore: fix nightly clippy warnings by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3041
• Revisit Fedora installation.md notes. by @simi in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3044
• chore: Use nvim_exec2 instead of deprecated nvim_exec by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3076
• chore: Release 0.15.0 by @fredizzimo in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3075

New Contributors

• @AntonDankov made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3021
• @simi made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3044
• @amadaluzia made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3010
• @bbb651 made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3051
• @austinlongmn made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3048
• @entombedvirus made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3033
• @zooeywm made their first contribution in https://github.com/neovide/neovide/pull/3009

Full Changelog: https://github.com/neovide/neovide/compare/0.14.1...0.15.0