A few questions on X removal

[m-kru]

A few questions on X removal

[Screwtapello]

See #4661, and the commit message for ef8a11b.

In short, x (and therefore X) had complex stateful behaviour that was very convenient for humans but difficult to use in scripts. Now x always extends the beginning of each selection to the beginning of the line, and the end of each selection to the end of the line, rather than sometimes doing that and sometimes selecting the next line instead.

Since X currently has no function, you can map it to xJ for something similar to the previous behaviour (but more predictable).

[arrufat]

@m-kru Check this out: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/pages/changelog.asciidoc#kakoune-20221031

[m-kru]

Is there any Changelog for Keys? There were more changes that completely destroyed my workflow. I feel like I do not how to edit documents anymore. For example, <space> does not reduce to single selection anymore. My following custom mappings for pasting from xsel stopped working and I have no idea why.

map global user p '<a-!> xsel --output --clipboard <ret>' -docstring 'System Clipboard - Paste After'
map global user P '!xsel --output --clipboard<ret>' -docstring 'System Clipboard - Paste Before'

[krobelus]

Is there any Changelog for Keys?

clippy should show the changelog on startup. Equivalently, use :doc changelog

[m-kru]

@krobelus clippy presents overall changelog, and I am interested only in the "Keys Changelog".

[krobelus]

makes sense. Grepping for < filters it down to

* <a-u> and <a-u> now undo/redo selection changes; the previous meaning of moving in history tree has been moved to <c-j> and <c-k>
* <c-g> cancels the current operation and goes back to the main event loop, this provides an escape hatch when kakoune seems to hang due to a costly operation
* p, p, ! and <a-!> commands now select the inserted text
* x now just extends the selection to contain full lines (as <a-x> did) <a-x> trims partial lines from the selection (as <a-x> did)
* user mappings is now bound to <space> while keeping/removing main selection moved to , and <a-,>

I think if you want the old paste behavior back you could add <semicolon>. But the new behavior seems better