CHANGELOG.md

0.7.0 (Mon Apr 17 2023)

New

• Update to the last crystal version (1.8.0).

• Now display REPLy version on -v.

Internal

• Use ameba v1.4.3 and fix lint error.
• REPLy moved inside the compiler itself (in ./share/crystal-ic/lib), it's not required as a shards anymore.

Note: you can use shards prune to remove unused version of REPLy.

0.6.0 (Mon Nov 28 2022)

New

• The history is now saved in <home>/.ic_history.
  • The file location can be controlled with the environment variables IC_HISTORY_FILE. (IC_HISTORY_FILE="" disables history saving)
  • History max size is 10_000. (Can be controlled with IC_HISTORY_SIZE)
• The new following hotkeys have been added: (thanks @zw963!)
  • ctrl-d: Delete char or exit (EOF).
  • ctrl-k: Delete after cursor.
  • ctrl-u: Delete before cursor.
  • alt-backspace/ctrl-backspace: Delete word after
  • alt-d/ctrl-delete: Delete word before.
  • alt-f/ctrl-right: Move word forward.
  • alt-b/ctrl-left: Move word backward.
  • ctrl-n/ctrl-p: Move cursor up/down.
  • ctrl-b/ctrl-f: Move cursor backward/forward.
• Behavior when auto-completing on only one match is slightly enhanced.
• Crystal interpreter version is now 1.6.2.

Bugs fix

• Fix #9: repair require of local files, thanks @lebogan!
• Fix display of auto-completion title on pry.
• Reduce blinking on ws-code (computation are now done before clearing the screen). Disallow sync and flush_on_newline during update which help to reduce blinking too, (#10), thanks @cyangle!
• Align the expression when prompt size change (e.g. line number increase), which avoid a cursor bug in this case.
• Fix wrong history index after submitting an empty entry.
• Fix ioctl window size magic number on darwin and bsd (reply#3), thanks @shinzlet!

Internal

• Extract repl_interface/expression_editor/char_reader/history into a new shard REPLy and use it as dependency.
• Use ameba v1.3.1 and fix lint error.
• Use REPLy v0.3.1.

0.5.1 (Mon Sep 12 2022)

New

• The auto-completion behavior is improved:
  • Now entries are narrowed as the user types.
  • Matching part of the name are now displayed in bright.
• Auto-completion is available on inner of def (Experimental)
  • It takes account of parameter types:

  def foo(a, b : String, c = 0, *args, **options)
    a.| # => Any
    b.| # => String
    c.| # => Int32
    args.| # => Tuple(Any)
    options. | # => NamedTuple()

  • It takes account of scope.
  • A new fictitious type Any is introduced, bypassing the semantics check on Call. (foo(<Any>).bar.baz # => Any)
  • The following is not yet supported:
    • Block parameter
    • Instance var parameter
    • Free vars
    • Class def
    • Def in generic type.
• Auto-completion now works inside a Array.
• Update to the last crystal version (1.5.1).

Bugs fix

• Fix bad unindent on include (unindent still work for in).
• Fix broken auto-completion after .class.
• Fix broken auto-completion after a suffix if.

Internal

• Fix wrong CRYSTAL_PATH in Makefile (preventing to add lib dependency).
• Remove some ameba excludes.

0.5.0 (Fry Jul 15 2022)

New

• Implements auto-completion on Paths (Foo::Bar::)
• Improve error location, now display the correct location corresponding to prompt lines. Allow pry to display top-level frames.
• Add the reset command.
• Implement keyboard interruption on ctrl-c.
• Make interpreter installable via shard (Add postinstall script for shard), thanks @Vici37
• Implements shortcuts home and end to respectively move cursor to begin and end of expression, thanks @Vici37.
• Load crystal stb in background during REPL startup, thanks @Vici37.
• Add a visual mark ('>') on auto-completion entries if --no-color.
• Allow usage of NO_COLOR environment (compliant to https://no-color.org).
• Update to the last crystal version (1.5.0)

Bugs fix

• Don't colorize keyword methods, e.g. 42.class
• Fix crash occurring on require auto-completion if current folder doesn't contain a lib folder.
• Fix wrong auto-indentation on parenthesized call.
• Fix color bug occurring on wrapped line on edge of view scroll.
• Fix bad display when ctrl-c an multiline expression.
• Fix missing bin/ when using make.
• Fix broken make release.
• Fix #3: compile failed on local linux laptop (arch linux), thanks @zw963
• Fix Invalid option: -v, from crystal-lang/crystal#12094.
• Fix already required files to not be removed from auto-completion entries.
• Fix bug auto-completing setter methods.
• Avoid insertion of control characters in editor, causing bad display.
• Prevent auto-completion while prelude is still loading. (Fix bug due to concurrent call)

Other

• Allow comments to be in history.
• Ensure llvm-ext is built before 'make spec'.
• Add 'make install' & 'make uninstall', make IC works independently of its position, also move crystal-i -> share/crystal-ic.
• Remove --static in release mode.
• Better handling if prompt change its size (line_number >= 1000).
• Improve performance when editing large expressions.
• Fix typo on invalid option.

Internal

• Write spec for History/AutoCompletionHandler/CharReader/ExpressionEditor.
• Allow spec to test private methods
• Add some missing private.
• Make CharReader accept IO without raw mode.
• Make ExpressionEditor/ AutoCompletionHandler/ReplInterface/Repl output on any IO.
• Tiny refactor on ReadChar.raw.
• Small refactoring: remove static methods in IC to puts them directly to Repl. (Re)rename main.cr to ic.cr.
• Refactor AutoCompletionHandler.
• Refactor auto-completion (second time), allow it to trigger when editing long multiline expressions.
• Improve 'ExpressionEditor#expression_before_cursor'.
• Move .dup for a more semantically correct behavior.
• Update .ameba.yml
• Re-organize files.
• Compile with -Dpreview_mt flag.

0.4.1 (Sun May 8 2022)

New

• Update to the last crystal version (1.4.1)

• Add option -d to trigger the debugger at starting.

• New auto-completion UI

  • Allow 'tabulation' to roll over completions entries.
  • Enhance the display and avoid remaining boilerplate output.
  • Add 'escape' key to close the auto-completion and 'shift-tab' to unroll entries.
  • Permit auto-completion to work on block arguments and on &.foo.
  • Allow auto-completion to work inside a def (argument names are not taken in account yet) Take also into account the current scope, the auto-completion now proposes 'property'/'getter'.. macros as their belong to the scope of a class.
  • Add macros to auto-completion
  • Implements auto-completion on require node
  • Enable auto-completion in debugger mode

• Change the 'insert new line' shortcut: 'crtl-o' -> 'alt-enter'

Bugs fix

• Fix bug causing pry to not exit
• Fix coloration bug with named tuple keys
• Fix bug with += causing error instead of going multiline
• Fix semantics bug caused by auto-completion
• Fix remaining boilerplate output when displaying auto-completion on multiline input
• Fix auto-completion not to trigger on if/while conditions and on def default values
• Raise syntax error on [1 \n ,2 rather than get stuck in multiline mode
• Allow 'ctrl-tab' to work on tty
• Remove [], []?, []= from operators coloration, so [] of String is colored correctly
• Remove llvm_ext.o causing it to not build on git clone
• Fix bug with pasting expression starting by '#'

Other

• Some little cleaning.
• Update .ameba.yml
• Remove color from prompt for a sober style.
• Remove '`' from auto-completion entries
• Add llvm_ext.o to gitignore
• Give precision about release build
• Fix typo in README
• Add a gif to README
• Add release build mode into makefile
• Add this changelog from commits history

0.3.2 (Sat Jan 22 2022)

Commits

• Update to the last crystal-i version (1.3.2)
• Use ameba 0.14
• Refactor main entry
• Remove out-dated spec
• Update README
• Add more context to the auto-completion to allow more powerful auto-completions in the future.
• Fix infinite loop triggered on 'tab' for expression starting with dot
• Fix bug with auto-indent of methods with a block and proc-literal.
• Add -D/--define option
• Use option parser and add following options:
  • --version
  • --help
  • --no-color
• Move auto_completion code to its own file
• Add shortcuts for step, next, finish and whereami in pry
• Integrate pry!

0.3.0 (Sat Jan 8 2022)

Commits

• Update to the last crystal-i version (1.3.0)
• Update to the last crystal-i version
• Reduce aliasing when displaying very large expressions
• Update highlighter colors
• Enhance display of auto-completions entries
• Experimental: Implement auto-completion (work on basic receiver (\w+.)*, but ignore the context (def vars, class/module context, ...) )
• Add shortcuts move_cursor_to_begin/move_cursor_to_end
• Doing some optimizations to reduce aliasing on very long expression
• Fix bug inserting a character before an "end" wrongly triggering auto-unindent
• Remove unused ic_prelude.cr
• Trigger correct scrolling when moving history up/down
• Trigger scrolling when cursor moves on border
• Now use crystal-i as back-end to interpret crystal. The previous work done to carry out an interpreter is still available on the custom-interpreter branch.

Note

The project change his goal, it not aims to reproduce an interpreter, it aims to provide a nice interface to wrap crystal interpreter

0.2.1 (Fri Nov 12 2021)

Commits

• Fix multiline not trigger on begin\rescue

• Fix highlighting bug with (a+b)/x, previously colored as regex

• Support proper behaviour on pasting code

• Fix some intern documentation misspellings

• Reduce screen aliasing on large expressions

• Fix bug while displaying full expression

• Support displaying expressions higher than term height

• Clean up + improve comments

• Update the multiline behaviour, now always submit on enter unless cursor is on the last line and the expression is unterminated. Add 'ctrl+o' shortcut to insert a new line otherwise.

• Rename REPLInterface module => ReplInterface

• Merge MultilineInput + CrystalMultilineInput classes => ReplInterface

• Implements correctly move_cursor_to_end_of_first_line when move down the history

• Fix to be compatible with crystal-1.2

• Don't discard editing when history is turn up

• Simplify cursor code

• Remove unused callback

• Implements move cursor down

• Enhance intern documentation

• Implements move_cursor_up

• Cleaning using the ameba tool (cyclomatic complexity = 30)

• Remake the interface from scratch, now supports:

  • editing mulitline, 'delete', 'back' end 'enter' can remove/add lines
  • moving cursor left and right
  • lines greater than term width, and resizing the term
  • auto-indent on parenthesizes, bracket, and almost all that need to be indented

  Doesn't supports yet:

  • moving cursor up and down
  • expression higher than term height
  • pasting large expressions

• update gitignore

• Ensure that IC run on 1.1.0

• Remove 'pending' on some already solved spec + minor fix

• Display arrays and ranges

• Remake ICObject to hold compile-time type (instead of runtime type)

  • Implement in a better way boxing/unboxing of unions
  • Implement more correctly Casts
  • Work on dispatch
  • Make pointerof(var_union) works
  • Display '∅' on invalid/uninitialized vars

• format spec

• repair specs by executing the prelude

• clean and split out specs

• Start to implement dispatch defs

• fix bug in error display

• fix bug with assignments

• fix:

  x = 42
  typeof(x) # => Int32
  x = foo
  typeof(x) # => String|Int32

• remove mis-formating

• catch interminated call

• Add a nice feature that replace .foo by __.foo

0.2.0 (Sat Jun 5 2021)

Commits

• Support most of LibC, LibCG methods (not those with callback)
• Fix display bug on 'printf' or 'macro puts'
• support the 'out' keyword
• start implementing LibC fun
• fix error lines on macro errors
• fix bug with vars not cleared correctly between specs
• improve error messages and lines number
• add coloration for &+=, &-=, and &*=
• fix coloration bug with 1/2 and add coloration for operators &-, &+, ...
• Handle closure on receivers
• Handle closure on receivers
• Support procedures with closure! (normal vars)
• start supporting ARGV
• Support ivars initializers!
• fix bug with constants and cleaning
• Support class vars
• add vars
• fix bug: use fullname on Const and Enums
• clean the code by getting ride of ICType (use Crystal::Type instead), and do some other cleaning
• work-around for #1
• remove a remaining 'puts'
• Finish Enums
• fix bug with integer generic var
• fix bug with integer generic var
• implements yield and blocks
• start implementing Enums
• add reset command
• Implements CONST
• Support all primitives in primitives.cr (unless proc_call)
• rename the project ICR -> IC
• add scenario 3
• update README
• Clarify some intern comments
• support CONST, now only the last written expression is parsed
• Add more specs
• Cleaning, and fix bugs with char and symbol comparisons
• add Alias
• add spawn keyword
• Catch more unterminated expressions
• fix bug with GC and memory corruption when union type are used!
• Clean the code, and progress on union and virtual types
• provide an informative README
• Fix bug with lines number inside string
• Support classes, and crystal_type_id,start to works on unions
• make the pointers works!, then add Char, String, Tuple, Symbol, and NamedTuple
• clean the code, simplify the primitive process, and support all integer kind
• Implements ICRObject in a way to support pointers on structs and pointer on classes
• support overload & default arguments on functions, but break _. Try to implements pointers
• improve shell, fix bug with highlighter and supports more ASTNodes
• update gitignore
• improve the command interface!

0.1.0

• ICR is coming!