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github.com/aretext/aretext

v1.7.0aretext/aretext ↗

Last release 2 months ago
22 Jun 2026
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5 years old
148 releases · first in 2021

Release timeline

148 releases since 2021

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20212026

Releases

v1.7.1-0.20260622150753-9420d6fdfbf122 Jun 2026pre-release
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v1.7.06 Jun 2026
Release notes
Summary
- Add support for system clipboard.
- Add TypeScript syntax language.
- Add Dockerfile syntax language
- Remove deprecated HideDirectories config.
- Defer syntax parser loading to reduce startup time.
- Parse YAML unquoted keys with colons.
Upgrade Notes

TypeScript and Dockerfile Syntax Highlighting

To enable TypeScript and Dockerfile syntax highlighting, add these lines to your config.
```
- name: dockerfile
  pattern: "**/*Dockerfile*"
  config:
    syntaxLanguage: dockerfile
    tabExpand: true
    autoIndent: true
    tabSize: 4
    showLineNumbers: true
- name: typescript
  pattern: "**/*.ts"
  config:
    autoIndent: true
    syntaxLanguage: typescript
    tabExpand: true
    tabSize: 2
    showLineNumbers: true
```
Update deprecated HideDirectories config

If your config has hideDirectories, change it to hidePatterns.

Enable system clipboard support

See the documentation for instructions to enable the system clipboard integration on your platform.
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v1.6.3-0.20260420140848-b32d922f4f1820 Apr 2026pre-release
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v1.6.3-0.20260413220110-132353bc1f8d13 Apr 2026pre-release
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v1.6.3-0.20260131155908-73a5461a182031 Jan 2026pre-release
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v1.6.231 Jan 2026
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Summary

Fix a bug where bracketed paste with non-ASCII Unicode could trigger an infinite loop.
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v1.6.2-0.20260111160906-1eb5e56c871b11 Jan 2026pre-release
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v1.6.111 Jan 2026
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Summary

Fix performance regression from 1.6.0 that could affect long lines with syntax highlighting.
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v1.6.1-0.20260103183141-594d16fe7c0e3 Jan 2026pre-release
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v1.6.03 Jan 2026
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Summary
- Add normal mode key binding for user macro replay
- Fix incorrect grapheme cluster breaking in buffer display
- Display space with combining mark modifier
- Add option to escape non-ASCII unicode
- Reproducible builds for release tarballs
- Remove linux/386, darwin/amd64, and GPG checksum from release artifacts.
- Remove test-only dependencies from release binaries.
Upgrade Notes

There is a new config option showUnicode to display non-ASCII Unicode codepoints.
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v1.5.1-0.20251013151438-02a88a7c251b13 Oct 2025pre-release
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v1.5.1-0.20250419201905-46b3341a0cb019 Apr 2025pre-release
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v1.5.019 Apr 2025
Release notes
Summary
- Add SQL syntax
- Fix next word (w) behavior at end-of-file
Upgrade Notes

Add this rule to your configuration (aretext -editconfig) to enable syntax highlighting for SQL:
```
- name: sql
  pattern: "**/*.sql"
  config:
    autoIndent: true
    syntaxLanguage: sql
    tabExpand: true
    tabSize: 4
    showLineNumbers: true
```
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v1.4.030 Nov 2024
Release notes
Summary
- Saving to a symlink now updates the link target instead of overwriting the link.
- Saving to a hardlink now preserves the link.
- Add new config option hidePatterns to exclude file patterns from the search menu.
- Deprecate the config option hideDirectories in favor of hidePatterns.
Upgrade Notes

The hideDirectories config option has been deprecated in favor of hidePatterns. To migrate to the new config:
1. aretext -editconfig
2. Replace all hideDirectories with hidePatterns
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v1.3.1-0.20241128032439-2499c78b0bef28 Nov 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20241125145031-3993974e657425 Nov 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20241112210716-64b9578c2ee012 Nov 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20241111130200-5c08222c060811 Nov 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20241007131827-5899b7d2deed7 Oct 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20240909144212-7d0710c7dfd79 Sept 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20240812130358-c232d8c7a9fc12 Aug 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20240729130650-d7a9fcc3e49a29 Jul 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20240610132011-af8971910c7a10 Jun 2024pre-release
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v1.3.1-0.20240506140235-ec81d29db1826 May 2024pre-release
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v1.3.023 Mar 2024
Release notes
Summary
- Add menu command to create a new document
- Add menu command to move or rename document
- Implement syntax highlighting for p4
- Do not include hyphens in bash variable tokens
- Add "+=" operator to bash syntax parser
- Skip markdown setext heading for single hyphen
Upgrade Notes

Add this rule to your configuration (aretext -editconfig) to enable syntax highlighting for p4
```
- name: p4
  pattern: "**/*.p4"
  config:
    syntaxLanguage: p4
```
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v1.2.1-0.20240304152227-56eece13d6d54 Mar 2024pre-release
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v1.2.1-0.20240219140121-a79c9528514519 Feb 2024pre-release
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v1.2.1-0.20240212135127-966ea2ebedbc12 Feb 2024pre-release
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v1.2.1-0.20240208141426-64d6a64458528 Feb 2024pre-release
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v1.2.1-0.20231228135645-06f072b43f1b28 Dec 2023pre-release
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v1.2.026 Oct 2023
Release notes
Summary
- Add syntax highlighting for makefiles
- Support delete key commands in input, normal, and visual mode
- More accurate parsing of XML tags (reject tags with space between '<' and the tag name)
- Match vim behavior for change-inner-block in single-line blocks (no longer insert newlines)
- Fix insertion of Unicode larger than 16 bits
- Fix incorrect syntax parsing of Rust hex literals
- Use -trimpath to build release binaries
- Performance optimizations for input command parsing
Upgrade Notes

Add this rule to your configuration (aretext -editconfig) to enable syntax highlighting for Makefiles:
```
- name: makefile
  pattern: "**/Makefile*"
  config:
    autoIndent: true
    syntaxLanguage: makefile
    tabExpand: false
    tabSize: 4
    showLineNumbers: true
```
Open source →
v1.1.016 Jul 2023
Release notes
Summary
- Support Unicode 15
- Complete implemention of line break rule LB30b
- Show original cursor position during text search.
- Forward text search skip match on cursor to be consistent with vim.
- Implement yt, yT, yf, and yF commands
- Implement d/ and d? commands to delete to a search match.
- Implement y/ and y? commands to copy up to a search match.
- Add configuration option lineNumberMode to support displaying relative line numbers.
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v1.0.1-0.20230410132748-5fcd02003a9f10 Apr 2023pre-release
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v1.0.08 Apr 2023
Release notes
Summary

Release announcement blog post: https://dev-nonsense.com/posts/aretext-1.0-release/
- Support "W"/"E"/"B" cursor movements
- Implement dW and yW commands
- Preserve search query and direction on reload
- Added two cursor commands: (move right, same as 'l'), (next line, first non-space character)
- Implement delete and change inner paren block commands (dib/cib)
- Implement a paren block commands
- Implement visual mode inner paren block, inner word, and select a word commands.
- Implement angle bracket code block commands
- Implement quoted string object commands
- Allow % command to match angle brackets
- Implement text search history
- Support bracketed paste
- Alias :x to save and quit menu
- Lower bonus for aligning at start or after separator in fuzzy search ranking
- Lower penalty for skipping characters in fuzzy search ranking
- Restore cursor position after undo/redo
- Implement bash syntax highlighting
- Implement xml syntax highlighting
- Use env var $ARETEXT_SHELL to set a shell specifically for aretext
- Fix gotemplate parsing of field names as keywords
- Fix performance issue in C parser on files with lots of whitespace.
- Remove archived dependencies github.com/google/shlex and github.com/pkg/errors
Upgrade Notes

Add these rules to your configuration (aretext -editconfig) to enable syntax highlighting for bash, xml, and html:
```
- name: shell
  pattern: "**/*.sh"
  config:
    autoIndent: true
    syntaxLanguage: bash
    tabExpand: true
    tabSize: 4
    showLineNumbers: true

- name: xml
  pattern: "**/*.xml"
  config: &xmlconfig
    autoIndent: true
    syntaxLanguage: xml
    tabExpand: true
    tabSize: 2
    showLineNumbers: true

- name: html
  pattern: "**/*.html"
  config: *xmlconfig
```
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v0.7.2-0.20230208035456-5d64fe16c5b38 Feb 2023pre-release
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v0.7.18 Feb 2023
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v0.7.1-0.20221111235525-90c372b61c7911 Nov 2022pre-release
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v0.7.031 Oct 2022
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v0.6.2-0.20220803020024-355bedac07083 Aug 2022pre-release
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v0.6.13 Aug 2022
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v0.6.030 Jul 2022
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v0.5.1-0.20220510134833-62dc9d92af5e10 May 2022pre-release
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v0.5.1-0.20220508181751-82550b501ca18 May 2022pre-release
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v0.5.08 May 2022
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v0.4.1-0.20220504135646-ac4aceb919e44 May 2022pre-release
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v0.4.1-0.20220504023404-83d0d87f0b454 May 2022pre-release
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v0.4.1-0.20220503144640-58e6b3c662d63 May 2022pre-release
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v0.4.1-0.20220503133134-080a026d9deb3 May 2022pre-release
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v0.4.1-0.20220316142322-9dceac58a72c16 Mar 2022pre-release
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v0.4.1-0.20220122180508-09174740cc5522 Jan 2022pre-release
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v0.4.022 Jan 2022
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v0.3.019 Nov 2021
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v0.2.119 Sept 2021
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v0.2.1-0.20211120064019-54d15d953a7420 Nov 2021pre-release
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v0.2.1-0.20211031211015-4f4c207e7f2431 Oct 2021pre-release
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v0.2.021 Aug 2021
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v0.1.1-0.20210725171231-7ce43225ea7f25 Jul 2021pre-release
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v0.1.1-0.20210619145255-c369b75ce18e19 Jun 2021pre-release
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v0.1.1-0.20210617142623-a90bfeb6443e17 Jun 2021pre-release
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v0.1.1-0.20210615032006-9fa3ee632e1d15 Jun 2021pre-release
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github.com/aretext/aretext

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TypeScript and Dockerfile Syntax Highlighting

Update deprecated HideDirectories config

Enable system clipboard support

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