Devlog 2026

February 13, 2026

Release 0.7.0 🎉

We kick off the new Year with a major release!

Completion

Flow now has full inline auto completion support! There is a new dropdown UI with support for insert and replace completion styles while editing inline. An info popup box can display completion and hover documentation and there are commands to toggle modes and styles interactively.

There are three completion trigger modes available:

• manual - completion is triggered via keybind to the completion command
• automatic - completion is triggered whenever a trigger character is inserted
• every_keystroke - completion is triggered on every insert operation

Trigger characters are provided by the current document’s LSP. Note that a completion request may not always return results and in that case no completion UI will be shown. Completion items that insert LSP snippets are now supported and the next snippet tab stop can be selected with the tab key. There are two keybind modes for inline completion. standard mode will steal the up/down and enter keys from the main editor and noninvasive mode that will not. noninvasive mode requires that you use the alternate keybindings ctrl+n/ctrl+p to pick a completion item and tab to select it. These keybindings also work in standard mode.

The original palette style completion UI is also still available and may be selected with the toggle_completion_style command.

Keybinds:

• ctrl+space or ctrl+. - manually trigger completion
• ctrl+space (when completing) - toggle info box, info panel or no info
• up, down, ctrl+p, ctrl+n - pick a completion item from the list
• enter, tab - select and insert a completion
• esc - cancel completion
• ctrl+k r - toggle insert or replace completion mode
• alt+f9 - select next completion dropdown UI widget style
• shift+alt+f9 - select next info box widget style

Configuration options:

• completion_trigger
• completion_style
• completion_insert_mode
• completion_info_mode
• dropdown_keybinds - standard or noninvasive
• dropdown_limit

Vertical Splits

Flow Control can now show multple editors in vertical, side by side, views. Each split can have it’s own tab bar and tabs may be moved between splits with mouse or keyboard commands. Commands or palettes that navigate to files now have an “alternate” mode that will open the file in a new split if it is not already open.

Keybinds:

• ctrl+\ - add_split
• ctrl+k w - close_split
• ctrl+1 to ctrl+8 - focus_split
• ctrl+page_down - select tab right
• ctrl+page_up - select tab left
• ctrl+shift+page_down - move tab right
• ctrl+shift+page_up - move tab left
• shift+enter - (palette or command) navigate to file in a new split

Centered View

When only one split is open on a wide screen you can now center the view. The width of the centered view is controllable with keybinds and/or the centered_view_width configuration option.

Keybinds:

• ctrl+k x - toggle centered view
• alt+- - shrink centered view
• alt+= - expand centered view

Horizontal scrolling

Horizontal scrolling with a horizontal mouse wheel is now supported. Also, scrolling the regular vertical mouse wheel with the shift key pressed will now scroll horizontally. Fast scroll (hold the ‘alt’ key) is also supported for horizontal scrolling.

Git Diffs

Diff markers in the editor gutter are now based on the git HEAD commit if the current project is a git repository. Also, the new commands goto_next_change and goto_prev_change will move the primary cursor to the next/previous marker in the gutter.

Keybinds:

• alt+f5 - goto_next_change
• alt+shift+f5 - goto_prev_change

Blame

Git blame information for the current line is displayed in the remaining on the line. This can be toggled with the toggle_inline_vcs_blame command.

Keybinds:

• ctrl+shift+g alt+b - toggle_inline_vcs_blame

Variable Expansions

Tasks and filter bindings may now use variable expansions in their arguments. Variable names to be expanded should be wrapped in {{ and }}.

The following variables are available in this release:

• {{project}} - The path to the current project directory
• {{file}} - The path to the current file
• {{line}} - The line number of the primary cursor
• {{column}} - The column of the primary cursor
• {{selection}} - The current selection of the primary cursor
• {{selections}} - All current selections seperated by NL characters
• {{selectionsZ}} - All current selections separated by NULL characters
• {{indent_mode}} - The current indent mode (tabs or spaces)
• {{indent_size}} - The current indent size (in columns)
• {{blame_commit}} - The blame commit ID for the line at the primary cursor (if there is one)

Highlight References

Added support for the LSP textDocument/documentHighlight request as the highlight_references command. Flow will automatically mark the results of this query as matches so you can use the the goto_next_match and goto_prev_match commands to navigate them. highlight_references is also available as an idle action for automatic reference highlighting (See the Idle Actions secion below)

Keybinds:

• ctrl+k i

Auto Run Commands, Auto Backups & Session Saving

auto_run_commands and auto_run_time_seconds can be used to configure commands that will run automatically like a cron job. save_session and save_session_quiet commands were also added to make auto run useful as a backup tool.

The default configuration for auto_run_commands is save_session_quiet and the default for auto_run_time_seconds is 120, so in the (rare!) event of a flow crash you can return to flow with minimal data loss with flow --restart-session.

The save_session_and_quit command was also added for when you want to manuall exit and restart flow with flow --restart-session.

Idle Actions & Commands

Idle actions & commands run whenever the user pauses their interaction with flow. Actions are specific functions designed to run on idle. At the moment just hover and highlight_references. These actions have commands to toggle them interactively. The idle timeout is configured with the input_idle_time_ms option.

Find Mode

There are now three find modes. Exact match, case folded (insensitive) and auto mode. Auto mode (the new default) selects to do an exact match search or case folded search depending on whether the query term contains case foldable characters or not. So if you enter a lowercase search term you get a case insensitive search. Also, auto find mode (which searches as soon as you select something) now has a command (and a keybind) to toggle it on/off.

Keybinds:

• alt+c (in find mode) - toggle exact or case folded search mode
• alt+f3 - toggle auto find mode

Key Hints

There is a new key hints overlay that displays all currently available keybindings. It can be explicitly activated with alt+f1 or ctrl+?, and will be automatically displayed when an incomplete keybinding sequence is waiting for additional input. The key hints overlay is invisible to mouse events and can be active in any flow input mode or submode.

Keybinds:

• alt+f1 or ctrl+? - show/hide the key hints overlay
• shift+f1 or ctrl+alt+? - next key hints page
• shift+alt+f9 - next widget style for key hints

Restart with Sudo

You can now restart the flow session with sudo to save files with root permissions. The current session, with unsaved file content (but currently not undo info), is first saved and then automatically restored when flow is restarted by sudo. If the sudo command fails for any reason the saved flow session can be reloaded as usual with flow --restart-session. Flow now displays a red lock symbol in the status bar and a (configurable) warning message on the home screen when running with root permissions.

Symlinks

Flow can now follow symlinks when writing files and scanning the project tree. New options retain_symlinks, follow_directory_symlinks and maximum_symlink_depth control symlink behavior. Symlink following on file save (retain_symlinks) is now enabled by default. follow_directory_symlinks when scanning the project tree is not enabled by default.

Symbols Palette

Added support for the LSP textDocument/documentSymbol request with a palette interface to browse and filter symbols in the current document.

Keybinds:

• ctrl+shift+o - open the symbols palette
• enter - jump to the highlighted symbol
• shift+enter - select the highlighted symbol
• up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end - browse the symbols list
• anything else - filter the symbols list with a fuzzy search
• esc - cancel and return to original document location

Project switching

Switching projects without exiting Flow Control (ctrl+r) now restores open tabs and splits making for a much smoother multi-project workflow.

Last Palette

You can now re-open the last used palette with the last_palette command. This restores the state of the palette when last used, which is very useful, for example, for browsing through multiple files that match a fuzzy query.

Keybinds:

• ctrl+, - open lasted used palette
• [helix] space ' - open lasted used palette

Goto Matching Bracket

Added the classic goto matching bracket command.

Keybinds:

• flow - ctrl+shift+\
• emacs - C-M-p C-M-n
• vim - %
• helix - mm

Reflow text

The reflow command can soft wrap paragraphs of text. There is basic detection of the line prefix to aid in reflowing indented or commented blocks of text. Blank lines are preserved as paragraph boundaries. The default line width for reflow is configured with the reflow_width config option and can also be specified for the current, and any following, reflow operation with an integer command parameter. (alt+1, etc.)

Keybinds:

• alt+q - reflow paragraph

LSP Configuration

The open_lsp_config_global and open_lsp_config_project will open a json file where you can add LSP configuration that is sent to the LSP on startup via the LSP initializationOptions init request field. Project and global configurations are not merged in anyway and project config overrides global config entirely. The project (and global) LSP configuration is stored in the flow configuration directory, even for project specific config.

Language support changes

• Set default lua formatter to stylua
• Set ty as default lsp for python
• Update ziggy and superhtml

Helix mode

• Added switch_to_lowercase
• Add cursors with selections for selected lines (Alt+s)
• maw and maW support
• miw and miW support

Themes

• Changed the default theme to the more modern ayu-mirage
• Added selenized theme
• Added ethereal theme

Misc minor features and new commands

• add gutter_width_mode and gutter_width_minimum/maximum config options
• add more modes to linenumstate status bar widget
• add uuidgen keybind
• add option to disable sgr pixel mode support
• add show_bottom_bar_grip config option
• make expand_selection and shrink_selection multicursor aware
• add option to align inline diagnostics to the left
• add toggle_command_logging command
• add select_to_line_vim command
• make goto in flow select mode select to line
• map kp_ movement keys as regular keys if the kp_ variants are not explicitly mapped
• add panel border to logview
• subscribe to keybind_match events in inputview and display them
• add ignore_filter_stderr config option
• add config option keybind_mode with workaround ignore_alt_text_modifiers
• add show_local_diagnostics_in_panel config option
• add whitespace_mode external
• add modes_can_change_cursor configuration option
• add results count to generic palette
• add results count to open_recent palette
• add scrollbar_auto_hide config option
• add pane_style config option
• add option to disable modal dim effect
• add switch_input_mode command to change keybind mode in a mini mode
• add value type descriptions to config files
• enable indent whitespace_mode by default
• bind open_config to alt+f5
• add FLOW_CONFIG_DIR env var to override configuration directory
• propagate indent guides across blank lines
• add path segment completion to open_recent palette

Contributors

Many, many thanks to all who contributed to this release!

• CJ van den Berg
• Igor Támara
• Miguel Granero
• Danylo Kondratiev
• Jakob Ingvast
• Palanix
• Ian Johnson
• Janne Hellsten
• xdBronch