Smooth-scrolling

smooth-scrolling is now installed and enabled by default.
To disable it set the variable dotspacemacs-smooth-scrolling of your ~/.spacemacs to nil.
Related documentation here.

Missing fix for #115

Missing fix for issue #115 in previous release

Better startup experience, "J" works like in Vim, fixes

Better startup experience

• This release optimizes the startup of spacemacs regarding the UI elements configuration and the display of the default theme (solarized-light). The startup should feel smoother with no flickering or flashing effect.
• This improvements may reduce the overall boot time of spacemacs.

Fixes

• J normal state command behaves like Vim J (thanks to bonega and danielwuz)
• Fix <SPC> f e d to open the spacemacs dotfile (thanks to capdevc)
• org-agenda-files can be defined in spacemacs dotfile (thanks to herbertjones)

Leader on "jk" experimental feature, ido and coffeescript improvements and fixes

New experimental feature

• Leader can be triggered by pressing "jk" quickly in insert state, helm buffers and ido buffers. See documentation in readme.

Improvements and fixes

• New very cool functions available in ido minibuffer to open a buffer in a new window or frame as well as to browse the ido history, see documentation in readme (thanks to ralesi).
• < and > now correctly indent coffeescript code (thanks to danielwuz).

New Python language contrib, various fixes

New contribution layer

• python is now a contrib which can be found in contrib/lang/python. To use it you have to add python to your dotspacemacs-packages variable in your ~/.spacemacs.
  • anaconda-mode is now used for code navigation, documentation lookup and completion
  • ac-anaconda back end for auto-complete

Thanks to danielwuz!

New key binding

• <SPC> f e d opens your ~/.spacemacs dotfile (thanks to ralesi)

Fixes

• Fix emacs and emacs-debug-init functions on Windows (thanks to ralesi)
• Fix a remaining bug in automatic orphan packages deletion algorithm

Documentation updates and Helm tweak

• remove helm-quick-update to improve helm feedbacks (thanks to tuhdo)
• various documentation fixes

Fix annoyance with highlights faces

This release is focused on text highlighting:

• Fixes #107 : Bad Interaction Between Highlighting Line and Match Highlighting
• Improves faces and colors for evil-search-highlight-persist and hl-anything

Readme:

• Fixes quick install command line with an absolute path (thanks to whatyouhide)

Various:

• Get rid of solarized theme submodule, replaced it with a regular directory
• .cache directory is now ignored in the .projectile file

Contrib System new features, ESS contrib layer, Various fixes

Contribution System new features

• support for contrib categories (sub-directories of layers in contrib directory)
• support for additive configuration, if package P is declared in layers L1 then L2, the configuration of both layers for P will be evaluated in the following order L1 then L2. Moreover L1 and L2 can both use use-package with the appropriate properties.
• support for package exclusion on a per contribution layer basis with the optional variable L-excluded-packages where L is a layer name.
• orphan package deletion is now working as expected (ie. it has been fixed :-))

New contribution layer

• in the lang category, ESS packages were moved from spacemacs layer to its own contrib layer.

Fixes

• ruby-end now correctly works in ruby-mode ! (thanks to trishume)
• fix diminished lighter of smartparens
• fix fancy narrow mode (#103)

evil-escape, evil-jumper, evil-args, hl-anything, fancy-narrow, comments key binding prefix, various fixes

New packages:

• evil-escape-mode which implements all the fd escape stuff, uses key-chord as back-end (thanks to ralesi for the suggestion)
• evil-jumper (thanks to ralesi)
• evil-args (thanks to danielwuz)
• hl-anything, see readme here
• fancy-narrow (thanks to ralesi)

New contribs:

• company-mode contrib! (thanks to trishume)

Changes:

• evil-nerd-commenter bindings are now on the prefix <SPC> c instead of <SPC> n c, moreover the comment operator bindings is <SPC> ;. See readme here
• <SPC> <SPC> is now bound to ace-jump-word-mode instead of ace-jump-char-mod (thanks to danielwuz)
• new ex command :noh to clear persistent highlight (thanks to danielwuz)
• new text objects $, | and % (thanks to ralesi)
• gather cache files into a single directory .cache (thanks to ralesi)

Fixes:

• (issue #90) fix repeat bug with . and n or N (thanks to danielwuz)
• (issue #98) visual block broken

evil-numbers, key binding prefix for registers, helm and coffeescript tweaks, fix micro-states

• New package evil-numbers to increase and decrease a number under point (documentation) (thanks to danielwuz)
• New key binding prefix r for registers (documentation)
• helm configuration tweaks (modifications) (thanks to ralesi)
• better auto-indent for coffeescript (modifications) (thanks to danielwuz)
• fix broken micro-states in Emacs 24.4