Various search related improvements, smartparens, web-mode and golden-ratio tweaks

• new documentation section: Seaching (https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#searching)
• the behavior of * has been improved, in visual state, * performs a search of the selected region using evil-visualstar. In the other states, * performs a search of the symbol/word under point using auto-highlight-symbol
• auto-highlight-symbol now highlights any symbol in comments and strings
• key to change the range of auto-highlight-symbol is now r instead of c
• evil-search-highlight-persist has been added, to clear the highlight use <SPC> s c
• helm-swoop bindings are now <SPC> s s, <SPC> s S and <SPC> s C-s.
• don't pair apostrophe in markdown mode (thanks to trishume)
• use web-mode for html files (thanks to danielwuz)
• resize window when golden-ratio is enabled via t g
• add face color for evil-search-highlight-persist in solarized themes
• contribution guidelines have been updated

Do not forget to update the sub modules when you upgrade

New branch develop, CONTRIBUTE.md, NeoTree, Smartparens, Snippets and Auto-complete

• the develop branch was a mess. A new clean branch called new_develop has be created and used to create this release (will be renamed to develop soon)
• contribution guidelines are now in the file CONTRIBUTE.md
• PR guidelines have been updated to favor one topic per PR in order to be able to squash the PR into one commit
• Electric braces support with smartparens (thanks to trishume)
• Add NeoTree documentation to README (click here)
• Simplified NeoTree key bindings with lower key bindings (see documentation link above)
• Yasnippet snippets submodule URL which pointed to a fork of upstream repository has been replaced by the upstream URL
• Snippets folder is now in spacemacs/extensions/yasnippets-snippets
• C-k is now again bound to the default evil-insert-digraph and C-j, C-k are now defined in the correct map (thanks to danielwuz)

Do not forget to update the sub modules when you upgrade

Helm and Neotree work together, PR guidelines updated

Spacemacs layer:

• helm and neotree can now be used together (thanks to danielwuz)
• PR guidelines updated (see https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#pull-request-guidelines)

Users contribution layers:

• trishume: Better Ag support.

Various improvements for NeoTree

• golden-ratio friendly
• default evil state is now motion
• fd hide neotree

New key bindings, new function to disable popwin for helm buffers

• C-j and C-k can be used to select auto-complete candidates (evil-insert-digraph in insert mode has been moved to C-i)
• <SPC> w p m shows the *Messages* buffer in a popup window, <SPC> w p p close the current popup window.
• New function spacemacs/remove-popup-display-config which can be used to disable popup windows for some modes (i.e. helm). More info in the tip of the readme file: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#tips-for-spacemacs-advanced-users

Neotree bindings, PR guidelines, evil-nc, ranger-control contrib

• Neotree normal state local key map (thanks to danielwuz)
• Evil-nerd-commenter is now a package again (24.4 byte compile issue has been resolved upstream)
• Add a pull request guideline (see https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#pull-request-guidelines)
• guide-key is now displayed in a buffer in graphical environment, seems more stable than the tool tip rendering which can get stuck sometimes
• New contribution layer ranger-control (thanks to trishume)

Guide-key, evil-nerd-commenter and fixes

• evil-nerd-commenter is now working for 24.4 (https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#commenting)
• guide-key (thanks to ralesi) and guide-key-tip support (enabled by default, can be toggled with <SPC> t G) with golden-ratio compatibility (in a graphical env. guide-key is displayed in a tool tip, in a terminal it is displayed in a buffer)
• key binding for helm-projectile is now <SPC> p h

First release of Spacemacs

• projectile working
• use the projectile commander initiated with p (see doc: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#project-management)
• more support for fd exit everything
• faster boot time
• stable key bindings for ido-vertical-mode
• working lazy loading of helm
• describe functions binding with prefix h d (see: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#other-describe-functions)