Bike 2.0 (Preview 213)

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New Bike 2.0 Preview today!

  • Added extension API for row text
  • Added extension API import / export
  • Added extension API to create outline from query
  • Fixed filtering to select first match in block mode
  • Fixed pasting when in text mode (ie Raycast emojis)
  • Fixed keybindings breaking after command-tab away from Bike
  • Fixed named keys (such as space or downarrow) in keybindings

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Still not ready for daily use!

I do not expect that it will corrupt files or delete data, but there’s many missing features and visual glitches. The focus of this release is on the extension API. Please give that a close look and let me know how I can make it better.

This release fills out and polishes parts of the extension API. I think the core is “good” … meaning if you feel like something is missing (or notice something broken) please let me know soon.

Remaining extension API pieces that are not done:

  • Showing live search results in sidebar
  • Figuring out how stylesheet API integrates with extension API

Will likely shift to another area of 2.0 work for this next week. I think I need to polish animation system and get a few more “view” things working such as spell checking. We’ll see!

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If you have already dug into the extension API here are some things that changed with import / export…

Previously I had added dedicated import/export methods on outline. I have removed those methods and instead added:

  1. Outline.archive(format) -> OutlineArchive. When you export now you alway export a full outline. Wait, that’s worse!

  2. Added ability to create new outlines: new Outline(RowSource), where RowSource can be RowTemplate[], Row[], Outline, OutlineArchive, OutlinePathValue.

  3. Changed outline.insertRows to accept this same RowSource as the source of the inserted rows.

Generally I think these changes make the API more flexible. Key thing to notice is you can now use an outline path to extract rows from an existing outline into a new outline.

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