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Merlin 2.3

This release also contains contributions from: Rudi Grinberg, Fourchaux, Christopher Reichert, David Allsopp, Nick Borden, Mario Rodas, @Twinside, Pierre Chambart, Philipp Haselwarter, Tomasz Kołodziejski and Syohei Yoshida.

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  • backend:

    • locate: fix assert failure on first class modules inclusion
    • outline: add support for classes and object types
    • nonrec: enable by default for OCaml >= 4.02.2
    • error reporting: less aggressive filtering on ghost locs
    • finer-grained tracking of usage (values, opened modules, etc)
    • significant improvement in the handling of PPX extensions:
      • fix shell commandline and working directory
      • normalize parsetree locations
      • implement caching of intermediate rewriting
    • merged support for MetaOCaml
    • path to the standard library can now be specified with STDLIB command in .merlin
    • BrowseT: split into Browse_node (OCaml version specific) and Merlin_browse, extract recursion scheme
    • add Jump command, contributed by Tomasz Kołodziejski
    • contextual-commands: optionnally specify the context (file, project) in which each command is interpreted
    • better support for trunk
    • many bugfixes

  • documentation:

    • update ARCHITECTURE and PROTOCOL documentations

  • emacs:

    • make use of contextual-commands, non backward compatible protocol change
    • new merlin-set-flags command
    • split into multiple files
    • cleanup symbol namespaces:
      • merlin- for user targeted definitions
      • merlin-- for internal definitions,
      • merlin/ for API definitions
    • usability tweaks, notably on error display and navigation
    • general cleanup and bugfixes

  • vim:

    • expose custom .merlin loading through buffer variable
    • cleanup and bugfixes, notably process liveness check and restart