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What's new in clink 0.4.9

Dec 21, 2017
  • Fixed broken Doskey on Win10

New in clink 0.4.8 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Environment variable 'clink_profile' overrides Clink's profile path (#390).
  • Load a clink_inputrc file from Clink's profile directory (fixes #406).
  • Bug fixes:
  • Redraw issues when prompts end in OSC ANSI codes (#387, #384).
  • Fixed 'clink autorun --help' crash.

New in clink 0.4.7 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Sometimes autorun tries to run clink.exe (#374).
  • Autorun would cause cmd.exe to return an error if it wasn't interactive (#373).

New in clink 0.4.6 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • HOME is only set if it is currently unset.
  • Readline can be initialised with .inputrc and _inputrc files too (#258).
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a crash if .bat script's stdout is redirected (#366).
  • Occasional crash when injecting Clink (#351).
  • Doskey emulation (#344).
  • Improved 'clink autorun' help (#348).
  • Fixed launching Clink when clink.bat is renamed (#357).
  • Fixed executable completion:
  • Paths from PATH were checked twice.
  • Incorrect results were returned for words ending in '.' or '-'.
  • Directories . and .. were incorrectly displayed.
  • Fixed display errors:
  • When editing near the window's right-hand edge (#347).
  • Double display of multi-line prompts when resizing the terminal (#352).
  • Very rare wrap artefacts when making the terminal window larger.

New in clink 0.4.5 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Improved 'clink autorun'. It now defaults to the Current User registry hive.
  • 'clink set' gives more details for enumeration-type settings.
  • Tab completion for p4vc.
  • New settings 'history_expand_mode' to control history expansion in quotes (#317).
  • Bug fixes:
  • Use full width of the terminal (#337).
  • Fixed MinGW compile error (#335).
  • Autorun now defaults to the current user's hive (#332).
  • Creating clink.html no longer needs Pandoc, plus it looks a bit better (#331).
  • Added settings to control history expansion (#326).
  • Correct fallback when 'use_altgr_substitute' is off (#325).
  • Load history prior to saving it on shutdown (#318).
  • Added Shift-Tab documentation and menu completion example (#190).
  • Added shim for backwards menu completion (#190).
  • Input handling now outputs 'e`Z' for Shift-Tab (#190).
  • Updated Readme with current Premake info (#310).
  • Guard against there being no buffer to read from (#304).
  • Fixed artefacts when resizing conhost's buffer (#139).
  • Clear remaining characters if scroll window was too small (#301)
  • Escape % characters when expanding aliases (#280).
  • Fixed leaking exception filters.
  • Clearing the screen doesn't leave artefacts behind.

New in clink 0.4.4 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Completing .. behaves more like Bash (#277).
  • Escape from yes/no question when Ctrl+C is pressed.
  • Valid XP executables (#278, #289).
  • Fixed n-th argument yank not working as expected (#254).
  • Fixed prompt colours sometimes not working (#279, #286).
  • Fixed '!0' causing Clink to crash.
  • Save/restore cursor position in case Readline moves it.

New in clink 0.4.3 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Localised Y/N when auto-answering 'terminate?' prompt.
  • $* would early out if there was no arguments.
  • Disable ANSI code support if third party provides it.
  • Installer can now set %CLINK_DIR% to install location.
  • Improved output from 'clink set'.
  • Support for Windows 10 Technical Preview.
  • Ctrl-L now scrolls last line to the top of the window rather than clearing.
  • New option to control how newline characters are pasted to the line.
  • Fixed nonfunctional numpad keys.
  • Fixed missing WINCH signals if other processes resize the buffer.
  • Support Alt codes sent from Conhost.
  • New options to control history:
  • 'history_file_lines' maximum lines saved to disk.
  • 'history_ignore_space' ignore lines prefixed with whitespace.
  • 'history_dupe_mode' how duplicate entries are handled.
  • 'history_io' load/save history from disk every line.

New in clink 0.4.2 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Prompt colouring no longer requires third party ANSI code utility.
  • Override settings with environment variables prefixed with 'clink'.
  • Ctrl-PgUp goes up a directory.
  • Updated Go completions (by matrixik).
  • Arguments to clink.arg.new_parser() now initialise parser's flags/args (from vladimir-kotikov).
  • New clink.arg.add_flags() and clink.arg.add_arguments() functions.
  • Removed footer and Alt-H tip for more succinct stdout output.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Windows XP works again.
  • Fixed race condition in lua_execute().

New in clink 0.4.1 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • Add --nolog argument to disable file logging. Fix #187 Fix #154
  • Added missing escape sequences from doskey emulation.
  • Reinstated unix-kill-line key binding.
  • Mapped PgUp/Down to search history using line typed so far.
  • Added documentation covering escape codes for special keys.
  • Added support for Windows' AltGr substitute Ctrl-Alt.
  • Support for Readline's 'menu' style completion (see docs).
  • Bug fixes:
  • Various Unicode fixes causing corrupt environment variables.
  • Fixed thread resume/suspend causing rare system-wide deadlock.
  • Fixed incorrect translation of suffixed slash when completing flags.

New in clink 0.4 (Feb 17, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Better 'clink.arg' API. Easier, more intuitive, and more powerful.
  • Whitespace prefix skips exec matching.
  • Added a 'set' verb to easily change settings from the command line.
  • Basic support for a shells other than cmd.exe.
  • Completion for Go (contributed by Dobroslaw Zybort).
  • Setting 'exec_match_style' to -1 disables it entirely.
  • Make history persistence optional.
  • Alias/doskey completion.
  • Very basic support for Powershell.
  • View cmd.exe's autorun entry without needing admin rights.
  • New key bindings:
  • Ctrl-Alt-C : Copy command line to the clipboard.
  • Ctrl-Alt-E : Expand environment variable under cursor.
  • Ctrl-Alt-U : 'up directory' (formerly Shift-Up).
  • Ctrl-U : Adds '..' to the command line.
  • Alt-H : Shows active keymap's key bindings.
  • New Lua functions:
  • clink.execute().
  • clink.get_host_process().
  • clink.match_files().
  • clink.match_words().
  • clink.get_console_aliases().
  • Lots of bug fixes, including:
  • Better command extraction.
  • Fixed cmd.exe command paging and Ctrl-C/Ctrl-Break handling.
  • Multiple locale fixes.
  • Use localised text for 'Terminate batch job?' prompt.

New in clink 0.3.1 (Jul 16, 2013)

  • Fixed Clink not starting on machines where NTFS's 8.3-format had been disabled.