v4.4

v4.4 features two new builtins, improvements in testing, and automatic generation of autocompletion suggestions backed by man page parsing. Plus there has been a lot of focus on improving readline responsiveness

v4.4.9500

Breaking Changes

None

Features

• autocompletion: su integration for Linux

• $GOPATH is no longer required to run unit tests

Bug Fixes

• readline: paths wouldn't autocomplete on scalars (eg cd $GOPATH/...)

• readline: previews wouldn't work against variables (eg vi ~/file.txt)

v4.4.9000

Breaking Changes

None

Features

• readline: f1 should work even outside of autocomplete

• readline: wider preview pane

Bug Fixes

• readline: fix preview wrapping on long lines

• readline: image previews should scale to preview height

• readline: better handling of terminal resizing

v4.4.8000

Breaking Changes

• alt+1..9 hotkeys replaced with shift+f1..f12. Changed because alt+numeric rarely worked (read more)

Features

None

Bug Fixes

• @IncManPages autocomplete value for Dynamic directive renamed to @IncManPage, like the IncManPage directive

• readline: render glitch fixed with delayed completions racing against hint text updates

• readline: render glitches fixed when buffers are not being reset correctly after preview box has, or should have, closed

• readline: man page preview now removes backspace characters correctly from UNIX docs

• readline: man page preview now more reliably scrolls to the right line when a flag is highlighted in autocompletion

• readline: preview now works for list views as well as grid views

v4.4.7000

Breaking Changes

• preview-enabled config option removed. This actually doesn't break anything, just produces a warning. The config option was also undocumented and experimental

Features

• Preview is now considered stable. Press f1 while autocomplete is open to use (read more)

Bug Fixes

• readline: render glitch fixed with delayed path completions

• readline: excess white spaces removed from man page descriptions

v4.4.x

Breaking Changes

• 'Name' field dropped from onCommandCompletion interrupt (this field was never documented)

Features

• New builtin, round, which can perform rounding operations on numerical inputs (#630, read more)

• Vastly improved automatic man page parsing. Now descriptions are pulled alongside the flags and results are cached

• man-get-flags now includes a -d / --description flag to expose the improved man page parser

• New builtin, return, which exits a given function scope (eg function, private, Dynamic block in autocomplete, etc)

• Improved git autocompletions

• find autocompletions added

• builtin profiles are now imported as separate modules. This makes debugging easier

• /integrations directory added to Murex source, the aim of which is to make it easier for people to contribute autocompletions and other integrations with common command line tools (Github)

• readline: new word jump hotkeys ctrl+left / ctrl+right (PC)

• readline: new word jump hotkeys option+left / option+right (Mac)

Bug Fixes:

• test would always run first in any block, regardless of the preferred order of execution. This was because test (unit|state|config) required altering the execution state of the shell. The drawback was that test (run|define|report) would also run unexpectedly. This lead to hacks like try { test run * } to force the correct order of operations. Now the parameters of test are checked to determine when to execute the builtin.

• int types couldn't be compared against num types with >, >=, <, <= operators

• readline: ^d will not send EOF if line is not empty. The original behaviour was by design however after pressing ^d a few too many times when I intended to press ^f or ^r, I decided the original design was wrong

• FileRef wasn't being set in test. This caused some tests to fail if they called private functions

• Check ~/.ssh/config exists before trying to parse it in getHostsFile private (used for SSH and similar tools autocompletions)

• readline: lots of work done on speeding up redraws and overall responsiveness. eg buffered autocompletion menus

• readline: hint text should never be displayed if disabled via config

• readline: soft timeout halved (this can be overridden via config)

• readline: cropped autocompletion suggestions in gridded layout were one character too short (off by one error)

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Published: 27.07.2023 at 23:12

See Also

• FileRef: How to track what code was loaded and from where
• Terminal Hotkeys: A list of all the terminal hotkeys and their uses
• autocomplete: Set definitions for tab-completion in the command line
• config: Query or define Murex runtime settings
• event: Event driven programming for shell scripts
• expr: Expressions: mathematical, string comparisons, logical operators
• function: Define a function block
• int: Whole number (primitive)
• man-get-flags: Parses man page files for command line flags
• num (number): Floating point number (primitive)
• onCommandCompletion: Trigger an event upon a command's completion
• private: Define a private function block
• return: Exits current function scope
• round: Round a number by a user defined precision
• test: Murex's test framework - define tests, run tests and debug shell scripts

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