Alacritty will now automatically reflow lines and shrink them when they
would usually exceed the new width of the terminal instead of
truncation.
If a line had to be truncated, it will also be reflown into the previous
line after growing the terminal width.
The reflow behavior when not at the bottom of the history is similar to
that of VTE and aims to keep the viewport stationary whenever possible.
Opposed to VTE, reflow will also be performed in the alternate screen
buffer.
There will be bugs when resizing the terminal emulator to a size smaller
than the prompt, though these issues were present in all terminal
emulators with reflow support.
This fixes#591.
This removes the the signal handling machinery in tty::unix, and
replaces it with functionality from signal-hook, which should be more
robust. Signals caught by signal-hook wake up the existing I/O event
loop, which then delegates back to the PTY to handle them.
In particular, this allows `SIGCHLD` (i.e. child process exits) to shut
down the terminal promptly, instead of sometimes leaving the window
lingering.
Fixes#915.
Fixes#1276.
Fixes#1313.
As a side effect, this fixes a very rare bug on Linux, where a `read`
from the PTY on the master side would sometimes "fail" with `EIO` if the
child closed the client side at a particular moment. This was subject to
a race condition, and was very difficult to trigger in practice.
This fixes opening a new instance in the shell's current working
directory. The code currently assumes that there is a Linux
compatible procfs mounted on /proc which is not the case on FreeBSD.
However linprocfs(5) is often mounted on /compat/linux/proc so we
can use that here for the time being.
A proper solution would look up the kern.proc.cwd.<pid> sysctl
instead, but that is not currently easily doable due to missing
KERN_PROC_CWD and struct kinfo_file definitions in the libc crate.
In cases where the Alacritty process had invalid std handles then
the ConPTY subprocess would fail to spawn. By setting appropriate
flags we prevent these handles from being passed to the ConPTY
subprocess.
To make sure all extended capabilities can be queried correctly, it is
necessary to compile the terminfo file using the `-x` flag.
Since Alacritty specified support for the XTerm mouse mode (XM/xm),
using the `-x` flag was not possible until now without breaking programs
like `htop`. By removing this flag, these issues should be resolved.
This fixes https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/2131.
This fixes two bugs with the alternate screen buffer.
When resetting while in the alt screen, Alacritty would not swap out
the grids leading to scrollback getting disabled. By swapping out the
grids again when resetting in the alternate screen buffer, scrollback is
now unaffected from a reset.
There was another issue with the cursor jumping around when leaving the
alt screen even though it was not active, this was fixed by skipping all
alt screen swap routines unless the current state matches the expected
state.
This fixes#2145.
This fixes two issues with live reloading the `scrolling.history`
property.
It is now possible to increase the scrollback history without restarting
Alacritty.
When decreasing the scrollback history while scrolled beyond the new
history limit, Alacritty will reset the viewport position to the new
limit instead of crashing.
This fixes#2147.
There was an issue caused by 35efb4619c
which would lead to the current selection not getting copied to the
clipboard if the mouse was released outside of the window.
Instead of aborting any press/release actions when the cursor is not
inside of Alacritty, the handling is now delayed until actual usage.
Even though the `ClosePseudoConsole` API does not have a return
value, it was incorrectly queried by the `Drop` implementation for
the ConPTY, leading to a panic on exit.
The definition of this call has been updated to match the actual
function signatures, which resolve this problem.
Update the README and related files.
This commit generally updates some language in the "About" section, and other sections with respect to keeping accurate information, and laying out the project goals in a clear way.
We're also marking Alacritty as "beta" software at this point, not that this has any explicit meaning.
Automatically remove all selections when part of the screen is cleared.
This fixes issues in applications like `less -S` where a selection would
stay around after scrolling horizontally.
XTerm and URxvt both choose to always remove the selection, even if it's
outside of the cleared area, however VTE only clears the selection if
any part of it is inside the cleared area.
To keep things simple, Alacritty has adopted the behavior of XTerm and
URxvt to always clear selections.
This fixes#1644.
The default shift+pgup/pgdown buttons were sending the escape sequences
specified by the official standard, however most terminal emulators like
XTerm, URxvt and VTE make an exception for this special case and instead
scroll the native history buffer.
Both XTerm and URxvt do never send the escapes for Shift+PgUp/PgDown,
however VTE does send them in the alternate screen.
Since Alacritty already supports keybindings based on terminal mode and
the binding to scroll the history is useless when in the alternate
screen buffer, Alacritty is now following VTEs behavior here, allowing
applications in the alt screen (like vim) to handle this escape.
Fixes#1989.
The warning and error messages now don't overwrite other terminal
content anymore but instead resize the terminal to make sure that text
can always be read.
Instead of just showing that there is a new error and pointing to the log,
errors will now be displayed fully in multiple lines of text, assuming that
there is enough space left in the terminal.
Explicit mouse click handling has also been added to the message bar,
which made it possible to add a simple `close` button in the form of
`[X]`.
Alacritty's log file location is now stored in the `$ALACRITTY_LOG`
environment variable which the shell inherits automatically.
Previously there were some issues with the log file only being deleted
when certain methods for closing Alacritty were used (like typing
`exit`). This has been reworked and now Ctrl+D, exit and signals should
all work properly.
Before the config is reloaded, all current messages are now dropped.
This should help with multiple terminals all getting clogged up at the
same time when the config is broken.
When one message is removed, all other duplicate messages are
automatically removed too.
Since scrolling the terminal moves around the underlying data structure
of the terminal, the URL selection would search for the URL at the
position where the click would have been without any scrolling.
By adding the viewport offset to the click position, the URL clicking
now searches at the correct location.
This fixes https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/2076.
Since the IME was positioned using physical coordinates,
the location would be incorrect with monitors using a DPR
other than 1.0.
This has been resolved by converting the physical position
to a logical position using the methods built into winit.
Fixes#2056.
Following Rust's standard, the lockfiles for Alacritty's
sub-libraries have been removed.
One instance of the deprecated `ATOMIC_USIZE_INIT` has
also been removed.
This fixes#2040.
Due to the merging of configuration files on all platforms, it has been
made impossible to completely disable URL launching without still
executing some kind of program like `true`.
Setting the launcher to `None` in the config, will now disable it
completely.
This fixes#2058.
When loading an empty configuration file, Alacritty only prints an info
message and then proceeds to load the default config. However when
reloading the configuration file it would throw a hard error.
This has been fixed and a hard error is now only thrown when an error is
returned during reload which isn't the empty file error.
To make things easier to understand for Windows users, the
relationship between Alacritty and the WinPTY agent has been
clarified in the documentation.
This also bundles the windows agent and exe together in a zip file to
make distribution for windows easier on the user.
By scaling fractional scaling by scrolling multiplier
before conversion to lines it is now possible to scroll
much more accurately with touchpads.
The `scrolling.multiplier` now also applies to touchpads.
The clippy tests had to be run on nightly previously since it wasn't
available with the stable compiler yet, however this had the potential
to fail a lot since not all nightly builds offer clippy.
Since clippy is now available for stable rust, moving clippy to a stable
build should make sure that the failure rate of the CI job is cut down
to a minimum.
This fixes https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/2007.
