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This implements a block selection mode which can be triggered by holding Control before starting a selection. If text is copied using this block selection, newlines will be automatically added to the end of the lines. This fixes #526.
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Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
[Unreleased]
Added
- Block selection mode when Control is held while starting a selection
Fixed
- GUI programs launched by Alacritty starting in the background on X11
0.3.3
Packaging
- Add appstream metadata, located at /extra/linux/io.alacritty.Alacritty.xml
- The xclip dependency has been removed
- On macOS, Alacritty now requests NSSystemAdministrationUsageDescription to avoid permission failures
- Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.32.0
Added
- Added ToggleFullscreen action
- On macOS, there's a ToggleSimpleFullscreen action which allows switching to fullscreen without occupying another space
- A new window option
window.startup_mode
which controls how the window is created _NET_WM_ICON
property is set on X11 now, allowing for WMs to show icons in titlebars- Current Git commit hash to
alacritty --version
- Config options
window.title
andwindow.class
- Config option
working_directory
- Config group
debug
with the optionsdebug.log_level
,debug.print_events
anddebug.ref_test
- Select until next matching bracket when double-clicking a bracket
- Added foreground/background escape code request sequences
Changed
- On Windows, Alacritty will now use the native DirectWrite font API
- The
start_maximized
window option is nowstartup_mode: Maximized
- Cells with identical foreground and background will now show their text upon selection/inversion
- Default Window padding to 0x0
- Moved config option
render_timer
andpersistent_logging
to thedebug
group - When the cursor is in the selection, it will be inverted again, making it visible
Fixed
- Double-width characters in URLs only being highlit on the left half
- PTY size not getting updated when message bar is shown
- Text Cursor disappearing
- Incorrect positioning of zero-width characters over double-width characters
- Mouse mode generating events when the cell has not changed
- Selections not automatically expanding across double-width characters
- On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been enabled again
- Text getting recognized as URLs without slashes separating the scheme
- URL parser dropping trailing slashes from valid URLs
- UTF-8 BOM skipped when reading config file
- Terminfo backspace escape sequence (
kbs
)
Removed
- Deprecated
mouse.faux_scrollback_lines
config field - Deprecated
custom_cursor_colors
config field - Deprecated
hide_cursor_when_typing
config field - Deprecated
cursor_style
config field - Deprecated
unfocused_hollow_cursor
config field - Deprecated
dimensions
config field
Version 0.3.2
Fixed
- Panic on startup when using Conpty on Windows
Version 0.3.1
Added
- Added ScrollLineUp and ScrollLineDown actions for scrolling line by line
- Native clipboard support on X11 and Wayland
Changed
- Alacritty now has a fixed minimum supported Rust version of 1.31.0
Fixed
- Reset scrolling region when the RIS escape sequence is received
- Subprocess spawning on macos
- Unnecessary resize at startup
- Text getting blurry after live-reloading shaders with padding active
- Resize events are not send to the shell anymore if dimensions haven't changed
- Minor performance issues with underline and strikeout checks
- Rare bug which would extend underline and strikeout beyond the end of line
- Cursors not spanning two lines when over double-width characters
- Incorrect cursor dimensions if the font offset isn't
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Version 0.3.0
Packaging
- On Linux, the .desktop file now uses
Alacritty
as icon name, which can be found atextra/logo/alacritty-term.svg
Added
- MSI installer for Windows is now available
- New default key bindings Alt+Home, Alt+End, Alt+PageUp and Alt+PageDown
- Dynamic title support on Windows
- Ability to specify starting position with the
--position
flag - New configuration field
window.position
allows specifying the starting position - Added the ability to change the selection color
- Text will reflow instead of truncating when resizing Alacritty
- Underline text and change cursor when hovering over URLs with required modifiers pressed
Changed
- Clicking on non-alphabetical characters in front of URLs will no longer open them
- Command keybindings on Windows will no longer open new cmd.exe console windows
- On macOS, automatic graphics switching has been temporarily disabled due to a macos bug
Fixed
- Fix panic which could occur when quitting Alacritty on Windows if using the Conpty backend
- Automatic copying of selection to clipboard when mouse is released outside of Alacritty
- Scrollback history live reload only working when shrinking lines
- Crash when decreasing scrollback history in config while scrolled in history
- Resetting the terminal while in the alt screen will no longer disable scrollback
- Cursor jumping around when leaving alt screen while not in the alt screen
- Text lingering around when resetting while scrolled up in the history
- Terminfo support for extended capabilities
- Allow mouse presses and beginning of mouse selection in padding
- Windows: Conpty backend could close immediately on startup in certain situations
- FreeBSD: SpawnNewInstance will now open new instances in the shell's current
working directory as long as linprocfs(5) is mounted on
/compat/linux/proc
- Fix lingering Alacritty window after child process has exited
- Growing the terminal while scrolled up will no longer move the content down
- Support for alternate keyboard layouts on macOS
- Slow startup time on some X11 systems
- The AltGr key no longer sends escapes (like Alt)
- Fixes increase/decrease font-size keybindings on international keyboards
- On Wayland, the
--title
flag will set the Window title now - Parsing issues with URLs starting in the first or ending in the last column
- URLs stopping at double-width characters
- Fix
start_maximized
option on X11 - Error when parsing URLs ending with Unicode outside of the ascii range
- On Windows, focusing a Window will no longer start a selection
Version 0.2.9
Changed
- Accept fonts which are smaller in width or height than a single pixel
Fixed
- Incorrect font spacing after moving Alacritty between displays
Version 0.2.8
Added
- Window class on Wayland is set to
Alacritty
by default - Log file location is stored in the
ALACRITTY_LOG
environment variable - Close button has been added to the error/warning messages
Changed
- Improve scrolling accuracy with devices sending fractional updates (like touchpads)
scrolling.multiplier
now affects normal scrolling with touchpads- Error/Warning bar doesn't overwrite the terminal anymore
- Full error/warning messages are displayed
- Config error messages are automatically removed when the config is fixed
- Scroll history on Shift+PgUp/PgDown when scrollback history is available
Fixed
- Resolved off-by-one issue with erasing characters in the last column
- Excessive polling every 100ms with
live_config_reload
enabled - Unicode characters at the beginning of URLs are now properly ignored
- Remove error message when reloading an empty config
- Allow disabling URL launching by setting the value of
mouse.url.launcher
toNone
- Corrected the
window.decorations
config documentation for macOS - Fix IME position on HiDPI displays
- URLs not opening while terminal is scrolled
- Reliably remove log file when Alacritty is closed and persistent logging is disabled
- Remove selections when clearing the screen partially (scrolling horizontally in less)
- Crash/Freeze when shrinking the font size too far
- Documentation of the
--dimensions
flag have been updated to display the correct default
Removed
clear
doesn't remove error/warning messages anymore
Version 0.2.7
Fixed
- Crash when trying to start Alacritty on Windows
Version 0.2.6
Added
- New
alt_send_esc
option for controlling if alt key should send escape sequences
Changed
- All options in the configuration file are now optional
Removed
- Windows and macOS configuration files (
alacritty.yml
is now platform independent)
Fixed
- Replaced
Command
withSuper
in the Linux and Windows config documentation - Prevent semantic and line selection from starting with the right or middle mouse button
- Prevent Alacritty from crashing when started on a system without any free space
- Resolve issue with high CPU usage after moving Alacritty between displays
- Characters will no longer be deleted when using ncurses with the hard tab optimization
- Crash on non-linux operating systems when using the
SpawnNewInstance
action
Version 0.2.5
Added
- New configuration field
visual_bell.color
allows changing the visual bell color - Crashes on Windows are now also reported with a popup in addition to stderr
- Windows: New configuration field
enable_experimental_conpty_backend
which enables support for the Pseudoconsole API (ConPTY) added in Windows 10 October 2018 (1809) update - New mouse and key action
SpawnNewInstance
for launching another instance of Alacritty
Changed
- Log messages are now consistent in style, and some have been removed
- Windows configuration location has been moved from %USERPROFILE%\alacritty.yml to %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.yml
- Windows default shell is now PowerShell instead of cmd
- URL schemes have been limited to http, https, mailto, news, file, git, ssh and ftp
Fixed
- Fix color issue in ncurses programs by updating terminfo pairs from 0x10000 to 0x7FFF
- Fix panic after quitting Alacritty on macOS
- Tabs are no longer replaced by spaces when copying them to the clipboard
- Alt modifier is no longer sent separately from the modified key
- Various Windows issues, like color support and performance, through the new ConPTY
- Fixed rendering non default mouse cursors in terminal mouse mode (linux)
- Fix the
Copy
mouse_bindings
action (#1963) - URLs are only launched when left-clicking
- Removal of extra characters (like
,
) at the end of URLs has been improved - Single quotes (
'
) are removed from URLs when there is no matching opening quote - Precompiled binaries now work with macOS versions before 10.13 (10.11 and above)
Version 0.2.4
Added
- Option for evenly spreading extra padding around the terminal (
window.dynamic_padding
) - Option for maximizing alacritty on start (
window.start_maximized
) - Display notice about errors and warnings inside Alacritty
- Log all messages to both stderr and a log file in the system's temporary directory
- New configuration option
persistent_logging
and CLI flag--persistent-logging
, for keeping the log file after closing Alacritty ClearLogNotice
action for removing the warning and error message- Terminal bells on macOS will now request the user's attention in the window
- Alacritty now requests privacy permissions on macOS
Changed
- Extra padding is not evenly spread around the terminal by default anymore
- When the config file is empty, Alacritty now logs an info instead of an error message
Fixed
- Fixed a bad type conversion which could cause underflow on a window resize
- Alacritty now spawns a login shell on macOS, as with Terminal.app and iTerm2
- Fixed zombie processes sticking around after launching URLs
- Zero-width characters are now properly rendered without progressing the cursor
Version 0.2.3
Fixed
- Mouse cursor alignment issues and truncated last line caused by incorrect padding calculations
Version 0.2.2
Added
- Add support for Windows
- Add terminfo capabilities advertising support for changing the window title
- Allow using scancodes in the key_bindings section
- When
mouse.url.launcher
is set, clicking on URLs will now open them with the specified program - New
mouse.url.modifiers
option to specify keyboard modifiers for opening URLs on click - Binaries for macOS, Windows and Debian-based systems are now published with GitHub releases
- The keys F16-F24 have been added as options for key bindings
- DEB file adds Alacritty as option to
update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
Changed
- The
colors.cursor.text
andcolors.cursor.cursor
fields are optional now - Moved
cursor_style
tocursor.style
- Moved
unfocused_hollow_cursor
tocursor.unfocused_hollow
- Moved
hide_cursor_when_typing
tomouse.hide_when_typing
- Mouse bindings now ignore additional modifiers
- Extra padding is now spread evenly around the terminal grid
- DEB file installs to
usr/bin
instead ofusr/local/bin
Removed
- The
custom_cursor_colors
config field was deleted, remove thecolors.cursor.*
options to achieve the same behavior as setting it tofalse
- The
scale_with_dpi
configuration value has been removed, on Linux the env variableWINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR=1
can be set instead to disable DPI scaling
Fixed
- Fixed erroneous results when using the
indexed_colors
config option - Fixed rendering cursors other than rectangular with the RustType backend
- Selection memory leak and glitches in the alternate screen buffer
- Invalid default configuration on macOS and Linux
- Middle mouse pasting if mouse mode is enabled
- Selections now properly update as you scroll the scrollback buffer while selecting
- NUL character at the end of window titles
- DPI Scaling when moving windows across monitors
- On macOS, issues with Command-[KEY] and Control-Tab keybindings have been fixed
- Incorrect number of columns/lines when using the
window.dimensions
option - On Wayland, windows will no longer be spawned outside of the visible region
- Resizing of windows without decorations
- On Wayland, key repetition works again
- On macOS, Alacritty will now use the integrated GPU again when available
- On Linux, the
WINIT_HIDPI_FACTOR
environment variable can be set from the config now
Version 0.2.1
Added
- Implement the
hidden
escape sequence (echo -e "\e[8mTEST"
) - Add support for macOS systemwide dark mode
- Set the environment variable
COLORTERM="truecolor"
to advertise 24-bit color support - On macOS, there are two new values for the config option
window.decorations
:transparent
- This makes the title bar transparent and allows the viewport to extend to the top of the window.buttonless
- Similar to transparent but also removed the buttons.
- Add support for changing the colors from 16 to 256 in the
indexed_colors
config section - Add
save_to_clipboard
configuration option for copying selected text to the system clipboard - New terminfo entry,
alacritty-direct
, that advertises 24-bit color support - Add support for CSI sequences Cursor Next Line (
\e[nE
) and Cursor Previous Line (\e[nF
)
Changed
- Inverse/Selection color is now modelled after XTerm/VTE instead of URxvt to improve consistency
- First click on unfocused Alacritty windows is no longer ignored on platforms other than macOS
- Reduce memory usage significantly by only initializing part of the scrollback buffer at startup
- The
alacritty
terminfo entry no longer requires thexterm
definition to be present on the system - The default
TERM
value is no longer static; thealacritty
entry is used if available, otherwise thexterm-256color
entry is used instead
Removed
- The terminfo entry
alacritty-256color
. It is replaced by thealacritty
entry (which also advertises 256 colors)
Fixed
- Rendering now occurs without the terminal locked which improves performance
- Clear screen properly before rendering of content to prevent various graphical glitches
- Fix build failure on 32-bit systems
- Windows started as unfocused now show the hollow cursor if the setting is enabled
- Empty lines in selections are now properly copied to the clipboard
- Selection start point lagging behind initial cursor position
- Rendering of selections which start above the visible area and end below it
Deprecated
- The config option
window.decorations
should now usefull
ornone
instead oftrue
orfalse
, respectively.
Security
- Bracketed paste mode now filters escape sequences beginning with \x1b
Version 0.2.0
Added
- Add a scrollback history buffer (10_000 lines by default)
- CHANGELOG has been added for documenting relevant user-facing changes
- Add
ClearHistory
key binding action and theErase Saved Lines
control sequence - When growing the window height, Alacritty will now try to load additional lines out of the scrollback history
- Support the dim foreground color (
echo -e '\033[2mDimmed Text'
) - Add support for the LCD-V pixel mode (vertical screens)
- Pressing enter on the numpad should now insert a newline
- The mouse bindings now support keyboard modifiers (shift/ctrl/alt/super)
- Add support for the bright foreground color
- Support for setting foreground, background colors in one escape sequence
Changed
- Multiple key/mouse bindings for a single key will now all be executed instead of picking one and ignoring the rest
- Improve text scrolling performance (affects applications like
yes
, not scrolling the history)
Fixed
- Clear the visible region when the RIS escape sequence (
echo -ne '\033c'
) is received - Prevent logger from crashing Alacritty when stdout/stderr is not available
- Fix a crash when sending the IL escape sequence with a large number of lines