Work on the CHANGELOG

Some of the recent stuff, some examples, and put the headline feature first.
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Fabian Boehm 2022-08-12 18:46:18 +02:00
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@ -3,19 +3,48 @@ fish 3.6.0 (released ???)
Notable improvements and fixes
------------------------------
- ``test`` aka ``[``: implemented ``-ot`` (older than) and ``-nt`` (newer than) operators to compare file modification times, and ``-ef`` to compare identity, common extensions (:issue:`3589`).
- By default, :kbd:``Control-R`` now opens the command history in the pager, via the new special input function ``history-pager``.
Deprecations and removed features
---------------------------------
Scripting improvements
----------------------
- ``argparse`` can now be used without option specifications, to allow using --min-args, --max-args or for commands that take no options (but might in future) (:issue:`9006`).
- ``set --show`` now shows when a variable was inherited from fish's parent process, which should help with debugging (:issue:`9029`).
- ``path`` gained a new ``mtime`` command to print the modification time stamp for files. This can be used e.g. to handle cache file ages (:issue:`9057`).
- ``test`` aka ``[``: implemented ``-ot`` (older than) and ``-nt`` (newer than) operators to compare file modification times, and ``-ef`` to compare identity, common extensions (:issue:`3589`).
- ``argparse`` can now be used without option specifications, to allow using --min-args, --max-args or for commands that take no options (but might in future) (:issue:`9006`)::
function my_copy
argparse --min-args 2 -- $argv
or return
cp $argv
end
- ``set --show`` now shows when a variable was inherited from fish's parent process, which should help with debugging (:issue:`9029`)::
> set --show XDG_DATA_DIRS
$XDG_DATA_DIRS: set in global scope, exported, a path variable with 4 elements
$XDG_DATA_DIRS[1]: |/home/alfa/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share|
$XDG_DATA_DIRS[2]: |/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share|
$XDG_DATA_DIRS[3]: |/usr/local/share|
$XDG_DATA_DIRS[4]: |/usr/share|
$XDG_DATA_DIRS: originally inherited as |/home/alfa/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/|
- ``path`` gained a new ``mtime`` command to print the modification time stamp for files. This can be used e.g. to handle cache file ages (:issue:`9057`)::
> touch foo
> sleep 10
> path mtime --relative foo
10
- ``string repeat`` no longer allocates the entire output at once, instead using chunks. This needs less memory and has less of a delay with long strings. Also it was possible to make fish crash by making it allocate more memory than the system had. (:issue:`9124`)
- The read limit is now restored to the default when $fish_read_limit is unset (:issue:`9129`).
- ``printf`` no longer tries to interpret the first argument as an option (:issue:`9132`).
- Fish will now mark the extent of many errors with a squiggly line instead of just a caret (``^``) at the beginning (:issue:`9130`). For example::
checks/set.fish (line 471): for: a,b: invalid variable name. See `help identifiers`
for a,b in y 1 z 3
^~^
Interactive improvements
------------------------
@ -24,11 +53,11 @@ Interactive improvements
- The new environment variable ``$fish_cursor_selection_mode`` can be used to configure whether the command line selection includes (``inclusive``) the character under the cursor or not (``exclusive``). The new default is ``exclusive``. Use ``set fish_cursor_selection_mode inclusive`` to get the previous behavior back (:issue:`7762`).
- process-exit and job-exit events are now generated for all background jobs, including those launched from event handlers (:issue:`9096`).
- Fish's completion pager now fills half the terminal on first tab press instead of only 4 rows, which should make results visible more often and save key presses, without constantly snapping fish to the top of the terminal (:issue:`9105`).
- A crash when completing a token that contained both a potential glob and a quoted variable expansion was fixed (:issue:`9137`).
New or improved bindings
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The :kbd:`Alt-H` binding will now show the manpage of the command under cursor instead of the always skipping ``sudo`` and the likes (:issue:`9020`).
- New special input function ``history-pager`` (:kbd:``Control-R``) opens the command history in the searchable pager (incremental search) (:issue:`602`).
Improved prompts
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^