zsh-syntax-highlighting/changelog.md

up to cef49752fd

Changes in version 0.5.0

Added highlighting of:

• 'pkexec' (a precommand).
  (#248, 4f3910cbba)

• Aliases that cannot be defined normally nor invoked normally (highlighted as an error).
  (#263 (in part), 28932316cc)

• The isearch and suffix $zle_highlight settings.
  (79e4d3d12405; requires zsh 5.3 for $ISEARCH_ACTIVE / $SUFFIX_ACTIVE support)

Fixed highlighting of:

• Command separator tokens in syntactically-invalid positions.
  (09c4114eb9)

• Redirections with a file descriptor number at command word.
  (#238 (in part), 73ee7c1f6c)

• The select prompt, $PS3.
  (#268, 451665cb2a)

• Values of variables in vared.
  (e500ca2462)

• ! as an argument (neither a history expansion nor a reserved word).
  (4c23a2fd1b)

API changes (for highlighter authors):

• New interface _zsh_highlight_add_highlight.
  (341a3ae1f0, c346f6eb6f)

• tests: Specify the style key, not its value, in test expectations.
  (a830613467, fd061b5730, eaa4335c34, among others)

Developer-visible changes:

• Add make quiet-test.
  (9b64ad750f)

• test harness: Better quote replaceables in error messages.
  (30d8f92df2)

• test harness: Fix exit code for XPASS.
  (bb8d325c0c)

• tests: Add the "NONE" expectation.
  (4da9889d15)

• Create HACKING.md.

Other changes:

• Under zsh≤5.2, widgets whose names start with a _ are no longer excluded
  from highlighting.
  (ed33d2cb1388; reverts part of 186d80054a which was for #65)

• Under zsh≤5.2, widgets implemented by a function named after the widget are
  no longer excluded from highlighting.
  (487b122c480d; reverts part of 776453cb5b)

• Under zsh≤5.2, shell-unsafe widget names can now be wrapped.
  (#278, 6a634fac9f, et seq)

• Correct some test expectations.
  (78290e043b)

• zsh-syntax-highlighting.plugin.zsh: Convert from symlink to plain file
  for msys2 compatibility.
  (#292, d4f8edc9f3)

Changes in version 0.4.1

Fixes:

• Arguments to widgets were not properly dash-escaped. Only matters for widgets
  that take arguments (i.e., that are invoked as zle ${widget} -- ${args}).
  (282c7134e8, reverts c808d2187a)

Changes in version 0.4.0

Added highlighting of:

• incomplete sudo commands
  (a3047a9121, 2f05620b19)

    sudo;
    sudo -u;
  

• command words following reserved words
  (#207, #222, b397b12ac1 et seq, 6fbd2aa957 et seq, 8b4adbd991)

    if ls; then ls; else ls; fi
    repeat 10 do ls; done
  

  (The ls are now highlighted as a command.)

• comments (when INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS is set)
  (#163, #167, 693de99a90)

    echo Hello # comment
  

• closing brackets of arithmetic expansion, subshells, and blocks
  (#226, a59f442d2d, et seq)

    (( foo ))
    ( foo )
    { foo }
  

• command names enabled by the PATH_DIRS option
  (#228, 96ee5116b1)

    # When ~/bin/foo/bar exists, is executable, ~/bin is in $PATH,
    # and 'setopt PATH_DIRS' is in effect
    foo/bar
  

• parameter expansions with braces inside double quotes
  (#186, 6e3720f39d)

    echo "${foo}"
  

• parameter expansions in command word
  (#101, 4fcfb15913)

    x=/bin/ls
    $x -l
  

• the command separators '|&', '&!', '&|'

    view file.pdf &!  ls
  

Fixed highlighting of:

• precommand modifiers at non-command-word position
  (#209, 2c9f8c8c95)

    ls command foo
  

• sudo commands with infix redirections
  (#221, be006aded5, 86e9249709)

    sudo -u >/tmp/foo.out user ls
  

• subshells; anonymous functions
  (#166, #194, 0d1bfbcbfa, 9e178f9f39)

    (true)
    () { true }
  

• parameter assignment statements with no command
  (#205, 01d7eeb3c7)

    A=1;
  

  (The semicolon used to be highlighted as a mistake)

• cursor highlighter: Remove the cursor highlighting when accepting a line.
  (#109, 4f0c293fde)

Removed features:

• Removed highlighting of approximate paths (path_approx).
  (#187, 98aee7f8b9)

Other changes:

• main highlighter refactored to use states rather than booleans.
  (2080a441ac, et seq)

• Fix initialization when sourcing zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh via a symlink
  (083c47b007)

• docs: Add screenshot.
  (57624bb9f6)

• widgets wrapping: Don't add '--' when invoking widgets.
  (c808d2187a) [reverted in 0.4.1]

• Refresh highlighting upon accept-* widgets (accept-line et al).
  (59fbdda64c)

• Stop leaking match/mbegin/mend to global scope (thanks to upstream
  WARN_CREATE_GLOBAL improvements).
  (d3deffbf46)

• 'make install': Permit setting $(SHARE_DIR) from the environment.
  (e1078a8b4c)

• driver: Tolerate KSH_ARRAYS being set in the calling context.
  (#162, 8f19af6b31)

• 'make install': Install documentation fully and properly.
  (#219, b1619c0013, et seq)

• docs: Improve 'main' highlighter's documentation.
  (00de155063, 7d4252f5f5)

• docs: Moved to a new docs/ tree; assorted minor updates
  (c575f8f375, 5b34c23cfa, et seq)

• docs: Split README.md into INSTALL.md
  (0b3183f6cb)

• driver: Report $ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_REVISION when running from git
  (84734ba950)

Developer-visible changes:

• Test harness converted to TAP format
  (d99aa58aaa, et seq)

• Run each test in a separate subprocess, isolating them from each other
  (d99aa58aaa, et seq)

• Fix test failure with nonexisting $HOME
  (#216, b2ac98b981)

• Test output is now colorized.
  (4d3da30f8b, 6fe07c0961)

• Document make install
  (a18a7427fd)

• tests: Allow specifying the zsh binary to use.
  (557bb7e0c6)

• tests: Add 'make perf' target
  (4513eaea71)

• tests: Run each test in a sandbox directory
  (c015339202)

Changes in version 0.3.0

Added highlighting of:

• suffix aliases (requires zsh 5.1.1 or newer):

    alias -s png=display
    foo.png
  

• prefix redirections:

    <foo.txt cat
  

• redirection operators:

    echo > foo.txt
  

• arithmetic evaluations:

    (( 42 ))
  

• $'' strings, including \x/\octal/\u/\U escapes

    : $'foo\u0040bar'
  

• multiline strings:

    % echo "line 1
    line 2"
  

• string literals that haven't been finished:

    % echo "Hello, world
  

• command words that involve tilde expansion:

    % ~/bin/foo
  

Fixed highlighting of:

• quoted command words:

    % \ls
  

• backslash escapes in "" strings:

    % echo "\x41"
  

• noglob after command separator:

    % :; noglob echo *
  

• glob after command separator, when the first command starts with 'noglob':

    % noglob true; echo *
  

• the region (vi visual mode / set-mark-command) (issue #165)

• redirection and command separators that would be highlighted as path_approx

    % echo foo;‸
    % echo <‸
  

  (where ‸ represents the cursor location)

• escaped globbing (outside quotes)

    % echo \*
  

Other changes:

• implemented compatibility with zsh's paste highlighting (issue #175)

• $? propagated correctly to wrapped widgets

• don't leak $REPLY into global scope

Developer-visible changes:

• added makefile with install and test targets

• set warn_create_global internally

• document release process

Version 0.2.1

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