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Contour Changelog

What's new in Contour 0.4.2.6429

Feb 5, 2024
  • Fixes Windows alt/control key modifiers (#1408).
  • Fixes Windows built accidentally not including builtin-SSH support (#1427).
  • Fixes some text run segmentation problems, e.g., not making use of some programming ligatures (#395).
  • Fixes mouse scroll wheel events going into the wrong direction if Alt modifier was pressed at the same time (#394).
  • Fixes scripts/install-deps.sh for openSuSE (Tumbleweed) to install the correct dependencies.
  • Fixes missing dependencies for release .deb packages (#1397).
  • Fixes legacy keyboard input protocol not reporting non-Alt modifier (#1411).
  • Fixes thread safety issue on mouse move event handling (#1444).
  • Digitally sign MacOS release binaries using a valid Apple ID.
  • Add support for authenticating to SSH servers with a private key without a password and without requesting for one - also allow password retry (#1425).
  • Default history limit is now 1000 lines rather than 0 lines (#1424).
  • New Contributors:
  • @saliaku made their first contribution in #1439

New in Contour 0.4.1.6292 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • Fixes fast scrolling when using trackpad (#1360)
  • Fixes variable fonts loading
  • Fixes Command modifier for input mappings, such as Command+C or Command+V on on MacOS (#1379).
  • Fixes CSIu encoding of shift modifier produced characters (#1373).
  • Fixes screen destruction on sibling cells when overwriting wide characters, such as Emoji, Kanji, etc.
  • Changes VT sequence DECSCUSR (CSI ? 0 SP q and CSI ? SP q) to reset to user-configured cursor style (#1377).
  • Remove contour-latest terminfo file. Please use contour terminfo instead.
  • Adds Command as modifier to input mappings on MacOS to work along with Meta for convenience reasons (#1379).
  • Adds config option profiles.*.margins to allow customizing the horizontal / vertical margins (#1384).
  • Adds config option for colorscheme default.bright_foreground and default.dimmed_foreground to configure bright and dimmed default foreground text respectively (#1383).

New in Contour 0.4.0 (Dec 21, 2023)

  • Fixes GUI terminating on idle input in some conditions.
  • Fixes search term rendering highlighting for search terms containing whitespaces (#966).
  • Fixes rendering in cases of glyphs with inverted orientation (#1115).
  • Fixes Emoji rendering being too small on OS/X (#1215)
  • Fixes config option show_title_bar (#1153)
  • Fixes VT sequence DECSTBM and DECSLRM defaulting parameters (#1164).
  • Fixes VT sequence DECFRA (#1189).
  • Fixes VT sequence DECSCPP and DECCOLM (#1205).
  • Fixes VT sequence DECALN to properly reset margins when statusline is shown
  • Fixes VT sequence ED (CSI J) when statusline is shown.
  • Fixes VT sequence SM ?1003 (Any Event mouse tracking) not reporting mouse move events.
  • Fixes VT sequence XTWINOPS (CSI 22 t and CSI 23 t) to not assert and terminate the terminal but default to missing paramter 0 instead (#1369).
  • Fixes VT sequences CUU/CUD/CUF/CUB to better respect margins (#1201)
  • Fixes printing over 2nd cell of a wide character should delete wide character (#1268)
  • Fixes URI re-encoding of local files in OSC 8 (#1199)
  • Fixes LCD subpixel rendering for overly wide US-ASCII glyphs (#1022)
  • Fixes alive process when GUI is closed
  • Fixes vi mode f action freeze on last line
  • Fixes AltGr handling on Windows (#150)
  • Fixes rarely happening bad access to GPU texture atlas (#1309)
  • Fixes terminal session not being terminated when the process terminated, but the PTY handle was still open (e.g. by other processes).
  • Fixes setting window class (app_id) on Wayland (#1336)
  • Fixes screen margins not being shared across primary and alt screen, as it should be.
  • Do not clear search term when entering search editor again.
  • Clear search term when switch to insert vi mode (#1135)
  • Delete dpi_scale entry in configuration (#1137)
  • Removes the ability to inline colorschemes within a configuration profile. Colorschemes must now always be referenced by their name.
  • Moves the vi-like cursor with the viewport when scrolling up/down.
  • Adds normal mode motion Ctrl+e and Ctrl+y to vertically move the viewport.
  • Adds the ability to chose a color scheme based on the operating systems's dark/light mode setting. This will change live whenever the OS's dark/light mode setting changes as well (#604).
  • Adds VT sequence DECSSCLS (change scroll speed) and properly handle DECSCLM (enable slow scrolling mode) (#1204)
  • Adds VT sequence parameter ?996 to DSR to request a report of current color scheme dark/light mode hint.
  • Adds VT sequence SM ?2031 and RM ?2031 to enable/disable unsolicited DSR for color scheme updates by the user or OS.
  • Adds support the extended CSIu keyboard protocol to better report key modifiers.
  • Adds extended keyboard protocol support (CSI u) to better report key modifiers.
  • Adds support vor horizontal mouse scrolling event reporting sequences.
  • Adds percentage value to Indicator Statusline to indicate scroll offset in scrollback buffer.
  • Adds inheritance of profiles in configuration file based on default profile (#1063).
  • Adds config option profiles.*.bell to adjust BEL behavior (#1348) and fixes (#1162) and (#1163).
  • Adds config option profiles.*.frozen_dec_modes to permanently enable/disable certain DEC modes.
  • Adds config option profiles.*.option_as_meta to allow remapping Option key to Alt on MacOS.
  • Adds config option profiles.*.ssh to allow connecting to an SSH server directly from Contour.
  • Adds capital A and I keys to switch from normal mode back to insert mode, too.
  • Adds size indicator window on resize (#1203).
  • Adds config entry profile.*.size_indicator_on_resize to control size indicator on resize and makes resize indicator small.
  • Adds OpenSelection action, and honor case in the configuration bindings
  • Adds open resource (URL, local file) feature also to vi mode.
  • Adds configurable window alerts on terminal bells.

New in Contour 0.3.12 (May 31, 2023)

  • Fixes terminfo tsl to how todays apps are using it (e.g. zsh) to simply set the window title.
  • Fixes selecting a single character not working easily (#1066).
  • Fixes cycling between different selection modes (by speed-clicking) not properly working.
  • Fixes tcsh shell integration not working (#1074).
  • Fixes [count]w ignoring the [count] parameter in modal mode.
  • Fixes statusline being misplaced after resize when being in alt screen (#1091).
  • Fixes hyperlinks with IDs (#1088)
  • Fixes hyperlink highlight when screen has been scrolled (#1084)
  • Fixes cursor shape changes when entering vi-like normal mode or visual mode.
  • Improves mouse selection to be more natural extending into new grid cells.
  • Modal mode: Improves how [m jumps from the current prompt to the next prompt above it.
  • Adds profiles.*.permissions.display_host_writable_statusline to allow the user to intervene in DECSSDT 2 VT sequence to show the host writable statusline.
  • Adds config entry input_method_editor colorscheme key to allow customization of the IME (input method editor) region (#1058).
  • Adds gui.shader log option for the output of shader configuration procedure (#715).
  • Adds config entry profiles.*.status_line.position to change statusline position to be either bottom (default) or top.
  • Adds config entry profiles.*.status_line.sync_to_window_title to synchronize the window title with the host writable statusline (if it was denied to be shown).
  • Linux: Adds support for writing to utmp/wtmp.
  • Extends ViNormalMode to toggle between insert and normal mode rather than just entering normal mode.
  • Modal mode: Adds Return key to also move the cursor down (like vim).
  • Model mode: Adds text object im and am to select the range between two line marks.
  • Model mode: Adds handling of Home and End keys (#1098).