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04 May 2009
* Use ACS line drawing characters for pane separator lines.
30 April 2009
* Support command sequences without a space before the semicolon, for example
"neww; neww" now works as well as "neww ; neww". "neww;neww" is still an
error.
* previous-layout command.
* Display the layout name in window lists.
* Merge resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down into resize-pane with -U and -D
flags.
29 April 2009
* Get rid of compat/vis.* - only one function was used which is easily
replaced,and less compat code == good.
27 April 2009
* Avoid using the prompt history when the server is locked, and prevent any
input entered from being added to the client's prompt history.
* New command, confirm-before (alias confirm), which asks for confirmation
before executing a command. Bound "&" and "x" by default to confirm-before
"kill-window" and confirm-before "kill-pane", respectively.
23 April 2009
* Support NEL, yet another way of making newline. Fixes the output from some
Gentoo packaging thing. Reported by someone on SF then logs that allowed a
fix sent by tcunha.
* Use the xenl terminfo flag to detect early-wrap terminals like the FreeBSD
console. Many thanks for a very informative email from Christian Weisgerber.
21 April 2009
* tmux 0.8 released.
17 April 2009
* Remove the right number of characters from the buffer when escape then
a cursor key (or other key prefixed by \033) is pressed. Reported by
Stuart Henderson.
03 April 2009
* rotate-window command. -U flag (default) for up, -D flag for down.
02 April 2009
* Change scroll/pane redraws to only redraw the single pane affected rather
than the entire window.
* If redrawing the region would mean redrawing > half the pane, just schedule
to redraw the entire window. Also add a flag to skip updating the window any
further if it is scheduled to be redrawn. This has the effect of batching
multiple redraws together.
01 April 2009
* Basic horizontal splitting and layout management. Still some redraw and other
issues - particularly, don't mix with manual pane resizing, be careful when
viewing from multiple clients and don't expect shell windows to redraw very
well after the layout is changed; generally cycling the layout a few times
will fix most problems. Getting this in for testing while I think about how
to deal with manual mode.
Split window as normal and cycle the layouts with C-b space. Some of the
layouts will work better when swap-pane comes along.
31 March 2009
* AIX port, thanks to cmihai for access to a box. Only tested on 6.1 with xlc
10.1 (make sure CC is set). Needs GNU make and probably ncurses (didn't try
plain curses). Also won't build with DEBUG, so comment the FDEBUG=1 line in
GNUmakefile.
* Draw a vertical line on the right when the window size is less than the
terminal size. This is partly to shake out any horizontal limit bugs on the
way to horizontal splitting/pane tiling. Currently a bit slow since it has to
do a lot of redrawing but hopefully that will improve as I get some better
ideas for how to do it.
* Fix remaining problems with copy and paste and UTF-8.
28 March 2009
* Better UTF-8 support, including combined characters. Unicode data is now
stored as UTF-8 in a separate array, the code does a lookup into this every
time it gets to a UTF-8 cell. Zero width characters are just appended onto
the UTF-8 data for the previous cell. This also means that almost no bytes
extra are wasted non-Unicode data (yay).
Still some oddities, such as copy mode skips over wide characters in a
strange way, and the code could do with some tidying.
* Key repeating is now a property of the key binding not of the command.
Repeat is turned on when the key is bound with the -r flag to bind-key.
next/previous-window no longer repeat by default as it turned out to annoy
me.
27 March 2009
* Clear using ED when redrawing the screen. I foolishly assumed using spaces
would be equivalent and terminals would pick up on this, but apparently not.
This fixes copy and paste in xterm/rxvt.
* Sockets in /tmp are now created in a subdirectory named, tmux-UID, eg
tmux-1000. The default socket is thus /tmp/tmux-UID/default. To start a
separate server, the new -L command line option should be used: this creates
a socket in the same directory with a different name ("-L main" will create
socket called "main"). -S should only be used to place the socket outside
/tmp. This makes sockets a little more secure and a bit more convenient to
use multiple servers.
21 March 2009
* New session flag "set-remain-on-exit" to set remain-on-exit flag for new
windows created in that session (like "remain-by-default" used to do). Not
perfectly happy about this, but until I can think of a good way to introduce
it generically (maybe a set of options in the session) this will do. Fixes
SF request 2527847.
07 March 2009
* Support for 88 colour terminals.
* break-pane command to create a new window using an existing pane.
02 March 2009
* Make escape key timer work properly so escape+key can be used without
lightning fast key presses.
13 February 2009
* Redo mode keys slightly more cleanly and apply them to command prompt
editing. vi or emacs mode is controlled by the session option status-keys.
12 February 2009
* Looking up argv[0] is expensive, so just use p_comm for the window name which
is good enough. Also increase name update time to 500 ms.
11 February 2009
* Only use ri when actually at the top of the screen; just move the cursor up
otherwise.
* FreeBSD's console wraps lines at $COLUMNS - 1 rather than $COLUMNS (the
cursor can never be beyond $COLUMNS - 1) and does not appear to support
changing this behaviour, or any of the obvious possibilities (turning off
right margin wrapping, insert mode). This is irritating, most notably because
it impossible to write to the very bottom-right of the screen without
scrolling. To work around this, if built on FreeBSD and run with a "cons"
$TERM, the bottom-right cell on the screen is omitted.
* Emulate scroll regions (slowly) to support the few terminals which don't have
it (some of which don't really have any excuse).
10 February 2009
* No longer redraw the status line every status-interval unless it has actually
changed.
08 February 2009
* Don't treat empty arguments ("") differently when parsing configuration
file/command prompt rather than command line.
* tmux 0.7 released.
03 February 2009
* New command, copy-buffer (alias copyb), to copy a session paste buffer to
another session.
01 February 2009
* The character pair #(command) may now contain (escaped) right parenthesis.
30 January 2009
* . now bound to "command-prompt 'move-window %%'" by default, from joshe.
29 January 2009
* Window options to set status line fg, bg and attributes for a single
window. Options are: window-status-fg, window-status-bg,
window-status-attr. Set to "default" to use the session status colours.
This allows quite neat things like:
$ cat ~/bin/xssh
#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -z "$TMUX" ]; then
case "$1" in
natalya)
tmux setw window-status-fg red >/dev/null
;;
natasha)
tmux setw window-status-fg yellow >/dev/null
;;
esac
fi
ssh "$@"
[ ! -z "$TMUX" ] && tmux setw -u window-status-fg >/dev/null
$ alias ssh="~/bin/xssh"
* Support #(command) in status-left, and status-right, which is displayed as
the first line of command's output (e.g. set -g status-right
"#(whoami)@#(hostname -s)"). Commands with )s aren't supported.
28 January 2009
* Support mouse in copy mode to move cursor. Can't do anything else at the
moment until other mouse modes are handled.
* Better support for at least the most common variant of mouse input: parse it
and adjust for different panes. Also support mouse in window/session choice
mode.
27 January 2009
* Bring back the fancy window titles with session/window names: it is easy to
work around problems with elinks (see FAQ).
* -u flag to scroll-mode and copy-mode to start scrolled one page
up. scroll-mode -u is bound to prefix,page-up (ppage) by default.
* Allow status, mode and message attributes to be changed by three new options:
status-attr, mode-attr, message-attr. A comma-separataed list is accepted
containing: bright, dim, underscore, blink, reverse, hidden, italics, for
example:
set -g status-attr bright,blink
From Josh Elsasser, thanks!
26 January 2009
* Be more clever about picking the right process to create the window name.
* Don't balls up the terminal on UTF-8 combined characters. Don't support them
properly either - they are just discarded for the moment.
25 January 2009
* load-buffer command
23 January 2009
* Use reverse colours rather than swapping fg and bg for message, mode and
status line. This makes these usable on black and white terminals.
* Better error messages when creating a session or window fails.
* Oops. Return non-zero on error. Reported by Will Maier.
21 January 2009
* Handle SIGTERM (and kill-server which uses it), a bit more neatly - tidy
up properly and print a nicer message. Same effect though :-).
* new-window now supports -k to kill target window if it exists.
* Bring back split-window -p and -l options to specify the height a percentage
or as a number of lines.
* Make window and session choice modes allow you to choose items in vi keys
mode (doh!). As a side-effect, this makes enter copy selection (as well
as C-w/M-w) when using emacs keys in copy mode. Reported by merdely.
20 January 2009
* Darwin support for automatic-rename from joshe; Darwin doesn't seem to have
a sane method of getting argv[0] and searching for the precise insane way
is too frustrating, so this just uses the executable name.
* Try to change the window title to match the command running it in. This is
done by reading argv[0] from the process group leader of the group that owns
the tty (tcgetpgrp()). This can't be done portably so some OS-dependent code
is introduced (ugh); OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux are supported at the moment.
A new window flag, automatic-rename, is available: if this is set to off, the
window name is not changed. Specifying a name with the new-window,
new-session or rename-window commands will automatically set this flag to off
for the window in question. To disable it entirely set the option to off
globally (setw -g automatic-rename off).
19 January 2009
* Fix various stupid issues when the status line is turned off. Grr.
* Use reverse attributes for clock and cursor, otherwise they do not
appear on black and white terminals.
* An error in a command sequence now stops execution of that sequence.
Internally, each command code now passes a return code back rather than
talking to the calling client (if any) directly.
* attach-session now tries to start the server if it isn't already started - if
no sessions are created in .tmux.conf this will cause an error.
* Clean up starting server by making initial client get a special socketpair.
18 January 2009
* Unbreak UTF-8.
* -a flag to next-window and previous-window to select the next or previous
window with activity or bell. Bound to M-n and M-p.
* find-window command to search window names, titles and visible content (but
not history) for a string. If only one is found, the window is selected
otherwise a choice list is shown. This (as with the other choice commands)
only works from a key. Bound to "f" by default.
* Cleaned up command printing code, also enclose arguments with spaces in "s.
* Added command sequences. These are entered by separating each argument by a ;
argument (spaces on both sides), for example:
lsk ; lsc
To use a literal ; as the argument prefix it with \, for example:
bind x lsk \; lsc
Commands are executed from left to right. Also note that command sequences do
not support repeat-time repetition unless all commands making up the sequence
support it.
* suspend-client command to suspend a client. Don't try to background it
though...
* Mark attached sessions in sessions lists. Suggested by Simon Kuhnle.
17 January 2009
* tmux 0.6 released.
15 January 2009
* Support #H for hostname and #S for session name in status-left/right.
* Two new commands, choose-window and choose-session which work only when bound
to a key and allow the window or session to be selected from a list. These
are now bound to "w" and "s" instead of the list commands.
14 January 2009
* Rework the prefix-time stuff. The option is now called repeat-time and
defaults to 500 ms. It only applies to a small subset of commands, currently:
up-pane, down-pane, next-window, previous-window, resize-pane-up,
resize-pane-down. These are the commands for which it is obviously useful,
having it for everything else was just bloody annoying.
* The alt-up and alt-down keys now resize a pane by five lines at a time.
* switch-pane is now select-pane and requires -p to select a pane. The
"o" key binding is changed to down-pane.
* up-pane and down-pane commands, bound to arrow up and down by default.
* Multiple vertical window splitting. Minimum pane size is four lines, an
(unhelpful) error will be shown if attempting to split a window with less
that eight lines. If the window is resized, as many panes are shown as can
fit without reducing them below four lines. There is (currently!) not a way
to show a hidden pane without making the window larger.
Note the -p and -l options to split-window are now gone, these may reappear
once I think them through again.
* Server locking on inactivity (lock-after-time) is now disabled by de
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