v1.1.20

This is a release candidate build.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.20:

• Now you can bind Lua functions to keys! Added new rl_buffer type that gets passed to the Lua function.
• Added a group of console Lua APIs intended mainly for use by Lua function key bindings (e.g. console.scroll()).
• Added string.equalsi() function that performs a case insensitive UTF8 comparison of two strings.
• Added string.matchlen() function that compares two UTF8 strings and returns how many characters match at the beginning, or -1 if the entire strings match. It respects the match.ignore_case and match.ignore_accents settings.
• Added path.toparent() function that adjust the input string by moving up one directory level.
• Added clink.onendedit() so scripts can register a callback function to run when editing finishes (e.g. Enter is pressed). If desired, the function can even change the input text. This is very powerful, and should be used carefully.
• Changed os.getbatterystatus() to return a table with the battery status details, rather than four separate return values.
• Fixed the doskey.enhanced setting to not expand doskey aliases when preceded by a space. However, a doskey alias after a & or | command separator needs to be preceded by two spaces to avoid expanding it. That's so alias & alias expands both, and alias & alias expands neither; while the rules are more complicated to explain, they make more sense visually.
• Fixed environment variable completion (regression introduced in v1.1.19).
• Fixed Cmder startup (regression introduced in v1.1.17). Cmder expects to be able to replace Clink v0.4.9's clink.lua file, but there is no such thing anymore in newer versions of Clink. To be properly backwardly compatible with Clink v0.4.9 requires loading clink.lua (if it exists) from the first script directory listed by clink info, and ignoring clink.lua files in all other script directories.

v1.1.19

This is a release candidate build.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.19:

• Improved responsiveness while typing: matches are collected only on demand, instead of always while typing. This makes it possible to always support match completion for UNC paths.
• Fixed #50 Alt+H could warn about likely mistakes in key bindings.

v1.1.18

This is a release candidate build.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.18:

• The input text now has context sensitive coloring based on the argmatchers. It's on by default and can be turned off with clink set clink.colorize_input false.
• Updated the Readline library to 8.1.
• Terminal emulation now supports the audible bell character.
• Fixed #48 menu-complete gets stuck.
• Fixed #47 Alt+D erases history instead of word.
• Fixed #46 typing .. in subdirectory of root doesn't work.
• Fixed restoring color after pager when showing help.
• Fixed clink set match completions for color settings.

v1.1.17

This is a release candidate build.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.17:

• Added os.getbatterystatus() function that gets battery status information much faster than launching wmic.
• Fixed #44 Path completion doesn't work with cd /d.

v1.1.16

This is a release candidate build; an official release build is likely to arrive before Jan 1.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.16:

• Added match.ignore_accent setting (enabled by default) that ignores Latin alphabet diacriticals when completing matches (e.g. ä matches a, ı matches i, ł matches l, etc).
• Fixed #42 history lines are split on special characters.
• Fixed #41 Enable custom doskey handling of .. and -.
• Fixed Readline bug inserting dir matches; \win_ foo (cursor at _) would become \Windows\\_ foo.
• Fixed the quoted-insert command to insert just \x1b when ESC is pressed.

v1.1.15

This is a release candidate build; an official release build is likely to arrive before Jan 1.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.15:

• Migrating settings now immediately writes a new settings file, instead of waiting until a setting is changed.
• Added support to detect when running in Windows Terminal and use native terminal support (which enables things like Xterm 256 and 24-bit color support).
• Added terminal emulation support for Xterm 256 and 24-bit color escape codes. Clink maps the specified color to the most similar color in the active 16 color palette (using the CIELAB color space). To get full support for 24-bit color, it's necessary to use ConEmu or Windows Terminal or a similar console host, or to set terminal.emulation to native (which isn't supported on some older Windows OS versions).
• Allow doskey macros named .. or -, and also now doskey macros that resolve to .. or - or a directory name will work (just like if the macro text had been typed at the Clink prompt).
• Fixed compatibility problem with various scripts getting the %HOME% environment variable. Now if it isn't set, then Clink synthesizes %HOME% from %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% or from %USERPROFILE%.
• Fixed saving color settings to behave like other settings: only write a setting's value to the setting file if it differs from the default value.
• Fixed the clink.print() Lua function so it also works during loading scripts and during prompt filtering.
• Fixed the Readline input text display getting garbled if the filtered prompt includes Xterm's OSC window title code (\x1b]0;text\x07). Clink doesn't support that escape code, but at no longer garbles the input text if that escape code is present.

v1.1.14

This is a release candidate build; an official release build is likely to arrive before Jan 1.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.14:

• Migrate settings and history from an old version of Clink, if present. This only happens if the new-version Clink settings or history files don't exist. (Deleting an existing new-version Clink settings or history file will cause migration to happen again.)
• Added color.prompt setting for backward compatibility with Clink v0.4.x.

v1.1.13

This is a release candidate build; an official release build is likely to arrive before Jan 1.

This release candidate build seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.13:

• Fixed clink.arg.register_parser backward compatibility.

v1.1.12

This is a release candidate build.
An official release build is likely to arrive before Jan 1.

This is a release candidate build, and seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.12:

• Added clink.ondisplaymatches() as a replacement for the deprecated clink.match_display_filter. The new API is able to support popup list windows as well.
• Speculative possible fix for #35 Crash when clink on clink.bat.
• Fixed #33 Tab autocomplete, auto-quoting paths doesn't seem to work as in Clink 0.4.9.

v1.1.11

This is a release candidate build.
An official release build is likely to arrive before Christmas this year.

All of the features planned for the first official release from this fork have been completed, and backward compatibility with v0.4.8 seems to be working well.

This is a release candidate build, and seems to be working very well for me, even when copied into an existing Cmder\vendor\clink directory. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Cmder installation before copying Clink into an existing Cmder installation!

Highlights for v1.1.11:

• Changed to load Lua scripts only once per session, unless forced to reload them. This enables backward compatibility for things like z.lua which has certain features that rely on Clink only loading scripts once per session.
• Added clink.onbeginedit() so scripts can register a callback function to be called each time the edit prompt is activated.
• Added lua.reload_scripts setting to optionally force reloading Lua scripts each time the edit prompt is activated.
• Added color.message setting for the Readline message area color (e.g. the search prompt message or digit argument prompt message, etc).
• Fixed stray sticky = appended to completions after typing set and then typing a different command.