CHANGELOG.md

Tridactyl changelog

Release 1.13.0 / Unreleased

• editor now includes the hostname of the site you are on in the temporary filename

  • this is mostly so that you can set up syntax highlighting in Vim, e.g,
  • au BufReadPost *github.com* set syntax=pandoc

• native support for Windows: just do what installnative tells you to

  • you'll probably want to make sure gvim is on your path

• Potentially breaking change: pipes in composite now send return values to the following ex command. Use semi-colons if you want the old behaviour back (see bind D).

Release 1.12.0 / 2018-05-13

• Add container support
  • hint will now open links in the current container
  • there is a new setting, set tabopencontaineraware [false|true], which will make tabopen open new tabs in the current container
• Add extra <CA-Esc> bind to toggle ignore mode by popular demand
• Fix errors related to missing native messenger on Firefox launch

Release 1.11.2 / 2018-05-11

• Hotfix to prevent "config undefined" errors on browser start if no rc file was found
  • It was mysteriously only reproducible sometimes...
• Make newtab changelog a bit wider

Release 1.11.1 / 2018-05-11

• Add "tridactylrc" support

  • Stick a bunch of commands you want to run at startup in one of:
    • $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/tridactyl/tridactylrc
    • ~/.config/tridactyl/tridactylrc
    • ~/.tridactylrc
  • Example file available here
  • You can run any file you want with source [absolute path to file]. Bonus points if you can think of something sensible to do with source in an autocmd.
  • If you want vim-style configuration where nothing persists except that which is in the rc file, simply add sanitise tridactyllocal tridactylsync to the top of your rc file.
  • Only whole-line comments are supported at the moment, in the VimL style where lines start with a quote mark: "

• Native messenger updated to 0.1.3

  • Add rc file reader
  • Add ability to read environment variables
  • Make read understand ~ and environment variables (used in source)

• Readme updated

  • Add statistics page and guiset

• Bug fixes

  • guiset can now cope with multiple Firefox instances running simultaneously provided they are started with profiles explicitly via the command line.

• Deprecations

  • Remove buffers,tabs as promised
  • Inform people pressing I of the new bind

Release 1.11.0 / 2018-05-09

• You can now edit the Firefox GUI from Tridactyl with guiset. You must restart Firefox after using guiset to see the effects.

  • e.g, guiset gui none or guiset gui full.
  • see all the options with help guiset and following the links.
  • Only minimally tested. Back up your precious userChrome.css if you care about it!

• You can now choose to bypass CSP on all sites with set csp clobber. If you change your mind, just unset csp, and restart your browser.

  • This, for example, allows Tridactyl to run on pages such as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/master/CHANGELOG.md, but it could also allow other scripts to run on pages, making the Internet as dangerous as it was about 2 or 3 years ago before CSP was introduced.
  • Once this bug in Firefox is fixed, you won't have to clobber CSP.

• Tridactyl will no longer update while the browser is running in an attempt to fix issues where the add-on would be unresponsive after an update; instead, it will only update on browser launch.

  • This includes manual updates via about:addons. You'll need to restart the browser after clicking "Check for updates".

• set newtab news.bbc.co.uk etc. now looks much less janky

• Minor new features

  • Add !s alias for silent exclaim
  • termite and terminator support with set editorcmd auto
  • Allow binding (not recommended...)
  • AMO explains why we need each new permission
  • Native messenger documentation improved, making it clear that we haven't reimplemented IRC in the browser.

• Minor bug fixes

  • Remove pixel gap under command bar (#442)
  • Native installer no longer requires pip and supports Debian's which
  • Help page links are more legible on rubbish screens
  • Turn 'q' and 'qall' into aliases
  • Fix typo regarding binding of special keys on help page
  • focusinput is now better at finding elements to focus

Release 1.10.1 / 2018-05-04

• Add tabcloseallto{right,left} bound to gx0 and gx$
• Update tab page and other documentation to reflect new ignore mode binding
• Fix #474: you can open a handful of about:* pages without the native messenger again
• Improve feedback when native messenger is not correctly installed

Release 1.10.0 / 2018-05-03

• Native messenger (for OSX/Linux only, for now)! On Linux/OSXRun :installnative to install, then:

  • <Ctrl-I> in a text field will open Vim, probably. Set it with set editorcmd but make sure that the command stays in the foreground till the programme is exited.
  • Not all text fields work yet (esp CodeMirror), so make sure you test it before writing war and peace.
  • :! [shell command] or :exclaim [shell command] will run the command and give you STDOUT/STDERR back in the command line.
    • You can't use composite and shell pipes together yet.
    • Anything that works in /bin/sh should work
      • If you want to use a different shell, just make your own alias:
        • command ! exclaim fish -c (but be aware that some shells require quotes around arguments given to -c)
  • Requires a new permission to use the native messenger (and to use Tridactyl at all, unfortunately)
  • nativeopen will try to open a new tab or window using the native messenger. It is used in {,win,tab}open automatically when you try to open about:* or file:* URIs.

• Add hint -W [exstr] to execute exstr on hint's href

  • hint -W exclaim_quiet mpv works particularly well.

• Breaking change: change ignore mode binds to be symmetric and resolve Jupyter conflict

  • Ignore mode is now bound to <S-Insert> to enter and leave it.
  • Previous binds of I and <S-Esc> are unbound

• More scrolling fixes

  • G/gg will now work on more sites

• Completion improvements

  • History completion performance improved
    • If you find you are getting worse results than usual, increase set historyresults to, e.g, 500.
  • Fix #446: you can now edit completions you select with space
  • Completions will now pan to show you what you have selected

• Mode indicator is now print friendly (#453)!

• Fiddled with help theme

  • We've tried to make it look a bit more like the old Vimperator help pages and have hidden some useless or misleading bits that TypeDoc produced, such as the return values.

• viewsource improved

  • Now bound to gf by default
  • Fix viewsource elem not always covering the whole page
  • Remove viewsource elem on spa history changes

• Bind help to F1

• Changelog changelog:

  • Change changelog date format
  • Changelog: use standard case: changelog.md -> CHANGELOG.md
  • Changelog: move to the standard location
  • Changelog: add dates

• Misc fixes

  • Fix :open . Fixes #421
  • Filter AltGraph keys. Fixes #430
  • Explain that the hint tags are typed in lowercase even though they are displayed in uppercase

Release 1.9.8 / 2018-04-26

• Make error reporting to command line less fussy
• Fix error reporting loop with noiframeon

Release 1.9.7 / 2018-04-25

• Load iframe more lazily to stop breakage on some sites
• Add setting noiframeon for websites that are still broken by our iframe ("ServiceNow", for example: #279)
  • Simply set noiframeon [space separated URLs] to blacklist URLs
• This will hopefully be our final release before the native messenger for OSX and Linux is merged.
  • If you'd like to help test it out, download our latest betas from here and run :installnative once you are in.

Release 1.9.6 / 2018-04-25

• Scrolling improvements
  • Faster (#395)
  • G/gg work on more pages (#382)
• Mode indicator improvements
  • Can be disabled with set modeindicator false
  • Text is not selectable to improve the lives of people who "Select All" a lot
• Internal error messages are now displayed in the command line
• New default alias :h for :help
• Bug fixes
  • Fix #418: keyseq is better at realising when a key combination is invalid

Release 1.9.5 / 2018-04-22

• Add mode indicator
• Fix #337: Make composite and ex-parser more sequential
  • Add D binding: close current tab and tabprev
• Bug fixes
  • Fix tab in inputmode
  • Catch CSP exception when hijacking

Release 1.9.4 / 2018-04-20

• Add jumplist for inputs bound to g;
  • Editor's impartial note: this is pretty cool
• Add hint -W [exstr] to execute exstr on hint's href
• Update new tab page:
  • Add changelog
  • Remove welcome to new users as we have tutor for that now
  • Fix newtab redirection on set newtab [url]
    • set newtab about:blank now works thanks to a Mozilla bug fix!
  • Warn users about native messenger update
• Bug fixes
  • input-mode now correctly exits to normal mode on focus loss
  • Stop treating "std::map" or "Error: foo" as URIs: searching for them will now work.

Release 1.9.3 / 2018-04-19

• Fix unbind issues
• Add more default binds from Vimperator
• Change the ^ bind to <c-6> (matches vim)
• :bmark now supports folders

Release 1.9.2 / 2018-04-16

• Fix #392 (bug with keyseq)

Release 1.9.1 / 2018-04-15

• Fix buffer switch bind

Release 1.9.0 / 2018-04-15

• Allow binds with modifiers (e.g. <C-u>) and binds of special keys (e.g. <F1>) and both together (e.g. <SA-Escape>)
• Normal mode now only hides keypresses that you've told it to listen to from the web page
• Improve documentation
  • Update readme
  • Improve help on excmds.ts
  • Update AMO text (includes explanation of why various permissions are demanded)
  • Add tutorial on tutor
    • Shown on first install of Tridactyl
  • Add viewconfig command to open the current configuration in Firefox's native JSON viewer (which Tridactyl doesn't work in)
• Move betas to our own site as addons.mozilla.org stopped supporting them (#307)
  • Add automatic updates for betas
    • If you downloaded a beta before pre778, you will need to update manually to a later beta.
• Small new features
  • Fix #370: add clipboard yanktitle|yankmd
  • Add fullscreen command (not quite #376)
  • Add viewsource command
  • set allowautofocus false to stop pages stealing focus on load (#266, #369)
  • ^ now switches to last used tab by default
  • In command mode, Space now puts the URL from the selected completion into the command line (#224)
  • Add find mode, left unbound by default
    • Not ready for widespread usage: slow and probably buggy.
  • hint -wp to open hint in a private window (#317)
  • Configuration can now upgrade itself to allow us to rename settings
  • Add dark theme: set theme dark (#230)
  • Tab opening settings for tabopen (#342)
    • set {related,tab}openpos next|last
• Stuff only collaborators will care about
  • Code is now run through the prettier formatter before each commit
• Moderately large bug fixes
  • Fix scrolling on sites that use frames (#372, #63, #107, #273, #218)
  • Fix hinting on sites with frames (#67)
  • Hijack event listeners to put hints on more JavaScript links (#204, #163, #215)
• Small bug fixes
  • Fix #276: ]] on Hacker News
  • Support #/% index for tabs everywhere internally
    • Fix #341: tabclose # now works
  • Reduce logging
  • Rename some config:
    • Rename vimium-gi to gimode, default to firefox, version to configversion
  • Fix hinting following JavaScript links because they look the same
• Introduce new bugs
  • Show useless hints on some sites (#225)
  • and more!

Release 1.8.2 / 2018-03-07

• Improve config API
  • set key.subkey.subsubkey value now works
  • Add user feedback to bind and get
• Add save link/img hint submode (;s, ;S, ;a, ;A) (#148)
• Add autocmd [event] [filter] [ex command]
  • Currently, only supports the event DocStart
  • Most useful for entering ignore mode on certain websites: autocmd DocStart mail.google.com mode ignore
• Add exmode aliases with command [alias] [ex_command]. Many aliases have been ported from Pentadactyl. (#236)
• Add urlmodify command (#286, #298)
• Support Emacs-style C-(a|e|k|u) in cmdline (#277)
• Support changing followpage pattern used in ]] and [[ to allow use with foreign languages
• Add logging levels and make logging less verbose by default (#206)
• Support %s magic string for search providers (#253)
• Add hintfiltermode config and new "vimperator, vimperator-reflow" hinting modes
  • Make hintPage follow link if there's only 1 option
• Fix high resource usage when typing under some circumstances (#311)
• set newtab foo.bar now changes all new tab pages (#235)
• Fix hints on some sites via cleanslate.css (#220)
• Fix new config system (#321)
• followpage now falls back to urlincrement
• tabopen now opens tabs to the right of the curent tab
• Fix floating commandline iframe on some sites (#289)
• Enter insert mode on drop down menus (#281)
• Support hinting on some dodgy old websites (#287)
• Make :reloadall only refresh current window tabs (#288)
• Remove xx binding (#262)
• Fix gu in directories (#256)
• Fix various typos (#247, #228)
• Add FAQ and other updates to readme.md (#232)

Release 1.7.3 / 2017-12-21

• Hint tags are much better:
  • Hint tags are now as short as possible
  • Remove now disused hintorder setting
• Add . to repeat last action
• Add inputmode: gi and then Tab will cycle you between all input fields on a page
• Add hint kill submode ;k for removing elements of a webpage such as dickbars
• Add relative zoom and z{i,z,o} binds
• Add sanitize excmd for deleting browsing/Tridactyl data
• Search engines:
  • Add searchsetkeyword [keyword] [url]: define your own search engines (#194)
  • Add Qwant and update startpage URL (#198)
  • Add Google Scholar search engine
• Fix problems where ignore mode would revert to normal mode on some websites with iframes (#176)
• Add ^ and $ in normal mode for navigation to 0% or 100% in x-direction
• Buffer completion fixes
  • Use tab ID even if buffer has a trailing space (#223)
  • completions: passthrough # in buffercompletion
• Support multiple URLs for quickmarks
• Blacklist default newtab url from history completions
• Fix set newtab failing to set newtab
• Add q, qa, and quit synonyms
• Fix unset failing to take effect without reloading page
• Minor improvements to help preface
• Add
  tags to standard hinting
• Log an error to browser console if no TTS voices are found

Release 1.7.0 / 2017-12-01

• History completion is massively improved: much faster, more relevant results, and less janky as you type.
• User configuration
  • set [setting] without a value will inform you of the current value
  • Add configuration options for hinting: hintchars and hintorder
  • Add unset for resetting a bind to default
  • You can now change default search engine with e.g, set searchengine bing (#60)
  • The default new tab page can be replaced with any URL via set newtab [url] (#59)
  • Add gh and gH and "homepages" setting (#96)
• Shift-tab and tab now will cycle around completions correctly
• ys now works on some older pages
• Add bmarks command for searching through bookmarks (#167)
• Add hint -c [selector]: add hints that match CSS selector
• Add text-to-speech hint mode on ;r
• Allow ;p to yank any element which contains text
• Add ;# hint yank anchor mode
• Improve hint CSS by adding a border and making background semi-transparent
• Add tabonly command
• Fix hinting mysteriously not working on some pages (#168)
• Fix issue where command line would invisibly cover up part of the screen (#170)
• Bookmarks can now have spaces in their titles
• Fix some hints on sites such as pcgamer.co.uk
• Long page titles will no longer appear after URLs in completions