14 KiB
Changes in version 0.6.0
This is a stable release, featuring bugfixes and minor improvements.
Performance improvements:
(none)
Added highlighting of:
- The
isearch
andsuffix
$zle_highlight
settings. (79e4d3d12405, 15db71abd0cc, b56ee542d619; requires zsh 5.3 for$ISEARCHMATCH_ACTIVE
/$SUFFIX_ACTIVE
support)
-
Possible history expansions in double-quoted strings. (76ea9e1df316)
-
Mismatched
if
/then
/elif
/else
/fi
. (73cb83270262)
Fixed highlighting of:
-
A comment line followed by a non-comment line. (#385, 9396ad5c5f9c)
-
An unquoted
$*
(expands to the positional parameters). (237f89ad629f) -
history-incremental-pattern-search-backward under zsh 5.3.1. (#407, #415, 462779629a0c)
API changes (for highlighter authors):
(none)
Developer-visible changes:
- tests: Set the
ALIAS_FUNC_DEF
option for zsh 5.4 compatibility. (9523d6d49cb3)
Other changes:
-
docs: Added before/after screenshots. (cd9ec14a65ec..b7e277106b49)
-
docs: Link Fedora package. (3d74aa47e4a7, 5feed23962df)
-
docs: Link FreeBSD port. (626c034c68d7)
-
docs: Link OpenSUSE Build Service packages (#419, dea1fedc7358)
-
Prevent user-defined aliases from taking effect in z-sy-h's own code. (#390, 2dce602727d7, 8d5afe47f774; and #392, #395, b8fa1b9dc954)
-
docs: Update zplug installation instructions. (#399, 4f49c4a35f17)
-
Improve "unhandled ZLE widget 'foo'" error message. (#409, be083d7f3710)
-
Fix printing of "failed loading highlighters" error message. (#426, ad522a091429)
Changes in version 0.5.0
Performance improvements:
We thank Sebastian Gniazdowski and "m0viefreak" for significant contributions in this area.
-
Optimize string operations in the
main
(default) highlighter. (#372/3cb58fd7d7b9, 02229ebd6328, ef4bfe5bcc14, #372/c6b6513ac0d6, #374/15461e7d21c3) -
Command word highlighting: Use the
zsh/parameter
module to avoid forks. Memoize (cache) the results. (#298, 3ce01076b521, 2f18ba64e397, 12b879caf7a6; #320, 3b67e656bff5) -
Avoid forks in the driver and in the
root
highlighter. (b9112aec798a, 38c8fbea2dd2)
Added highlighting of:
-
pkexec
(a precommand). (#248, 4f3910cbbaa5) -
Aliases that cannot be defined normally nor invoked normally (highlighted as an error). (#263 (in part), 28932316cca6)
-
Path separators (
/
) — the default behaviour remains to highlight path separators and path components the same way. (#136, #260, 6cd39e7c70d3, 9a934d291e7c, f3d3aaa00cc4) -
Assignments to individual positional arguments (
42=foo
to assign to$42
). (f4036a09cee3) -
Linewise region (the
visual-line-mode
widget, bound toV
in zsh'svi
keymap). (#267, a7a7f8b42280, ee07588cfd9b) -
Command-lines recalled by
isearch
mode; requires zsh≥5.3. (#261 (in part); #257; 4ad311ec0a68) -
Command-lines whilst the
IGNORE_BRACES
orIGNORE_CLOSE_BRACES
option is in effect. (a8a6384356af, 02807f1826a5) -
Mismatched parentheses and braces (in the
main
highlighter). (51b9d79c3bb6, 2fabf7ca64b7, a4196eda5e6f, and others) -
Mismatched
do
/done
keywords. (b2733a64da93) -
Mismatched
foreach
/end
keywords. (#96, 2bb8f0703d8f) -
In Bourne-style function definitions, when the
MULTI_FUNC_DEF
option is set (which is the default), highlight the first word in the function body as a command word:f() { g "$@" }
. (6f91850a01e1) -
always
blocks. (#335, e5782e4ddfb6) -
Command substitutions inside double quotes,
"$(echo foo)"
. (#139 (in part), c3913e0d8ead) -
Non-alphabetic parameters inside double quotes (
"$$"
,"$#"
,"$*"
,"$@"
,"$?"
,"$-"
). (4afe670f7a1b, 44ef6e38e5a7) -
Command words from future versions of zsh (forward compatibly). This also adds an
arg0
style that all other command word styles fall back to. (b4537a972eed, bccc3dc26943) -
Escaped history expansions inside double quotes:
: "\!"
(28d7056a7a06, et seq)
Fixed highlighting of:
-
Command separator tokens in syntactically-invalid positions. (09c4114eb980)
-
Redirections with a file descriptor number at command word. (#238 (in part), 73ee7c1f6c4a)
-
The
select
prompt,$PS3
. (#268, 451665cb2a8b) -
Values of variables in
vared
. (e500ca246286) -
!
as an argument (neither a history expansion nor a reserved word). (4c23a2fd1b90) -
"division by zero" error under the
brackets
highlighter when$ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES
is empty. (f73f3d53d3a6) -
Process substitutions,
<(pwd)
and>(wc -l)
. (#302, 6889ff6bd2ad, bfabffbf975c, fc9c892a3f15) -
The non-
SHORT_LOOPS
form ofrepeat
loops:repeat 42; do true; done
. (#290, 4832f18c50a5, ef68f50c048f, 6362c757b6f7) -
Broken symlinks (are now highlighted as files). (#342, 95f7206a9373, 53083da8215e)
-
Lines accepted from
isearch
mode. (#284; #257, #259, #288; 5bae6219008b, a8fe22d42251) -
Work around upstream bug that triggered when the command word was a relative path, that when interpreted relative to a $PATH directory denoted a command; the effect of that upstream bug was that the relative path was cached as a "valid external command name". (#354, #355, 51614ca2c994, fdaeec45146b, 7d38d07255e4; upstream fix slated to be released in 5.3 (workers/39104))
-
After accepting a line with the cursor on a bracket, the matching bracket of the bracket under the cursor no longer remains highlighted (with the
brackets
highlighter). (4c4baede519a) -
The first word on a new line within an array assignment or initialization is no longer considered a command position. (8bf423d16d46)
-
Subshells that end at command position,
(A=42)
,(true;)
. (#231, 7fb6f9979121; #344, 4fc35362ee5a) -
Command word after array assignment,
a=(lorem ipsum) pwd
. (#330, 7fb6f9979121)
API changes (for highlighter authors):
-
New interface
_zsh_highlight_add_highlight
. (341a3ae1f015, c346f6eb6fb6) -
tests: Specify the style key, not its value, in test expectations. (a830613467af, fd061b5730bf, eaa4335c3441, among others)
-
Module author documentation improvements. (#306 (in part), 217669270418, 0ff354b44b6e, 80148f6c8402, 364f206a547f, and others)
-
The driver no longer defines a
_zsh_highlight_${highlighter}_highlighter_cache
variable, which is in the highlighters' namespace. (3e59ab41b6b8, 80148f6c8402, f91a7b885e7d) -
Rename highlighter entry points. The old names remain supported for backwards compatibility. (a3d5dfcbdae9, c793e0dceab1)
-
tests: Add the "NONE" expectation. (4da9889d1545, 13018f3dd735, d37c55c788cd)
-
tests: consider a test that writes to stderr to have failed. (#291, 1082067f9315)
Developer-visible changes:
-
Add
make quiet-test
. (9b64ad750f35) -
test harness: Better quote replaceables in error messages. (30d8f92df225)
-
test harness: Fix exit code for XPASS. (bb8d325c0cbd)
-
Create HACKING.md. (cef49752fd0e)
-
tests: Emit a description for PASS test points. (6aa57d60aa64, f0bae44b76dd)
-
tests: Create a script that generates a test file. (8013dc3b8db6, et seq;
tests/generate.zsh
)
Other changes:
-
Under zsh≤5.2, widgets whose names start with a
_
are no longer excluded from highlighting. (ed33d2cb1388; reverts part of 186d80054a40 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 776453cb5b69)
-
Under zsh≤5.2, shell-unsafe widget names can now be wrapped. (#278, 6a634fac9fb9, et seq)
-
Correct some test expectations. (78290e043bc5)
-
zsh-syntax-highlighting.plugin.zsh
: Convert from symlink to plain file for msys2 compatibility. (#292, d4f8edc9f3ad) -
Document installation under some plugin managers. (e635f766bef9, 9cab566f539b)
-
Don't leak the
PATH_DIRS
option. (7b82b88a7166) -
Don't require the
FUNCTION_ARGZERO
option to be set. (#338, 750aebc553f2) -
Under zsh≤5.2, support binding incomplete/nonexistent widgets. (9e569bb0fe04, part of #288)
-
Make the driver reentrant, fixing possibility of infinite recursion under zsh≤5.2 under interaction with theoretical third-party code. (#305, d711563fe1bf, 295d62ec888d, f3242cbd6aba)
-
Fix warnings when
WARN_CREATE_GLOBAL
is set prior to sourcing zsh-syntax-highlighting. (z-sy-h already setsWARN_CREATE_GLOBAL
internally.) (da60234fb236) -
Warn only once, rather than once per keypress, when a highlighter is unavailable. (0a9b347483ae)
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}
). (282c7134e8ac, reverts c808d2187a73)
Changes in version 0.4.0
Added highlighting of:
-
incomplete sudo commands (a3047a912100, 2f05620b19ae)
sudo; sudo -u;
-
command words following reserved words (#207, #222, b397b12ac139 et seq, 6fbd2aa9579b et seq, 8b4adbd991b0)
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, 693de99a9030)echo Hello # comment
-
closing brackets of arithmetic expansion, subshells, and blocks (#226, a59f442d2d34, et seq)
(( foo )) ( foo ) { foo }
-
command names enabled by the
PATH_DIRS
option (#228, 96ee5116b182)# When ~/bin/foo/bar exists, is executable, ~/bin is in $PATH, # and 'setopt PATH_DIRS' is in effect foo/bar
-
parameter expansions with braces inside double quotes (#186, 6e3720f39d84)
echo "${foo}"
-
parameter expansions in command word (#101, 4fcfb15913a2)
x=/bin/ls $x -l
-
the command separators '|&', '&!', '&|'
view file.pdf &! ls
Fixed highlighting of:
-
precommand modifiers at non-command-word position (#209, 2c9f8c8c95fa)
ls command foo
-
sudo commands with infix redirections (#221, be006aded590, 86e924970911)
sudo -u >/tmp/foo.out user ls
-
subshells; anonymous functions (#166, #194, 0d1bfbcbfa67, 9e178f9f3948)
(true) () { true }
-
parameter assignment statements with no command (#205, 01d7eeb3c713)
A=1;
(The semicolon used to be highlighted as a mistake)
-
cursor highlighter: Remove the cursor highlighting when accepting a line. (#109, 4f0c293fdef0)
Removed features:
- Removed highlighting of approximate paths (
path_approx
). (#187, 98aee7f8b9a3)
Other changes:
-
main highlighter refactored to use states rather than booleans. (2080a441ac49, et seq)
-
Fix initialization when sourcing
zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
via a symlink (083c47b00707) -
docs: Add screenshot. (57624bb9f64b)
-
widgets wrapping: Don't add '--' when invoking widgets. (c808d2187a73) [reverted in 0.4.1]
-
Refresh highlighting upon
accept-*
widgets (accept-line
et al). (59fbdda64c21) -
Stop leaking match/mbegin/mend to global scope (thanks to upstream
WARN_CREATE_GLOBAL
improvements). (d3deffbf46a4) -
'make install': Permit setting
$(SHARE_DIR)
from the environment. (e1078a8b4cf1) -
driver: Tolerate KSH_ARRAYS being set in the calling context. (#162, 8f19af6b319d)
-
'make install': Install documentation fully and properly. (#219, b1619c001390, et seq)
-
docs: Improve 'main' highlighter's documentation. (00de155063f5, 7d4252f5f596)
-
docs: Moved to a new docs/ tree; assorted minor updates (c575f8f37567, 5b34c23cfad5, et seq)
-
docs: Split README.md into INSTALL.md (0b3183f6cb9a)
-
driver: Report
$ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_REVISION
when running from git (84734ba95026)
Developer-visible changes:
-
Test harness converted to TAP format (d99aa58aaaef, et seq)
-
Run each test in a separate subprocess, isolating them from each other (d99aa58aaaef, et seq)
-
Fix test failure with nonexisting $HOME (#216, b2ac98b98150)
-
Test output is now colorized. (4d3da30f8b72, 6fe07c096109)
-
Document
make install
(a18a7427fd2c) -
tests: Allow specifying the zsh binary to use. (557bb7e0c6a0)
-
tests: Add 'make perf' target (4513eaea71d7)
-
tests: Run each test in a sandbox directory (c01533920245)
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
andtest
targets -
set
warn_create_global
internally -
document release process
Version 0.2.1
(Start of changelog.)