Tridactyl changelog

Release 1.17.0 / 2019-10-03

• Reversions requested by Mozilla reviewers

  • The csp setting is now inactive
  • Automatically revert any changes made by fixamo to the restricedDomains setting in user.js

• New features

  • Source RC from an arbitrary URL (#1866)
  • extoption excmd to open the options page of other addons (#1660) (#1851)
  • Hint fancy webcomponents (#1853)
  • Add ;g{f,F} default binds for hint -q and hint -qb

• Bug fixes

  • Pasting a url with p or P now trims whitespace to avoid searching for the URL (#1865)
  • Fix OS detection for windows in loadtheme (#1862)
  • Fix (#1041): ;p now preserves newlines

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, dependabot-preview[bot], rektrex, Colin Caine, glacambre, ELLIOTTCABLE, avalonv, pvs, Chris, Daniel Schmid

Extra special thanks go to avalonv, Chris, Daniel Schmid, ELLIOTTCABLE, pvs, rektrex who have contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.16.3 / 2019-08-14

• New features

  • Bookmarks are now listed in *open completions. set bmarkweight to change how prominently they are listed. (#214)

• Bug fixes

  • Completions are now deselected if the string is shortened (#1696)
  • Fix :bmarks -t -c behavior (#1772)
  • perf.ts: remove illegal string which was causing spurious errors
  • Duplicate bookmarks are no longer listed in bmark completions

• Miscellaneous

  • Remove fixamo at request of Firefox Security team (#1773)
  • Add missing ignore mode shortcut to tutorial
  • Disable guiset navbar none as it had stopped working (#1728)

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, dependabot-preview[bot], Colin Caine, GiulioCentorame, Jakub Okoński and glacambre.

Extra special thanks go to GiulioCentorame and Jakub Okoński who both contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.16.2 / 2019-07-11

• New features

  • New setting urlparenttrailingslash which allows you to choose whether urlparent adds a trailing slash or not (#1565)

• Bug fixes

  • Encoding errors with the RC file and :editor should be fixed (#1698)
  • End-to-end tests should work on Windows now (#1700)

• Miscellaneous

  • Link to text functions added to :bind help

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, dependabot-preview[bot], Joao Sa, Robert Boyd III, and Guillermo R. Palavecino.

Extra special thanks go to Guillermo R. Palavecino and Robert Boyd III who both contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.16.1 / 2019-06-15

• New features

  • ;v now escapes the hrefs you choose (see get exaliases.mpvsafe to see how it does it)

• Bug fixes

  • shellescape will now actually properly escape stuff on Windows

Release 1.16.0 / 2019-06-14

• New features

  • keyfeed command for feeding fake keys to Tridactyl (not the web page) added
    • mostly a precursor to map but keyfeed g?g?g?g?g?g?g?g?g?g?g?g?g? now for a good time
  • User-definable modes added: just do bind --mode=[newmode] ... and then mode [newmode]
  • Added tabm and tabo ex-aliases (hat-tip to this blog for pointing out that they were missing)
  • guiset now uses setpref to flip the preference which will soon be needed to read userChrome (#1572)
  • shellescape command added for use with composite (#1485)
  • Hint mode now has user-configurable binds (e.g. bind --mode=hint <C-[> hint.reset) (#304)
  • Error notifications will no longer steal focus
  • no_mouse_mode is now more sober; original mode renamed to neo_mouse_mode (#1303)
  • hint -f [text] prefilters hints with the provided text (#1580)
    • ditto for hint -fr [regex]
  • blacklistkeys setting to specify which keys to prevent pages from ever stealing from Firefox (#1185)
    • e.g. set blacklistkeys ["/","'"]
  • bmark with no arguments will now use the current page title as the bookmark name
  • Beta builds now have versions that look more like the filenames served by our build bot and the version shown on about:addons (#930)
  • preventautofocusjackhammer setting added for use with seturl for sites that steal autofocus even after set allowautofocus false
    • use sparingly as it will use 2-3pp of CPU per tab it is activated in
  • urlmodify -s adds a query to a URL (#1584)
  • ebg13 shapgvbanyvgl nqqrq:
    • bound to g? by default
  • viewconfig --{user,default} will show you your changes to the config or the default config
  • mktridactylrc will make an RC file with your current settings. Use mktridactylrc! to overwrite an existing file.

• Bug fixes

  • Websites can no longer feed Tridactyl fake key events (see the security advisory)
  • Persist history completion selection if it is still valid on source update
  • Make ;v safer
  • bmark is less fussy about URLs now (#1600)
  • Smooth scrolling made a bit less bad (but it's still quite bad)
  • autocontain should now co-exist with other addons more peacefully (#953)
  • Our find mode is pretty useable now - see help find to see how to bind it (#1608)
  • repeat should work a bit better but it's still quite broken (#1609)
  • followpage now works on Google via a site-specifc override
  • taball should now always move to the right tab
  • 'new features' highlight on the changelog is now never shown in private windows (#749)
  • Scrolling should no longer cause infinite loops (#1247)
  • Profile-finding should be more resilient (#1585)
  • Fixed some bugs with numeric prefixes (#1606)
  • set findcase smart should actually work now (hat-tip to burntsushi for pointing this out in his RC file)
  • It should be much harder for the command line to swap the order of keys pressed, especially <Space> (#1655)

• Under the bonnet

  • Compile-time inheritance to inputmaps from imaps added
    • ideally we'd like runtime inheritance but that's trickier
  • Support for TypeScript 3.5
  • get_current_url is now an ex-alias
  • config.get is now typed, meaning that it's harder for us to add undocumented settings
  • config.getURL now merges site-specific defaults
  • webpack now exits with non-zero exit code on build errors (#869)
  • We're no longer using a deprecated API for determining our own extension page URLs (#1593)
  • We've switched from npm to yarn as we got fed up with npm fighting with itself over package-lock.json. Hopefully this will make development a little less painful.
  • :native{install,update} will now install the version of the native messenger that existed at the same time as your version of Tridactyl
  • Added Mithril (currently unused) to make redevelopment of the commandline frame easier

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, Colin Caine, glacambre, Anton Vilhelm Ásgeirsson, dependabot-preview[bot], Vladimír Marek, Saul Reynolds-Haertle, Vince Au, Russell Cheung, WorldCodeCentral, reversebreak

Extra special thanks go to dependabot-preview[bot], reversebreak, Russell Cheung, Vince Au, Vladimír Marek

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.15.0 / 2019-05-23

• New features

  • Numeric prefixes to binds are now appended to the end of the command, e.g. 1gt goes to the first tab.
    • This isn't strictly a new feature as we had it about 18 months ago, but it fell down a plot hole.
  • We now have special builds that don't have the new tab page - see the new tab page for how to install them.
  • The internal getclip function has now been exposed as an ex-command by popular demand, for use with, e.g. bind --mode=insert <C-v> composite getclip | text.insert_text.
  • You can now select hints using the arrow keys if you are so inclined
  • You can now execute ex-commands from the "awesome bar" (i.e. Firefox's URL bar) by prefixing them with tri

• Bug fixes

  • A few weird bugs fixed on NetBSD (#1562)
  • gi should now work on our help pages
  • repeat now waits for the execution of each command to finish before starting another one
  • set hintnames uniform won't give you a spurious error any more

• Under the bonnet

  • Added end-to-end testing for a few functions using Selenium and CircleCI
  • Calls to the internal getProfile() used for a variety of native messaging functions are now cached to improve performance

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, dependabot[bot], Marvin Ewald, Saul Reynolds-Haertle, Colin Caine, PHO, Evgeny Kurnevsky, and Jan Hruban.

Extra special thanks go to Evgeny Kurnevsky, Jan Hruban, Marvin Ewald, and PHO who all contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.10 / 2019-05-04

• New features

  • :editor now listens to the exit code of your editor so, e.g. :cq in Vim should prevent the text field from being changed; it also can provide line and column information - see :help editor for more details
  • A new :issue excmd opens a new issue on our GitHub page with your system information pre-filled

• Bug fixes

  • DocStart autocmds in the exemplar .tridactylrc will no longer run under :viewconfig
  • updatecheck should actually run now as it has been added to the new-tab page
    • its relevant settings may now be found under the update.* namespace
  • Private windows opened with the native messenger now work, e.g. winopen -private about:addons
  • :saveas completions fixed

• Under the bonnet

  • Added tslint and shellcheck checks to Travis CI for GitHub PRs and changed source to conform to their standards
  • Swapped prettier for tslint for most cases
  • excmds are now run from the content scripts which should hopefully reduce the number of round trips and generally improve responsiveness
  • Minor changes to codebase made as suggested by sonarcloud and lgtm
  • We've merged (#953) which will eventually allow Tridactyl's autocontain and Mozilla's "Multi Account Containers" to co-exist peacefully once we enable a permission. We don't do that until the updatecheck has been out in the wild for a month or so first - see (#708).
  • Fixed wine-pyinstaller.sh on some systems

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, dependabot, Saul Reynolds-Haertle, and Shahzeb Imran.

Extra special thanks go to dependabot and Shahzeb Imran who both contributed for the first time. (dependabot is a bot, but that does not make his contributions any the less valued).

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.9 / 2019-03-21

• New features

  • We now support Firefox's built-in OpenSearch search engines

    • This is distinct from the "keyword" search engines - see this page

  • Hint modes changes:

    • Scroll to hinted element with ;z (#1372)

    • Open hint in new foreground tab with ;t (#1381)

    • You can add -J to any hint mode to disable JavaScript event hints

    • Reverse-image search with ;m and ;M

      • Known issue: ;m<Esc> will still send you to Google

  • guiset now has completions

  • help now accepts the following flags: help -{a,b,e,s} to specify whether you are looking for an alias, a binding, an ex-command, or a setting.

  • You will now be warned when adding a binding that is shadowed by other bind (#1309)

    • i.e, since x is bound to stop, you will now be warned when you bind something to xx

  • The new tab page now begs for donations to fund our coding-retreat (#1373)

  • ex.deselect_completion ex-mode command added (#1393)

  • winopen -popup added to open a URL in the "pop-up" style without the address bar etc showing.

• Bug fixes

  • Completions no longer get stuck showing you the command you just typed (#1295)

  • findnext no longer highlights invisible elements (#1340)

  • Command history search works again (#1329)

  • nativeopen now automatically detects which profile you're using and can open URLs with spaces in (#1355)

  • leavegithubalone is now a documented setting

  • keyup events are no longer sent to the page for keys which are bound in Tridactyl (#234)

  • terminator will now work as a terminal for editorcmd

  • The native install command will now tell you if it didn't manage to install the native messenger (#1099)

  • help completions will now be deselected properly (#1344)

  • viewsource now works on the help page

• Miscellaneous

  • Various documentation improvements

• Under the bonnet

  • D no longer has a sleep in it

  • Build process should be more portable now

  • Build should be a bit more robust, too

  • Removed native_background.ts - the editor is now all done in content scripts

  • Removed commandline_background

  • contributing.md has been improved with more documentation of our architecture

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, Tadeas Uhlir, Nuno Santos, Anton Vilhelm Ásgeirsson, Colin Caine, Manny Schneck, Maximilian Roos, Robert Günzler, Rodrigo, Vik Ramanujam, heshamsafi, and pinusc.

Extra special thanks go to heshamsafi, Manny Schneck, Maximilian Roos, Nuno Santos, pinusc, Robert Günzler, Rodrigo, Tadeas Uhlir, and Vik Ramanujam who all contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.8 / 2019-01-31

• New features

  • winclose now accepts arguments and completions

• Bug fixes

  • We've explained the ramifications of adding return values to lots of ex-commands in 1.14.7 for composite on the new tab page

  • All URLs pointing to the repository should now point to the new repository, tridactyl/tridactyl.

Release 1.14.7 / 2019-01-30

• New features

  • Find mode is back, but still doesn't support incsearch. See help find for details on how to bind it if you value muscle-memory over stability :)

  • rssexec added with completions to help you find RSS feeds that exist on the current page. By default, it executes yank, but this can be changed with rsscmd to interface with your favourite feed reader, e.g, set rsscmd ! echo %u >> ~/.newsbeuter/urls.

  • set will now let you set complex objects such as set searchurls {"google":"https://www.bing.com"} (#1289)

  • undo now comes with completions so you can pick an older tab or window to restore (#1286)

  • no_mouse_mode added to help users force themselves to use hints by preventing mouse clicks from reaching the page.

    • What, we have 1337 stars on GitHub? I hadn't noticed ; )
    • snow_mouse_mode also added to help people get into the Christmas spirit

  • The exceptionally well-hidden settings page now has a very well-hidden "reset your configuration button" at the very bottom of the page (#1271).

  • The horrendously named modeindicatorshowkeys setting now allows you to see which fragments of valid key sequences you have typed.

• Bug fixes

  • Hints are now slightly chubbier in solidarity with people who use bad fonts (#1280)

  • Favicons are back on :tab completions! (#986)

  • nativeopen now checks for the presence of the native messenger rather than tabopen.

  • tridactylrc should now execute more reliably (#1197)

  • set now refuses to let you set objects such as searchurls to simple strings (#1288)

  • Completions should show slightly faster (#1259)

  • Minor documentation fixes.

  • The Tridactyl logo is now not placed on text boxes if we fail to find your editor.

  • Ctrl-6 is now bound to buffer # in all the modes it claims to be bound in.

  • guiset no longer fiddles with titlebar as this breaks quite a lot of Firefox. You might need to delete / fix your own userChrome.css manually.

• Under the hood

  • The native messenger should now give more useful errors (#1287)

  • We do slightly fewer mad things with promises (#1262)

  • We remember to use our nice little vanity wrappers on ugly messaging more often (#1257)

  • Try to prevent more race conditions in the background code (#1248)

  • Prevent multiple commandlines from being inserted in to pages (#1245) (#1243)

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, Milan Vancura, and Martin André.

Extra special thanks go to Martin André and Milan Vancura who both contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.6 / 2018-12-14

• Bug fixes

  • updatenag now checks the right date (code I was using for testing made it into a stable release...)
  • winopen -private is now documented

We're aware of a few issues introduced by 1.14.4+ and/or Firefox 64. Hopefully we'll get them fixed soon. In the meantime, please report any weirdness on our GitHub page as usual.

Release 1.14.5 / 2018-12-13

• Bug fixes

  • hintfiltermode simple should no longer give you a useless error every time you click something
  • Rebinding <Space> should actually work now
    • If you're having typing sentences into the command line and find spaces appear in the middle of words, you might want to unbind --mode=ex <Space>.

• Under the bonnet

  • We now have our own configuration listeners. See #1192 for more details.

This release was rushed out because I didn't test 1.14.4 well enough, so only glacambre and bovine3dom got to contribute to it. It feels more weird than usual to thank myself for coding when I'm 50% of the contributors, especially when the release was so speedy because I wasn't paying enough attention to the previous one, so I'll just pat glacambre instead. bovine3dom tapote glacambre.

Release 1.14.4 / 2018-12-12

• New features

  • You can now cycle the selected hint in hint mode by pressing <Tab> or <S-Tab>
  • The native messenger now appends ".txt" to files it edits, hopefully making the experience better out of the box for most people
    • You might need to run :nativeupdate to get this feature
  • Tridactyl will check for a new stable version at launch and notify you once once a new version has been released and it is a week old
    • You can change this behaviour with set updatenag false and set updatenagewait [days to wait before nagging]
    • Hopefully this will make it easier for users to notice when a new update has been blocked because it needs more permissions
  • noiframeon has been turned into a normal setting for use with seturl [url] noiframe true

• Bug fixes

  • alias tab buffer no longer breaks completions
  • hint -c [selectors] can now accept selectors with spaces
  • a tags now have higher priority than (often spurious) elements JavaScript events attached. This makes hinting on YouTube usable :)
  • Themes are now properly applied to tabs opened in the background
  • Editor functions (text.*) should now work in email inputs, and others if you're lucky.

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, Fabian Furger, and arcnmx.

Extra special thanks go to arcnmx who contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.3 / 2018-12-03

• Bug fixes

  • tabnext/prev now only cycles through visible tabs (#1084), for real this time (#1207)
  • clipboard xselpaste now works in the commandline (#1206)

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, and scde.

Extra special thanks go to scde who contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.2 / 2018-12-02

• New features

  • New theme: colours halloween
  • New command clipboard xselpaste pastes from primary selection into focused input field
  • New editors added to editor (#1162)
  • You can now rebind key sequences in the commandline: viewconfig exmaps and bind --mode=ex
  • text.* commands have been added for insert mode operations

• Bug fixes

  • getURL now merges site-specific config objects (e.g, "example" and "example.org")
  • Tridactyl now scrolls on non-html pages (#1165)
  • Various broken links fixed
  • Fewer errors when using the command line (#1168)
  • set gives more helpful error messages (#1166)
  • tabnext/prev now only cycles through visible tabs (#1084)
  • Commands requiring the native messenger now give more helpful error messages if there is a problem
  • Internal commands are no longer shown in completions (#1154)
  • It is now possible to insert spaces in the middle of words in the commandline (#1147)
  • scrolling.ts: Fix sticky scrolling
  • tabprev/tabnext is more robust (#1148)

• Miscellaneous

  • Documentation improvements
  • Various tutorial improvements

• Under the bonnet

  • Fewer bashisms in build process
  • Rename buffers to tabs
  • Tridactyl uses approximately 0.03MB less RAM per tab (#1187)
  • tab{first,last} are now simple aliases
  • Numerical config settings are now numbers rather than strings

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, Anton Vilhelm Ásgeirsson, Abraham White, Nathan Collins, Colin Caine, Keegan Carruthers-Smith, and pale3.

Extra special thanks go to Abraham White, Keegan Carruthers-Smith, Nathan Collins, and pale3 who all contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.1 / 2018-10-28

• New features

  • URL-specific settings:
    • bindurl,seturl,unseturl,unbindurl, and reseturl allow you to change settings per site. See help bindurl for more details.
  • New tab page now steals focus from the address bar (but not on Windows):
    • if you want the old behaviour back, set newtabfocus urlbar
  • set editorcmd now has %f as a magic argument to specify the filename
  • You can now load themes from disk. See help colourscheme
  • Insert-mode readline style commands added but left unbound. See im_* on the help page.
  • saveas added: you can provide a filename to specify where the document will be saved if you have the native messenger installed
  • New stop command bound to x by default
  • <C-6> is now bound to buffer # in ignore mode
  • set searchurls now supports multiple %s and numbered %1, %2 etc. magic arguments for the search query
  • tabnew alias added for tabopen
  • stop command bound to x
  • :help config_option now works, with completions
  • A few more z* binds have been added for zooming. See the help page for more details.
  • Inputs now get the Tridactyl logo on them while you edit them in an external editor
  • bmarks is now a proper excmd and allows you to open bookmarks in tabs if you give it a -t flag
  • New setpref command allows you to write to user.js for changing settings in about:config
  • saveas now allows you to specify file save location if you have the native messenger
  • Filesystem completion for source and saveas
  • googlelucky is now a valid search engine
  • guiset tabs count and guiset tabs nocount
  • reloadallbut command reloads everything but the active tab
  • I is unbound again. Bind it back with bind I mode ignore and bind --mode=ignore I mode normal

• Bug fixes

  • Command line is much less likely to secretly steal focus from the page - i.e, Tridactyl is less janky now.
  • Scrolling fixes:
    • Scrolling left or right can no longer send you to the top of the page
    • Scrolling beyond the top or bottom of a page no longer makes you get stuck there
    • Some people report that smooth scrolling has improved.
  • viewconfig now shows you default and user-specified config rather than just user-specified in some circumstances
  • set noiframeon fixed
  • tabmove +1 no longer requires a leading space when typed interactively
  • setclip/getclip now provide error messages
  • guiset should be a bit better at finding profiles now
  • The mode indicator should now always have the correct colour at startup
  • set historyresults 0 now works
  • exclaim should give more helpful errors if the native messenger is not installed
  • # in buffer # and others will now refer to the current tab if you only have a single tab open

• Under the bonnet

  • Completions are now more asynchronous - hopefully this will help performance on slow computers.
  • Performance monitoring now possible if you turn it on: see help perfdump
    • No data is sent back to us.
  • editor now returns a filepath, content tuple
  • Update a bunch of dependencies
  • Build steps now work OK if you have spaces in your directory names

• Miscellaneous

  • Documentation improvements

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, Saul Reynolds-Haertle, Anton Vilhelm Ásgeirsson, Joao Sa, notJerl, Colin Caine, WorldCodeCentral, Alex Griffin, FrankEular, Ivan Solyankin, Lorenz Leutgeb, and Shou Ya.

Extra special thanks go to Alex Griffin, FrankEular, Ivan Solyankin, Joao Sa, Lorenz Leutgeb, notJerl, and Shou Ya who all contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.14.0 / 2018-09-05

• New features:

  • Mode is now per-tab

    • Having two windows with one in ignore mode is now bearable
    • This opens the door to proper per-tab settings, e.g, per site binds
    • This is a big change so please report any bugs on GitHub

  • Configuration now has a help page

    • Accessible from the link to the binds on the normal help page
    • We'll add a better way of accessing it soon

  • Configuration completions now show their permitted values and set checks for these

  • You can now map keys to keys for Tridactyl modes with keymap key1 key2. The purpose of this is for our international users who switch keyboard layouts.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed the wrong invocation of urlmodify in the tridactylrc example
  • Fix #948: set newtab about:home kinda works subject to usual caveats
  • Respect profiledir in more places (#946)
  • Pass / through to websites in abnormal modes (#954)
  • Fix installnative on some gourmet distributions

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, Saul Reynolds-Haertle, glacambre, Colin Caine, William G Hatch, Noah Birnel, Roman Bogorodskiy, and quinoa42.

Extra special thanks go to Noah Birnel, quinoa42, Roman Bogorodskiy, and William G Hatch who all contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.13.3 / 2018-08-21

• New features:

  • Our command line now has more completions:

    • Ex commands and ex aliases with a little bit of help for each command.
    • Settings, showing their current value (currently does not support options within options)

  • Rapid hint mode improvements:

    • Less jank (particularly if you hold a key down)
    • Most hint modes now have a rapid mode with hint -q[flag] and bound to ;g[key]
      • The divergence from Pentadactyl is because we already have g; bound to "switch to tab containing last used input field and focus it", which is my pet favourite command.

  • tab is now an alias for buffer (I meant to add this months ago)

• Old features:

  • More hint modes from Pentadactyl that no-one missed added:
    • ;O, ;W, and ;T pre-fill the command line with the hinted URL and open/tabopen/winopen.
  • Added I, Shift-Escape ignore binds back
    • You can unbind them with unbind --mode=... [key]

• Bug fixes:

  • Yank element text hint mode was broken (;p) and we fixed it by accident
  • You can now unbind keys which were bound to Esc by default (#921)
  • Less console spam: fixed "1.1" error if config was at latest version
  • Our command line now plays nicely with left scrollbars (#909)
  • guiset gui none now pads maximised windows to fix a bug on Windows where the top of the page is cut off

• Boring internal changes:

  • All hint modes now use a newfangled method with less message passing
  • We're now using Typescript 3
  • We now generate a bunch of metadata about Tridactyl for use with introspection
    • As an added bonus, build times are now a bit slower.

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, Anton Vilhelm Ásgeirsson, and Henré Botha.

Extra special thanks go to Henré Botha, who contributed for the first time.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.13.2 / 2018-08-15

• New features:

  • Rapid hinting bound to gF. One of our most requested features.

  • Add DocLoad autocmd which triggers after all HTML is downloaded (it fires on DOMContentLoaded).

  • All clipboard commands on Linux now support X-selection if you have the native messenger installed. Simply set yankto and putfrom to selection.

  • Add private window indicator to bufferall; add container icons to buffer{,all}.

  • Add fillcmdline_tmp, useful for temporary messages. A few commands now use this (e.g, yy).

  • tabmove bound to << and >> à la Vimium.

    • tabmove now wraps tabs around if you reach the beginning or end.

  • Add mute to mute tabs. Bound to <A-m> by default.

  • Add <A-p> bind for pin.

  • Add {fixamo,guiset}_quiet for non-interactive use; normal {fixamo,guiset} now inform you that you must restart.

  • Add url2args ex-command to retrieve search terms from Tridactyl search engines, for use with O. help url2args for more information.

  • Add autocmddelete to delete an autocmd.

  • Add hintdelay setting (measured in milliseconds) to add a short pause before hint mode is left after choosing a link (#386) with the hintfiltermode vimperator* hint modes so that one has time to stop typing before Tridactyl returns to normal mode.

  • Add binds for yankmd and yanktitle to yt and ym irrespectively.

  • Our GitHub has a new troublehooting guide and issue template (#522).

  • Websites can no longer steal / from Firefox. If you are unhappy with this state of affairs, try set leavegithubalone true.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fix race condition in state.mode synchronization (#613).

  • set newtab about:blank should work once again (#678).

  • Make tabprev synchronous: it now works better in composite commands (i.e, D is less janky).

  • Fix guiset hoverlink * in Firefox 61 (#763).

  • Make source ignore visually empty lines.

  • Completions will now be properly deselected upon typing (#833).

  • guiset now gives helpful errors if given the wrong arguments (#844).

  • History completion insertion with space no longer inserts an extra space (#838).

  • Ctrl-y actually scrolls up now

  • Arguments now ignored on history completions (-private, -c, -b etc.).

  • Native messenger:

    • Windows install script now complains if you do not have the requisite PowerShell version.

    • Windows install script should now work if you have a non-ASCII username/directory

    • Windows install script no longer rage-quits if Python is not found.

      • This means that the compiled executable will actually be used. It's much slower than the normal Python script, so we strongly recommend that you use that instead by installing Python 3, making sure it is on your PATH, and running installnative again.

  • Fix focus hijacking again (#768).

  • Fix scrolling on bugzilla.mozilla.org (#762).

  • Fix race condition in :sanitise (#724).

  • Make sure bind/unbind use the same binding format: previously, modifiers on binds were case-sensitive for some commands.

  • Container commands are now more case-insensitive.

  • Fix jumplist not being correctly restored on reloads (#680).

  • Update 1.13.1 release date in time for 1.13.2

• Boring internal stuff

  • Move most of hinting to content script (this may have broken some stuff - please report it if it has).

Thanks to all of our contributors for this release: Oliver Blanthorn, glacambre, Anton Vilhelm Ásgeirsson, Babil Golam Sarwar, Colin Caine, Jeff King, Bzly, WorldCodeCentral, Mohammad AlSaleh, Vladimir Macko, André Klausnitzer, Bodo Graumann, Chris Pickard, Lucian Poston, Matt Friedman, Susexe, and jcrowgey.

Extra special thanks go to André Klausnitzer, Chris Pickard, Lucian Poston, Matt Friedman, Susexe, Vladimir Macko, and WorldCodeCentral, all of whom were first time contributors.

Last, but not least - thank you to everyone who reported issues.

Release 1.13.1 / 2018-06-20

• New features

  • bufferall bound to B by default shows you tabs in all windows.
  • Container management with container{create,close,update,delete}, viewcontainers and tabopen -c [container name] URL
    • see help containercreate for more information
    • Mode indicator's border now uses the current container colour
  • set hintnames numeric for sequential numeric hints. Best used with set hintfiltermode vimperator-reflow.
  • Changelog now tells you when there's a new changelog that you haven't read.
  • guiset navbar none removes the navbar totally. Not for the faint-of-heart: you could potentially get trapped if Tridactyl stops working.

• Bug fixes

  • nativeopen now puts tabs in the same place that tabopen would
  • santise tridactyllocal tridactylsync now works in RC files
  • Missing ;w hint winopen bind added
  • Fixed minor error with themes not being properly applied on some sites
  • Fixed reload bug on :help when there's no hash
  • <C-i> editor will now always update the field you started in, not just the one you currently have focused.
  • "email" input elements can now be focused without errors.
  • urlincrement no longer throws errors if a link cannot be found.

Release 1.13.0 / 2018-06-08

• Potentially breaking changes

  • 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).
  • The DocStart autocommand now uses String.prototype.search for matching, so you can use regular expressions such as /www\.amazon\.co.*/.

• 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.

• New autocommand events:

  • TriStart: Triggered when you start firefox.
  • TabEnter/TabLeft: Triggered when you enter and leave a tab.

• New commands:

  • :js and :jsb let you execute arbitrary javascript.
  • :restart will restart Firefox if you have installed Tridactyl's native executable.
  • :fixamo will make Tridactyl work on addons.mozilla.org. Requires a :restart.

• Hint improvements:

  • You can select title/alt text of elements using :hint -P.
  • hint -; now accepts selectors.
  • Uppercase hints are now supported.

• Multiple improvements for the mode indicator. It will:

  • Disappear when you hover your mouse over it.
  • Go purple in private windows.
  • Be invisible on printed pages.

• There is now a jumplist:

  • <C-o> or :jumpprev will go to your previous location.
  • <C-i> or :jumpnext will go to the next location in your jumplist.

• Themes:

  • shydactyl, greenmat, quake were added.
  • The dark theme has been updated.
  • themes apply to {newtab, mode indicator, tutor}.

• Add new internal structure for themes - check out contributing.md on the repository if you want to add your own

  • Adding themes at runtime is planned but some way off.

• The long awaited blacklist to automatically enter ignore mode on some websites is now available! See :h blacklistadd.

• Ignore mode can now also be toggled with <CA-`>.

• A colon is shown at the beginning of the command line.

• :set setting will now display the setting's value.

• The command line should work again on image documents.

• Urlmodify doesn't add the websites you're leaving to your history anymore.

• An experimental smoothscroll setting has been added. You can turn it on by using :set smoothscroll true. Be warned, this can make scrolling slower on some websites.

• credits added to show off all the wonderful contributors we have.

• help now displays relevant aliases and key bindings, and help [key sequence / alias] will take you to the relevant help.

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 current 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