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2019-03-11Add option for window position at startupCole Helbling
2019-02-18Small Updates to the README (#2091)Nathan Lilienthal
Update the README and related files. This commit generally updates some language in the "About" section, and other sections with respect to keeping accurate information, and laying out the project goals in a clear way. We're also marking Alacritty as "beta" software at this point, not that this has any explicit meaning.
2019-02-11Bump version to 0.2.9v0.2.9Christian Duerr
2019-02-10Bump version to 0.2.8v0.2.8Christian Duerr
2019-02-10Fix dimensions CLI/manpage docsChristian Duerr
2019-01-21Bump version to 0.2.7v0.2.7Christian Duerr
2019-01-19Bump version to 0.2.6v0.2.6Christian Duerr
2019-01-07Bump version to 0.2.5v0.2.5Christian Duerr
This bumps the version number to 0.2.5 and prepares everything for the next versioned release.
2018-12-09Bump version to 0.2.4v0.2.4Christian Duerr
2018-11-17Display errors and warningsChristian Duerr
To make sure that all error and information reporting to the user is unified, all instances of `print!`, `eprint!`, `println!` and `eprintln!` have been removed and replaced by logging. When `RUST_LOG` is not specified, the default Alacritty logger now also prints to both the stderr and a log file. The log file is only created when a message is written to it and its name is printed to stdout the first time it is used. Whenever a warning or an error has been written to the log file/stderr, a message is now displayed in Alacritty which points to the log file where the full error is documented. The message is cleared whenever the screen is cleared using either the `clear` command or the `Ctrl+L` key binding. To make sure that log files created by root don't prevent normal users from interacting with them, the Alacritty log file is `/tmp/Alacritty-$PID.log`. Since it's still possible that the log file can't be created, the UI error/warning message now informs the user if the message was only written to stderr. The reason why it couldn't be created is then printed to stderr. To make sure the deletion of the log file at runtime doesn't create any issues, the file is re-created if a write is attempted without the file being present. To help with debugging Alacritty issues, a timestamp and the error level are printed in all log messages. All log messages now follow this format: [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] [LEVEL] Message Since it's not unusual to spawn a lot of different terminal emulators without restarting, Alacritty can create a ton of different log files. To combat this problem, logfiles are removed by default after Alacritty has been closed. If the user wants to persist the log of a single session, the `--persistent_logging` option can be used. For persisting all log files, the `persistent_logging` option can be set in the configuration file
2018-11-13Bump version to 0.2.3Christian Duerr
Since the version 0.2.2 had some significant breakage which affects a large number of users, this 0.2.3 release aims at providing a stable release which works for everyone without any major regressions.
2018-11-11Bump version number to v0.2.2v0.2.2Christian Duerr
2018-10-03Version 0.2.1v0.2.1Joe Wilm
2018-09-17Bump version number to 0.2.0 (#1492)Christian Duerr
* Change deb installation from crates.io to git There have been a number of issues an PRs opened since the cargo-deb installation does not work with the latest version from crates.io. To help out users until the crates.io version is updated, the installation instructions have been temporarily changed to install `cargo-deb` through github. * Revert cargo-deb install back to use crates.io Since `cargo-deb` has been updated on crates.io it is now possible to just install it from crates.io and build Alacritty's deb without having to rely on github. * Update dependencies This fixes an `illegal hardware instruction (core dumped)` error when building in release mode. * Remove redundant copy when selecting font_key * Bump version number to 0.2.0 Since the Scrollback branch introduces some major changes, this bumps the version number from 0.1.0 to 0.2.0. The versions of Alacritty have not been updated regularly to this point, so the scrollback branch is a good point in time to start updating Alacritty's version on a regular basis. Further changes to the readme, like dropping the 'alpha' status and updating it to 'beta' could also be introduced with this branch. This way there will be a clean cut which updates everything as soon as scrollback is merged. Building versions is another thing which would be a good thing to start reasonably quickly. However starting this on the main branch after scrollback has been merged seems like a more reliable way to move forward. This fixes #1240. * Add a CHANGELOG file A CHANGELOG file has been added to offer a bit more transparency over which features have been changed, added and potentially removed in Alacritty. There are various formats available for the CHANGELOG file but the most common and sensible one seems to be the one defined by https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0. Following the template proposed by this it should be possible to create a clear CHANGELOG which makes it simple for new contributors to figure out exactly which formatting should be used for it. Since there have been quite a few changes to Alacritty already, not all changes have been added to the changelog. However a few entries have been ported just to give a bit of an example what the format should look like. This also helps with the 0.2.0 version since it will not be completely empty in the changelog. This fixes #1534. * Update CHANGELOG This updates the CHANGELOG to include the changes introduced by 43882ade33d4c14ee7248e489a2d33395faaa0b1.
2018-07-21Scrollback cleanupChristian Duerr
There were some unneeded codeblocks and TODO/XXX comments in the code that have been removed. All issues marked with TODO/XXX have either been already resolved or tracking issues exist.
2018-03-07Add shell completions and manpageChristian Duerr
* Add manpage Adds a basic manpage that was autogenerated with `help2man` and then slightly adjusted with information from the README.md and better formatting. * Add zsh completions Add completions for the zsh shell. These should be complete and even allow completion of the command inside `--command` and `-e`. * Add bash completions The bash completions are almost on the same level as the zsh completions. The only little thing the bash completions do not do is complete inside of `--command` and `-e`, instead bash just stops completion after these options. * Update readme with manpage and completions Added the install instructions for the manpage and completions to the README.md. Also tweaked the current readme a slight bit because the build section was structured in a slightly confusing way.