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matterhorn v50200.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-06-18 // almost 4 years ago

  • 🆕 New features:

    • More text-editing keybindings are now rebindable rather than being hard-coded. In addition, the keybinding events for text editing are now respected by editors for the /join window, the /msg window, the /members window, as well as channel selection mode (C-g). For the complete list of supported configurable keybindings, please see the Text Editing section of /help and /help keybindings as well as the keybinding tables provided by matterhorn -k.
    • Matterhorn now has support for dealing with server API request rate limiting. When Matterhorn is denied an API request due to rate limiting it will now attempt to reissue the request once the server's rate limit has reset. Matterhorn will indicate when it does this by displaying an informative message in the current channel. If for some reason the second attempt fails, the user will be notified. We recommend that users encountering rate limiting issues (e.g. on fast connections to their servers) contact their server administrators.
    • Channel selection mode (triggered by event enter-fast-select / default key: C-g) now provides two alternative key events for changing the selected entry (#609). These new events are alternatives for the existing events:
      • focus-prev-channel-alternate, default key: Up, alternative to focus-prev-channel
      • focus-next-channel-alternate, default key: Down, alternative to focus-next-channel
    • The message editor's tab completion now supports more intelligent completion by detecting punctuation following completions. Previously, tab completion would insert the completion followed by a trailing space; for example, @u<TAB> might complete to @user followed by a space. While this is often desirable behavior, it also meant that if the very next input character was a punctuation character such as a period, the final text would be @user . Based on the observation that usually the intention is to end up with @user., the editor now automatically replaces the trailing space when such a punctuation character is entered. This behavior is configurable with the smartediting configuration setting which defaults to On. The list of characters that trigger this behavior is: .,'";:)]!?.

    Other improvements:

    • The current user's status is now displayed next to the current user's username at the top of the channel sidebar (#594).
    • Help for keybindings was improved to list all available bindings for each event. The help text also now makes it clear when an event has a non-bindable (fixed) key or has no binding at all. These improvements affected the output of /help, /help keybindings, and the output of the command-line options to print keybinding tables.
    • The sample configuration documentation clarified how to use the host field and also how to use Matterhorn without TLS.
    • The message editor's spell checking no longer checks the spelling of tokens that start with slashes or user/channel sigils (#611).
    • Matterhorn now sets the Markdown file extension when editing messages in external editors in order to help the external editors detect the file type and do syntax highlighting (#590).
    • The help text for the logging commands now makes it clear that the logging commands log application debug information, not chat messages.
    • The autocompletion list no longer appears if only a single completion is available when the user autocompletes input text.

    🐛 Bug fixes:

    • Parsing for the configuration file's host field has been improved to accept only valid hostnames and IPv4/IPv6 addresses.
    • Editing a message now properly clears the message editor of any preexisting input (#614).
    • The example notification scripts for Linux and macOS have been improved with backslash and quote escaping (#613, thanks Bernhard Walle).
    • Incoming messages are now sanitized of unprintable characters (#604).
    • Matterhorn is now better behaved when the server has disabled custom emoji (#600).
    • Matterhorn's parsing of timezone data is now improved platforms where it previously could not parse the timezone files (#542).
    • The /join channel list no longer includes channels of which the user is already a member (#602).
    • The channel messages now render properly whenever the editor's multiline preview changes size (#587).