tridactyl/doc/changelog.md

# Tridactyl changelogs

## Release 1.9.2

- Fix #392 (bug with keyseq)

## Release 1.9.1

- Fix buffer switch bind

## Release 1.9.0

- 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](https://tridactyl.cmcaine.co.uk/betas) 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

- 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

- 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 <summary> tags to standard hinting
- Log an error to browser console if no TTS voices are found


## Release 1.7.0

 - 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