Beginning with this release, `bat` can be used as a library (#423).
This was a huge effort and I want to thank all people who made this possible: @DrSensor, @mitsuhiko, @mre, @eth-p!
- Initial attempt in #469 (@mitsuhiko)
- Second attempt, complete restructuring of the `bat` crate, see #679 (@DrSensor)
- Updates to example, public API, error handling, further refactoring: #693#873#875 (@sharkdp)
I want to stress that this is the very first release of the library. Things are very likely to change. A lot of things are still missing (including the documentation).
That being said, you can start using it! See the example programs in [`examples/`](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/tree/master/examples).
You can see the API documentation here: https://docs.rs/bat/
## Features
- (**Breaking change**) Glob-based syntax mapping, see #877 and #592. With this change,
users need to update their bat config files (`bat --config-file`), if they have any `--map-syntax` settings
present.
The option now works like this:
```bash
--map-syntax <glob-pattern>:<syntax-name>
```
For more information, see the `--help` text, the man page or the README.
This new feature allows us to properly highlight files like:
*`/etc/profile`
*`~/.ssh/config`
-`--highlight-line` now accepts line ranges, see #809 (@lkalir)
- Proper wrapping support for output with wide Unicode characters, see #811#787 and #815 (@Kogia-sima)
- A lot of updates to existing syntaxes via #644 (@benwaffle, @keith-hall)
-`BAT_CACHE_PATH` can be used to place cached `bat` assets in a non-standard path, see #829 (@neuronull)
- Support combination of multiple styles at the same time, see #857 (@aslpavel)
## Bugfixes
- Do not pass '--no-init' on newer less versions, see #749 and #786 (@sharkdp)
- 'bat cache' still takes precedence over existing files, see #666 (@sharkdp)
-`.sc` files should be treated as scala files, see #443 (@benwaffle)
- Allow underscores and dashes in page names, see #670 (@LunarLambda)
- Keep empty lines empty, see #601 (@mbarbar)
- Wrapping does not work when piping, see #758 (@fusillicode, @allevo, @gildo)
- Allow for non-unicode filenames, see #225 (@sharkdp)
- Empty file without header produces incomplete grid, see #798 (@eth-p)
- Files named `build` don't respect shebang lines, see #685 (@sharkdp)
## Other
- Parametrizable names for man page and shell completion files, see #659#673#656 (@eth-p)
- Enabled LTO, making `bat` about 10% faster, see #719 (@bolinfest, @sharkdp)
- Suggestions non how to configure `bat` for MacOS dark mode, see README (@jerguslejko)
- Extended ["Integration with other tools"](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#integration-with-other-tools) section (@eth-p)
- Updated [instrutions on how to use `bat` as a `man`-pager](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#man), see #652, see #667 (@sharkdp)
- Add section concerning file encodings, see #688 and #568 (@sharkdp)
- Updated sort order of command-line options in `--help` text and manpage, see #653 and #700 (@hrlmartins)
- Updates to the man page syntax, see #718 (@sharkdp)
- Japanese documentation updates, see #863 (@k-ta-yamada, @sorairolake and @wt-l00)
- Accept "default" as a theme, see #757 (@fvictorio)
- Updated Windows installation instructions, see #852 (@sorenbug)
- Updated man page, see #573 (@sharkdp)
## New syntaxes
- Jinja2, see #648 (@Martin819)
- SaltStack SLS, see #658 (@Martin819)
-`/etc/fstab`, see #696 (@flopp and @eth-p)
-`/etc/group` and `/etc/passwd`, see #698 (@argentite)
-`/proc/cpuinfo` and `/proc/meminfo`, see #593 (@sharkdp)
- Nim, see #542 (@sharkdp)
- Vue, see #826 (@chaaaaarlotte)
- CoffeScript, see #833 (@sharkdp)
## New themes
- Dracula, see #687 (@clarfon)
- Nord, see #760 (@crabique)
- Solarized light and dark, see #768 (@hakamadare)
## Packaging
-`bat` is now in the official Ubuntu and Debian repositories, see #323 and #705 (@MarcoFalke)
-`bat` can now be installed via MacPorts, see #675 (@bn3t)
- Install fish completions into 'vendor_completions.d', see #651 (@sharkdp)
## Thanks
- To @eth-p for joining me as a maintainer! I'm very grateful for all the work you put into
managing and responding to issues, improving our deployment, adding PR/issue templates (#837) as
well as fixing bugs and implementing new features.
# v0.12.1
## Bugfixes
- Fixes a bug for older Windows versions (*"The procedure entry point `CreateFile2` could not be located"*), see #643 (@rivy)
# v0.12.0
## Features
- Binary file content can now be viewed with `bat -A`, see #623, #640 (@pjsier and @sharkdp)
-`bat` can now be used as a man pager. Take a look at the README and #523 for more details.
- Add new style component to separate multiple `--line-range`s, see #570 (@eth-p)
- Added `-L` as an alias for `--list-languages`
## Bugfixes
- Output looks unbalanced when using '--style=grid,numbers' without 'header', see #571 (@eth-p)
- issues with filenames starting with "cache", see #584
- Can't build cache with new theme without creating cache dir, see #576 (@frm)
-`--terminal-width -10` is parsed incorrectly, see #611
## Other
- Added fish completions to DEB package, see #554
## New syntaxes
- Emacs Org mode, see #36 (@bricewge)
-`requirements.txt`
- DotENV `.env`
- SSH config syntax (`-l ssh_config`), see #582 (@issmirnov)
-`/etc/hosts`, see #583 (@issmirnov)
- GraphQL, see #625 (@dandavison)
- Verilog, see #616
- SCSS and Sass, see #637
-`strace` syntax, see #599
## Packaging
-`bat` is now in the official Gentoo repositories, see #588 (@toku-sa-n)
-`bat` is now in the official Alpine Linux repositories, see #586 (@5paceToast)
-`bat` is in the official Fedora repositories, see #610 (@ignatenkobrain)
# v0.11.0
## Features
- Three new special color themes are available: `ansi-light`, `ansi-dark` and `base16`. These
are useful for people that often switch from dark to light themes in their terminal emulator
or for people that want the colors to match their terminal theme colors. For more details,
see #543 and #490 (@mk12, implementation idea by @trishume)
- Hand-written auto completion script for Fish shell, see #524 and #555 (@ev-dev and @eth-p)
- The `-p`/`--plain` option can now be used twice (typically `-pp`). The first `-p` switches the
`--style` to "plain". The second `-p` disables the pager. See #560 and #552 (@eth-p)
## Bugfixes
- Do not replace arguments to `less` when using `--pager`, see #509
- Binary files will now be indicated by a warning in interactive mode, see #530#466#550 (@maxfilov)
- Empty files are (once again) printed with a single header line, see #504 and #566 (@reidwagner
and @sharkdp)
-`--terminal-width=0` is now disallowed, see #559 (@eth-p)
- Accidental printing of files named `cache`, see #557
## Other
- New integration tests, see #500 and #502 (@reidwagner and @sharkdp)
- New ["Integration with other tools"](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#integration-with-other-tools) section in the README.
- Migrated to Rust 2018 (@expobrain)
## New syntaxes
- F# syntax has been updated, see #531 (@stroborobo)
- Fish shell, see #548 (@sanga)
## Packaging
-`bat` is now available on Chocolatey, see #541 (@rasmuskriest)
# v0.10.0
## Features
- Added new `--highlight-line <N>` option, see #453, #346 and #175 (@tskinn and @sharkdp)
## Changes
- **Change the default configuration directory on macOS** to `~/.config/bat`, see #442 (@lavifb). If you are on macOS, you need to copy your configuration directory from the previous place (`~/Library/Preferences/bat`) to the new place (`~/.config/bat`).
- Completely disabled the generation of shell completion files, see #372
- Properly set arguments to `less` if `PAGER` environment variable contains something like `less -F` (which is missing the `-R` option), see #430 (@majecty)
- Report the name of missing files, see #444 (@ufuji1984)
- Don't start pager if file doesn't exist, see #387
- Rename `bat cache --init` to `bat cache --build`, see #498
- Move the `--config-dir` and `--cache-dir` options from `bat cache` to `bat` and hide them from the help text.
## Bugfixes
- Blank line at the end of output when using `--style=plain`, see #379
- EOF must be sent twice on stdin if no other input is sent, see #477 (@reidwagner)
## New syntaxes
- Twig (@ahmedelgabri)
-`.desktop` files (@jleclanche)
- AsciiDoc (@markusthoemmes)
- Assembly (x86_64 and ARM)
- Log files (@caos21)
- Protobuf and ProtobufText (@caos21)
- Terraform (@caos21)
- Jsonnet (@hfm)
- Varlink (@haraldh)
## Other
- Added Japanese version of README (@sh-tech and @object1037)
- Code improvements (@barskern)
# v0.9.0
## Features
- A new `-A`/`--show-all` option has been added to show and highlight non-printable characters (in analogy to GNU `cat`s option):
- Added `--pager` option (to configure the pager from the configuration file), see #362 (@majecty)
- Added `BAT_CONFIG_PATH` environment variable to set a non-default path for `bat`s configuration file, see #375 (@deg4uss3r)
- Allow for multiple occurences of `--style` to allow for the configuration
of styles from the config file, see #367 (@sindreij)
- Allow for multiple `--line-range` arguments, see #23
- The `--terminal-width` option can now also accept offsets, see #376
## Changes
- Use of italics is now *disabled by default* (see #389 for details). They can be
re-enabled by adding `--italic-text=always` to your configuration file.
- The default tab-width has been set to 4.
- Added new "Sublime Snazzy" theme.
- Shell completions are currently *not* shipped anymore, see #372 for details.
## Bugfixes
- Avoid endless recursion when `PAGER="bat"`, see #383 (@rodorgas)
## Other
-`bat` is now available on openSUSE, see #405 (@dmarcoux)
- Added section about the new configuration file in the README (@deg4uss3r)
- Chinese translation of README (@chinanf-boy)
- Re-written tests for `--tabs` (@choznerol)
- Speed up integration tests, see #394
# v0.8.0
## Features
- Support for a configuration file with the following simple format:
```bash
--tabs=4
--theme="Sublime Snazzy"
# A line-comment
--map-syntax .ignore:.gitignore
--map-syntax PKGBUILD:bash
--map-syntax Podfile:ruby
# Flags and options can also be on a single line:
--wrap=never --paging=never
```
The configuration file path can be accessed via `bat --config-file`. On Linux,
it is stored in `~/.config/bat/config`.
- Support for the `BAT_OPTS` environment variable with the same format as specified
above (in a single line). This takes precedence over the configuration file.
See also #310.
- Support for custom syntax mappings via the `-m`/`--max-syntax` option.
This allows users to (re)map certain file extensions or file names to an existing syntax:
``` bash
bat --map-syntax .config:json ...
```
The option can be use multiple times. Note that you can easily make these mappings permanent by using bats new configuration file.
See #169
- Support pager command-line arguments in `PAGER` and `BAT_PAGER`, see #352 (@Foxboron)
- Add support for wildcards in Windows CMD, see #309 (@zxey)
- First-line syntax detection for all input types, see #205
- Encoding support for UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE, see #285
- New syntaxes: Robot framework (@sanga)
## Changes
- Binary files are now detected and not displayed when the output goes to an interactive terminal, see #205
## Bugfixes
- JavaDoc comments break syntax highlighting in .java files, see #81
- Bat Panics on Haskell Source Code, see #314
## Other
- Better `-h` and `--help` texts.
- Updated documentation on how to configure `bat`s pager
- Updated documentation for light backgrounds, see #328 (@russtaylor)
- Generate shell completions during build, see #115 (@davideGiovannini)
- A lot of new tests have been written
-`bat` is now available via [Termux](https://termux.com/), see #341 (@fornwall)
-`bat` is now available via [nix](https://nixos.org/nix), see #344 (@mgttlinger)
-`bat` is now available via [Docker](https://hub.docker.com/r/danlynn/bat/), see #331 (@danlynn)
# v0.7.1
## Features
- Use the `ansi_colours` package by @mina86 for better true-color approximation on 8 bit color terminals, see #319 and #202.
## Bugfixes
- Bat Panics on Haskell Source Code, see #314
- Disable wrapping when `--style=plain`/`-p` is used, see #289
## Other
- Added Ansible install instructions (@aeimer)
- Added section about Cygwin to the README (@eth-p)
# v0.7.0
## Features
- Tabs are now (optionally) expanded to spaces. This can be controlled with the new
`--tabs` command-line option or the `BAT_TABS` environment variable. The
new feature also closes two bugs #166 and #184. For more information, see #302 (@eth-p).
- Added support for the `BAT_STYLE` environment variable, see #208 (@ms2300)
- Added `OneHalf` theme for terminals with a light-gray background, see #256
- Added new syntaxes for CSV, JSX in JavaScript and TypeScript, Cabal, Dart,
F#, PureScript, Swift, Crystal, PowerShell (Many Thanks to @tobenna and @mimadrid)
## Changes
- Query `git diff` only when needed, see #303 (@ShikChen)
- Disable wrapping when `--plain` is used, see #289 (@eth-p)
## Bugfixes
- Can read files named `cache`, see #275 (@BK1603)
- A lot of bugfixes for Windows, see #252, #264
- Detect `less` reliably and in a portable way, see #271 and #290 (@Aankhen)
- last decoration line is not formatted properly with `--wrap never`, see #299 (@Rogach)
- Do not show file header for directories, see #292
## Other
- Enabled a new `aarch64` build target, see #258 (@rachitchokshi)
- Provide Debian packages for `armhf`, see #280 (@rachitchokshi)
- Added README section about "`bat` on Windows" (@Aankhen)
- Windows installation via scoop (@meltinglava)
# v0.6.1
## Bugfixes
- Fixed panic when running `bat --list-languages | head`, see #232 (@mchlrhw)
- Respect `--color` settings for `--list-themes` and `--list-languages`, see #233
- Git modifications now work on Windows
## Other
- There will be auto-generated Windows releases, starting with this version (@anykao)
# v0.6.0
## Features
- The `--list-themes` option now shows a preview for each highlighting theme (@ms2300)
- Added `-p`/`--plain` as an alias for `--style=plain`, see #212 (@ms2300)
- Major refactorings, enabling some progress on #150. In non-interactive mode, `bat` will now copy input bytes 1:1.
- New languages: Elm, Kotlin, Puppet, TypeScript, see #215#216#217#218
- New syntax highlighting theme: zenburn (@colindean)
## Changes
- New themes in `$BAT_CONFIG_DIR/themes` are now loaded *in addition* to
the default themes (they may also override), see #172
- The `Default.tmTheme` symlink is not necessary anymore.
## Bugfixes
* Using `bat cache --init` leads to duplicated syntaxes, see #206
## Other
* Extended and cleaned-up `--help` text.
* Added initial version of a man page, see #52
* New README sections: *Development* and *Troubleshooting*, see #220
# v0.5.0
## Features
- Added `--line-range n:m` option to print a range of lines, see #159 (@tskinn)
- The syntax highlighting theme can now be controlled by the `BAT_THEME` environment variable, see [README](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting-theme) and #177 (@mandx)
- The `PAGER` and `BAT_PAGER` environment variables can be used to control the pager that `bat` uses, see #158 and the [new README section](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-a-different-pager)
- Added syntax highlighting for Nix, see #180
- Added syntax highlighting for AWK (Gert Hulselmans)
## Changes
- The customization of syntax sets and theme sets is now separated. Syntax definitions are now loaded *in addition* to the ones that are stored in the `bat` binary by default. Please refer to these new sections in the README: [Adding new syntaxes](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#adding-new-syntaxes--language-definitions), [Adding new themes](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#adding-new-themes), also see #172
- The color for the filename is now the default foreground color. The colors for the grid and the line numbers is now determined from the syntax highlighting theme, which now also works for light backgrounds, see #178.
## Bugfixes
- Escape Sequences get partially stripped, see #182 (@eth-p)
- Use separate Git repository for snapshot testing, see #165 and #161
- Markdown breaking on JavaScript, see #183
## Other
- Binaries for armv7 are now provided, see #196
-`bat` is now in the official [Arch package repositories](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/bat/).
- Optimizations in the RGB => 8-bit conversion (@mina86)
# v0.4.1
(this is just a small bugfix release, see 0.4.0 for all features and changes)
## Bugfixes
- Fix problem with `cargo test` when `bat` is not checked out in a Git repository, see #161
# v0.4.0
## Features
* Support for line-wrapping, see #54 and #102 (@eth-p)
* New and updated `--style` parameter, see #74 and README (@pitkley)
* Added `--theme` and `--list-themes` options, see #89 (@rleungx)
* Added syntax highlighting for: Julia (@iamed2), Dockerfiles, VimL, CMake, INI, Less
* Added a few popular Sublime Text highlighting themes, see #133
* Support for bold, italic and underline font styles, see #96
* Support for 32bit systems is now available, see #84
* Added `-u` and `-n` options, see #134
* ANSI color support on Windows 10
## Changes
* The customization folder for own syntaxes has been renamed from `syntax` to `syntaxes`, see README.
* Changed Markdown syntax to the default Sublime Text syntax, see #157
* Sorted language listing (@rleungx)
* Command line arguments like `--theme` or `--color` can now override themselves.
* Improved `--help` text.
## Bugfixes
- Fixed crash for (really) small terminal sizes, see #117 (@eth-p)
- Syntax detection for `.bashrc`, `CMakeLists.txt` etc., see #100
- Properly handle lines with invalid UTF-8, see #7 (@BrainMaestro)
- Better error handling, see #17 (@rleungx and @sharkdp)
- Proper handling of UTF-8 characters in `less`, see #98 (@ghuls)
- Build fix on nightly, see #148 (@tathanhdinh)
## Other
- [Comparison with alternative projects](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/doc/alternatives.md).
- New "bat" logo in the README, see #119 (@jraulhernandezi)
- Output test cases (@BrainMaestro)
- Lots of great refactoring work (@BrainMaestro)
# v0.3.0
## Features
* Automatic paging by integrating with `less`, see #29 (@BrainMaestro)
* Added support for reading from standard input, see #2
* Added support for writing to non-interactive terminals (pipes, files, ..); new
`--color=auto/always/never` option, see #26 (@BrainMaestro)
* Added `--list-languages` option to print all available syntaxes, see #69 (@connorkuehl)
* New option to specify the syntax via `-l`/`--language`, see #19 (@BrainMaestro)
* New option to control the output style (`--style`), see #5 (@nakulcg)
* Added syntax highlighting support for TOML files, see #37
## Changes
* The `init-cache` sub-command has been removed. The cache can now be controlled via
`bat cache`. See `bat cache -h` for all available commands.
## Bug fixes
* Get git repository from file path instead of current directory, see #22 (@nakulcg)
* Process substitution can now be used with bat (`bat <(echo a) <(echo b)`), see #80
## Thanks
I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to all contributors and everyone that has given us
some form of feedback.
Special thanks go to @BrainMaestro for his huge support with new features, bug reports
and code reviews!
# v0.2.3
- Added a new statically linked version of bat (`..-musl-..`)
# v0.2.2
- Remove openssl dependency completely, see #30.
# v0.2.1
- Added Elixir syntax, see #25.
- Use libcurl-openssl instead of libcurl-gnutls, see #30.
# v0.2.0
- Support for custom syntaxes, add 'Markdown extended' theme
- Bugfix: Git modifications not shown from child folder
