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This is a big release, coming 9 months after the previous v1.2.0 and featuring over 40+ bug fixes and tons of new features and enhancements, so let’s see what is in this release.
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<em class=text-muted>by <strong>sammyette</strong><time> // December 29, 2022</time></em><div class=my-4><p>Hilbish v2.0 has been released!
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Well actually, it was released a week ago, but I only wrote this
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Hilbish blog <em>after</em> that.</p><p>This is a <strong>big</strong> release, coming 9 months after the previous v1.2.0 and
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featuring over 40+ bug fixes and tons of new features and enhancements, so
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let’s see what is in this release.</p><h2 id=documentation class=heading>Documentation
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<a href=#documentation class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>When querying about the problems people have with Hilbish, one of the
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issues was its poor documentation. Hilbish had plain text, autogenerated
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documentation which only covered the module functions (bait, hilbish,
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commander, etc.) and did not include the interfaces (<code>hilbish.timers</code>,
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<code>hilbish.jobs</code> and all that).</p><p>I have tried to improve this by working on documenting all the
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interfaces (except for some functions of <code>hilbish.runner</code>, that’s hard to do)
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and made the documentation markdown for use on this website. This means
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that users can look at documentation here or with the <code>doc</code> command.</p><p>Hopefully this addresses documentation complaints, and if not, please open an issue.</p><h2 id=main-bug-fixes class=heading>Main Bug Fixes
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<a href=#main-bug-fixes class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>As this is a piece of software with no unit testing that is maintained by me alone,
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there is gonna be either some bug or something that I overlooked when
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making a change. I make a lot of mistakes. There’s also the other fact that
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sometimes there’s just bugs for any other reasosn. Good thing I fixed
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more than 40 of those bugs in this release!</p><h3 id=readline-bug-fixes class=heading>Readline Bug Fixes
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<a href=#readline-bug-fixes class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h3><p>The pure Go readline library is good in some ways and bad in others.
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A good portion of the bug fixes are for the readline library, and also
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related to text input with east asian characters and the like (Korean, Japanese,
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etc.)</p><p>A few of the fixes (and additions) include:</p><ul><li>Fixing various crashes, including when there is a “stray” newline at the end of text</li><li>Grid completion menu causing spam and duplicate text when there are items longer than
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the terminal and/or contain Japanese or other characters.</li><li>Cursor positioning with CJK characters</li><li>Adding new keybinds and fixing others</li></ul><h3 id=other-fixes class=heading>Other fixes
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<a href=#other-fixes class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h3><p>There are a lot more fixes, even more than the ones listed here, but these are the main ones:
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- Don’t put alias expanded command in history (I’ve fixed this 5 times now….)
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- Handle stdin being nonblocking
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- Completion related fixes, like showing the full name, completing files with spaces</p><h2 id=breaking-changes class=heading>Breaking changes
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<a href=#breaking-changes class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>This release is a major version bump not only because there are tons of fixes, but because
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there are breaking changes. This means that there are some changes done which would
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cause errors with an old user config (breaking).</p><h3 id=lua-54 class=heading>Lua 5.4
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<a href=#lua-54 class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h3><p>The most important is the use of a new Lua VM library. Previously, Hilbish
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used gopher-lua, which implements Lua 5.1. This has been changed to
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<a href=https://github.com/arnodel/golua/ target=_blank rel=noopener>golua</a>
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, which implements Lua 5.4.</p><p>Moving from 5.1 to 5.4 does have breaking changes even if it doesn’t seem like it,
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and since these are different Lua implementations, there may be some differences there too.</p><h3 id=userdata class=heading>Userdata
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<a href=#userdata class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h3><p>Previously, objects such as jobs or timers were represented by tables.
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This has been changed to userdata to make more sense.</p><h3 id=other-changes class=heading>Other changes
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<a href=#other-changes class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h3><p>Runner functions are now required to return a table.
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It can (at the moment) have 4 variables:</p><ul><li><code>input</code> (user input)</li><li><code>exitCode</code> (exit code)</li><li><code>error</code> (error message)</li><li><code>continue</code> (whether to prompt for more input)
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User input has been added to the return to account for runners wanting to
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prompt for continued input, and to add it properly to history. <code>continue</code>
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got added so that it would be easier for runners to get continued input
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without having to actually handle it at all.</li></ul><p>The MacOS config paths now match Linux, since it makes more sense for
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a program like Hilbish.</p><p>The Hilbish greeting is now an <em>opt</em>, and is printed by default.</p><h2 id=feature-additions class=heading>Feature Additions
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<a href=#feature-additions class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>Besides fixes and changes, this release also includes a good portion of
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new features! Users can now add handlers for syntax highlighting and
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inline hinting.</p><p>Some new hooks have been added, like <code>hilbish.cancel</code> and <code>hilbish.init</code>.
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You can look at all the hooks via the <code>doc hooks</code> command</p><p>Job management functions have also been added. You can now put jobs in the
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foreground/background and disown them via the expected commands and also
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via the Lua API.</p><p>The <code>hilbish.timers</code> API interface was also added in this release!</p><h2 id=closing-off class=heading>Closing Off
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<a href=#closing-off class=heading-link><i class="fas fa-paperclip"></i></a></h2><p>Hilbish has gone from something small and simple for myself to a slightly
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advanced shell with a decent amount of features, and a few users. It
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still hasn’t reached levels of other alt shells in regards to literally
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everything, but the goal is to get there!</p><p>If you want to check the FULL changelog, you can <a href=https://github.com/Rosettea/Hilbish/releases/tag/v2.0.0 target=_blank rel=noopener>do so here.</a>
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This v2.0 release marks an advancement in Hilbish (and also how long
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one of my projects hasn’t died) and I hope it can advance even further.</p><p>Thanks for reading, and I’ll be back for the v2.1 release notes, or maybe
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