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Sunday, February 16 2014

Bare display

By Sébastien Helleu on Sunday, February 16 2014, 16:30 - core

A "bare" display mode has been added. This special mode displays only the current buffer, and no bars around (no title, nicklist, status, input, ...).
It is designed for easy selection of text and click on long URLs (which are not broken at the end of lines, because ncurses is disabled in this mode).

A new key has been added: Alt+l (use /key missing to add the key), or this command: /key bind meta-l /window bare.
You can also use a delay in seconds with command /window bare, for example 5 seconds: /window bare 5.

Two options have been added:

  • weechat.look.bare_display_exit_on_input (default: on): by default any changes in input will return to standard display
  • weechat.look.bare_display_time_format (default: "%H:%M"): the format of time used in bare display.

Bare display looks like this (click for full size):

weechat_bare_display.png

Tuesday, July 26 2011

Mouse support and free movement of cursor

By Sébastien Helleu on Tuesday, July 26 2011, 17:49 - core

Mouse support has been added to WeeChat, and a "cursor" mode: a mode when you can move cursor everywhere and do actions with keys on focused area.

New commands added:

/mouse
/cursor

Before using mouse, add missing keys:

/key missing

Mouse events (clicks on buttons, gestures) are caught as special "keys", in context "mouse". For a list of default events, you can look at documentation (default keys) or output of this command in WeeChat:

/key list mouse

Mouse is not enabled by default. To enable it (at startup and now), do:

/set weechat.look.mouse on
/mouse enable

When mouse is enabled, you can use shift+selection or shift+buttons to select/paste text (like when mouse is disabled). Note that on some terminals like iTerm, you may have to use alt instead of shift.
New key alt+m will toggle mouse on/off.

Finally, thanks to Nei for his scripts, the mouse support in WeeChat is partially based on them.

Mouse support will be improved in near future, for example interactions with words/messages in chat area (select text, click on URLs, ..).
Stay tuned!