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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

Saturday, March 10 2012

Bracketed paste mode

By Sébastien Helleu on Saturday, March 10 2012, 09:54 - core

The support for terminal bracketed paste mode has been added. In this mode, pasted text is bracketed with control sequences so that WeeChat can differentiate pasted text from typed-in text (ESC[200~, followed by the pasted text, followed by ESC[201~).

New options:

  • weechat.look.paste_bracketed: enable terminal "bracketed paste mode" (off by default)
  • weechat.look.paste_bracketed_timer_delay: force end of bracketed paste after this delay (in seconds) if control sequence for end of bracketed paste was not received in time (10 seconds by default)

Changes on option weechat.look.paste_max_lines: now -1 is used to disable option (and new default value is 1 instead of 3). According to value, you have following behaviour:

  • value -1: paste detection disabled (any paste is immediately inserted in input, without confirmation)
  • value 0: WeeChat will ask confirmation for any paste (even one char)
  • value N (>= 1): WeeChat will ask for at least N+1 lines

When pasting one line with newline in bracketed paste mode, the newline at the end of paste is automatically removed (regardless the value of option weechat.look.paste_max_lines).

According to my tests the "bracketed paste mode" works fine with:

  • terminals: rxvt-unicode (9.15), xterm (276), mintty (1.0.3)
  • multiplexer: screen (4.00.03)

According to my tests it currently does not work with:

  • terminals: putty like (planned, committed recently)
  • multiplexer: tmux (1.6) (planned, committed recently)

Please comment this post if you have info about other terminals (supported or not).