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Changed

• The previewer script no longer skips non-regular files (#2327).
• Line numbers now take up less space when both number and relativenumber are enabled (#2331).
• Changes have been made to ruler configuration (#2338):
  • The ruler file is no longer experimental.
  • The ruler file will be used by default unless rulerfmt (now a blank string by default) is specified.
  • The ruler file is no longer read from fixed locations like ~/.config/lf/ruler, and instead the rulerfile option has been repurposed to specify the path of the ruler file.

Added

• A new server command list is added to print the IDs of all currently connected clients (#2314).
• The previewer and cleaner scripts now have their stderr output logged (#2316).
• The ruler file now supports .Stat.Extension, .Stat.AccessTime, .Stat.BirthTime, .Stat.ChangeTime and .Stat.CustomInfo (#2329), as well as .Stat.DirSize and .Stat.DirCount (#2343).
• A new option mergeindicators is added to reduce the gap before filenames, by merging tag and selection indicators into a single column (#2330).

Fixed

• A bug where sixel images fail to display when scrolling back and forth is now fixed (#2301).
• Newline characters are now ignored when drawing the ruler with the ruler file configured (#2319).
• A potential crash when using the scroll-up/scroll-down commands is now fixed (#2320).
• Case-insensitive command-line completions no longer cause user input to be displayed in lowercase (#2336).
• Calculation of window widths for the ratios option is now more accurate (#2347).

Fixed

• Error messages from the server are no longer written to the terminal which causes the UI to break (#2290).
• A bug where file previews fail to load properly when scrolling quickly is now fixed (#2292).

Changed

• File extensions are now shown for long filenames even if they are truncated (#2159).
• The history file will no longer contain a space between the prefix and the actual command (e.g. :quit instead of : quit) for each line (#2161). The command sed -i -E 's/^(.) /\1/' ~/.local/share/lf/history can be run to make an existing history file compatible with the new format.
• The cmd-history-next and cmd-history-prev commands will now select only matching entries if part of the command is typed beforehand (#2161). Consecutive duplicate entries will also be skipped for convenience.
• The string representation of commands shown when displaying keybindings is simplified (e.g. cd ~ instead of cd -- [~]) (#2165).
• yes-no-prompts now use the same design everywhere (#2212).
• Logs generated by -log <path> now get appended to <path> instead of overwriting it (#2215).
• The showbinds menu now hides the redundant mode column (#2226) (#2228) and omits already typed keys (#2249).
• The setlocal command no longer requires absolute paths (#2253).
• The string representation of file permissions now matches the traditional Unix format instead of the one used by Go (#2270).

Added

• A new command cmd-menu-discard is added to allow exiting the completion menu with completions discarded (#2146).
• The lf_mode environment variable will now be set to compmenu if the completion menu is active (#2146).
• A ruler config file is added as an alternate method for customizing the ruler (#2186). This is intended to eventually replace the existing rulerfmt/statfmt options and must be enabled using the new rulerfile option. This feature is currently experimental.
• A new option preload is added to enable calling the previewer to generate previews in advance (#2206). This feature is currently experimental.
• OSC 8 escape codes to render clickable hyperlinks are now supported (#2243).

Fixed

• shell-pipe commands no longer wait for output if kept open after the command has finished running (#2155).
• Natural sorting now compares string lengths when dealing with equivalent numbers (e.g. 0 is ordered before 00) (#2177).
• A bug where the copy progress indicator only displayed the first time a file was copied is now fixed (#2181).
• A bug where the source command does not show an error message upon failure is now fixed (#2189).
• The addcustominfo (#2198) and setlocal (#2254) (#2259) commands, as well as the cleaner and previewer options (#2211) now support filename completions.
• A bug where an empty custom info property would still take up space is now fixed (#2208).
• A bug where setting drawbox could lead to scrolling outside the view is now fixed (#2210) (#2218).
• The preview cache is now not cleared when setting ratios to its current value (#2218).
• Filtering is fixed when using special characters in the search pattern if the filtermethod is text (#2231).
• Custom commands that output messages (e.g. cmd greet echo 'hello world') now display properly (#2245).
• Errors in config files are now displayed properly (#2246).

Changed

• The deprecated globfilter and globsearch options are now removed (#2108).
• Sixel image support is now enabled by default, and the sixel option has been removed as it is no longer required (#2109).
• The dircache option has now been removed (#2110). This was previously used as a workaround to disable the directory cache since at the time changes to files were not detected reliably, but this is no longer the case.
• The experimental locale option has been removed in favor of the recommendation to use addcustominfo/set sortby custom for custom sorting (#2111).
• The existing doc command has been renamed to help so that it is more natural for users (#2125).
• Text previews are no longer displayed with a padding of two spaces by default (#2131). Instead, a custom padding can be added in the previewer script, for example by piping to sed 's/^/ /'.

Added

• Sixel image previews can now display multiple images as well as text (#2109).
• A new option sizeunits is added to allow displaying file sizes in either binary or decimal units (#2118).
• XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME are now taken into account when looking up config/data files on Windows (#2119).
• Three new options menufmt, menuheaderfmt, and menuselectfmt are added to customize the appearance of the menu (#2123).

Fixed

• Error messages are now cleared after running interactive commands such as invert/unselect/tag-toggle (#2117).
• The menu is now drawn over sixel images instead of being hidden behind it if they overlap (#2122).
• A bug which prevents the user from quitting when copying files with a size of 0 has been fixed (#2130).
• lf -remote should no longer busy wait and cause high CPU usage if its output is not being read (#2138).
• The parameter types for command line options shown by lf -help now match the synopsis in the documentation (#2153).