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v4.2

Murex usage has raised considerably in recent weeks. This release addresses a number of feature requests and bugs raised on Github.

Breaking Changes

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new flag in foreach: --step <int>. This allows the foreach to jump indexes at a time. When used, all the lines jumped are merged into a JSON array and that is passed to the foreach nested code block
new alias builtin => fexec builtin. This was added to bring more familiarity to those coming from Bash et al (#608)
on Darwin, Homebrew defaults are imported, just like you’d expect them to be from any other shell
new hotkeys (#611) (#613):
1. ctrl+a: jump to beginning of line
2. ctrl+e: jump to end of line
3. alt+f: jump forwards a word at a time
4. alt+b: jump backwards a word at a time
5. ctrl+k: clear line after cursor position
6. ctrl+l: clear entire screen
7. ctrl+g: same as esc
open builtin should fallback to system default if type unknown (#620)
pre-prompt-func added to config. Block runs before the interactive prompt is displayed
post-prompt-func added to config. Block runs after the interactive prompt has been exited but before any command lines have been executed
auto-cd option added to config: config: set shell auto-cd true. This allows you to traverse directories without having to prefix cd. By default it is disabled
Meta values added to foreach, formap, and while. Meta values are a $. variable that holds meta-information about the running block, such as the number of iterations in a loop
command alias for exec (for familiarity with Bash)
builtin alias for fexec builtin (for familiarity with Bash)

brace encapsulated variables, eg $(foobar), now autocomplete as expected
improvements to inlining images in iTerm2 when shell running on top of tmux. It still doesn’t work reliably but this is an issue with tmux rather than Murex
method forwards exceptions rather than errors. This behaviour has been changed to surface issues as errors
profile_preload.mx added to profile defaults. This will be loaded before any of the OS-specific profiles
missing rune length check causing the shell to panic (#617)
fixed deadlock in flag parsing
zero length string title bars should be ignored (#614)
minor improvements to documentation

Published: 19.06.2023 at 23:15