bat version history

- Added paging to help output and fixed various pager-related issues - Fixed multiple bugs including line range parsing, Docker syntax, and decorations - Improved documentation and completions for Bash and PowerShell - Updated syntax highlighting for Quadlet, Ada, and Korn Shell scripts

- Added Windows/ARM64 build and built-in 'minus' pager. - Improved line range support with negative and context options. - Fixed UTF-8 BOM stripping and theme detection issues. - Added new syntaxes for Idris 2, Typst, VHDL, and Go modules.

- Added `--squeeze-blank` and `--squeeze-limit` options to handle empty lines - Introduced `--strip-ansi` to remove ANSI escape sequences from input - Improved syntax highlighting for JavaScript, Puppet, and various config files - Fixed bugs in ANSI handling, file name wrapping, and `NO_COLOR` support

# v0.24.0 ## Features - Add environment variable `BAT_PAGING`, see #2629 (@einfachIrgendwer0815) - Add opt-in (`--features lessopen`) support for `LESSOPEN` and `LESSCLOSE`. See #1597, #1739, #2444, #2602, and #2662 (@Anomalocaridid) ## Bugfixes - Fix `more` not being found on Windows when provided via `BAT_PAGER`, see #2570, #2580, and #2651 (@mataha) - Switched default behavior of `--map-syntax` to be case insensitive #2520 - Updated version of `serde_yaml` to `0.9`. See #2627 (@Raghav-Bell) - Fix arithmetic overflow in `LineRange::from` and `LineRange::parse_range`, see #2674, #2698 (@skoriop) - Fix paging not happening when stdout is interactive but stdin is not, see #2574 (@Nigecat) - Make `-pp` override `--paging` and vice versa when passed as a later argument, see #2660 (@J-Kappes) ## Other - Output directory for generated assets (completion, manual) can be customized, see #2515 (@tranzystorek-io) - Use the `is-terminal` crate instead of `atty`, see #2530 (@nickelc) - Add Winget Releaser workflow, see #2519 (@sitiom) - Bump MSRV to 1.70, see #2651 (@mataha) ## Syntaxes - Associate `os-release` with `bash` syntax, see #2587 (@cyqsimon) - Asso

## Features - Implemented `-S` and `--chop-long-lines` flags as aliases for `--wrap=never`. See #2309 (@johnmatthiggins) - Breaking change: Environment variables can now override config file settings (but command-line arguments still have the highest precedence), see #1152, #1281, and #2381 (@aaronkollasch) - Implemented `--nonprintable-notation=caret` to support showing non-printable characters using caret notation. See #2429 (@einfachIrgendwer0815) ## Bugfixes - Fix `bat cache --clear` not clearing the `--target` dir if specified. See #2393 (@miles170) ## Other - Various bash completion improvements, see #2310 (@scop) - Disable completion of `cache` subcommand, see #2399 (@cyqsimon) - Signifigantly improve startup performance on macOS, see #2442 (@BlackHoleFox) - Bump MSRV to 1.62, see #2496 (@Enselic) ## Syntaxes - Added support for Ada, see #1300 and #2316 (@dkm) - Added `todo.txt` syntax, see #2375 (@BANOnotIT) - Improve Manpage.sublime-syntax. See #2364 (@Freed-Wu) and #2461 (@keith-hall) - Added a new `requirements.txt` syntax, see #2361 (@Freed-Wu) - Added a new VimHelp syntax, see #2366 (@Freed-Wu) - Associate `pdm.lock` with `TOML` syntax, s

## Bugfixes - Bring back pre-processing of ANSI escape characters to so that some common `bat` use cases starts working again. See [#2308](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/pull/2308) (@Enselic)

## Features - Make the default macOS theme depend on Dark Mode. See #2197, #1746 (@Enselic) - Support for separate system and user config files. See #668 (@patrickpichler) ## Bugfixes - Prevent fork nightmare with `PAGER=batcat`. See #2235 (@johnmatthiggins) - Make `--no-paging`/`-P` override `--paging=...` if passed as a later arg, see #2201 (@themkat) - `--map-syntax` and `--ignored-suffix` now works together, see #2093 (@czzrr) - Strips byte order mark from output when in non-loop-through mode. See #1922 (@dag-h) ## Other - Relaxed glibc requirements on amd64, see #2106 and #2194 (@sharkdp) - Improved fish completions. See #2275 (@zgracem) - Stop pre-processing ANSI escape characters. Syntax highlighting on ANSI escaped input is not supported. See #2185 and #2189 (@Enselic) ## Syntaxes - NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) is mapped to Lua, see #2151 (@Cre3per) - Correctly color `fstab` dump and pass fields, see #2246 (@yuvalmo) - Update `Command Help` syntax, see #2255 - `Julia`: Fix syntax highlighting for function name starting with `struct`, see #2230 - Minor update to `LiveScript`, see #2291 - Associate `.mts` and `.cts` files with the `TypeScript` s

## Features - Correctly render tab stops in `--show-all`, see #2038 (@Synthetica9) - Add a `--style=default` option and make it the default. It is less verbose than `full`, see #2061 (@IsaacHorvath) - Enable BusyBox `less` as pager, see #2162 (@nfisher1226) - File extensions are now matched case-insensitively. See #1854, #2181 (@Enselic) ## Bugfixes - Bump `regex` dependency from 1.5.4 to 1.5.5 to fix [CVE-2022-24713](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/03/08/cve-2022-24713.html), see #2145, #2139 (@Enselic) - `bat` no longer crashes when encountering files that references missing syntaxes. See #915, #2181 (@Enselic) ## Performance - Skip syntax highlighting on long lines (> 16384 chars) to help improve performance. See #2165 (@keith-hall) - Vastly improve startup time by lazy-loading syntaxes via syntect 5.0.0. This makes bat display small files ~75% faster than before. See #951, #2181 (@Enselic) ## Other - Include info about custom assets in `--diagnostics` if used. See #2107, #2144 (@Enselic) ## Syntaxes - Mapped clang-format config file (.clang-format) to YAML syntax (@TruncatedDinosour) - log syntax: improved handling of escape characters in double

## Features - New style component `header-filesize` to show size of the displayed file in the header. See #1988 (@mdibaiee) - Use underline for line highlighting on ANSI, see #1730 (@mdibaiee) ## Bugfixes - Fix bash completion on bash 3.x and bash-completion 1.x. See #2066 (@joshpencheon) ## Syntaxes - `GraphQL`: Add support for interfaces implementing interfaces and consider ampersand an operator. See #2000 - Associate `_vimrc` and `_gvimrc` files with the `VimL` syntax. See #2002 - Associate `poetry.lock` files with the `TOML` syntax. See #2049 - Associate `.mesh`, `.task`, `.rgen`, `.rint`, `.rahit`, `.rchit`, `.rmiss`, and `.rcall` with the `GLSL` syntax. See #2050 - Added support for `JQ` syntax, see #2072 (@clarfonthey) - Properly associate global git config files rooted in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/` or `$HOME/.config/git/`. See #2067 (@cyqsimon) ## `bat` as a library - Exposed `get_syntax_set` and `get_theme` methods on `HighlightingAssets`. See #2030 (@dandavison) - Added `HeaderFilename` and `HeaderFilesize` to `StyleComponent` enum, and mark it `#[non_exhaustive]`. See #1988 (@mdibaiee)

## Performance - Reduce startup time in loop-through mode (e.g. when redirecting output) by 90%. See #1747 (@Enselic) - Load themes lazily to make bat start 25% faster when disregarding syntax load time. See #1969 (@Enselic) - Python syntax highlighting no longer suffers from abysmal performance in specific scenarios. See #1688 (@keith-hall) - Fix for poor performance when ANSI escape sequences are piped to `bat`, see #1596 (@eth-p) - Fix for incorrect handling of ANSI escape sequences when using `--wrap=never`, see #1596 (@eth-p) - Load custom assets as fast as integrated assets, see #1753 (@Enselic) ## Features - Support for `x:-delta` (minus) syntax in line ranges (e.g. `20:-10`). See #1901 (@bojan88) - Support for `--ignored-suffix` argument. See #1892 (@bojan88) - `$BAT_CONFIG_DIR` is now a recognized environment variable. It has precedence over `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, see #1727 (@billrisher) - Support for `x:+delta` syntax in line ranges (e.g. `20:+10`). See #1810 (@bojan88) - Add new `--acknowledgements` option that gives credit to theme and syntax definition authors. See #1971 (@Enselic) - Include git hash in `bat -V` and `bat --version` output if present.