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1CHANGES FROM 3.3a to 3.4
2
3* Add options keep-last and keep-group to destroy-unattached to keep the last
4  session whether in a group.
5
6* Don't allow paste-buffer into dead panes.
7
8* Add -t to source-file.
9
10* Rewrite combined character handling to be more consistent and to support
11  newer Unicode combined characters.
12
13* Add basic support for SIXEL if built with --enable-sixel.
14
15* Add a session, pane and user mouse range types for the status line and add
16  format variables for mouse_status_line and mouse_status_range so they can be
17  associated with different commands in the key bindings.
18
19* Add flag (-o) to next-prompt/previous-prompt to go to OSC 133 command output.
20
21* Add options and flags for menu styles (menu-style, menu-border-style) similar
22  to those existing for popups.
23
24* Add support for marking lines with a shell prompt based on the OSC 133 extension.
25
26* Check for libterminfo for NetBSD.
27
28* Add "us" to styles for underscore colour.
29
30* Add flags (-c and -y) to change the confirm key and default behaviour of
31  confirm-before.
32
33* Use ncurses' new tparm_s function (added in 6.4-20230424) instead of tparm so
34  it does not object to string arguments in c apabilities it doesn't already
35  know. Also ignore errors from tparm if using previous ncurses versions.
36
37* Set default lock command to vlock on Linux if present at build time.
38
39* Discard mouse sequences that have the right form but actually are invalid.
40
41* Add support for spawning panes in separate cgroups with systemd and a
42  configure flag (--disable-cgroups) to turn off.
43
44* Add a format (pane_unseen_changes) to show if there are unseen changes while
45  in a mode.
46
47* Remove old buffer when renaming rather than complaining.
48
49* Add an L modifier like P, W, S to loop over clients.
50
51* Add -f to list-clients like the other list commands.
52
53* Extend display-message to work for control clients.
54
55* Add a flag to display-menu to select the manu item selected when the menu is
56  open.
57
58* Have tmux recognise pasted text wrapped in bracket paste sequences, rather
59  than only forwarding them to the program inside.
60
61* Have client return 1 if process is interrupted to an input pane.
62
63* Query the client terminal for foreground and background colours and if OSC 10
64  or 11 is received but no colour has been set inside tmux, return the colour
65  from the first attached client.
66
67* Add send-keys -K to handle keys directly as if typed (so look up in key
68  table).
69
70* Process escape sequences in show-buffer.
71
72* Add a -l flag to display-message to disable format expansion.
73
74* Add paste-buffer-deleted notification and fix name of paste-buffer-changed.
75
76* Do not attempt to connect to the socket as a client if systemd is active.
77
78* Add scroll-top and scroll-bottom commands to scroll so cursor is at top or
79  bottom.
80
81* Add a -T flag to capture-pane to stop at the last used cell instead of the
82  full width. Restore the previous behaviour by making it default to off unless
83  -J is used.
84
85* Add message-line option to control where message and prompt go.
86
87* Notification when a when a paste buffer is deleted.
88
89* Add a Nobr terminfo(5) capability to tell tmux the terminal does not use bright
90  colours for bold.
91
92* Change g and G to go to top and bottom in menus.
93
94* Add a third state "all" to allow-passthrough to work even in invisible panes.
95
96* Add support for OSC 8 hyperlinks.
97
98* Store the time lines are scrolled into history and display in copy mode.
99
100* Add a %config-error reply to control mode for configuration file errors since
101  reporting them in view mode is useless.
102
103* A new feature flag (ignorefkeys) to ignore terminfo(5) function key
104  definitions for rxvt.
105
106* Pass through first argument to OSC 52 (which clipboards to set) if the
107  application provides it.
108
109* Expand arguments to send-keys, capture-pane, split-window, join-pane where it
110  makes sense to do so.
111
112* Ignore named buffers when choosing a buffer if one is not specified by the user.
113
114CHANGES FROM 3.3 TO 3.3a
115
116* Do not crash when run-shell produces output from a config file.
117
118* Do not unintentionally turn off all mouse mode when button mode is also
119  present.
120
121CHANGES FROM 3.2a TO 3.3
122
123* Add an ACL list for users connecting to the tmux socket. Users may be
124  forbidden from attaching, forced to attach read-only, or allowed to attach
125  read-write. A new command, server-access, configures the list. File system
126  permissions must still be configured manually.
127
128* Emit window-layout-changed on swap-pane.
129
130* Better error reporting when applying custom layouts.
131
132* Handle ANSI escape sequences in run-shell output.
133
134* Add pane_start_path to match start_command.
135
136* Set PWD so shells have a hint about the real path.
137
138* Do not allow pipe-pane on dead panes.
139
140* Do not report mouse positions (incorrectly) above the maximum of 223 in
141  normal mouse mode.
142
143* Add an option (default off) to control the passthrough escape sequence.
144
145* Support more mouse buttons when the terminal sends them.
146
147* Add a window-resized hook which is fired when the window is actually resized
148  which may be later than the client resize.
149
150* Add next_session_id format with the next session ID.
151
152* Add formats for client and server UID and user.
153
154* Add argument to refresh-client -l to forward clipboard to a pane.
155
156* Add remain-on-exit-format to set text shown when pane is dead.
157
158* With split-window -f use percentages of window size not pane size.
159
160* Add an option (fill-character) to set the character used for unused areas of
161  a client.
162
163* Add an option (scroll-on-clear) to control if tmux scrolls into history on
164  clear.
165
166* Add a capability for OSC 7 and use it similarly to how the title is set (and
167  controlled by the same set-titles option).
168
169* Add support for systemd socket activation (where systemd creates the Unix
170  domain socket for tmux rather than tmux creating it). Build with
171  --enable-systemd.
172
173* Add an option (pane-border-indicators) to select how the active pane is shown
174  on the pane border (colour, arrows or both).
175
176* Support underscore styles with capture-pane -e.
177
178* Make pane-border-format a pane option rather than window.
179
180* Respond to OSC 4 queries
181
182* Fix g/G keys in modes to do the same thing as copy mode (and vi).
183
184* Bump the time terminals have to respond to device attributes queries to three
185  seconds.
186
187* If automatic-rename is off, allow the rename escape sequence to set an empty
188  name.
189
190* Trim menu item text more intelligently.
191
192* Add cursor-style and cursor-colour options to set the default cursor style
193  and colour.
194
195* Accept some useful and non-conflicting emacs keys in vi normal mode at the
196  command prompt.
197
198* Add a format modifier (c) to force a colour to RGB.
199
200* Add -s and -S to display-popup to set styles, -b to set lines and -T to set
201  popup title. New popup-border-lines, popup-border-style and popup-style
202  options set the defaults.
203
204* Add -e flag to set an environment variable for a popup.
205
206* Make send-keys without arguments send the key it is bound to (if bound to a
207  key).
208
209* Try to leave terminal cursor at the right position even when tmux is drawing
210  its own cursor or selection (such as at the command prompt and in choose
211  mode) for people using screen readers and similar which can make use of it.
212
213* Change so that {} is converted to tmux commands immediately when parsed. This
214  means it must contain valid tmux commands. For commands which expand %% and
215  %%%, this now only happens within string arguments. Use of nested aliases
216  inside {} is now forbidden. Processing of commands given in quotes remains
217  the same.
218
219* Disable evports on SunOS since they are broken.
220
221* Do not expand the file given with tmux -f so it can contain :s.
222
223* Bump FORMAT_LOOP_LIMIT and add a log message when hit.
224
225* Add a terminal feature for the mouse (since FreeBSD termcap does not have kmous).
226
227* Forbid empty session names.
228
229* Improve error reporting when the tmux /tmp directory cannot be created or
230  used.
231
232* Give #() commands a one second grace period where the output is empty before
233  telling the user they aren't doing anything ("not ready").
234
235* When building, pick default-terminal from the first of tmux-256color, tmux,
236  screen-256color, screen that is available on the build system (--with-TERM
237  can override).
238
239* Do not close popups on resize, instead adjust them to fit.
240
241* Add a client-active hook.
242
243* Make window-linked and window-unlinked window options.
244
245* Do not configure on macOS without the user making a choice about utf8proc
246  (either --enable-utf8proc or --disable-utf8proc).
247
248* Do not freeze output in panes when a popup is open, let them continue to
249  redraw.
250
251* Add pipe variants of the line copy commands.
252
253* Change copy-line and copy-end-of-line not to cancel and add -and-cancel
254  variants, like the other copy commands.
255
256* Support the OSC palette-setting sequences in popups.
257
258* Add a pane-colours array option to specify the defaults palette.
259
260* Add support for Unicode zero-width joiner.
261
262* Make newline a style delimiter as well so they can cross multiple lines for
263  readability in configuration files.
264
265* Change focus to be driven by events rather than scanning panes so the
266  ordering of in and out is consistent.
267
268* Add display-popup -B to open a popup without a border.
269
270* Add a menu for popups that can be opened with button three outside the popup
271  or on the left or top border. Resizing now only works on the right and bottom
272  borders or when using Meta. The menu allows a popup to be closed, expanded to
273  the full size of the client, centered in the client or changed into a pane.
274
275* Make command-prompt and confirm-before block by default (like run-shell). A
276  new -b flags runs them in the background as before. Also set return code for
277  confirm-before.
278
279* Change cursor style handling so tmux understands which sequences contain
280  blinking and sets the flag appropriately, means that it works whether cnorm
281  disables blinking or not. This now matches xterm's behaviour.
282
283* More accurate vi(1) word navigation in copy mode and on the status line. This
284  changes the meaning of the word-separators option: setting it to the empty
285  string is equivalent to the previous behavior.
286
287* Add -F for command-prompt and use it to fix "Rename" on the window menu.
288
289* Add different command histories for different types of prompts ("command",
290  "search" etc).
291
292CHANGES FROM 3.2 TO 3.2a
293
294* Add an "always" value for the "extended-keys" option; if set then tmux will
295  forward extended keys to applications even if they do not request them.
296
297* Add a "mouse" terminal feature so tmux can enable the mouse on terminals
298  where it is known to be supported even if terminfo(5) says otherwise.
299
300* Do not expand the filename given to -f so it can contain colons.
301
302* Fixes for problems with extended keys and modifiers, scroll region,
303  source-file, crosscompiling, format modifiers and other minor issues.
304
305CHANGES FROM 3.1c TO 3.2
306
307* Add a flag to disable keys to close a message.
308
309* Permit shortcut keys in buffer, client, tree modes to be configured with a
310  format (-K flag to choose-buffer, choose-client, choose-tree).
311
312* Add a current_file format for the config file being parsed.
313
314* When display-message used in config file, show the message after the config
315  file finishes.
316
317* Add client-detached notification in control mode.
318
319* Improve performance of format evaluation.
320
321* Make jump command support UTF-8 in copy mode.
322
323* Support X11 colour names and other colour formats for OSC 10 and 11.
324
325* Add "pipe" variants of "copy-pipe" commands which do not copy.
326
327* Include "focused" in client flags.
328
329* Send Unicode directional isolate characters around horizontal pane borders if
330  the terminal supports UTF-8 and an extension terminfo(5) capability "Bidi" is
331  present.
332
333* Add a -S flag to new-window to make it select the existing window if one
334  with the given name already exists rather than failing with an error.
335
336* Add a format modifier to check if a window or session name exists (N/w or
337  N/s).
338
339* Add compat clock_gettime for older macOS.
340
341* Add a no-detached choice to detach-on-destroy which detaches only if there
342  are no other detached sessions to switch to.
343
344* Add rectangle-on and rectangle-off copy mode commands.
345
346* Change so that window_flags escapes # automatically. A new format
347  window_raw_flags contains the old unescaped version.
348
349* Add -N flag to never start server even if command would normally do so.
350
351* With incremental search, start empty and only repeat the previous search if
352  the user tries to search again with an empty prompt.
353
354* Add a value for remain-on-exit that only keeps the pane if the program
355  failed.
356
357* Add a -C flag to run-shell to use a tmux command rather than a shell command.
358
359* Do not list user options with show-hooks.
360
361* Remove current match indicator in copy mode which can't work anymore since we
362  only search the visible region.
363
364* Make synchronize-panes a pane option and add -U flag to set-option to unset
365  an option on all panes.
366
367* Make replacement of ##s consistent when drawing formats, whether followed by
368  [ or not. Add a flag (e) to the q: format modifier to double up #s.
369
370* Add -N flag to display-panes to ignore keys.
371
372* Change how escaping is processed for formats so that ## and # can be used in
373  styles.
374
375* Add a 'w' format modifier for string width.
376
377* Add support for Haiku.
378
379* Expand menu and popup -x and -y as formats.
380
381* Add numeric comparisons for formats.
382
383* Fire focus events even when the pane is in a mode.
384
385* Add -O flag to display-menu to not automatically close when all mouse buttons
386  are released.
387
388* Allow fnmatch(3) wildcards in update-environment.
389
390* Disable nested job expansion so that the result of #() is not expanded again.
391
392* Use the setal capability as well as (tmux's) Setulc.
393
394* Add -q flag to unbind-key to hide errors.
395
396* Allow -N without a command to change or add a note to an existing key.
397
398* Add a -w flag to set- and load-buffer to send to clipboard using OSC 52.
399
400* Add -F to set-environment and source-file.
401
402* Allow colour to be spelt as color in various places.
403
404* Add n: modifier to get length of a format.
405
406* Respond to OSC colour requests if a colour is available.
407
408* Add a -d option to display-message to set delay.
409
410* Add a way for control mode clients to subscribe to a format and be notified
411  of changes rather than having to poll.
412
413* Add some formats for search in copy mode (search_present, search_match).
414
415* Do not wait on shutdown for commands started with run -b.
416
417* Add -b flags to insert a window before (like the existing -a for after) to
418  break-pane, move-window, new-window.
419
420* Make paste -p the default for ].
421
422* Add support for pausing a pane when the output buffered for a control mode
423  client gets too far behind. The pause-after flag with a time is set on the
424  pane with refresh-client -f and a paused pane may be resumed with
425  refresh-client -A.
426
427* Allow strings in configuration files to span multiple lines - newlines and
428  any leading whitespace are removed, as well as any following comments that
429  couldn't be part of a format. This allows long formats or other strings to be
430  annotated and indented.
431
432* Instead of using a custom parse function to process {} in configuration
433  files, treat as a set of statements the same as outside {} and convert back
434  to a string as the last step. This means the rules are consistent inside and
435  outside {}, %if and friends work at the right time, and the final result
436  isn't littered with unnecessary newlines.
437
438* Add support for extended keys - both xterm(1)'s CSI 27 ~ sequence and the
439  libtickit CSI u sequence are accepted; only the latter is output. tmux will
440  only attempt to use these if the extended-keys option is on and it can detect
441  that the terminal outside supports them (or is told it does with the
442  "extkeys" terminal feature).
443
444* Add an option to set the pane border lines style from a choice of single
445  lines (ACS or UTF-8), double or heavy (UTF-8), simple (plain ASCII) or number
446  (the pane numbers). Lines that won't work on a non-UTF-8 terminal are
447  translated back into ACS when they are output.
448
449* Make focus events update the latest client (like a key press).
450
451* Store UTF-8 characters differently to reduce memory use.
452
453* Fix break-pane -n when only one pane in the window.
454
455* Instead of sending all data to control mode clients as fast as possible, add
456  a limit of how much data will be sent to the client and try to use it for
457  panes with some degree of fairness.
458
459* Add an active-pane client flag (set with attach-session -f, new-session -f
460  or refresh-client -f). This allows a client to have an independent active
461  pane for interactive use (the window client pane is still used for many
462  things however).
463
464* Add a mark to copy mode, this is set with the set-mark command (bound to X)
465  and appears with the entire line shown using copy-mode-mark-style and the
466  marked character in reverse. The jump-to-mark command (bound to M-x) swaps
467  the mark and the cursor positions.
468
469* Add a -D flag to make the tmux server run in the foreground and not as a
470  daemon.
471
472* Do not loop forever in copy mode when search finds an empty match.
473
474* Fix the next-matching-bracket logic when using vi(1) keys.
475
476* Add a customize mode where options may be browsed and changed, includes
477  adding a brief description of each option. Bound to C-b C by default.
478
479* Change message log (C-b ~) so there is one for the server rather than one per
480  client and it remains after detach, and make it useful by logging every
481  command.
482
483* Add M-+ and M-- to tree mode to expand and collapse all.
484
485* Change the existing client flags for control mode to apply for any client,
486  use the same mechanism for the read-only flag and add an ignore-size flag.
487
488  refresh-client -F has become -f (-F stays for backwards compatibility) and
489  attach-session and switch-client now have -f flags also. A new format
490  client_flags lists the flags and is shown by list-clients by default.
491
492  This separates the read-only flag from "ignore size" behaviour (new
493  ignore-size) flag - both behaviours are useful in different circumstances.
494
495  attach -r and switchc -r remain and set or toggle both flags together.
496
497* Store and restore cursor position when copy mode is resized.
498
499* Export TERM_PROGRAM and TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION like various other terminals.
500
501* Add formats for after hook command arguments: hook_arguments with all the
502  arguments together; hook_argument_0, hook_argument_1 and so on with
503  individual arguments; hook_flag_X if flag -X is present; hook_flag_X_0,
504  hook_flag_X_1 and so on if -X appears multiple times.
505
506* Try to search the entire history first for up to 200 ms so a search count can
507  be shown. If it takes too long, search the visible text only.
508
509* Use VIS_CSTYLE for paste buffers also (show \012 as \n).
510
511* Change default formats for tree mode, client mode and buffer mode to be more
512  compact and remove some clutter.
513
514* Add a key (e) in buffer mode to open the buffer in an editor. The buffer
515  contents is updated when the editor exits.
516
517* Add -e flag for new-session to set environment variables, like the same flag
518  for new-window.
519
520* Improve search match marking in copy mode. Two new options
521  copy-mode-match-style and copy-mode-current-match-style to set the style for
522  matches and for the current match respectively. Also a change so that if a
523  copy key is pressed with no selection, the current match (if any) is copied.
524
525* Sanitize session names like window names instead of forbidding invalid ones.
526
527* Check if the clear terminfo(5) capability starts with CSI and if so then
528  assume the terminal is VT100-like, rather than relying on the XT capability.
529
530* Improve command prompt tab completion and add menus both for strings and -t
531  and -s (when used without a trailing space). command-prompt has additional
532  flags for only completing a window (-W) and a target (-T), allowing C-b ' to
533  only show windows and C-b . only targets.
534
535* Change all the style options to string options so they can support formats.
536  Change pane-active-border-style to use this to change the border colour when
537  in a mode or with synchronize-panes on. This also implies a few minor changes
538  to existing behaviour:
539
540  - set-option -a with a style option automatically inserts a comma between the
541    old value and appended text.
542
543  - OSC 10 and 11 no longer set the window-style option, instead they store the
544    colour internally in the pane data and it is used as the default when the
545    option is evaluated.
546
547  - status-fg and -bg now override status-style instead of the option values
548    being changed.
549
550* Add extension terminfo(5) capabilities for margins and focus reporting.
551
552* Try $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmux/tmux.conf as well as ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf for
553  configuration file (the search paths are in TMUX_CONF in Makefile.am).
554
555* Remove the DSR 1337 iTerm2 extension and replace by the extended device
556  attributes sequence (CSI > q) supported by more terminals.
557
558* Add a -s flag to copy-mode to specify a different pane for the source
559  content. This means it is possible to view two places in a pane's history at
560  the same time in different panes, or view the history while still using the
561  pane. Pressing r refreshes the content from the source pane.
562
563* Add an argument to list-commands to show only a single command.
564
565* Change copy mode to make copy of the pane history so it does not need to
566  freeze the pane.
567
568* Restore pane_current_path format from portable tmux on OpenBSD.
569
570* Wait until the initial command sequence is done before sending a device
571  attributes request and other bits that prompt a reply from the terminal. This
572  means that stray replies are not left on the terminal if the command has
573  attached and then immediately detached and tmux will not be around to receive
574  them.
575
576* Add a -f filter argument to the list commands like choose-tree.
577
578* Move specific hooks for panes to pane options and windows for window options
579  rather than all hooks being session options. These hooks are now window options:
580
581  window-layout-changed
582  window-linked
583  window-pane-changed
584  window-renamed
585  window-unlinked
586
587  And these are now pane options:
588
589  pane-died
590  pane-exited
591  pane-focus-in
592  pane-focus-out
593  pane-mode-changed
594  pane-set-clipboard
595
596  Any existing configurations using these hooks on a session rather than
597  globally (that is, set-hook or set-option without -g) may need to be changed.
598
599* Show signal names when a process exits with remain-on-exit on platforms which
600  have a way to get them.
601
602* Start menu with top item selected if no mouse and use mode-style for the
603  selected item.
604
605* Add a copy-command option and change copy-pipe and friends to pipe to it if
606  used without arguments, allows all the default copy key bindings to be
607  changed to pipe with one option rather than needing to change each key
608  binding individually.
609
610* Tidy up the terminal detection and feature code and add named sets of
611  terminal features, each of which are defined in one place and map to a
612  builtin set of terminfo(5) capabilities. Features can be specified based on
613  TERM with a new terminal-features option or with the -T flag when running
614  tmux. tmux will also detect a few common terminals from the DA and DSR
615  responses.
616
617  This is intended to make it easier to configure tmux's use of terminfo(5)
618  even in the presence of outdated ncurses(3) or terminfo(5) databases or for
619  features which do not yet have a terminfo(5) entry. Instead of having to grok
620  terminfo(5) capability names and what they should be set to in the
621  terminal-overrides option, the user can hopefully just give tmux a feature
622  name and let it do the right thing.
623
624  The terminal-overrides option remains both for backwards compatibility and to
625  allow tweaks of individual capabilities.
626
627* Support mintty's application escape sequence (means tmux doesn't have to
628  delay to wait for Escape, so no need to reduce escape-time when using
629  mintty).
630
631* Change so main-pane-width and height can be given as a percentage.
632
633* Support for the iTerm2 synchronized updates feature (allows the terminal to
634  avoid unnecessary drawing while output is still in progress).
635
636* Make the mouse_word and mouse_line formats work in copy mode and enable the
637  default pane menu in copy mode.
638
639* Add a -T flag to resize-pane to trim lines below the cursor, moving lines out
640  of the history.
641
642* Add a way to mark environment variables as "hidden" so they can be used by
643  tmux (for example in formats) but are not set in the environment for new
644  panes. set-environment and show-environment have a new -h flag and there is a
645  new %hidden statement for the configuration file.
646
647* Change default position for display-menu -x and -y to centre rather than top
648  left.
649
650* Add support for per-client transient popups, similar to menus but which are
651  connected to an external command (like a pane). These are created with new
652  command display-popup.
653
654* Change double and triple click bindings so that only one is fired (previously
655  double click was fired on the way to triple click). Also add default double
656  and triple click bindings to copy the word or line under the cursor and
657  change the existing bindings in copy mode to do the same.
658
659* Add a default binding for button 2 to paste.
660
661* Add -d flag to run-shell to delay before running the command and allow it to
662  be used without a command so it just delays.
663
664* Add C-g to cancel command prompt with vi keys as well as emacs, and q in
665  command mode.
666
667* When the server socket is given with -S, create it with umask 177 instead of
668  117 (because it may not be in a safe directory like the default directory in
669  /tmp).
670
671* Add a copy-mode -H flag to hide the position marker in the top right.
672
673* Add number operators for formats (+, -, *, / and m),
674
675CHANGED FROM 3.1b TO 3.1c
676
677* Do not write after the end of the array and overwrite the stack when
678  colon-separated SGR sequences contain empty arguments.
679
680CHANGES FROM 3.1a TO 3.1b
681
682* Fix build on systems without sys/queue.h.
683
684* Fix crash when allow-rename is on and an empty name is set.
685
686CHANGES FROM 3.1 TO 3.1a
687
688* Do not close stdout prematurely in control mode since it is needed to print
689  exit messages. Prevents hanging when detaching with iTerm2.
690
691CHANGES FROM 3.0a TO 3.1
692
693* Only search the visible part of the history when marking (highlighting)
694  search terms. This is much faster than searching the whole history and solves
695  problems with large histories. The count of matches shown is now the visible
696  matches rather than all matches.
697
698* Search using regular expressions in copy mode. search-forward and
699  search-backward use regular expressions by default; the incremental versions
700  do not.
701
702* Turn off mouse mode 1003 as well as the rest when exiting.
703
704* Add selection_active format for when the selection is present but not moving
705  with the cursor.
706
707* Fix dragging with modifier keys, so binding keys such as C-MouseDrag1Pane and
708  C-MouseDragEnd1Pane now work.
709
710* Add -a to list-keys to also list keys without notes with -N.
711
712* Do not jump to next word end if already on a word end when selecting a word;
713  fixes select-word with single character words and vi(1) keys.
714
715* Fix top and bottom pane calculation with pane border status enabled.
716
717* Add support for adding a note to a key binding (with bind-key -N) and use
718  this to add descriptions to the default key bindings. A new -N flag to
719  list-keys shows key bindings with notes. Change the default ? binding to use
720  this to show a readable summary of keys. Also extend command-prompt to return
721  the name of the key pressed and add a default binding (/) to show the note
722  for the next key pressed.
723
724* Add support for the iTerm2 DSR 1337 sequence to get the terminal version.
725
726* Treat plausible but invalid keys (like C-BSpace) as literal like any other
727  unrecognised string passed to send-keys.
728
729* Detect iTerm2 and enable use of DECSLRM (much faster with horizontally split
730  windows).
731
732* Add -Z to default switch-client command in tree mode.
733
734* Add ~ to quoted characters for %%%.
735
736* Document client exit messages in the manual page.
737
738* Do not let read-only clients limit the size, unless all clients are
739  read-only.
740
741* Add a number of new formats to inspect what sessions and clients a window is
742  present or active in.
743
744* Change file reading and writing to go through the client if necessary. This
745  fixes commands like "tmux loadb /dev/fd/X". Also modify source-file to
746  support "-" for standard input, like load-buffer and save-buffer.
747
748* Add ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf to the default search path for configuration
749  files.
750
751* Bump the escape sequence timeout to five seconds to allow for longer
752  legitimate sequences.
753
754* Make a best effort to set xpixel and ypixel for each pane and add formats for
755  them.
756
757* Add push-default to status-left and status-right in status-format[0].
758
759* Do not clear search marks on cursor movement with vi(1) keys.
760
761* Add p format modifier for padding to width and allow multiple substitutions
762  in a single format.
763
764* Add -f for full size to join-pane (like split-window).
765
766* Do not use bright when emulating 256 colours on an 8 colour terminal because
767  it is also bold on some terminals.
768
769* Make select-pane -P set window-active-style also to match previous behaviour.
770
771* Do not truncate list-keys output.
772
773* Turn automatic-rename back on if the \033k rename escape sequence is used
774  with an empty name.
775
776* Add support for percentage sizes for resize-pane ("-x 10%"). Also change
777  split-window and join-pane -l to accept similar percentages and deprecate the
778  -p flag.
779
780* Add -F flag to send-keys to expand formats in search-backward and forward
781  copy mode commands and copy_cursor_word and copy_cursor_line formats for word
782  and line at cursor in copy mode. Use for default # and * binding with vi(1)
783  keys.
784
785* Add formats for word and line at cursor position in copy mode.
786
787* Add formats for cursor and selection position in copy mode.
788
789* Support all the forms of RGB colour strings in OSC sequences rather than
790  requiring two digits.
791
792* Limit lazy resize to panes in attached sessions only.
793
794* Add an option to set the key sent by backspace for those whose system uses ^H
795  rather than ^?.
796
797* Change new-session -A without a session name (that is, no -s option also) to
798  attach to the best existing session like attach-session rather than a new
799  one.
800
801* Add a "latest" window-size option which tries to size windows based on the
802  most recently used client. This is now the default.
803
804* Add simple support for OSC 7 (result is available in the pane_path format).
805
806* Add push-default and pop-default for styles which change the colours and
807  attributes used for #[default]. These are used in status-format to restore
808  the behaviour of window-status-style being the default for
809  window-status-format.
810
811* Add window_marked_flag.
812
813* Add cursor-down-and-cancel in copy mode.
814
815* Default to previous search string for search-forward and search-backward.
816
817* Add -Z flag to rotate-window, select-pane, swap-pane, switch-client to
818  preserve zoomed state.
819
820* Add -N to capture-pane to preserve trailing spaces.
821
822* Add reverse sorting in tree, client and buffer modes.
823
824CHANGES FROM 3.0 TO 3.0a
825
826* Do not require REG_STARTEND.
827
828* Respawn panes or windows correctly if default-command is set.
829
830* Add missing option for after-kill-pane hook.
831
832* Fix for crash with a format variable that doesn't exist.
833
834* Do not truncate list-keys output on some platforms.
835
836* Do not crash when restoring a layout with only one pane.
837
838CHANGES FROM 2.9 TO 3.0
839
840* Workaround invalid layout strings generated by older tmux versions and add
841  some additional sanity checks
842
843* xterm 348 now disables margins when resized, so send DECLRMM again after
844  resize.
845
846* Add support for the SD (scroll down) escape sequence.
847
848* Expand arguments to C and s format modifiers to match the m modifier.
849
850* Add support for underscore colours (Setulc capability must be added with
851  terminal-overrides as described in tmux(1)).
852
853* Add a "fill" style attribute for the fill colour of the drawing area (where
854  appropriate).
855
856* New -H flag to send-keys to send literal keys.
857
858* Format variables for pane mouse modes (mouse_utf8_flag and mouse_sgr_flag)
859  and for origin mode (origin_flag).
860
861* Add -F to refresh-client for flags for control mode clients, only one flag
862  (no-output) supported at the moment.
863
864* Add a few vi(1) keys for menus.
865
866* Add pane options, set with set-option -p and displayed with show-options -p.
867  Pane options inherit from window options (so every pane option is also
868  a window option). The pane style is now configured by setting window-style
869  and window-active-style in the pane options; select-pane -P and -g now change
870  the option but are no longer documented.
871
872* Do not document set-window-option and show-window-options. set-option -w and
873  show-options -w should be used instead.
874
875* Add a -A flag to show-options to show parent options as well (they are marked
876  with a *).
877
878* Resize panes lazily - do not resize unless they are in an attached, active
879  window.
880
881* Add regular expression support for the format search, match and substitute
882  modifiers and make them able to ignore case. find-window now accepts -r to
883  use regular expressions.
884
885* Do not use $TMUX to find the session because for windows in multiple sessions
886  it is wrong as often as it is right, and for windows in one session it is
887  pointless. Instead use TMUX_PANE if it is present.
888
889* Do not always resize the window back to its original size after applying a
890  layout, keep it at the layout size until it must be resized (for example when
891  attached and window-size is not manual).
892
893* Add new-session -X and attach-session -x to send SIGHUP to parent when
894  detaching (like detach-client -P).
895
896* Support for octal escapes in strings (such as \007) and improve list-keys
897  output so it parses correctly if copied into a configuration file.
898
899* INCOMPATIBLE: Add a new {} syntax to the configuration file. This is a string
900  similar to single quotes but also includes newlines and allows commands that
901  take other commands as string arguments to be expressed more clearly and
902  without additional escaping.
903
904  A literal { and } or a string containing { or } must now be escaped or
905  quoted, for example '{' and '}' instead of { or }, or 'X#{foo}' instead of
906  X#{foo}.
907
908* New <, >, <= and >= comparison operators for formats.
909
910* Improve escaping of special characters in list-keys output.
911
912* INCOMPATIBLE: tmux's configuration parsing has changed to use yacc(1). There
913  is one incompatible change: a \ on its own must be escaped or quoted as
914  either \\ or '\' (the latter works on older tmux versions).
915
916  Entirely the same parser is now used for parsing the configuration file
917  and for string commands. This means that constructs previously only
918  available in .tmux.conf, such as %if, can now be used in string commands
919  (for example, those given to if-shell - not commands invoked from the
920  shell, they are still parsed by the shell itself).
921
922* Add support for the overline attribute (SGR 53). The Smol capability is
923  needed in terminal-overrides.
924
925* Add the ability to create simple menus. Introduces new command
926  display-menu. Default menus are bound to MouseDown3 on the status line;
927  MouseDown3 or M-MouseDown3 on panes; MouseDown3 in tree, client and
928  buffer modes; and C-b < and >.
929
930* Allow panes to be empty (no command). They can be created either by piping to
931  split-window -I, or by passing an empty command ('') to split-window. Output
932  can be sent to an existing empty window with display-message -I.
933
934* Add keys to jump between matching brackets (emacs C-M-f and C-M-b, vi %).
935
936* Add a -e flag to new-window, split-window, respawn-window, respawn-pane to
937  pass environment variables into the newly created process.
938
939* Hooks are now stored in the options tree as array options, allowing them to
940  have multiple separate commands. set-hook and show-hooks remain but
941  set-option and show-options can now also be used (show-options will only show
942  hooks if given the -H flag). Hooks with multiple commands are run in index
943  order.
944
945* Automatically scroll if dragging to create a selection with the mouse and the
946  cursor reaches the top or bottom line.
947
948* Add -no-clear variants of copy-selection and copy-pipe which do not clear the
949  selection after copying. Make copy-pipe clear the selection by default to be
950  consistent with copy-selection.
951
952* Add an argument to copy commands to set the prefix for the buffer name, this
953  (for example) allows buffers for different sessions to be named separately.
954
955* Update session activity on focus event.
956
957* Pass target from source-file into the config file parser so formats in %if
958  and %endif have access to more useful variables.
959
960* Add the ability to infer an option type (server, session, window) from its
961  name to show-options (it was already present in set-option).
962
963CHANGES FROM 2.9 TO 2.9a
964
965* Fix bugs in select-pane and the main-horizontal and main-vertical layouts.
966
967CHANGES FROM 2.8 TO 2.9
968
969* Attempt to preserve horizontal cursor position as well as vertical with
970  reflow.
971
972* Rewrite main-vertical and horizontal and change layouts to better handle the
973  case where all panes won't fit into the window size, reduce problems with
974  pane border status lines and fix other bugs mostly found by Thomas Sattler.
975
976* Add format variables for the default formats in the various modes
977  (tree_mode_format and so on) and add a -a flag to display-message to list
978  variables with values.
979
980* Add a -v flag to display-message to show verbose messages as the format is
981  parsed, this allows formats to be debugged
982
983* Add support for HPA (\033[`).
984
985* Add support for origin mode (\033[?6h).
986
987* No longer clear history on RIS.
988
989* Extend the #[] style syntax and use that together with previous format
990  changes to allow the status line to be entirely configured with a single
991  option.
992
993  Now that it is possible to configure their content, enable the existing code
994  that lets the status line be multiple lines in height. The status option can
995  now take a value of 2, 3, 4 or 5 (as well as the previous on or off) to
996  configure more than one line. The new status-format array option configures
997  the format of each line, the default just references the existing status-*
998  options, although some of the more obscure status options may be eliminated
999  in time.
1000
1001  Additions to the #[] syntax are: "align" to specify alignment (left, centre,
1002  right), "list" for the window list and "range" to configure ranges of text
1003  for the mouse bindings.
1004
1005  The "align" keyword can also be used to specify alignment of entries in tree
1006  mode and the pane status lines.
1007
1008* Add E: and T: format modifiers to expand a format twice (useful to expand the
1009  value of an option).
1010
1011* The individual -fg, -bg and -attr options have been removed; they
1012  were superseded by -style options in tmux 1.9.
1013
1014* Allow more than one mode to be opened in a pane. Modes are kept on a stack
1015  and retrieved if the same mode is entered again. Exiting the active mode goes
1016  back to the previous one.
1017
1018* When showing command output in copy mode, call it view mode instead (affects
1019  pane_mode format).
1020
1021* Add -b to display-panes like run-shell.
1022
1023* Handle UTF-8 in word-separators option.
1024
1025* New "terminal" colour allowing options to use the terminal default colour
1026  rather than inheriting the default from a parent option.
1027
1028* Do not move the cursor in copy mode when the mouse wheel is used.
1029
1030* Use the same working directory rules for jobs as new windows rather than
1031  always starting in the user's home.
1032
1033* Allow panes to be one line or column in size.
1034
1035* Go to last line when goto-line number is out of range in copy mode.
1036
1037* Yank previously cut text if any with C-y in the command prompt, only use the
1038  buffer if no text has been cut.
1039
1040* Add q: format modifier to quote shell special characters.
1041
1042* Add StatusLeft and StatusRight mouse locations (keys such as
1043  MouseDown1StatusLeft) for the status-left and status-right areas of the
1044  status line.
1045
1046* Add -Z to find-window.
1047
1048* Support for windows larger than the client. This adds two new options,
1049  window-size and default-size, and a new command, resize-window. The
1050  force-width and force-height options and the session_width and session_height
1051  formats have been removed.
1052
1053  The new window-size option tells tmux how to work out the size of windows:
1054  largest means it picks the size of the largest session, smallest the smallest
1055  session (similar to the old behaviour) and manual means that it does not
1056  automatically resize windows. aggressive-resize modifies the choice of
1057  session for largest and smallest as it did before.
1058
1059  If a window is in a session attached to a client that is too small, only part
1060  of the window is shown. tmux attempts to keep the cursor visible, so the part
1061  of the window displayed is changed as the cursor moves (with a small delay,
1062  to try and avoid excess redrawing when applications redraw status lines or
1063  similar that are not currently visible).
1064
1065  Drawing windows which are larger than the client is not as efficient as those
1066  which fit, particularly when the cursor moves, so it is recommended to avoid
1067  using this on slow machines or networks (set window-size to smallest or
1068  manual).
1069
1070  The resize-window command can be used to resize a window manually. If it is
1071  used, the window-size option is automatically set to manual for the window
1072  (undo this with "setw -u window-size"). resize-window works in a similar way
1073  to resize-pane (-U -D -L -R -x -y flags) but also has -a and -A flags. -a
1074  sets the window to the size of the smallest client (what it would be if
1075  window-size was smallest) and -A the largest.
1076
1077  For the same behaviour as force-width or force-height, use resize-window -x
1078  or -y.
1079
1080  If the global window-size option is set to manual, the default-size option is
1081  used for new windows. If -x or -y is used with new-session, that sets the
1082  default-size option for the new session.
1083
1084  The maximum size of a window is 10000x10000. But expect applications to
1085  complain and higher memory use if making a window that big. The minimum size
1086  is the size required for the current layout including borders.
1087
1088  The refresh-client command can be used to pan around a window, -U -D -L -R
1089  moves up, down, left or right and -c returns to automatic cursor
1090  tracking. The position is reset when the current window is changed.
1091
1092CHANGES FROM 2.7 TO 2.8
1093
1094* Make display-panes block the client until a pane is chosen or it
1095  times out.
1096
1097* Clear history on RIS like most other terminals do.
1098
1099* Add an "Any" key to run a command if a key is pressed that is not
1100  bound in the current key table.
1101
1102* Expand formats in load-buffer and save-buffer.
1103
1104* Add a rectangle_toggle format.
1105
1106* Add set-hook -R to run a hook immediately.
1107
1108* Add README.ja.
1109
1110* Add pane focus hooks.
1111
1112* Allow any punctuation as separator for s/x/y not only /.
1113
1114* Improve resizing with the mouse (fix resizing the wrong pane in some
1115  layouts, and allow resizing multiple panes at the same time).
1116
1117* Allow , and } to be escaped in formats as #, and #}.
1118
1119* Add KRB5CCNAME to update-environment.
1120
1121* Change meaning of -c to display-message so the client is used if it
1122  matches the session given to -t.
1123
1124* Fixes to : form of SGR.
1125
1126* Add x and X to choose-tree to kill sessions, windows or panes.
1127
1128CHANGES FROM 2.6 TO 2.7
1129
1130* Remove EVENT_* variables from environment on platforms where tmux uses them
1131  so they do not pass on to panes.
1132
1133* Fixes for hooks at server exit.
1134
1135* Remove SGR 10 (was equivalent to SGR 0 but no other terminal seems to do
1136  this).
1137
1138* Expand formats in window and session names.
1139
1140* Add -Z flag to choose-tree, choose-client, choose-buffer to automatically
1141  zoom the pane when the mode is entered and unzoom when it exits, assuming the
1142  pane is not already zoomed. This is now part of the default key bindings.
1143
1144* Add C-g to exit modes with emacs keys.
1145
1146* Add exit-empty option to exit server if no sessions (defaults to on).
1147
1148* Show if a filter is present in choose modes.
1149
1150* Add pipe-pane -I to to connect stdin of the child process.
1151
1152* Performance improvements for reflow.
1153
1154* Use RGB terminfo(5) capability to detect RGB colour terminals (the existing
1155  Tc extension remains unchanged).
1156
1157* Support for ISO colon-separated SGR sequences.
1158
1159* Add select-layout -E to spread panes out evenly (bound to E key).
1160
1161* Support wide characters properly when reflowing.
1162
1163* Pass PWD to new panes as a hint to shells, as well as calling chdir().
1164
1165* Performance improvements for the various choose modes.
1166
1167* Only show first member of session groups in tree mode (-G flag to choose-tree
1168  to show all).
1169
1170* Support %else in config files to match %if; from Brad Town in GitHub issue
1171  1071.
1172
1173* Fix "kind" terminfo(5) capability to be S-Down not S-Up.
1174
1175* Add a box around the preview label in tree mode.
1176
1177* Show exit status and time in the remain-on-exit pane text; from Timo
1178  Boettcher in GitHub issue 1103.
1179
1180* Correctly use pane-base-index in tree mode.
1181
1182* Change the allow-rename option default to off.
1183
1184* Support for xterm(1) title stack escape sequences (GitHub issue 1075 from
1185  Brad Town).
1186
1187* Correctly remove padding cells to fix a UTF-8 display problem (GitHub issue
1188  1090).
1189
1190CHANGES FROM 2.5 TO 2.6, 05 October 2017
1191
1192* Add select-pane -T to set pane title.
1193
1194* Fix memory leak when lines with BCE are removed from history.
1195
1196* Fix (again) the "prefer unattached" behaviour of attach-session.
1197
1198* Reorder how keys are checked to allow keys to be specified that have a
1199  leading escape. GitHub issue 1048.
1200
1201* Support REP escape sequence (\033[b).
1202
1203* Run alert hooks based on options rather than always, and allow further bells
1204  even if there is an existing bell.
1205
1206* Add -d flag to display-panes to override display-panes-time.
1207
1208* Add selection_present format when in copy mode (allows key bindings that do
1209  something different if there is a selection).
1210
1211* Add pane_at_left, pane_at_right, pane_at_top and pane_at_bottom formats.
1212
1213* Make bell, activity and silence alerting more consistent by: removing the
1214  bell-on-alert option; adding activity-action and silence-action options with
1215  the same possible values as the existing bell-action; adding a "both" value
1216  for the visual-bell, visual-activity and visual-silence options to trigger
1217  both a bell and a message.
1218
1219* Add a pane_pipe format to show if pipe-pane is active.
1220
1221* Block signals between forking and resetting signal handlers so that the
1222  libevent signal handler doesn't get called in the child and incorrectly write
1223  into the signal pipe that it still shares with the parent. GitHub issue 1001.
1224
1225* Allow punctuation in pane_current_command.
1226
1227* Add -c for respawn-pane and respawn-window.
1228
1229* Wait for any remaining data to flush when a pane is closed while pipe-pane is
1230  in use.
1231
1232* Fix working out current client with no target. GitHub issue 995.
1233
1234* Try to fallback to C.UTF-8 as well as en_US.UTF-8 when looking for a UTF-8
1235  locale.
1236
1237* Add user-keys option for user-defined key escape sequences (mapped to User0
1238  to User999 keys).
1239
1240* Add pane-set-clipboard hook.
1241
1242* FAQ file has moved out of repository to online.
1243
1244* Fix problem with high CPU usage when a client dies unexpectedly. GitHub issue
1245  941.
1246
1247* Do a dance on OS X 10.10 and above to return tmux to the user namespace,
1248  allowing access to the clipboard.
1249
1250* Do not allow escape sequences which expect a specific terminator (APC, DSC,
1251  OSC) to wait for forever - use a small timeout. This reduces the chance of
1252  the pane locking up completely when sent garbage (cat /dev/random or
1253  similar).
1254
1255* Support SIGUSR2 to toggle logging on a running server, also generate the
1256  "out" log file with -vv not -vvvv.
1257
1258* Make set-clipboard a three state option: on (tmux both sends to outside
1259  terminal and accepts from applications inside); external (tmux sends outside
1260  but does not accept inside); and off.
1261
1262* Fix OSC 4 palette setting for bright foreground colours. GitHub issue 954.
1263
1264* Use setrgbf and setrgbb terminfo(5) capabilities to set RGB colours, if they
1265  are available. (Tc is still supported as well.)
1266
1267* Fix redrawing panes when they are resized several times but end up with the
1268  size unchanged (for example, splitw/resizep -Z/breakp).
1269
1270* Major rewrite of choose mode. Now includes preview, sorting, searching and
1271  tagging; commands that can be executed directly from the mode (for example,
1272  to delete one or more buffers); and filtering in tree mode.
1273
1274* choose-window and choose-session are now aliases of choose-tree (in the
1275  command-alias option).
1276
1277* Support OSC 10 and OSC 11 to set foreground and background colours.
1278
1279* Check the U8 capability to determine whether to use UTF-8 line drawing
1280  characters for ACS.
1281
1282* Some missing notifications for layout changes.
1283
1284* Control mode clients now do not affect session sizes until they issue
1285  refresh-client -C. new-session -x and -y works with control clients even if
1286  the session is not detached.
1287
1288* All new sessions that are unattached (whether with -d or started with no
1289  terminal) are now created with size 80 x 24. Whether the status line is on or
1290  off does not affect the size of new sessions until they are attached.
1291
1292* Expand formats in option names and add -F flag to expand them in option values.
1293
1294* Remember the search string for a pane even if copy mode is exited and entered
1295  again.
1296
1297* Some further BCE fixes (scroll up, reverse index).
1298
1299* Improvements to how terminals are cleared (entirely or partially).
1300
1301CHANGES FROM 2.4 TO 2.5, 09 May 2017
1302
1303* Reset updated flag when restarting #() command so that new output is properly
1304  recognised. GitHub issue 922.
1305
1306* Fix ECH with a background colour.
1307
1308* Do not rely on the terminal not moving the cursor after DL or EL.
1309
1310* Fix send-keys and send-prefix in copy-mode (so C-b C-b works). GitHub issue
1311  905.
1312
1313* Set the current pane for rotate-window so it works in command sequences.
1314
1315* Add pane_mode format.
1316
1317* Differentiate M-Up from Escape+Up when possible (that is, in terminals with
1318  xterm(1) style function keys). GitHub issue 907.
1319
1320* Add session_stack and window_stack_index formats.
1321
1322* Some new control mode notifications and corresponding hooks:
1323  pane-mode-changed, window-pane-changed, client-session-changed,
1324  session-window-changed.
1325
1326* Format pane_search_string for last search term while in copy mode (useful
1327  with command-prompt -I).
1328
1329* Fix a problem with high CPU usage and multiple clients with #(). GitHub issue
1330  889.
1331
1332* Fix UTF-8 combining characters in column 0.
1333
1334* Fix reference counting so that panes are properly destroyed and their
1335  processes killed.
1336
1337* Clamp SU (CSI S) parameter to work around a bug in Konsole.
1338
1339* Tweak line wrapping in full width panes to play more nicely with terminal
1340  copy and paste.
1341
1342* Fix when we emit SGR 0 in capture-pane -e.
1343
1344* Do not change TERM until after config file parsing has finished, so that
1345  commands run inside the config file can use it to make decisions (typically
1346  about default-terminal).
1347
1348* Make the initial client wait until config file parsing has finished to avoid
1349  racing with commands.
1350
1351* Fix core when if-shell fails.
1352
1353* Only use ED to clear screen if the pane is at the bottom.
1354
1355* Fix multibyte UTF-8 output.
1356
1357* Code improvements around target (-t) resolution.
1358
1359* Change how the default target (for commands without -t) is managed across
1360  command sequences: now it is set up at the start and commands are required
1361  to update it if needed. Fixes binding command sequences to mouse keys.
1362
1363* Make if-shell from the config file work correctly.
1364
1365* Change to always check the root key table if no binding is found in the
1366  current table (prefix table or copy-mode table or whatever). This means that
1367  root key bindings will take effect even in copy mode, if not overridden by a
1368  copy mode key binding.
1369
1370* Fix so that the history file works again.
1371
1372* Run config file without a client rather than using the first client, restores
1373  previous behaviour.
1374
1375* If a #() command doesn't exit, continue to read from it and use its last full
1376  line of output.
1377
1378* Handle slow terminals and fast output better: when the amount of data
1379  outstanding gets too large, discard output until it is drained and we are
1380  able to do a full redraw. Prevents tmux sitting on a huge buffer that the
1381  terminal will take forever to consume.
1382
1383* Do not redraw a client unless we realistically think it can accept the data -
1384  defer redraws until the client has nothing else waiting to write.
1385
1386CHANGES FROM 2.3 TO 2.4, 20 April 2017
1387
1388Incompatible Changes
1389====================
1390
1391* Key tables have undergone major changes. Mode key tables are no longer
1392  separate from the main key tables. All mode key tables have been removed,
1393  together with the -t flag to bind-key and unbind-key.
1394
1395  The emacs-edit, vi-edit, emacs-choose and vi-choose tables have been replaced
1396  by fixed key bindings in the command prompt and choose modes. The mode-keys
1397  and status-keys options remain.
1398
1399  The emacs-copy and vi-copy tables have been replaced by the copy-mode and
1400  copy-mode-vi tables. Commands are sent using the -X and -N flags to
1401  send-keys. So the following:
1402
1403    bind -temacs-copy C-Up scroll-up
1404    bind -temacs-copy -R5 WheelUpPane scroll-up
1405
1406  Becomes:
1407
1408    bind -Tcopy-mode C-Up send -X scroll-up
1409    bind -Tcopy-mode WheelUpPane send -N5 -X scroll-up
1410
1411  These changes allows the full command parser (including command sequences) and
1412  command set to be used - for example, the normal command prompt with editing
1413  and history is now used for searching, jumping, and so on instead of a custom
1414  one. The default C-r binding is now:
1415
1416    bind -Tcopy-mode C-r command-prompt -i -p'search up' "send -X search-backward-incremental '%%'"
1417
1418  There are also some new commands available with send -X, such as
1419  copy-pipe-and-cancel.
1420* set-remain-on-exit has gone -- can be achieved with hooks instead.
1421* Hooks: before hooks have been removed and only a selection of commands now
1422  have after hooks (they are no longer automatic). Additional hooks have been
1423  added.
1424* The xterm-keys option now defaults to on.
1425
1426Normal Changes
1427==============
1428
1429* Support for mouse double and triple clicks.
1430* BCE (Background Colour Erase) is now supported.
1431* All occurrences of a search string in copy mode are now highlighted;
1432  additionally, the number of search results is displayed. The highlighting
1433  updates interactively with the default emacs key bindings (incremental
1434  search).
1435* source-file now understands glob patterns.
1436* Formats now have simple comparisons:
1437
1438    #{==:a,b}
1439    #{!=:a,b}
1440
1441* There are the following new formats:
1442
1443  - #{version} -- the tmux server version;
1444  - #{client_termtype} -- the terminal type of the client;
1445  - #{client_name} -- the name of a client;
1446  - #{client_written} -- the number of bytes written to the client.
1447
1448* The configuration file now accepts %if/%endif conditional blocks which are
1449  processed when it is parsed; the argument is a format string (useful with the
1450  new format comparison options).
1451* detach-client now has -E to execute a command replacing the client instead of
1452  exiting.
1453* Add support for custom command aliases, this is an array option which
1454  contains items of the form "alias=command". This is consulted when an
1455  unknown command is parsed.
1456* break-pane now has -n to specify the new window name.
1457* OSC 52 support has been added for programs inside tmux to set a tmux buffer.
1458* The mouse "all event" mode (1003) is now supported.
1459* Palette setting is now possible (OSC 4 and 104).
1460* Strikethrough support (a recent terminfo is required).
1461* Grouped sessions can now be named (new -t).
1462* terminal-overrides and update-environment are now array options (the previous
1463  set -ag syntax should work without change).
1464* There have been substantial performance improvements.
1465
1466CHANGES FROM 2.2 TO 2.3, 29 September 2016
1467
1468Incompatible Changes
1469====================
1470
1471None.
1472
1473Normal Changes
1474==============
1475
1476* New option 'pane-border-status' to add text in the pane borders.
1477* Support for hooks on commands: 'after' and 'before' hooks.
1478* 'source-file' understands '-q' to suppress errors for nonexistent files.
1479* Lots of UTF8 improvements, especially on MacOS.
1480* 'window-status-separator' understands #[] expansions.
1481* 'split-window' understands '-f' for performing a full-width split.
1482* Allow report count to be specified when using 'bind-key -R'.
1483* 'set -a' for appending to user options (@foo) is now supported.
1484* 'display-panes' can now accept a command to run, rather than always
1485  selecting the pane.
1486
1487CHANGES FROM 2.1 TO 2.2, 10 April 2016
1488
1489Incompatible Changes
1490====================
1491
1492* The format strings which referenced time have been removed.  Instead:
1493
1494  #{t:window_activity}
1495
1496can be used.
1497
1498* Support for TMPDIR has been removed.  Use TMUX_TMPDIR instead.
1499* UTF8 detection now happens automatically if the client supports it, hence
1500  the:
1501
1502  mouse-utf8
1503  utf8
1504
1505  options has been removed.
1506* The:
1507
1508  mouse_utf8_flag
1509
1510  format string has been removed.
1511* The -I option to show-messages has been removed.  See:
1512
1513  #{t:start_time}
1514
1515  format option instead.
1516
1517Normal Changes
1518==============
1519
1520* Panes are unzoomed with selectp -LRUD
1521* New formats added:
1522
1523  #{scroll_position}
1524  #{socket_path}
1525  #{=10:...} -- limit to N characters (from the start)
1526  #{=-10:...} -- limit to N characters (from the end)
1527  #{t:...} -- used to format time-based formats
1528  #{b:...} -- used to ascertain basename from string
1529  #{d:...} -- used to ascertain dirname from string
1530  #{s:...} -- used to perform substitutions on a string
1531
1532* Job output is run via the format system, so formats work again
1533* If display-time is set to 0, then the indicators wait for a key to be
1534  pressed.
1535* list-keys and list-commands can be run without starting the tmux server.
1536* kill-session learns -C to clear all alerts in all windows of the session.
1537* Support for hooks (internal for now), but hooks for the following have been
1538  implemented:
1539
1540  alert-bell
1541  alert-silence
1542  alert-activity
1543  client-attached
1544  client-detached
1545  client-resized
1546  pane-died
1547  pane-exited
1548
1549* RGB (24bit) colour support.  The 'Tc' flag must be set in the external TERM
1550  entry (using terminal-overrides or a custom terminfo entry).
1551
1552CHANGES FROM 2.0 TO 2.1, 18 October 2015
1553
1554Incompatible Changes
1555====================
1556
1557* Mouse-mode has been rewritten.  There's now no longer options for:
1558	- mouse-resize-pane
1559	- mouse-select-pane
1560	- mouse-select-window
1561	- mode-mouse
1562
1563  Instead there is just one option:  'mouse' which turns on mouse support
1564  entirely.
1565* 'default-terminal' is now a session option.  Furthermore, if this is set
1566  to 'screen-*' then emulate what screen does.  If italics are wanted, this
1567  can be set to 'tmux' but this is still new and not necessarily supported
1568  on all platforms with older ncurses installs.
1569* The c0-* options for rate-limiting have been removed.  Instead, a backoff
1570  approach is used.
1571
1572Normal Changes
1573==============
1574
1575* New formats:
1576	- session_activity
1577	- window_linked
1578	- window_activity_format
1579	- session_alerts
1580	- session_last_attached
1581	- client_pid
1582	- pid
1583* 'copy-selection', 'append-selection', 'start-named-buffer' now understand
1584  an '-x' flag to prevent it exiting copying mode.
1585* 'select-pane' now understands '-P' to set window/pane background colours.
1586* 'renumber-windows' now understands windows which are unlinked.
1587* 'bind' now understands multiple key tables.  Allows for key-chaining.
1588* 'select-layout' understands '-o' to undo the last layout change.
1589* The environment is updated when switching sessions as well as attaching.
1590* 'select-pane' now understands '-M' for marking a pane.  This marked pane
1591  can then be used with commands which understand src-pane specifiers
1592  automatically.
1593* If a session/window target is prefixed with '=' then only an exact match
1594  is considered.
1595* 'move-window' understands '-a'.
1596* 'update-environment' understands '-E' when attach-session is used on an
1597  already attached client.
1598* 'show-environment' understands '-s' to output Bourne-compatible commands.
1599* New option: 'history-file' to save/restore command prompt history.
1600* Copy mode is exited if the history is cleared whilst in copy-mode.
1601* 'copy-mode' learned '-e' to exit copy-mode when scrolling to end.
1602
1603CHANGES FROM 1.9a TO 2.0, 06 March 2015
1604
1605Incompatible Changes
1606====================
1607
1608* The choose-list command has been removed.
1609* 'terminal-overrides' is now a server option, not a session option.
1610* 'message-limit' is now a server option, not a session option.
1611* 'monitor-content' option has been removed.
1612* 'pane_start_path' option has been removed.
1613* The "info" mechanism which used to (for some commands) provide feedback
1614  has been removed, and like other commands, they now produce nothing on
1615  success.
1616
1617Normal Changes
1618==============
1619
1620* tmux can now write an entry to utmp if the library 'utempter' is present
1621  at compile time.
1622* set-buffer learned append mode (-a), and a corresponding
1623  'append-selection' command has been added to copy-mode.
1624* choose-mode now has the following commands which can be bound:
1625	- start-of-list
1626	- end-of-list
1627	- top-line
1628	- bottom-line
1629
1630* choose-buffer now understands UTF-8.
1631* Pane navigation has changed:
1632	- The old way of always using the top or left if the choice is ambiguous.
1633	- The new way of remembering the last used pane is annoying if the
1634	  layout is balanced and the leftmost is obvious to the user (because
1635	  clearly if we go right from the top-left in a tiled set of four we want
1636	  to end up in top-right, even if we were last using the bottom-right).
1637
1638      So instead, use a combination of both: if there is only one possible
1639      pane alongside the current pane, move to it, otherwise choose the most
1640      recently used of the choice.
1641* 'set-buffer' can now be told to give names to buffers.
1642* The 'new-session', 'new-window', 'split-window', and 'respawn-pane' commands
1643  now understand multiple arguments and handle quoting problems correctly.
1644* 'capture-pane' understands '-S-' to mean the start of the pane, and '-E-' to
1645  mean the end of the pane.
1646* Support for function keys beyond F12 has changed.  The following explains:
1647	- F13-F24 are S-F1 to S-F12
1648	- F25-F36 are C-F1 to C-F12
1649	- F37-F48 are C-S-F1 to C-S-F12
1650	- F49-F60 are M-F1 to M-F12
1651	- F61-F63 are M-S-F1 to M-S-F3
1652
1653 Therefore, F13 becomes a binding of S-F1, etc.
1654* Support using pane id as part of session or window specifier (so % means
1655  session-of-%1 or window-of-%1) and window id as part of session
1656  (so @1 means session-of-@1).
1657* 'copy-pipe' command now understands formats via -F
1658* 'if-shell'  command now understands formats via -F
1659* 'split-window' and 'join-window' understand -b to create the pane to the left
1660  or above the target pane.
1661
1662CHANGES FROM 1.9 TO 1.9a, 22 February 2014
1663
1664NOTE: This is a bug-fix release to address some important bugs which just
1665missed the 1.9 deadline, but were found afterwards.
1666
1667Normal Changes
1668==============
1669
1670* Fix crash due to uninitialized lastwp member of layout_cell
1671* Fix -fg/-bg/-style with 256 colour terminals.
1672
1673CHANGES FROM 1.8 TO 1.9, 20 February 2014
1674
1675NOTE:  This release has bumped the tmux protocol version.  It is therefore
1676advised that the prior tmux server is restarted when this version of tmux is
1677installed, to avoid protocol mismatch errors for newer clients trying to
1678talk to an older running tmux server.
1679
1680Incompatible Changes
1681====================
1682
1683* 88 colour support has been removed.
1684* 'default-path' has been removed.  The new-window command accepts '-c' to
1685  cater for this.  The previous value of "." can be replaced with: 'neww -c
1686  $PWD', the previous value of '' which meant current path of the pane can
1687  be specified as:  'neww -c "#{pane_current_path}"'
1688
1689Deprecated Changes
1690==================
1691
1692* The single format specifiers:  #A -> #Z (where defined) have been
1693  deprecated and replaced with longer-named equivalents, as listed in the
1694  FORMATS section of the tmux manpage.
1695* The various foo-{fg,bg,attr} commands have been deprecated and replaced
1696  with equivalent foo-style option instead.  Currently this is still
1697  backwards-compatible, but will be removed over time.
1698
1699Normal Changes
1700==============
1701
1702* A new environment variable TMUX_TMPDIR is now honoured, allowing the
1703  socket directory to be set outside of TMPDIR (/tmp/ if not set).
1704* If -s not given to swap-pane the current pane is assumed.
1705* A #{pane_synchronized} format specifier has been added to be a conditional
1706  format if a pane is in a synchronised mode (c.f. synchronize-panes)
1707* Tmux now runs under Cygwin natively.
1708* Formats can now be nested within each other and expanded accordingly.
1709* Added 'automatic-rename-format' option to allow the automatic rename
1710  mechanism to use something other than the default of
1711  #{pane_current_command}.
1712* new-session learnt '-c' to specify the starting directory for that session
1713  and all subsequent windows therein.
1714* The session name is now shown in the message printed to the terminal when
1715  a session is detached.
1716* Lots more format specifiers have been added.
1717* Server race conditions have been fixed; in particular commands are not run
1718  until after the configuration file is read completely.
1719* Case insensitive searching in tmux's copy-mode is now possible.
1720* attach-session and switch-client learnt the '-t' option to accept a window
1721  and/or a pane to use.
1722* Copy-mode is only exited if no selection is in progress.
1723* Paste key in copy-mode is now possible to enter text from the clipboard.
1724* status-interval set to '0' now works as intended.
1725* tmux now supports 256 colours running under fbterm.
1726* Many bug fixes!
1727
1728CHANGES FROM 1.7 TO 1.8, 26 March 2013
1729
1730Incompatible Changes
1731====================
1732
1733* layout redo/undo has been removed.
1734
1735Normal Changes
1736==============
1737
1738* Add halfpage up/down bindings to copy mode.
1739* Session choosing fixed to work with unattached sessions.
1740* New window options window-status-last-{attr,bg,fg} to denote the last
1741  window which was active.
1742* Scrolling in copy-mode now scrolls the region without moving the mouse
1743  cursor.
1744* run-shell learnt '-t' to specify the pane to use when displaying output.
1745* Support for middle-click pasting.
1746* choose-tree learns '-u' to start uncollapsed.
1747* select-window learnt '-T' to toggle to the last window if it's already
1748  current.
1749* New session option 'assume-paste-time' for pasting text versus key-binding
1750  actions.
1751* choose-* commands now work outside of an attached client.
1752* Aliases are now shown for list-commands command.
1753* Status learns about formats.
1754* Free-form options can be set with set-option if prepended with an '@'
1755  sign.
1756* capture-pane learnt '-p' to send to stdout, and '-e' for capturing escape
1757  sequences, and '-a' to capture the alternate screen, and '-P' to dump
1758  pending output.
1759* Many new formats added (client_session, client_last_session, etc.)
1760* Control mode, which is a way for a client to send tmux commands.
1761  Currently more useful to users of iterm2.
1762* resize-pane learnt '-x' and '-y' for absolute pane sizing.
1763* Config file loading now reports errors from all files which are loaded via
1764  the 'source-file' command.
1765* 'copy-pipe' mode command to copy selection and pipe the selection to a
1766  command.
1767* Panes can now emit focus notifications for certain applications
1768  which use those.
1769* run-shell and if-shell now accept formats.
1770* resize-pane learnt '-Z' for zooming a pane temporarily.
1771* new-session learnt '-A' to make it behave like attach-session.
1772* set-option learnt '-o' to prevent setting an option which is already set.
1773* capture-pane and show-options learns '-q' to silence errors.
1774* New command 'wait-for' which blocks a client until woken up again.
1775* Resizing panes will now reflow the text inside them.
1776* Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc.
1777* Various manpage improvements.
1778
1779CHANGES FROM 1.6 TO 1.7, 13 October 2012
1780
1781* tmux configuration files now support line-continuation with a "\" at the
1782  end of a line.
1783* New option status-position to move the status line to the top or bottom of
1784  the screen.
1785* Enforce history-limit option when clearing the screen.
1786* Give each window a unique id, like panes but prefixed with @.
1787* Add pane id to each pane in layout description (while still accepting
1788  the old form).
1789* Provide defined ways to set the various default-path possibilities: ~
1790  for home directory, . for server start directory, - for session start
1791  directory and empty for the pane's working directory (the default). All
1792  can also be used as part of a relative path (eg -/foo). Also provide -c
1793  flags to neww and splitw to override default-path setting.
1794* Add -l flag to send-keys to send input literally (without translating
1795  key names).
1796* Allow a single option to be specified to show-options to show just that
1797  option.
1798* New command "move-pane" (like join-pane but allows the same window).
1799* join-pane and move-pane commands learn "-b" option to place the pane to
1800  the left or above.
1801* Support for bracketed-paste mode.
1802* Allow send-keys command to accept hex values.
1803* Add locking around "start-server" to avoid race-conditions.
1804* break-pane learns -P/-F arguments for display formatting.
1805* set-option learns "-q" to make it quiet, and not print out anything.
1806* copy mode learns "wrap-search" option.
1807* Add a simple form of output rate limiting by counting the number of
1808  certain C0 sequences (linefeeds, backspaces, carriage returns) and if it
1809  exceeds a threshold (current default 250/millisecond), start to redraw
1810  the pane every 100 milliseconds instead of making each change as it
1811  comes. Two configuration options - c0-change-trigger and
1812  c0-change-interval.
1813* find-window learns new flags:  "-C", "-N", "-T" to match against either or
1814  all of a window's content, name, or title.  Defaults to all three options
1815  if none specified.
1816* find-window automatically selects the appropriate pane for the found
1817  matches.
1818* show-environment can now accept one option to show that environment value.
1819* Exit mouse mode when end-of-screen reached when scrolling with the mouse
1820  wheel.
1821* select-layout learns -u and -U for layout history stacks.
1822* kill-window, detach-client, kill-session all  learn "-a" option for
1823  killing all but the current thing specified.
1824* move-window learns "-r" option to renumber window sequentially in a
1825  session.
1826* New session option "renumber-windows" to automatically renumber windows in
1827  a session when a window is closed.  (see "move-window -r").
1828* Only enter copy-mode on scroll up.
1829* choose-* and list-* commands all use "-F" for format specifiers.
1830* When spawning external commands, the value from the "default-shell" option
1831  is now used, rather than assuming /bin/sh.
1832* New choose-tree command to render window/sessions as a tree for selection.
1833* display-message learns new format options.
1834* For linked-windows across sessions, all flags for that window are now
1835  cleared across sessions.
1836* Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc.
1837* Various manpage improvements.
1838
1839CHANGES FROM 1.5 TO 1.6, 23 January 2012
1840
1841* Extend the mode-mouse option to add a third choice which means the mouse
1842  does not enter copy mode.
1843* Add a -r flag to switch-client to toggle the client read-only flag.
1844* Add pane-base-index option.
1845* Support \ for line continuation in the configuration file.
1846* Framework for more powerful formatting of command output and use it for
1847  list-{panes,windows,sessions}. This allows more descriptive replacements
1848  (such as #{session_name}) and conditionals.
1849* Mark dead panes with some text saying they are dead.
1850* Reject $SHELL if it is not a full path.
1851* Add -S option to refresh-client to redraw status line.
1852* Add an else clause for if-shell.
1853* Try to resolve relative paths for loadb and saveb (first, using client
1854  working directory, if any, then default-path or session working directory).
1855* Support for \e[3J to clear the history and send the corresponding
1856  terminfo code (E3) before locking.
1857* When in copy mode, make repeat count indicate buffer to replace, if used.
1858* Add screen*:XT to terminal-overrides for tmux-in-tmux.
1859* Status-line message attributes added.
1860* Move word-separators to be a session rather than window option.
1861* Change the way the working directory for new processes is discovered. If
1862  default-path isn't empty, it is used. Otherwise, if a new window is created
1863  from the command-line, the working directory of the client is used. If not,
1864  platform specific code is used to retrieve the current working directory
1865  of the process in the active pane. If that fails, the directory where the
1866  session was created is used, instead.
1867* Do not change the current pane if both mouse-select-{pane,window} are
1868  enabled.
1869* Add \033[s and \033[u to save and restore cursor position.
1870* Allow $HOME to be used as default-path.
1871* Add CNL and CPL escape sequences.
1872* Calculate last position correctly for UTF-8 wide characters.
1873* Add an option allow-rename to disable the window rename escape sequence.
1874* Attributes for each type of status-line alert (ie bell, content and
1875  activity) added. Therefore, remove the superfluous options
1876  window-status-alert-{attr,bg,fg}.
1877* Add a -R flag to send-keys to reset the terminal.
1878* Add strings to allow the aixterm bright colours to be used when
1879  configuring colours.
1880* Drop the ability to have a list of keys in the prefix in favour of two
1881  separate options, prefix and prefix2.
1882* Flag -2 added to send-prefix to send the secondary prefix key.
1883* Show pane size in top right of display panes mode.
1884* Some memory leaks plugged.
1885* More command-prompt editing improvements.
1886* Various manpage improvements.
1887* More Vi mode improvements.
1888
1889CHANGES FROM 1.4 TO 1.5, 09 July 2011
1890
1891* Support xterm mouse modes 1002 and 1003.
1892* Change from a per-session stack of buffers to one global stack. This renders
1893  copy-buffer useless and makes buffer-limit now a server option.
1894* Fix most-recently-used choice by avoiding reset the activity timer for
1895  unattached sessions every second.
1896* Add a -P option to new-window and split-window to print the new window or
1897  pane index in target form (useful to pass it into other commands).
1898* Handle a # at the end of a replacement string (such as status-left)
1899  correctly.
1900* Support for UTF-8 mouse input (\033[1005h) which was added in xterm 262.
1901  If the new mouse-utf8 option is on, UTF-8 mouse input is enabled for all
1902  UTF-8 terminals. The option defaults to on if LANG etc are set in the same
1903  manner as the utf8 option.
1904* Support for HP-UX.
1905* Accept colours of the hex form #ffffff and translate to the nearest from the
1906  xterm(1) 256-colour set.
1907* Clear the non-blocking IO flag (O_NONBLOCK) on the stdio file descriptors
1908  before closing them (fixes things like "tmux ls && cat").
1909* Use TMPDIR if set.
1910* Fix next and previous session functions to actually work.
1911* Support -x and -y for new-session to specify the initial size of the window
1912  if created detached with -d.
1913* Make bind-key accept characters with the top-bit-set and print them as octal.
1914* Set $TMUX without the session when background jobs are run.
1915* Simplify the way jobs work and drop the persist type, so all jobs are
1916  fire-and-forget.
1917* Accept tcgetattr/tcsetattr(3) failure, fixes problems with fatal() if the
1918  terminal disappears while locked.
1919* Add a -P option to detach to HUP the client's parent process (usually causing
1920  it to exit as well).
1921* Support passing through escape sequences to the underlying terminal by using
1922  DCS with a "tmux;" prefix.
1923* Prevent tiled producing a corrupt layout when only one column is needed.
1924* Give each pane created in a tmux server a unique id (starting from 0), put it
1925  in the TMUX_PANE environment variable and accept it as a target.
1926* Allow a start and end line to be specified for capture-pane which may be
1927  negative to capture part of the history.
1928* Add -a and -s options to lsp to list all panes in the server or session
1929  respectively. Likewise add -s to lsw.
1930* Change -t on display-message to be target-pane for the #[A-Z] replacements
1931  and add -c as target-client.
1932* The attach-session command now prefers the most recently used unattached
1933  session.
1934* Add -s option to detach-client to detach all clients attached to a session.
1935* Add -t to list-clients.
1936* Change window with mouse wheel over status line if mouse-select-window is on.
1937* When mode-mouse is on, automatically enter copy mode when the mouse is
1938  dragged or the mouse wheel is used. Also exit copy mode when the mouse wheel
1939  is scrolled off the bottom.
1940* Provide #h character pair for short hostname (no domain).
1941* Don't use strnvis(3) for the title as it breaks UTF-8.
1942* Use the tsl and fsl terminfo(5) capabilities to update terminal title and
1943  automatically fill them in on terminals with the XT capability (which means
1944  their title setting is xterm-compatible).
1945* Add a new option, mouse-resize-pane. When on, panes may be resized by
1946  dragging their borders.
1947* Fix crash by resetting last pane on {break,swap}-pane across windows.
1948* Add three new copy-mode commands - select-line, copy-line, copy-end-of-line.
1949* Support setting the xterm clipboard when copying from copy mode using the
1950  xterm escape sequence for the purpose (if xterm is configured to allow it).
1951* Support xterm(1) cursor colour change sequences through terminfo(5) Cc
1952  (set) and Cr (reset) extensions.
1953* Support DECSCUSR sequence to set the cursor style with two new terminfo(5)
1954  extensions, Cs and Csr.
1955* Make the command-prompt custom prompts recognize the status-left option
1956  character pairs.
1957* Add a respawn-pane command.
1958* Add a couple of extra xterm-style keys that gnome terminal provides.
1959* Allow the initial context on prompts to be set with the new -I option to
1960  command-prompt. Include the current window and session name in the prompt
1961  when renaming and add a new key binding ($) for rename session.
1962* Option bell-on-alert added to trigger the terminal bell when there is an
1963  alert.
1964* Change the list-keys format so that it shows the keys using actual tmux
1965  commands which should be able to be directly copied into the config file.
1966* Show full targets for lsp/lsw -a.
1967* Make confirm-before prompt customizable with -p option like command-prompt
1968  and add the character pairs #W and #P to the default kill-{pane,window}
1969  prompts.
1970* Avoid sending data to suspended/locked clients.
1971* Small memory leaks in error paths plugged.
1972* Vi mode improvements.
1973
1974CHANGES FROM 1.3 TO 1.4, 27 December 2010
1975
1976* Window bell reporting fixed.
1977* Show which pane is active in the list-panes output.
1978* Backoff reworked.
1979* Prevent the server from dying when switching into copy mode when already
1980  in a different mode.
1981* Reset running jobs when the status line is enabled or disabled.
1982* Simplify xterm modifier detection.
1983* Avoid crashing in copy mode if the screen size is too small for the
1984  indicator.
1985* Flags -n and -p added to switch-client.
1986* Use UTF-8 line drawing characters on UTF-8 terminals, thus fixing some
1987  terminals (eg putty) which disable the vt100 ACS mode switching sequences
1988  in UTF-8 mode. On terminals without ACS, use ASCII equivalents.
1989* New server option exit-unattached added.
1990* New session option destroy-unattached added.
1991* Fall back on normal session choice method if $TMUX exists but is invalid
1992  rather than rejecting.
1993* Mark repeating keys with "(repeat)" in the key list.
1994* When removing a pane, don't change the active pane unless the active pane
1995  is actually the one being removed.
1996* New command last-pane added.
1997* AIX fixes.
1998* Flag -a added to unbind-key.
1999* Add XAUTHORITY to update-environment.
2000* More info regarding window and pane flags is now shown in list-*.
2001* If VISUAL or EDITOR contains "vi" configure mode-keys and status-key to vi.
2002* New window option monitor-silence and session option visual-silence added.
2003* In the built-in layouts distribute the panes more evenly.
2004* Set the default value of main-pane-width to 80 instead of 81.
2005* Command-line flag -V added.
2006* Instead of keeping a per-client prompt history make it global.
2007* Fix rectangle copy to behave like emacs (the cursor is not part of the
2008  selection on the right edge but on the left it is).
2009* Flag -l added to switch-client.
2010* Retrieve environment variables from the global environment rather than
2011  getenv(3), thus allowing them to be updated during the configuration file.
2012* New window options other-pane-{height,width} added.
2013* More minor bugs fixed and manpage improvements.
2014
2015CHANGES FROM 1.2 TO 1.3, 18 July 2010
2016
2017* New input parser.
2018* Flags to move through panes -UDLR added to select-pane.
2019* Commands up-pane, and down-pane removed, since equivalent behaviour is now
2020  available through the target flag (-t:+ and -t:-).
2021* Jump-forward/backward in copy move (based on vi's F, and f commands).
2022* Make paste-buffer accept a pane as a target.
2023* Flag -a added to new-window to insert a window after an existing one, moving
2024  windows up if necessary.
2025* Merge more mode into copy mode.
2026* Run job commands explicitly in the global environment (which can be modified
2027  with setenv -g), rather than with the environment tmux started with.
2028* Use the machine's hostname as the default title, instead of an empty string.
2029* Prevent double free if the window option remain-on-exit is set.
2030* Key string conversions rewritten.
2031* Mark zombie windows as dead in the choose-window list.
2032* Tiled layout added.
2033* Signal handling reworked.
2034* Reset SIGCHLD after fork to fix problems with some shells.
2035* Select-prompt command removed. Therefore, bound ' to command-prompt -p index
2036  "select-window -t:%%" by default.
2037* Catch SIGHUP and terminate if running as a client, thus avoiding clients from
2038  being left hanging around when, for instance, a SSH session is disconnected.
2039* Solaris 9 fixes (such as adding compat {get,set}env(3) code).
2040* Accept none instead of default for attributes.
2041* Window options window-status-alert-{alert,bg,fg} added.
2042* Flag -s added to the paste-buffer command to specify a custom separator.
2043* Allow dragging to make a selection in copy mode if the mode-mouse option is
2044  set.
2045* Support the mouse scroll wheel.
2046* Make pipe-pane accept special character sequences (eg #I).
2047* Fix problems with window sizing when starting tmux from .xinitrc.
2048* Give tmux sockets (but not the containing folder) group permissions.
2049* Extend the target flags (ie -t) to accept an offset (for example -t:+2), and
2050  make it wrap windows, and panes.
2051* New command choose-buffer added.
2052* New server option detach-on-destroy to set what happens to a client when the
2053  session it is attached to is destroyed. If on (default), the client is
2054  detached. Otherwise, the client is switched to the most recently active of
2055  the remaining sessions.
2056* The commands load-buffer, and save-buffer now accept a dash (-) as the file
2057  to read from stdin, or write to stdout.
2058* Custom layouts added.
2059* Additional code reduction, bug fixes, and manpage enhancements.
2060
2061CHANGES FROM 1.1 TO 1.2, 10 March 2010
2062
2063* Switch to libevent.
2064* Emulate the ri (reverse index) capability, ergo allowing tmux to at least
2065  start on Sun consoles (TERM=sun, or sun-color).
2066* Assign each entry a number, or lowercase letter in choose mode, and accept
2067  that as a shortcut key.
2068* Permit top-bit-set characters to be entered in the status line.
2069* Mark no-prefix keys with (no prefix), rather than [] in list-keys.
2070* New command show-messages (alias showmsgs), and new session option
2071  message-limit, to show a per-client log of status lines messages up to the
2072  number defined by message-limit.
2073* Do not interpret #() for display-message to avoid leaking commands.
2074* New window options window-status-format, and window-status-current-format to
2075  control the format of each window in the status line.
2076* Add a -p flag to display-message to print the output, instead of displaying
2077  it in the status line.
2078* Emulate il1, dl1, ich1 to run with vt100 feature set.
2079* New command capture-pane (alias capturep) to copy the entire pane contents
2080  to a paste buffer.
2081* Avoid duplicating code by adding a -w flag to set-option, and show-options to
2082  set, and show window options. The commands set-window-option, and
2083  show-window-options are now aliases.
2084* Panes can now be referred to as top, bottom, top-left, etc.
2085* Add server-wide options, which can be set with set-option -s, and shown with
2086  show-options -s.
2087* New server option quiet (like -q from the command line).
2088* New server option escape-time to set the timeout used to detect if escapes
2089  are alone, part of a function key, or meta sequence.
2090* New session options pane-active-border-bg, pane-active-border-fg,
2091  pane-border-bg, and pane-border-fg to set pane colours.
2092* Make split-window accept a pane target, instead of a window.
2093* New command join-pane (alias joinp) to split, and move an existing pane into
2094  the space (the opposite of break-pane), thus simplifying calls to
2095  split-window, followed by move-window.
2096* Permit S- prefix on keys for shift when the terminal/terminfo supports them.
2097* Window targets (-t flag) can now refer to the last window (!), next (+), and
2098  previous (-) window by number.
2099* Mode keys to jump to the bottom/top of history, end of the next word, scroll
2100  up/down, and reverse search in copy mode.
2101* New session option display-panes-active-colour to display the active pane in
2102  a different colour with the display-panes command.
2103* Read the socket path from $TMUX if it's present, and -L, and -S are not
2104  given.
2105* Vi-style mode keys B, W, and E to navigate between words in copy mode.
2106* Start in more mode when configuration file errors are detected.
2107* Rectangle copy support added.
2108* If attach-session was specified with the -r flag, make the client read-only.
2109* Per-window alternate-screen option.
2110* Make load-buffer work with FIFOs.
2111* New window option word-separators to set the characters considered as word
2112  separators in copy mode.
2113* Permit keys in copy mode to be prefixed by a repeat count, entered with [1-9]
2114  in vi mode, or M-[1-9] in emacs mode.
2115* utf8 improvements.
2116* As usual, additional code reduction, bug fixes, and manpage enhancements.
2117
2118CHANGES FROM 1.0 TO 1.1, 05 November 2009
2119
2120* New run-shell (alias run) command to run an external command without a
2121  window, capture it's stdout, and send it to output mode.
2122* Ability to define multiple prefix keys.
2123* Internal locking mechanism removed. Instead, detach each client and run the
2124  external command specified in the new session option lock-command (by default
2125  lock -np), thus allowing the system password to be used.
2126* set-password command, and -U command line flag removed per the above change.
2127* Add support for -c command line flag to execute a shell command.
2128* New lock-client (alias lockc), and lock-session (alias locks) commands to
2129  lock a particular client, or all clients attached to a session.
2130* Support C-n/C-p/C-v/M-v with emacs keys in choice mode.
2131* Use : for goto line rather than g in vi mode.
2132* Try to guess which client to use when no target client was specified. Finds
2133  the current session, and if only one client is present, use it. Otherwise,
2134  return the most recently used client.
2135* Make C-Down/C-Up in copy mode scroll the screen down/up one line without
2136  moving the cursor.
2137* Scroll mode superseded by copy mode.
2138* New synchronize-panes window option to send all input to all other panes in
2139  the same window.
2140* New lock-server session option to lock, when off (on by default), each
2141  session when it has been idle for the lock-after-time setting. When on, the
2142  entire server locks when all sessions have been idle for their individual
2143  lock-after-time setting.
2144* Add support for grouped sessions which have independent name, options,
2145  current window, but where the linked windows are synchronized (ie creating,
2146  killing windows are mirrored between the sessions). A grouped session may be
2147  created by passing -t to new-session.
2148* New mouse-select-pane session option to select the current pane with the
2149  mouse.
2150* Queue, and run commands in the background for if-shell, status-left,
2151  status-right, and #() by starting each once every status-interval. Adds the
2152  capability to call some programs which would previously cause the server to
2153  hang (eg sleep/tmux). It also avoids running commands excessively (ie if used
2154  multiple times, it will be run only once).
2155* When a window is zombified and automatic-rename is on, append [dead] to the
2156  name.
2157* Split list-panes (alias lsp) off from list-windows.
2158* New pipe-pane (alias pipep) to redirect a pane output to an external command.
2159* Support for automatic-renames for Solaris.
2160* Permit attributes to be turned off in #[] by prefixing with no (eg nobright).
2161* Add H/M/L in vi mode, and M-R/M-r in emacs to move the cursor to the top,
2162  middle, and bottom of the screen.
2163* -a option added to kill-pane to kill all except current pane.
2164* The -d command line flag is now gone (can be replaced by terminal-overrides).
2165  Just use op/AX to detect default colours.
2166* input/tty/utf8 improvements.
2167* xterm-keys rewrite.
2168* Additional code reduction, and bug fixes.
2169
2170CHANGES FROM 0.9 TO 1.0, 20 September 2009
2171
2172* Option to alter the format of the window title set by tmux.
2173* Backoff for a while after multiple incorrect password attempts.
2174* Quick display of pane numbers (C-b q).
2175* Better choose-window, choose-session commands and a new choose-client command.
2176* Option to request multiple responses when using command-prompt.
2177* Improved environment handling.
2178* Combine wrapped lines when pasting.
2179* Option to override terminal settings (terminal-overrides).
2180* Use the full range of ACS characters for drawing pane separator lines.
2181* Customisable mode keys.
2182* Status line colour options, with embedded colours in status-left/right, and
2183  an option to centre the window list.
2184* Much improved layouts, including both horizontal and vertical splitting.
2185* Optional visual bell, activity and content indications.
2186* Set the utf8 and status-utf8 options when the server is started with -u.
2187* display-message command to show a message in the status line, by default some
2188  information about the current window.
2189* Improved current process detection on NetBSD.
2190* unlink-window -k is now the same as kill-window.
2191* attach-session now works from inside tmux.
2192* A system-wide configuration file, /etc/tmux.conf.
2193* A number of new commands in copy mode, including searching.
2194* Panes are now specified using the target (-t) notation.
2195* -t now accepts fnmatch(3) patterns and looks for prefixes.
2196* Translate \r into \n when pasting.
2197* Support for binding commands to keys without the prefix key
2198* Support for alternate screen (terminfo smcup/rmcup).
2199* Maintain data that goes off screen after reducing the window size, so it can
2200  be restored when the size is increased again.
2201* New if-shell command to test a shell command before running a tmux command.
2202* tmux now works as the shell.
2203* Man page reorganisation.
2204* Many minor additions, much code tidying and several bug fixes.
2205
2206CHANGES FROM 0.8 TO 0.9, 01 July 2009
2207
2208* Major changes to build infrastructure: cleanup of makefiles and addition
2209  of a configure script.
2210* monitor-content window option to monitor a window for a specific fnmatch(3)
2211  pattern. The find-window command also now accepts fnmatch(3) patterns.
2212* previous-layout and select-layout commands, and a main-horizontal layout.
2213* Recreate the server socket on SIGUSR1.
2214* clear-history command.
2215* Use ACS line drawing characters for pane separator lines.
2216* UTF-8 improvements, and code to detect UTF-8 support by looking at
2217  environment variables.
2218* The resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down commands are now merged together
2219  into a new resize-pane command with -U and -D flags.
2220* confirm-before command to request a yes/no answer before executing dangerous
2221  commands.
2222* Status line bug fixes, support for UTF-8 (status-utf8 option), and a key to
2223  paste from the paste buffer.
2224* Support for some additional escape sequences and terminal features, including
2225  better support for insert mode and tab stops.
2226* Improved window resizing behaviour, modelled after xterm.
2227* Some code reduction and a number of miscellaneous bug fixes.
2228
2229================================================================================
2230
2231On 01 June 2009, tmux was imported into the OpenBSD base system. From this date
2232onward changes are logged as part of the normal CVS commit message to either
2233OpenBSD or SourceForge CVS. This file will be updated to contain a summary of
2234major changes with each release, and to mention important configuration or
2235command syntax changes during development.
2236
2237The list of older changes is below.
2238
2239================================================================================
2240
224121 May 2009
2242
2243* stat(2) files before trying to load them to avoid problems, for example
2244  with "source-file /dev/zero".
2245
224619 May 2009
2247
2248* Try to guess if the window is UTF-8 by outputting a three-byte UTF-8 wide
2249  character and seeing how much the cursor moves. Currently tries to figure out
2250  if this works by some stupid checks on the terminal, these need to be
2251  rethought. Also might be better using a width 1 character rather than width 2.
2252* If LANG contains "UTF-8", assume the terminal supports UTF-8, on the grounds
2253  that anyone who configures it probably wants UTF-8. Not certain if this is
2254  a perfect idea but let's see if it causes any problems.
2255* New window option: monitor-content. Searches for a string in a window and if
2256  it matches, highlight the status line.
2257
225818 May 2009
2259
2260* main-horizontal layout and main-pane-height option to match vertical.
2261* New window option main-pane-width to set the width of the large left pane with
2262  main-vertical (was left-vertical) layout.
2263* Lots of layout cleanup. manual layout is now manual-vertical.
2264
226516 May 2009
2266
2267* select-layout command and a few default key bindings (M-0, M-1, M-2, M-9) to
2268  select layouts.
2269* Recreate server socket on SIGUSR1, per SF feature request 2792533.
2270
227114 May 2009
2272
2273* Keys in status line (p in vi mode, M-y in emacs) to paste the first line
2274  of the upper paste buffer. Suggested by Dan Colish.
2275* clear-history command to clear a pane's history.
2276* Don't force wrapping with \n when asked, let the cursor code figure it out.
2277  Should fix terminals which use this to detect line breaks.
2278* Major cleanup and restructuring of build infrastructure. Still separate files
2279  for GNU and BSD make, but they are now hugely simplified at the expense of
2280  adding a configure script which must be run before make. Now build and
2281  install with:
2282
2283	$ ./configure && make && sudo make install
2284
228504 May 2009
2286
2287* Use ACS line drawing characters for pane separator lines.
2288
228930 April 2009
2290
2291* Support command sequences without a space before the semicolon, for example
2292  "neww; neww" now works as well as "neww ; neww". "neww;neww" is still an
2293  error.
2294* previous-layout command.
2295* Display the layout name in window lists.
2296* Merge resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down into resize-pane with -U and -D
2297  flags.
2298
229929 April 2009
2300
2301* Get rid of compat/vis.* - only one function was used which is easily
2302  replaced,and less compat code == good.
2303
230427 April 2009
2305
2306* Avoid using the prompt history when the server is locked, and prevent any
2307  input entered from being added to the client's prompt history.
2308* New command, confirm-before (alias confirm), which asks for confirmation
2309  before executing a command. Bound "&" and "x" by default to confirm-before
2310  "kill-window" and confirm-before "kill-pane", respectively.
2311
231223 April 2009
2313
2314* Support NEL, yet another way of making newline. Fixes the output from some
2315  Gentoo packaging thing. Reported by someone on SF then logs that allowed a
2316  fix sent by tcunha.
2317* Use the xenl terminfo flag to detect early-wrap terminals like the FreeBSD
2318  console. Many thanks for a very informative email from Christian Weisgerber.
2319
232021 April 2009
2321
2322* tmux 0.8 released.
2323
232417 April 2009
2325
2326* Remove the right number of characters from the buffer when escape then
2327  a cursor key (or other key prefixed by \033) is pressed. Reported by
2328  Stuart Henderson.
2329
233003 April 2009
2331
2332* rotate-window command. -U flag (default) for up, -D flag for down.
2333
233402 April 2009
2335
2336* Change scroll/pane redraws to only redraw the single pane affected rather
2337  than the entire window.
2338* If redrawing the region would mean redrawing > half the pane, just schedule
2339  to redraw the entire window. Also add a flag to skip updating the window any
2340  further if it is scheduled to be redrawn. This has the effect of batching
2341  multiple redraws together.
2342
234301 April 2009
2344
2345* Basic horizontal splitting and layout management. Still some redraw and other
2346  issues - particularly, don't mix with manual pane resizing, be careful when
2347  viewing from multiple clients and don't expect shell windows to redraw very
2348  well after the layout is changed; generally cycling the layout a few times
2349  will fix most problems. Getting this in for testing while I think about how
2350  to deal with manual mode.
2351
2352  Split window as normal and cycle the layouts with C-b space. Some of the
2353  layouts will work better when swap-pane comes along.
2354
235531 March 2009
2356
2357* AIX port, thanks to cmihai for access to a box. Only tested on 6.1 with xlc
2358  10.1 (make sure CC is set). Needs GNU make and probably ncurses (didn't try
2359  plain curses). Also won't build with DEBUG, so comment the FDEBUG=1 line in
2360  GNUmakefile.
2361* Draw a vertical line on the right when the window size is less than the
2362  terminal size. This is partly to shake out any horizontal limit bugs on the
2363  way to horizontal splitting/pane tiling. Currently a bit slow since it has to
2364  do a lot of redrawing but hopefully that will improve as I get some better
2365  ideas for how to do it.
2366* Fix remaining problems with copy and paste and UTF-8.
2367
236828 March 2009
2369
2370* Better UTF-8 support, including combined characters. Unicode data is now
2371  stored as UTF-8 in a separate array, the code does a lookup into this every
2372  time it gets to a UTF-8 cell. Zero width characters are just appended onto
2373  the UTF-8 data for the previous cell. This also means that almost no bytes
2374  extra are wasted non-Unicode data (yay).
2375
2376  Still some oddities, such as copy mode skips over wide characters in a
2377  strange way, and the code could do with some tidying.
2378* Key repeating is now a property of the key binding not of the command.
2379  Repeat is turned on when the key is bound with the -r flag to bind-key.
2380  next/previous-window no longer repeat by default as it turned out to annoy
2381  me.
2382
238327 March 2009
2384
2385* Clear using ED when redrawing the screen. I foolishly assumed using spaces
2386  would be equivalent and terminals would pick up on this, but apparently not.
2387  This fixes copy and paste in xterm/rxvt.
2388* Sockets in /tmp are now created in a subdirectory named, tmux-UID, eg
2389  tmux-1000. The default socket is thus /tmp/tmux-UID/default. To start a
2390  separate server, the new -L command line option should be used: this creates
2391  a socket in the same directory with a different name ("-L main" will create
2392  socket called "main"). -S should only be used to place the socket outside
2393  /tmp. This makes sockets a little more secure and a bit more convenient to
2394  use multiple servers.
2395
239621 March 2009
2397
2398* New session flag "set-remain-on-exit" to set remain-on-exit flag for new
2399  windows created in that session (like "remain-by-default" used to do). Not
2400  perfectly happy about this, but until I can think of a good way to introduce
2401  it generically (maybe a set of options in the session) this will do. Fixes
2402  SF request 2527847.
2403
240407 March 2009
2405
2406* Support for 88 colour terminals.
2407* break-pane command to create a new window using an existing pane.
2408
240902 March 2009
2410
2411* Make escape key timer work properly so escape+key can be used without
2412  lightning fast key presses.
2413
241413 February 2009
2415
2416* Redo mode keys slightly more cleanly and apply them to command prompt
2417  editing. vi or emacs mode is controlled by the session option status-keys.
2418
241912 February 2009
2420
2421* Looking up argv[0] is expensive, so just use p_comm for the window name which
2422  is good enough. Also increase name update time to 500 ms.
2423
242411 February 2009
2425
2426* Only use ri when actually at the top of the screen; just move the cursor up
2427  otherwise.
2428* FreeBSD's console wraps lines at $COLUMNS - 1 rather than $COLUMNS (the
2429  cursor can never be beyond $COLUMNS - 1) and does not appear to support
2430  changing this behaviour, or any of the obvious possibilities (turning off
2431  right margin wrapping, insert mode). This is irritating, most notably because
2432  it impossible to write to the very bottom-right of the screen without
2433  scrolling. To work around this, if built on FreeBSD and run with a "cons"
2434  $TERM, the bottom-right cell on the screen is omitted.
2435* Emulate scroll regions (slowly) to support the few terminals which don't have
2436  it (some of which don't really have any excuse).
2437
243810 February 2009
2439
2440* No longer redraw the status line every status-interval unless it has actually
2441  changed.
2442
244308 February 2009
2444
2445* Don't treat empty arguments ("") differently when parsing configuration
2446  file/command prompt rather than command line.
2447* tmux 0.7 released.
2448
244903 February 2009
2450
2451* New command, copy-buffer (alias copyb), to copy a session paste buffer to
2452  another session.
2453
245401 February 2009
2455
2456* The character pair #(command) may now contain (escaped) right parenthesis.
2457
245830 January 2009
2459
2460* . now bound to "command-prompt 'move-window %%'" by default, from joshe.
2461
246229 January 2009
2463
2464* Window options to set status line fg, bg and attributes for a single
2465  window. Options are: window-status-fg, window-status-bg,
2466  window-status-attr. Set to "default" to use the session status colours.
2467
2468  This allows quite neat things like:
2469
2470	$ cat ~/bin/xssh
2471	#!/bin/sh
2472
2473	if [ ! -z "$TMUX" ]; then
2474	case "$1" in
2475    	natalya)
2476	        tmux setw window-status-fg red >/dev/null
2477		;;
2478	natasha)
2479        	tmux setw window-status-fg yellow >/dev/null
2480		;;
2481	esac
2482	fi
2483	ssh "$@"
2484	[ ! -z "$TMUX" ] && tmux setw -u window-status-fg >/dev/null
2485	$ alias ssh="~/bin/xssh"
2486
2487* Support #(command) in status-left, and status-right, which is displayed as
2488  the first line of command's output (e.g. set -g status-right
2489  "#(whoami)@#(hostname -s)"). Commands with )s aren't supported.
2490
249128 January 2009
2492
2493* Support mouse in copy mode to move cursor. Can't do anything else at the
2494  moment until other mouse modes are handled.
2495* Better support for at least the most common variant of mouse input: parse it
2496  and adjust for different panes. Also support mouse in window/session choice
2497  mode.
2498
249927 January 2009
2500
2501* Bring back the fancy window titles with session/window names: it is easy to
2502  work around problems with elinks (see FAQ).
2503* -u flag to scroll-mode and copy-mode to start scrolled one page
2504  up. scroll-mode -u is bound to prefix,page-up (ppage) by default.
2505* Allow status, mode and message attributes to be changed by three new options:
2506  status-attr, mode-attr, message-attr. A comma-separated list is accepted
2507  containing: bright, dim, underscore, blink, reverse, hidden, italics, for
2508  example:
2509
2510	set -g status-attr bright,blink
2511
2512  From Josh Elsasser, thanks!
2513
251426 January 2009
2515
2516* Be more clever about picking the right process to create the window name.
2517* Don't balls up the terminal on UTF-8 combined characters. Don't support them
2518  properly either - they are just discarded for the moment.
2519
252025 January 2009
2521
2522* load-buffer command
2523
252423 January 2009
2525
2526* Use reverse colours rather than swapping fg and bg for message, mode and
2527  status line. This makes these usable on black and white terminals.
2528* Better error messages when creating a session or window fails.
2529* Oops. Return non-zero on error. Reported by Will Maier.
2530
253121 January 2009
2532
2533* Handle SIGTERM (and kill-server which uses it), a bit more neatly - tidy
2534  up properly and print a nicer message. Same effect though :-).
2535* new-window now supports -k to kill target window if it exists.
2536* Bring back split-window -p and -l options to specify the height a percentage
2537  or as a number of lines.
2538* Make window and session choice modes allow you to choose items in vi keys
2539  mode (doh!). As a side-effect, this makes enter copy selection (as well
2540  as C-w/M-w) when using emacs keys in copy mode. Reported by merdely.
2541
254220 January 2009
2543
2544* Darwin support for automatic-rename from joshe; Darwin doesn't seem to have
2545  a sane method of getting argv[0] and searching for the precise insane way
2546  is too frustrating, so this just uses the executable name.
2547* Try to change the window title to match the command running it in. This is
2548  done by reading argv[0] from the process group leader of the group that owns
2549  the tty (tcgetpgrp()). This can't be done portably so some OS-dependent code
2550  is introduced (ugh); OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux are supported at the moment.
2551
2552  A new window flag, automatic-rename, is available: if this is set to off, the
2553  window name is not changed. Specifying a name with the new-window,
2554  new-session or rename-window commands will automatically set this flag to off
2555  for the window in question. To disable it entirely set the option to off
2556  globally (setw -g automatic-rename off).
2557
255819 January 2009
2559
2560* Fix various stupid issues when the status line is turned off. Grr.
2561* Use reverse attributes for clock and cursor, otherwise they do not
2562  appear on black and white terminals.
2563* An error in a command sequence now stops execution of that sequence.
2564  Internally, each command code now passes a return code back rather than
2565  talking to the calling client (if any) directly.
2566* attach-session now tries to start the server if it isn't already started - if
2567  no sessions are created in .tmux.conf this will cause an error.
2568* Clean up starting server by making initial client get a special socketpair.
2569
257018 January 2009
2571
2572* Unbreak UTF-8.
2573* -a flag to next-window and previous-window to select the next or previous
2574  window with activity or bell. Bound to M-n and M-p.
2575* find-window command to search window names, titles and visible content (but
2576  not history) for a string. If only one is found, the window is selected
2577  otherwise a choice list is shown. This (as with the other choice commands)
2578  only works from a key. Bound to "f" by default.
2579* Cleaned up command printing code, also enclose arguments with spaces in "s.
2580* Added command sequences. These are entered by separating each argument by a ;
2581  argument (spaces on both sides), for example:
2582
2583	lsk ; lsc
2584
2585  To use a literal ; as the argument prefix it with \, for example:
2586
2587	bind x lsk \; lsc
2588
2589  Commands are executed from left to right. Also note that command sequences do
2590  not support repeat-time repetition unless all commands making up the sequence
2591  support it.
2592* suspend-client command to suspend a client. Don't try to background it
2593  though...
2594* Mark attached sessions in sessions lists. Suggested by Simon Kuhnle.
2595
259617 January 2009
2597
2598* tmux 0.6 released.
2599
260015 January 2009
2601
2602* Support #H for hostname and #S for session name in status-left/right.
2603* Two new commands, choose-window and choose-session which work only when bound
2604  to a key and allow the window or session to be selected from a list. These
2605  are now bound to "w" and "s" instead of the list commands.
2606
260714 January 2009
2608
2609* Rework the prefix-time stuff. The option is now called repeat-time and
2610  defaults to 500 ms. It only applies to a small subset of commands, currently:
2611  up-pane, down-pane, next-window, previous-window, resize-pane-up,
2612  resize-pane-down. These are the commands for which it is obviously useful,
2613  having it for everything else was just bloody annoying.
2614* The alt-up and alt-down keys now resize a pane by five lines at a time.
2615* switch-pane is now select-pane and requires -p to select a pane. The
2616  "o" key binding is changed to down-pane.
2617* up-pane and down-pane commands, bound to arrow up and down by default.
2618* Multiple vertical window splitting. Minimum pane size is four lines, an
2619  (unhelpful) error will be shown if attempting to split a window with less
2620  that eight lines. If the window is resized, as many panes are shown as can
2621  fit without reducing them below four lines. There is (currently!) not a way
2622  to show a hidden pane without making the window larger.
2623
2624  Note the -p and -l options to split-window are now gone, these may reappear
2625  once I think them through again.
2626* Server locking on inactivity (lock-after-time) is now disabled by default.
2627
262813 January 2009
2629
2630* kill-pane command.
2631
263212 January 2009
2633
2634* command-prompt now accepts a single argument, a template string. Any
2635  occurrences of %% in this string are replaced by whatever is entered at the
2636  prompt and the result is executed as a command. This allows things like (now
2637  bound by default):
2638
2639  	 bind , command-prompt "rename-window %%"
2640
2641  Or my favourite:
2642
2643         bind x command-prompt "split-window 'man %%'"
2644
2645* Option to set prefix time, allowing multiple commands to be entered without
2646  pressing the prefix key again, so long as they each typed within this time of
2647  each other.
2648* Yet more hacks for key handling. Think it is just about working now.
2649* Two commands, resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down to resize a pane.
2650* Make the window pane code handle panes of different sizes, and add a -l
2651  and -p arguments to split-window to specify the new window size in lines
2652  or as a percentage.
2653
265411 January 2009
2655
2656* Vertical window splitting. Currently can only split a window into two panes.
2657  New split-window command splits (bound to ") and switch-pane command (bound to
2658  o) switches between panes.
2659
2660  close-pane, swap-pane commands are to follow. Also to come are pane resizing,
2661  >2 panes, the ability to break a pane out to a full window and vice versa and
2662  possibly horizontal splitting.
2663
2664  Panes are subelements of windows rather than being windows in their own
2665  right. I tried to make them windows (so the splitting was at the session or
2666  client level) but this rapidly became very complex and invasive. So in the
2667  interests of having something working, I just made it so each window can have
2668  two child processes instead of one (and it still took me 12 hours straight
2669  coding). Now the concept is proven and much of the support code is there,
2670  this may change in future if more flexibility is needed.
2671* save-buffer command, from Tiago Cunha.
2672
267310 January 2009
2674
2675* New option, lock-after-time. If there is no activity in the period specified
2676  by this option (in seconds), tmux will lock the server. Default is 1800 (30
2677  minutes), set to 0 to disable.
2678* Server locking. Two new commands: set-password to set a password (a
2679  preencrypted password may be specified with -c); and lock-server to lock the
2680  server until the password is entered. Also an additional command line flag,
2681  -U, to unlock from the shell. The default password is blank (any password
2682  accepted). If specifying an encrypted password from encrypt(1) in .tmux.conf
2683  with -c, don't forget to enclose it in single-quotes (') to prevent shell
2684  variable expansion.
2685* If a window is created from the command line, tmux will now use the same
2686  current working directory for the new process. A new default-path option to
2687  sets the working directory for processes created from keys or interactively
2688  from the prompt.
2689* New mode to display a large clock. Entered with clock-mode command (bound to
2690  C-b t by default); two window options: clock-mode-colour and clock-mode-style
2691  (12 or 24). This will probably be used as the basis for window locking.
2692* New command, server-info, to show some server information and terminal
2693  details.
2694
269509 January 2009
2696
2697* Stop using ncurses variables and instead build a table of the codes we want
2698  into an array for each terminal type. This makes the code a little more
2699  untidy in places but gets rid of the awful global variables and calling
2700  setterm all the time, and shoves all the ncurses-dependent mess into a single
2701  file, tty-term.c. It also allows overriding single terminal codes, this is
2702  used to fix rxvt on some platforms (where it is missing dch) and in future
2703  may allow user customisation a la vim.
2704* Update key handling code. Simplify, support ctrl properly and add a new
2705  window option (xterm-keys) to output xterm key codes including ctrl and,
2706  if available, alt and shift.
2707
270808 January 2009
2709
2710* If built without DEBUG (the release versions), don't cause a fatal error if
2711  the grid functions notice an input error, just log and ignore the
2712  request. This might mean me getting shouted at less often when bugs kill
2713  long-running sessions, at least in release versions.
2714* Hopefully fix cursor out-of-bounds checking when writing to grid. When I
2715  wrote the code I must have forgotten that the cursor can be one cell off the
2716  right of the screen (yes, I know), so there were number of out-of-bounds/
2717  overflow problems.
2718
271907 January 2009
2720
2721* New flag to set and setw, -u, to unset an option (allowing it to inherit from)
2722  the global options again.
2723* Added more info messages for options changes.
2724* A bit of tidying and reorganisation of options code.
2725
272606 January 2009
2727
2728* Don't crash when backspacing if cursor is off the right of the screen,
2729  reported by David Chisnall.
2730* Complete words at any point inside command in prompt, also use option name
2731  as well as command names.
2732* Per-client prompt history of up to 100 items.
2733* Use a splay tree for key bindings instead of an array. As a side-effect this
2734  sorts them when listed.
2735
273622 December 2008
2737
2738* Use the right keys for home and end.
2739
274020 December 2008
2741
2742* Add vim mode for tmux configuration file to examples/, from Tiago Cunha.
2743
274415 December 2008
2745
2746* New command, source-file (alias source), to load a configuration
2747  file. Written by Tiago Cunha, many thanks.
2748
274913 December 2008
2750
2751* Work around lack of dch. On Linux, the rxvt termcap doesn't have it (it is
2752  lying, but we can't really start disbelieving termcaps...). This is a bit
2753  horrible - I can see no way to do it without pretty much redrawing the whole
2754  line, but it works...
2755
275610 December 2008
2757
2758* glibc's getopt(3) is useless: it is not POSIX compliant without jumping
2759  through non-portable hoops, and the method of resetting it is unclear (the
2760  man page on my system says set optind to 1, but other sources say 0). So,
2761  import OpenBSD's getopt_long.c into compat/ for use on Linux and use the
2762  clearly documented optreset = optind = 1 method. This fixes some strange
2763  issues with command parsing (getting the syntax wrong would prevent any
2764  further commands being parsed).
2765
276606 December 2008
2767
2768* Bring set/setw/show/showw into line with other commands. This means that by
2769  default they now affect the current window (if any); the new -g flag must be
2770  passed to set the global options. This changes the behaviour of set/show and
2771  WILL BREAK CURRENT CONFIGURATIONS.
2772
2773  In summary, whether in the configuration file, the command prompt, or a key
2774  binding, use -g to set a global option, use -t to specify a particular window
2775  or session, or omit both to try and use the current window or session.
2776
2777  This makes set/show a bit of a pain but is the correct behaviour for
2778  setw/showw and is the same as every other command, so we can put up with a
2779  bit of pain for consistency.
2780* Redo window options. They now work in the same way to session options with a
2781  global options set. showw/setw commands now have similar syntax to show/set
2782  (including the ability to use abbreviations).
2783
2784  PLEASE NOTE this includes the following configuration-breaking changes:
2785
2786  - remain-by-default is now GONE, use "setw -g remain-on-exit" to apply the
2787    global window option instead;
2788  - mode-keys is now a window option rather than session - use "setw [-g]
2789    mode-keys" instead of set.
2790
2791  There are also some additions:
2792
2793  - message-fg and message-bg session options to control status line message
2794    colours;
2795  - mode-fg and mode-bg window options to set colours in window modes such as
2796    copy mode.
2797
2798  The options code still a mess and now there is twice as much of it :-(.
2799
280002 December 2008
2801
2802* Add support for including the window title in status-left or status-right
2803  strings by including the character pair "#T". This may be prefixed with
2804  a number to specify a maximum length, for example "#24T" to use at most
2805  24 characters of the title.
2806* Introduce two new options, status-left-length and status-right-length,
2807  control the maximum length of left and right components of the status bar.
2808* elinks (and possibly others) bypass the terminal and talk directly to X to
2809  restore the window title when exiting. tmux can't know about this particular
2810  bit of stupidity so the title ends up strange - the prefix isn't terribly
2811  important and elinks is quite useful so just get rid of it.
2812
281327 November 2008
2814
2815* Tweaks to support Dragonfly.
2816
281717 November 2008
2818
2819* tmux 0.5 released.
2820
282116 November 2008
2822
2823* New window option: "utf8"; this must be on (it is off by default) for UTF-8
2824  to be parsed. The global/session option "utf8-default" controls the setting
2825  for new windows.
2826
2827  This means that by default tmux does not handle UTF-8. To use UTF-8 by
2828  default it is necessary to a) "set utf8-default on" in .tmux.conf b) start
2829  tmux with -u on any terminal which support UTF-8.
2830
2831  It seems a bit unnecessary for this to be a per-window option but that is
2832  the easiest way to do it, and it can't do any harm...
2833* Enable default colours if op contains \033[39;49m, based on a report from
2834  fulvio ciriaco.
2835
283612 November 2008
2837
2838* Keep stack of last windows rather than just most recent; based on a diff from
2839  joshe.
2840
284104 November 2008
2842
2843* Don't try to redraw status line when showing a prompt or message; if it does,
2844  the status timer is never reset so it redraws on every loop. Spotted by
2845  joshe.
2846
284709 October 2008
2848
2849* Translate 256 colours into 16 if 256 is not available, same as screen does.
2850* Better support for OSC command (only to set window title now), and also
2851  support using APC for the same purpose (some Linux default shell profiles do
2852  this).
2853
285425 September 2008
2855
2856* Large internal rewrite to better support 256 colours and UTF-8. Screen data
2857  is now stored as single two-way array of structures rather than as multiple
2858  separate arrays. Also simplified a lot of code.
2859
2860  Only external changes are three new flags, -2, -d and -u, which force tmux to
2861  assume the terminal supports 256 colours, default colours (useful for
2862  xterm-256color which lacks the AX flag), or UTF-8 respectively.
2863
286410 September 2008
2865
2866* Split off colour conversion code from screen code.
2867
286809 September 2008
2869
2870* Initial UTF-8 support. A bit ugly and with a limit of 4096 UTF-8
2871  characters per window.
2872
287308 September 2008
2874
2875* 256 colour support. tmux attempts to autodetect the terminal by looking
2876  both at what ncurses reports (usually wrong for xterm) and checking if
2877  the TERM contains "256col". For xterm TERM=xterm-256color is needed (as
2878  well as a build that support 256 colours); this seems to work for rxvt
2879  as well. On non-256 colour terminals, high colours are translated to white
2880  foreground and black background.
2881
288228 August 2008
2883
2884* Support OS X/Darwin thanks to bsd-poll.c from OpenSSH. Also convert
2885  from clock_gettime(2) to gettimeofday(2) as OS X doesn't support the
2886  former; microsecond accuracy will have to be sufficient ;-).
2887
288807 August 2008
2889
2890* Lose some unused/useless wrapper functions.
2891
289225 July 2008
2893
2894* Shell variables may now be defined and used in configuration file. Define
2895  variables with:
2896
2897	VAR=1
2898
2899  And use with:
2900
2901        renamew ${VAR}
2902	renamew "x${VAR}x"
2903
2904 Also some other fixes to make, for example, "abc""abc" work similarly to
2905 the shell.
2906
290724 July 2008
2908
2909* Finally lose inconsistently-used SCREEN_DEF* defines.
2910* If cursor mode is on, switch the arrow keys from \033[A to \033OA.
2911* Support the numeric keypad in both application and numbers mode. This is
2912  different from screen which always keeps it in application mode.
2913
291419 July 2008
2915
2916* Unbreak "set status" - tmux thought it was ambiguous, reported by rivo nurges.
2917
291802 July 2008
2919
2920* Split vi and emacs mode keys into two tables and add an option (mode-keys)
2921  to select between them. Default is emacs, use,
2922
2923     tmux set mode-keys vi
2924
2925  to change to vi.
2926
2927  vi mode uses space to start selection, enter to copy selection and escape
2928  to clear selection.
2929
293001 July 2008
2931
2932* Protocol versioning. Clients which identify as a different version from the
2933  server will be rejected.
2934* tmux 0.4 released.
2935
293629 June 2008
2937
2938* Zombie windows. These are not closed when the child process dies. May be
2939  set for a window with the new "remain-on-exit" option; the default setting
2940  of this flag for new windows may be set with the "remain-by-default" session
2941  option.
2942
2943  A window may be restarted with the respawn-window command:
2944
2945  	respawn-window [-k] [command]
2946
2947  If -k is given, any existing process running in the window is killed;
2948  if command is omitted, the same command as when the window was first
2949  created is used.
2950
295127 June 2008
2952
2953* Handle nonexistent session or client to -t properly.
2954
295525 June 2008
2956
2957* select-prompt command to allow a window to be selected at a prompt. Only
2958  windows in the current session may be selected. Bound to ' by default.
2959  Suggested by merdely.
2960* move-window command. Requested by merdely.
2961* Support binding alt keys (prefixed with M-). Change default to use
2962  C- for ctrl keys (^ is still accepted as an alternative).
2963* Slim down default key bindings: support lowercase only.
2964* Handle escaped keys properly (parse eg \033b into a single key code) and
2965  use this to change copy mode next/previous work to M-f and M-b to match
2966  emacs.
2967
296824 June 2008
2969
2970* Next word (C-n/w) and previous word (C-b/b) in copy mode.
2971
297223 June 2008
2973
2974* list-commands command (alias lscm).
2975* Split information about options into a table and use it to parse options
2976  on input (allowing abbreviations) and to print them with show-options
2977  (meaning that bell-action gets a proper string). This turned out a bit ugly
2978  though :-/.
2979
298022 June 2008
2981
2982* Do not translate black and white into default if the terminal supports
2983  default colours. This was nice to force programs which didn't use default
2984  colours to be properly transparent in rxvt/aterm windows with a background
2985  image, but it causes trouble if someone redefines the default foreground and
2986  background (to have black on white or something).
2987
298821 June 2008
2989
2990* Naive tab completion in the command prompt. This only completes command
2991  names if a) they are at the start of the text b) the cursor is at
2992  the end of the text c) the text contains no spaces.
2993* Only attempt to set the title where TERM looks like an xterm (contains
2994  "xterm", "rxvt" or is "screen"). I hate this but I don't see a better way:
2995  setting the title actually kills some other terminals pretty much dead.
2996* Strip padding out of terminfo(5) strings. Currently the padding is just
2997  ignored, this may need to be altered if there are any software terminals
2998  out there that actually need it.
2999
300020 June 2008
3001
3002* buffer-limit option to set maximum size of buffer stack. Default is 9.
3003* Initial buffer improvements. Each session has a stack of buffers and each
3004  buffer command takes a -b option to manipulate items on the stack. If -b
3005  is omitted, the top entry is used. The following commands are currently
3006  available:
3007
3008	set-buffer [-b index] [-t target-session] string
3009	paste-buffer [-d] [-b index] [-t target-window]
3010	delete-buffer [-b index] [-t target-session]
3011	show-buffers [-t target-session]
3012	show-buffer [-b index] [-t target-session]
3013
3014  -d to paste-buffer deletes the buffer after pasting it.
3015* New option, display-time, sets the time status line messages stay on screen
3016  (unless a key is pressed). Set in milliseconds, default is 750 (0.75 seconds).
3017  The timer is only checked every 100 ms or so.
3018
301919 June 2008
3020
3021* Use "status" consistently for status line option, and prefix for "prefix" key
3022  option.
3023* Allow commands to be entered at a prompt. This is triggered with the
3024  command-prompt command, bound to : by default.
3025* Show status messages properly, without blocking the server.
3026
302718 June 2008
3028
3029* New option, set-titles. On by default, this attempts to set the window title
3030  using the \e]2;...\007 xterm code.
3031
3032  Note that elinks requires the STY environment variable (used by screen) to be
3033  set before it will set the window title. So, if you want window titles set by
3034  elinks, set STY before running it (any value will do). I can't do this for all
3035  windows since setting it to an invalid value breaks screen.
3036* Show arrows at either end of status line when scrolled if more windows
3037  exist. Highlight the arrow if a hidden window has activity or bell.
3038* Scroll the status line to show the current window if necessary. Also handle
3039  windows smaller than needed better (show a blank status line instead of
3040  hanging or crashing).
3041
304217 June 2008
3043
3044* tmux 0.3 released.
3045
304616 June 2008
3047
3048* Add some information messages when window options are changed, suggested by
3049  Mike Erdely. Also add a -q command-line option to suppress them.
3050* show-window-options (showw) command.
3051
305215 June 2008
3053
3054* show-options (show) command to show one or all options.
3055
305614 June 2008
3057
3058* New window options: force-width and force-height. This will force a window
3059  to an arbitrary width and height (0 for the default unlimited). This is
3060  neat for emacs which doesn't have a sensible way to force hard wrapping at 80
3061  columns. Also, don't try to be clever and use clr_eol when redrawing the
3062  whole screen, it causes trouble since the redraw functions are used to draw
3063  the blank areas too.
3064* Clear the blank area below windows properly when they are smaller than client,
3065  also add an indicator line to show the vertical limit.
3066* Don't die on empty strings in config file, reported by Will Maier.
3067
306808 June 2008
3069
3070* Set socket mode +x if any sessions are attached and -x if not.
3071
307207 June 2008
3073
3074* Make status-interval actually changeable.
3075
307606 June 2008
3077
3078* New window option: aggressive-resize. Normally, windows are resized to the
3079  size of the smallest attached session to which they are linked. This means a
3080  window only changes size when sessions are detached or attached, or they are
3081  linked or unlinked from a session. This flag changes a window to be the size
3082  of the smallest attached session for which it is the current window - it is
3083  resized every time a session changes to it or away from it. This is nice for
3084  things that handle SIGWINCH well (like irssi) and bad for things like shells.
3085* The server now exits when no sessions remain.
3086* Fix bug with inserting characters with TERM=xterm-color.
3087
308805 June 2008
3089
3090* Completely reorganise command parsing. Much more common code in cmd-generic.c
3091  and a new way of specifying windows, clients or sessions. Now, most commands
3092  take a -t argument, which specifies a client, a session, or a window target.
3093  Clients and sessions are given alone (sessions are fnmatch(3)d and
3094  clients currently not), windows are give by (client|session):index. For
3095  example, if a user is in session "1" window 0 on /dev/ttypi, these should all
3096  be equivalent:
3097
3098	tmux renamew newname			(current session and window)
3099	tmux renamew -t: newname		(current session and window)
3100	tmux renamew -t:0 newname		(current session, window 0)
3101	tmux renamew -t0 newname		(current session, window 0)
3102	tmux renamew -t1:0 newname		(session 1, window 0)
3103	tmux renamew -t1: newname		(session 1's current window)
3104	tmux renamew -t/dev/ttypi newname	(client /dev/ttypi's current
3105						 session and window)
3106	tmux renamew -t/dev/ttypi: newname	(client /dev/ttypi's current
3107						 session and window)
3108	tmux renamew -t/dev/ttypi:0 newname	(client /dev/ttypi's current
3109						 session, window 0)
3110
3111  This does have some downsides, for example, having to use -t on selectw,
3112
3113	tmux selectw -t7
3114
3115  is annoying. But then using non-flagged arguments would mean renaming the
3116  current window would need to be something like:
3117
3118	tmux renamew : newname
3119
3120  It might be better not to try and be so consistent; comments to the usual
3121  address ;-).
3122* Infrastructure for printing arguments in list-keys output. Easy ones only for
3123  now.
3124
312504 June 2008
3126
3127* Add some vi(1) key bindings in copy mode, and support binding ^[, ^\, ^]
3128  ^^ and ^_. Both from/prompted by Will Maier.
3129* setw monitor-activity and set status without arguments now toggle the current
3130  value; suggested by merdely.
3131* New command set-window-option (alias setw) to set the single current window
3132  option: monitor-activity to determine whether window activity is shown in
3133  the status bar for that window (default off).
3134* Change so active/bell windows are inverted in status line.
3135* Activity monitoring - window with activity are marked in status line. No
3136  way to disable this/filter windows yet.
3137* Brought select-window command into line with everything else; it now uses
3138  -i for the window index.
3139* Strings to display on the left and right of the status bar may now be set
3140  with the status-left and status-right options. These are passed through
3141  strftime(3) before being displayed. The status bar is automatically updated
3142  at an interval set by the status-interval option. The default is to display
3143  nothing on the left and the date and time on the left; the default update
3144  interval is 15 seconds.
3145
314603 June 2008
3147
3148* Per session options. Setting options without specifying a session sets the
3149  global options as normal (global options are inherited by all sessions);
3150  passing -c or -s will set the option only for that session.
3151* Because a client has a session attached, any command needing a session can
3152  take a client and use its session. So, anything that used to accept -s now
3153  accepts -c as well.
3154* -s to specify session name now supports fnmatch(3) wildcards; if multiple
3155  sessions are found, or if no -s is specified, the most newly created is used.
3156* If no command is specified, assume new-session. As a byproduct, clean up
3157  command default values into separate init functions.
3158* kill-server command.
3159
316002 June 2008
3161
3162* New command, start-server (alias "start"), to start the tmux server and do
3163  nothing else. This is good if you have a configuration file which creates
3164  windows or sessions (like me): in that case, starting the server the first
3165  time tmux new is run is bad since it creates a new session and window (as
3166  it is supposed to - starting the server is a side-effect).
3167
3168  Instead, I have a little script which does the equivalent of:
3169
3170  	tmux has -s0 2>/dev/null || tmux start
3171  	tmux attach -d -s0
3172
3173  And I use it to start the server if necessary and attach to my primary
3174  session.
3175* Basic configuration file in ~/.tmux.conf or specified with -f. This is file
3176  contains a set of tmux commands that are run the first time the server is
3177  started. The configuration commands are executed before any others, so
3178  if you have a configuration file that contains:
3179
3180	new -d
3181	neww -s0
3182
3183  And you do the following without an existing server running:
3184
3185	tmux new
3186
3187  You will end up with two sessions, session 0 with two windows (created by
3188  the configuration file) and your client attached to session 1 with one
3189  window (created by the command-line command). I'm not completely happy with
3190  this, it seems a little non-obvious, but I haven't yet decided what to do
3191  about it.
3192
3193  There is no environment variable handling or other special stuff yet.
3194
3195  In the future, it might be nice to be able to have per-session configuration
3196  settings, probably by having conditionals in the file (so you could, for
3197  example, have commands to define a particular window layout that would only
3198  be invoked if you called tmux new -smysession and mysession did not already
3199  exist).
3200* BIG CHANGE: -s and -c to specify session name and client name are now passed
3201  after the command rather than before it. So, for example:
3202
3203	tmux -s0 neww
3204
3205  Becomes:
3206
3207	tmux neww -s0
3208
3209  This is to allow them to be used in the (forthcoming) configuration file
3210  THIS WILL BREAK ANY CURRENT SCRIPTS OR ALIASES USING -s OR -c.
3211
321201 June 2008
3213
3214* Bug fix: don't die if -k passed to link-window and the destination doesn't
3215  exist.
3216* New command, send-keys, will send a set of keys to a window.
3217
321831 May 2008
3219
3220* Fix so tmux doesn't hang if the initial window fails for some reason. This
3221  was highlighted by problems on Darwin, thanks to Elias Pipping for the report
3222  and access to a test account. (tmux still won't work on Darwin since its
3223  poll(2) is broken.)
3224
322502 January 2008
3226
3227* Don't attempt to reset the tty on exit if it has been closed externally.
3228
322906 December 2007
3230
3231* Restore checks for required termcap entries and add a few more obvious
3232  emulations.
3233* Another major reorganisation, this time of screen handling. A new set of
3234  functions, screen_write_*, are now used to write to a screen and a tty
3235  simultaneously. These are used by the input parser to update the base
3236  window screen and also by the different modes which now interpose their own
3237  screen.
3238
323930 November 2007
3240
3241* Support \ek...\e\ to set window name.
3242
324327 November 2007
3244
3245* Enable/disable mouse when asked, if terminal claims to support it. Mouse
3246  sequences are just passed through unaltered for the moment.
3247* Big internal reorganisation. Rather than leaving control of the tty solely in
3248  the client and piping all data through a socket to it, change so that the
3249  server opens the tty again and reads and writes to it directly. This avoids
3250  a lot of buffering and copying. Also reorganise the redrawing stuff so that
3251  everything goes through screen_draw_* - this makes the code simpler, but
3252  still needs broken up more, and all the ways of writing to screens should be
3253  more consistent.
3254
325526 November 2007
3256
3257* Rather than shifting up one line at a time once the history is full,
3258  shift by 10% of the history each time. This is faster.
3259* Add ^A and ^E to copy mode to move to start-of-line/end-of-line.
3260
326124 November 2007
3262
3263* Support for alt charset mode (VT100 graphics characters).
3264
326523 November 2007
3266
3267* Mostly complete copy & paste. Copy mode entered with C-b [ (copy-mode
3268  command). In copy mode, arrow keys/page up/page down/hjkl/C-u/C-f navigate,
3269  space or C-space starts selection, and enter or C-w copies and (important!)
3270  exits copy mode. C-b ] (paste-buffer) pastes into current window. No
3271  extra utility keys (bol/eol/clear selection/etc), only one single buffer,
3272  and no buffer manipulation commands (clear/view/etc) yet. The code is also
3273  fugly :-(.
3274* history-limit option to set maximum history. Does not apply retroactively to
3275  existing windows! Lines take up a variable amount of space, but a reasonable
3276  guess for an 80-column terminal is 250 KB per 1000 lines (of history used,
3277  an empty history takes no space).
3278
327921 November 2007
3280
3281* Create every line as zero length and only expand it as data is written,
3282  rather than creating at full size immediately.
3283* Make command output (eg list-keys) go to a scrollable window similar to
3284  scroll mode.
3285* Redo screen redrawing so it is a) readable b) split into utility functions
3286  that can be used outside screen.c. Use these to make scroll mode only
3287  redraw what it has to which gets rid of irritating flickering status box and
3288  makes it much faster.
3289* Full line width memory and horizontal scrolling in history.
3290* Initial support for scroll history. = to enter scrolling mode, and then
3291  vi keys or up/down/pgup/pgdown to navigate. Q to exit. No horizontal history
3292  yet (need per-line sizes) and a few kinks to be worked out (resizing while in
3293  history mode will probably cause trouble).
3294
329520 November 2007
3296
3297* Fix format string error with "must specify a client" message. Also
3298  sprinkle some printflike tags.
3299* tmux 0.1 released.
3300
330117 November 2007
3302
3303* (nicm) Add -k option to link-window to kill target window if it exists.
3304
330516 November 2007
3306
3307* (nicm) Split in-client display into two columns. This is a hack but not a lot
3308  more so than that bit is already and it helps with lots of keys.
3309* (nicm) switch-client command to switch client between different sessions. This
3310  is pretty cool:
3311
3312	$ tmux bind q switch 0
3313	$ tmux bind w switch 1
3314
3315  Then you can switch between sessions 0 and 1 with a key :-).
3316* (nicm) Accept "-c client-tty" on command line to allow client manipulation
3317  commands, and change detach-/refresh-session to detach-/refresh-client (this
3318  loses the -a behaviour, but at some point -session versions may return, and
3319  -c will allow fnmatch(3)).
3320* (nicm) List available commands on ambiguous command.
3321
332212 November 2007
3323
3324* (nicm) If the terminal supports default colours (AX present), force black
3325  background and white foreground to default. This is useful on transparent
3326  *terms for programs which don't do it themselves (like most(1)).
3327* (nicm) Fill in the rest of the man page.
3328* (nicm) kill-session command.
3329
333009 November 2007
3331
3332* (nicm) C-space is now "^ " not "^@".
3333* (nicm) Support tab (\011).
3334* (nicm) Initial man page outline.
3335* (nicm) -V to show version.
3336* (nicm) rename-session command.
3337
333808 November 2007
3339
3340* (nicm) Check for required terminal capabilities on start.
3341
334231 October 2007
3343
3344* (nicm) Linux port.
3345
334630 October 2007
3347
3348* (nicm) swap-window command. Same as link-window but swaps windows.
3349
335026 October 2007
3351
3352* (nicm) Saving scroll region on \e7 causes problems with ncmpc so I guess
3353  it is not required.
3354* (nicm) unlink-window command.
3355* (nicm) link-window command to link an existing window into another session
3356  (or another index in the same session). Syntax:
3357
3358	tmux -s dstname link-window [-i dstidx] srcname srcidx
3359
3360* (nicm) Redo window data structures. The global array remains, but each per-
3361  session list is now a RB tree of winlink structures. This disassociates the
3362  window index from the array size (allowing arbitrary indexes) which still
3363  allowing windows to have multiple indexes.
3364
336525 October 2007
3366
3367* (nicm) has-session command: checks if session exists.
3368
336924 October 2007
3370
3371* (nicm) Support for \e6n to request cursor position. resize(1) now works.
3372* (nicm) Support for \e7, \e8 save/restore cursor and attribute sequences.
3373  Currently don't save mode (probably should). Also change some cases where
3374  out-of-bound values are ignored to limit them to within range (there are
3375  others than need to be checked too).
3376
337723 October 2007
3378
3379* (nicm) Lift limit on session name passed with -s.
3380* (nicm) Show size in session/window lists.
3381* (nicm) Pass tty up to server when client identifies and add a list-clients
3382  command to list connected clients.
3383
338420 October 2007
3385
3386* (nicm) Add default-command option and change default to be $SHELL rather than
3387  $SHELL -l. Also try to read shell from passwd db if $SHELL isn't present.
3388
338919 October 2007
3390
3391* (nicm) -n on new-session is now -s, and -n is now the initial window name.
3392  This was documented but not implemented :-/.
3393* (nicm) kill-window command, bound to & by default (because it should be hard
3394  to hit accidentally).
3395* (nicm) bell-style option with three choices: "none" completely ignore bell;
3396  "any" pass through a bell in any window to current; "current" ignore bells
3397  except in current window. This applies only to the bell terminal signal,
3398  the status bar always reflects any bells.
3399* (nicm) Refresh session command.
3400
340112 October 2007
3402
3403* (nicm) Add a warning if $TMUX exists on new/attach.
3404* (nicm) send-prefix command. Bound to C-b by default.
3405* (nicm) set status, status-fg, status-bg commands. fg and bg are as a number
3406  from 0 to 8 or a string ("red", "blue", etc). status may be 1/0, on/off,
3407  yes/no.
3408* (nicm) Make status line mark window in yellow on bell.
3409
341004 October 2007
3411
3412* (nicm) -d option to attach to detach all other clients on the same session.
3413* (nicm) Partial resizing support. Still buggy. A C-b S and back sometimes fixes
3414  it when it goes wonky.
3415* (mxey) Added my tmux start script as an example (examples/start-tmux.sh).
3416* (mxey) New sessions can now be given a command for their first window.
3417* (mxey) Fixed usage statement for new-window.
3418* (nicm) attach-session (can't believe I forgot it until now!) and list-windows
3419  commands.
3420* (nicm) rename-window and select-window commands.
3421* (nicm) set-option command (alias set): "tmux set-option prefix ^A".
3422* (nicm) Key binding and unbinding is back.
3423
342403 October 2007
3425
3426* (nicm) {new,next,last,previous}-window.
3427* (nicm) Rewrite command handling so commands are much more generic and the
3428  same commands are used for command line and keys (although most will probably
3429  need to check how they are called). Currently incomplete (only new/detach/ls
3430  implemented). Change: -s is now passed before command again!
3431* (nicm) String number arguments. So you can do: tmux bind ^Q create "blah".
3432* (nicm) Key binding. tmux bind key command [argument] and tmux unbind key.
3433  Key names are in a table in key-string.c, plus A is A, ^A is ctrl-A.
3434  Possible commands are in cmd.c (look at cmd_bind_table).
3435* (nicm) Move command parsing into the client. Also rename some messages and
3436  tidy up a few bits. Lots more tidying up needed :-/.
3437
343802 October 2007
3439
3440* (nicm) Redraw client status lines on rename.
3441* (nicm) Error on ambiguous command.
3442
344301 October 2007
3444
3445* (nicm) Restore window title handling.
3446* (nicm) Simple uncustomisable status line with window list.
3447
344830 September 2007
3449
3450* (nicm) Window info command for debugging, C-b I.
3451
345229 September 2007
3453
3454* (nicm) Deleting/inserting lines should follow scrolling region. Fix.
3455* (nicm) Allow creation of detached sessions: "tmux new-session -d".
3456* (nicm) Permit error messages to be passed back for transient clients like
3457  rename. Also make rename -i work.
3458* (nicm) Pass through bell in any window to current.
3459
346028 September 2007
3461
3462* (nicm) Major rewrite of input parser:
3463	- Lose the old weirdness in favour of a state machine.
3464	- Merge in parsing from screen.c.
3465	- Split key parsing off into a separate file.
3466  This is step one towards hopefully allowing a status line. It requires
3467  that we output data as if the terminal had one line less than it really does -
3468  a serious problem when it comes to things like scrolling. This change
3469  consolidates all the range checking and limiting together which should make
3470  it easier.
3471* (mxey) Added window renaming, like "tmux rename [-s session] [-i index] name"
3472
347327 September 2007
3474
3475* Split "tmux list" into "tmux list-sessions" (ls) and "list-windows" (lsw).
3476* New command session selection:
3477	- if name is specified, look for it and use it if it exists, otherwise
3478	  error
3479	- if no name specified, try the current session from $TMUX
3480	- if $TMUX doesn't exist, and there is only one session, use it,
3481	  otherwise error
3482
348326 September 2007
3484
3485* Add command aliases, so "ls" is an alias for "list".
3486* Rename some commands and alter syntax to take options after a la CVS. Also
3487  change some flags. So:
3488
3489	tmux -s/socket -nabc new
3490
3491  Becomes:
3492
3493	tmux -S/socket new -sabc
3494
3495* Major tidy and split of client/server code.
3496
349722 September 2007
3498
3499* Window list command (C-b W). Started by Maximilian Gass, finished by me.
3500
350120 September 2007
3502
3503* Specify meta via environment variable (META).
3504* Record last window and ^L key to switch to it. Largely from Maximilian Gass.
3505* Reset ignored signals in child after forkpty, makes ^C work.
3506* Wrap on next/previous. From Maximilian Gass.
3507
350819 September 2007
3509
3510* Don't renumber windows on close.
3511
351228 August 2007
3513
3514* Scrolling region (\e[r) support.
3515
351627 August 2007
3517
3518* Change screen.c to work more logically and hopefully fix heap corruption.
3519
352009 July 2007
3521
3522* Initial import to CVS. Basic functions are working, albeit with a couple of
3523  showstopper memory bugs and many missing features. Detaching, reattaching,
3524  creating new sessions, listing sessions work acceptably for using with shells.
3525  Simple curses programs (top, systat, tetris) and more complicated ones (mutt,
3526  emacs) that don't require scrolling regions (ESC[r) mostly work fine
3527  (including mutt, emacs). No status bar yet and no key remapping or other
3528  customisation.
3529