0.7 — “Via Paolo Fabbri 43”

The 0.7 release is named after "Via Paolo Fabbri 43", a song by Francesco Guccini.

Blog post about this release.

Note: the format of the session file was extended. Old session file will be opened fine, but older telescope version won't be able to correctly handle session files generated after v0.7.

Note 2: The precompiled binaries are bigger than the ones in the older releases because I've not stripped them this time, they still have the debugging info.

New features

• caching: telescope will keep a in-memory copy of the visited page for some time to speed up history navigation. See also the new command cache-info.
• persistent tab history: telescope will remember the full history for each tab across sessions.
• re-open closed tabs (even across sessions!) The u key is now bound to tab-undo-close by default.
• allow to customise the space after the end of the buffer. By default telescope now renders a vi-like tilde fringe "~", but it's fully customisable using the new line.fringe style identifier. See also the new setting fringe-ignore-offset.

Improvements

• ask before quitting telescope.
• execute-extended-command: execute the selected command on RET.
• bump default fill-column to 120.
• bind del (backspace) to previous-page. Suggested by Florian, thanks!
• add --colours as --color alias. Suggested by Florian.

Bug fixes

• fixed crash on --colors. Reported by Florian, thanks!
• don't push the current url to the history twice at startup.

Breaking changes

• variable set-title renamed to update-title. The old name will still be supported for a while to ease backwards compatibility.