bat 0.16.0

v0.16.0

on Rust Cargo

Features

• Added support for the NO_COLOR environment variable, see #1021 and #1031 (@eth-p)
• Added -P short flag to disable paging, see #1075 and #1082 (@LordFlashmeow)
• Added --force-colorization/-f flag to provide an alias for forced color and decoration output, see #1141 (@alexanderkarlis)

Bugfixes

• Fixed non-printable characters display for redirected output, see #1061 (@gsomix)
• Handle file extension conflicts in --list-languages, see #1076 and #1135 (@Kienyew)

Other

• Switched to "·" (U+00B7) Middle Dot from "•" (U+2022) Bullet for non-printing spaces, see #1056 and #1100 (@LordFlashmeow)
• Added zsh shell completion script, see #1136 (@Kienyew)
• Improved --help text (@sharkdp)
• Added custom languages/themes sections to manpage (@eth-p)

Syntaxes

• Update AsciiDoc syntax, see #1034 (@rxt1077)
• GLSL (@caioalonso)
• Add Nginx and Apache config file syntax, see #1137 (@kjmph, @niklasmohrin)
• Use fstab syntax for crypttab files, see #1073 (@sharkdp)
• Support syntax highlighting for files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/, see #1191 (@ahmedelgabri)

New themes

• Gruvbox, see #1069 (@KyleOndy)
• base16-256 for base16-shell users, see #1111 (@mk12)

bat as a library

• Add APIs to provide Input descriptions with InputDescription (@eth-p)
• Add function to directly provide Inputs to PrettyPrinter (@eth-p)
• Breaking: Input::theme_preview_file is no longer available. (@eth-p)

Packaging

• Package maintainers: note that we now include zsh shell completion files
• Removed build dependency on liquid (@sharkdp).

Thanks

Special thanks to @rivy for porting our CI/CD workflows to Github Actions. Also, many thanks to @Kienyew and @eth-p for major contributions!