github mintty/mintty 2.8.5

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Character handling and rendering

  • CJK brackets are expanded if needed to ensure their symmetry (#756).
  • Support of emoji style text attribute SGR 51/52 (mintty/wsltty#82, #600).
  • Fixed emoji display variation selector handling.
  • Character Info displays emoji sequence short names (mintty/wsltty#82, #600).
  • Reverted Sixel colour registers patch that could fail Sixel display or even stall mintty window (#740, mintty/wsltty#90).

Input

  • Reenabled Ctrl+key escape sequences (#743).
  • Input optionally keeps selection highlighting (ClearSelectionOnInput=false) (#222).

Mouse handling

  • Reenabled drag-and-drop text selection on focussing at a threshhold (~#717).

Configuration

  • Alt+F2 and mintty --dir=... stay in selected dir even in login mode (#500, #744).
  • Fixed option --dir=...
  • Context menu configuration (MenuMenu etc): new flags 'x' and 'u' (#755).
  • More layout-tolerant colour value syntax (#758).
  • Invocation as wsl*[-distro].exe implies a --WSL[=distro] parameter (mintty/wsltty#63).
  • Added missing option mintheme --list.
  • New mintheme options --file (#762) and --query.
  • New option ClearSelectionOnInput=false disables selection highlight clearing on input (#222).

Window handling

  • Clear selection when clipboard content updated (#742).
  • Skip refresh after colour setting if nothing changed (e.g. by prompt).

Desktop integration

  • WSL mount point configuration (/etc/wsl.conf or fstab) is considered in path conversion for open/paste (mintty/wsltty#91).
  • Workaround for ConEmu WM_MOUSEACTIVATE bug (#724).

Documentation

  • Terminal multiplexer configuration: added tmux (#757).
  • Search bar: activated also from context menu (#753).

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