Pacsea v0.3.0 — PKGBUILD tools, repo filters, and best‑match sorting

Date: 2025-10-09

Pacsea v0.3.0 focuses on richer package details, smarter search, and quicker workflows: an optional PKGBUILD viewer with copy‑to‑clipboard, clickable repository filters, and a new "Best matches" sort mode. Search gains Vim‑style Normal/Insert modes, while the Package Info panel now follows the focused pane. Configuration and keybindings are reloadable on the fly.

Highlights

• PKGBUILD viewer with toggle and clipboard copy helper
• Clickable repo filters in Results: [AUR], [core], [extra], [multilib]
• New sort mode: Best matches (relevance)
• Vim‑style Search modes: Normal/Insert with select/delete
• Package Info follows the focused pane (Results/Recent/Install)
• AUR popularity and repo badges shown in Results and Install lists
• Live config reload (Ctrl+R) and customizable keybindings

Features (v0.3.0)

• PKGBUILD viewer and tools
  • Optional PKGBUILD preview that can be toggled with Ctrl+X or by clicking the label in Package Info
  • Mouse wheel scrolling, Esc to close
  • One‑click "Check Package Build" action copies the PKGBUILD to clipboard with a configurable clipboard_suffix
• Results improvements
  • Clickable repo filters in the Results title: [AUR], [core], [extra], [multilib]
  • Repo badges and AUR popularity shown in Results and Install lists
• Sorting
  • New "Best matches" relevance sort added alongside Alphabetical and AUR‑popularity modes
• Search UX
  • Vim‑style modes: toggle Normal/Insert; in Normal, extend selection with h/l, delete with d
  • j/k movement supported in all panes
• Details behavior
  • Package Info now follows the focused pane (Results, Recent, or Install)
• Configuration and keybindings
  • XDG‑compliant config at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pacsea/pacsea.conf (repo config/pacsea.conf preferred during development)
  • Live reload of theme/settings with Ctrl+R
  • Customizable keybindings for global actions and per‑pane behaviors
  • App settings include layout percentages and app_dry_run_default
• Safety and observability
  • --dry-run mode prints exact commands without performing installs

Performance and reliability

• Details prefetching keeps navigation responsive
• Improved caching and persistence across runs

Credits

• Omarchy Distro — UX/workflow inspiration
• ratatui, crossterm — TUI foundations
• Arch Linux & AUR — data sources and tooling