darrenburns/posting 2.6.0

2.6.0 - Editing rows, compact mode, header value autocomplete, and more!

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This is a pretty huge release. It introduces a bunch of features the community requested, and a bunch they didn't!

Edit rows without deleting them 🤯

Finally! You can now edit headers, query params, and form data without need to delete and re-add them.

Press enter on a row to edit the key/name, or press v to edit the value.

What's going on with the UI in that video? Oh, that's...

Compact mode 🐜

Set spacing: compact in your config file to remove Posting's padding and borders, letting you fit more on screen.

Here's a clip showing how compact mode looks on some different themes, and how it can be toggled via the command palette at runtime.

Header value completion 🫨

Automatically complete header values based on the name. (The video below is a little out of date and has a bug where the completion dropdown remains open - that's been fixed but I'm too tired to record another video now!)

Other stuff

There are a number of quality of life improvements and small design tweaks. The https://posting.sh homepage was updated with a new video and footer. A contributing guide is also now in the repo. We now use Textual 3.0 - the latest version.

Here's the full changelog for this release:

Added

• Added spacing: <compact|standard> config to allow for a more compact UI (default: standard).
• Added ability to edit headers, form data, and query params without deleting and recreating them.
  • Press enter or click a row to enter edit mode. The row will be highlighted, and focus will move to the key/name input.
    Submitted changes will overwrite the existing row rather than adding a new one.
  • Press v to enter edit mode and immediately focus on the value input.
  • Press escape to cancel the edit.
  • Press enter to save the changes and exit edit mode.
  • The background colour behind the input will update to indicate edit mode is active.
• Added autocompletion for header values based on the header name.
  • For example, if the header is Content-Type, when typing the value, you'll be able to quickly autocomplete from a list of common content types.
• Press / to open the request search palette while the collection browser is focused.
  • ctrl+shift+p remains available as a global shortcut for this.
• Added help: Open web docs command to the command palette.
• Basic Vim motions to script output log (hjkl).
• Added response status code label to the URL bar.
• Contributing guide added to the GitHub repo (CONTRIBUTING.md).

Changed

• Rewrite of the autocompletion system used to autocomplete header names, values, URLs, and variables.
• Automatically prepend http:// protocol if no protocol is specified in the URL bar.
• Debounce jump overlay recomposition - if you resize while the jump overlay is open, it'll wait a short period before recomputing.
• Jump mode now lives on the main screen, rather than globally. This makes more sense as it's only available on the main screen. The only user-facing impact should be that the position of the keybinding in the footer and keybindings panel may change.
• Jump mode interaction with Tabs now uses the Tabs API, rather than simulating a Click.
• Status code label now displayed in the URL bar beside the trace markers.
• Request description area at the bottom of the collection browser has new design.
• When there are no response cookies, the cookies section will now display a message to the user.
• Updated to Textual 3.0.0.
• Various updates to the https://posting.sh homepage.

Fixed

• Fixed scrolling in response headers and cookies tabs using keyboard.
• Fixed crash when immediately pressing enter after loading the UI when the on_startup config is set to url (this was due to lazy loading of the UI, and attempting to send a request before the UI was fully loaded).
• Fixed accepting a completion via enter in the header editor also adding the header.
  • Now, the first enter press will accept the completion, and the second enter press will add the header.
• Fixed Textual markup not being escaped key value tables.
• Fixed request description attempting to parse Textual markup (#243)

The full changelog can be found at https://posting.sh/CHANGELOG

New Contributors

• @TomJGooding made their first contribution in #243

Full Changelog: 2.5.4...2.6.0