lotabout/skim v0.9.0

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Breaking Change to the Library:

• SkimItem::display now accepts a DisplayContext that provide more information such as container width, score, matches, etc.
• SkimItem::preview now accepts a PreviewContext that provide more information such as query, width, selections, etc.
• Skim::run_as now returns Some on both Accept and Abort, so that user could collect and react on abort events.
• SkimOutput now provides the final key received before return.

Features:

• Reduce memory usage
• Defer drops of items, to improve interaction speed
• support --tac and --nosort
• new action: half-page-up and half-page-down
• support tiebreak by length
• #344 expose preview context in preview() function
• #341 support multiline header
• use unicode spinner
• #324 support option --no-clear to keep the content drawn on screen
• #300 library: move reader options to default reader
• support new option --keep-right to show the right most text if it is too long.
• support negative horizontal scroll
• support --skip-to-pattern to start item display with the pattern matched
• support --select-1 that automatically select the only match
• support --exit-0 that exit automatically if no item matched
• support --sync that waits for all inputs to be ready and then starts the selection UI
• #309 support pre-selection
  • pre-select-n: select first n items
  • pre-select-pat: select items that matches regex
  • pre-select-items: select items from a preset
  • pre-select-file: select items from a preset that's loaded from file
• #328 support --no-clear-if-empty that preserve selection if the new command query returns nothing. Was designed to reduce flicking.

Fixes:

• #326 preview not updated anymore
• #349 kill-line and discard-line in interactive mode
• #344 implement text() and display() correctly
• #312 mouse click and page up/down out of bound
• Do not auto-scroll for customized items
• #321 fix annoyance through ZSH's REPORTTIME