CHANGELOG.md

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• 📈 --opts flag now supports both scalex and scaley

V0.4.6

• 📈 markdown viewer now renders YAML headers in a box, but now disabled by default - to show the header you supply the --header flag
• 📈 now .url files are also supported for image preview
• 📈 now .exe files are also supported for image preview
• 📈 now .lnk files are also supported for image preview
• 📈 the ls command now supports hyprlinks when supplied with the --hyprlink flag, or when the MCAT_HYPRLINK env var is set to either true or 1
• 📈 ls command now supports different sorting methods via the --sort flag, also with the --reverse flag

V0.4.5

• 📈 markdown viewer now supports <figure> and <figcaption> HTML elements
• 🐛 fixed an issue in the ls command where unicode characters that are more then a single byte could cause a panick
• 🎉 added macOS x86_64 build to the release

V0.4.4

• 🎉 interactive viewer now supports albums - passing multiple images with -o interactive can now be viewed as an album (n/p to move between images)
• 📈 interactive viewer now automatically treats pdf/latex/typst as albums so you can view multiple pages.
• 📈 markdown viewer now handles multi line links better (link images too)
• 📈 markdown viewer now creates clickable links
• 🐛 fixed an issue that stopped pdf files from being used with -o interactive
• 🐛 fixed an issue that stopped certain files from being used with -o image

V0.4.2

• 📈 now latex/typst files can also be converted into images / inline images
• 📈 markdown viewer now handles local images too! (#24) by @Alb-O
• 📈 markdown viewer now also handles footnotes

V0.4.1

• 🐛 fixed a cleanup issue that causes the markdown viewer to take longer when images are included.

V0.4.0

• 🎉 markdown viewer now parses some HTML!, including align=center attributes on some elements
• 🎉 markdown viewer now includes Images! - can be modified using --md-image all/small/none/auto the default is "auto"
• 📈 markdown viewer improved - better formatting for some elements and now indents content under headers.
• 🐛 fixed an issue in the markdown viewer when certain styles would reset others

V0.3.8

• 📈 added autumn and spring themes
• 📈 improved the markdown viewer (prettier, comments HTML, better line wrapping in code blocks)
• 🐛 HTML will now be treated as markdown when no output is specified -- allows for syntax highlighted code blocks instead of just printing it back.
• 🐛 now removes the background color when converting HTML to image

V0.3.6

• 📈 added ayu, ayu_mirage, synthwave, material, rose_pine, kanagawa, vscode, everforest and github themes!
• 📈 markdown viewer now uses the theme colors and not terminal colors
• 📈 improved the markdown viewer - less clutter
• 📈 improved the pdf to markdown parser -- now maintain layout and draws lines, in the cost of being more text then markdown.
• 🐛 screenshots of HTML/documents no longer says the filename / arg is too long

V0.3.4

• 📈 now allows selection from the interactive selector along with other inputs
• 📈 now converts PDF to images using pdftoppm/pdftocairo (if not installed fallback to markdown parsing)
• 📈 optimized build time
• 🐛 fixed double linebreaks problem in the markdown viewer
• 🐛 fixed codeblocks inside indented blocks being wider then the screen (markdown viewer).
• 🐛 fixed an inconsistent box drawing character in codeblock (markdown viewer)
• 🐛 fixed weird spacing when turning HTML to image in linux

V0.3.3

• changed the colors in the interactive selector
• added line wrapping for the markdown viewer -- doesn't skip lines in less now

V0.3.2

• fixed a bug where the names of files in the ls command won't show in windows
• made the interactive selector prettier -- now with icons, colors and more ANSI formatting
• added --paging, -p, -P flags to disable / enable paging forcefully
• added --pager flag and MCAT_PAGER env, to modify the pager used
• added --color -c -C flags to enable / disable ANSI formatting forcefully

V0.3.1

• fixed an issue that tmux passthrough won't be enabled on the ls command
• made the interactive image viewer blink less ~ to none -- making it easier to the eye
• added a --no-linenumber flag to remove line numbers from the markdown viewer
• raw text from stdin now defaults to markdown instead of txt in the markdown viewer
• improved rendering of images in tmux by moving the cursor after the image
• now allows configuring things through env variables
• improved GP support auto detetion -- especially in tmux
• the ls command now combines images by row to fix bugs from quick image printing
• added --ls-opts flag, allowing users to configure the ls command
• the --report flag now shows more info
• fixed an issue where the interactive selector had special visible in windows
• ascii video play now doesn't blink

V0.3.0

New Features:

• added -a --hidden flag for showing hidden files, along with making hidden files off by default.
• --pretty -p flag removed in favor of auto detecting if stdout is tty
• the pretty print of markdown is significantly improved
• now attempts to send text to a pager when the output is bigger then the screen and stdout is tty
• added catppuccin, nord, monokai, dracula, gruvbox, one_dark, solarized, tokyo_night themes!
• added --generate flag for generating shell completions for zsh/bash/fish/powershell
• kitty animation frames are stored in shm objects (writes the animation way faster, and less cpu power)
• added tmux support
• added kitty inline support; allows for having kitty images/animations be scrollable in apps like vim,tmux.
• added -o interactive mode to zoom & pan images for more detail

Fixes:

• fixed an issue where the zoom / pan aspect ratio would stay the same, making it difficult to see in some cases.
• fixed an issue in the ls command that would make the first item in a row up by 1 cell
• improved Iterm's graphic protocol support-detection
• fixed an issue that restricted rendering HTML into image directly
• fixed an issue where the process will quit when detecting symlink loop instead of just continuing

V0.2.8

• adding an ls command
• adding parallelism for heavy operations

V0.2.7

• bumping zip version because it was yanked

V0.2.6

• adding ascii encoder for images and videos!
• sixel terminals can now use the ascii encoder to view videos too!
• fixed a bug in markdownify pdf parser where certain text would appear twice 1 after the other
• added the --report flag to query info
• added loading bars for long operations
• added --silent flag to remove the loading bars

V0.2.5

• now expands ~
• naming files better when concatenating
• adding more filters to the recursive walk of dirs

V0.2.4

• more fixes to the PDF parser, along with attempts to context headers
• improving the -p --pretty flag

V0.2.3

• fixing issues with the PDF parser, along with improving it.

V0.2.1

• fixed an issue in the interactive dir selector, where branches with the same name will be confused
• fixed an issue with the sixel encoder failing if the image isn't a png in some cases

V0.2.0

• improved the PDF parser.
• now accepts from stdin (introspects the file type on its own.)
• handles URLs way better now, with more support for mime types. (including documents like PDF, ZIP, et..)

V0.1.52

• auto download is now an option through the flags --fetch-chormium, --fetch--ffmpeg. and also adding --fetch-clean to remove after them.
• added a --output pretty and -p for printing markdown as pretty text in the terminal

V0.1.51

• fixed issue with zombie process of chromium
• removed the --raw flag (chromium sandbox should suffice)

V0.1.5

• now says when a path doesn't exists instead of saying Failed Reading
• adding zoom, x, y in the inline-options (--inline-options "")

V0.1.4

now closing kitty animations when interrupted mid way

V0.1.3

removes feature that requires native-tls (for cross compile)

V0.1.2

new features

• concatenate images (vertical or horizontal)
• concatenate videos (time based, must be same format)
• scale image while maintaining center via --inline-options "scale="

improved

• text based concatenate

V0.1.1

now accepts multi input: mcat file.docx file.pptx file.odt ..

V0.1.0

First Release