Updated: mintty 3.6.0

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri Mar 25 18:15:06 GMT 2022


I have uploaded mintty 3.6.0 with the following changes:

Highlights
   * Optional feature: Reflow terminal lines when resizing terminal width.
   * Visual feedback of numeric or composed character input.
   * New themes helmholtz and luminous (contributed by Andy Koppe).
   * Setting helmholtz theme as default colour scheme.

Window handling
   * Reflow terminal lines when resizing terminal width (#82, #219, 
mintty/wsltty#154).

Terminal features
   * Tweak pending auto-wrap state affected when switching wrap modes.
   * Fixed unscroll (CSI +T) in case width has changed meanwhile.
   * Visual feedback of numeric or composed character input.

Keyboard handling
   * Support user-defined mappings for Super-/Hyper-modified character keys.
   * Support optional user-defined mappings for Control-/Alt-modified 
character keys (#399, #252, #523, #602, #645, ~#524, ~#817, ~#451).
   * Suspend shortcut handling during numeric character input.
   * Revise and fix numeric character input.
   * Distinct Unicode vs. hexadecimal numeric character input.
   * Menu key opens menu inside terminal, also stops numeric input.
   * Fixed Compose sequences with more than 2 characters (broken since 
3.1.5).

Font rendering
   * Right-to-left font fallback (#1148).
   * Fixed auto-widening of ambiguous-width letters (broken since 3.4.4).
   * Speedup rendering of replacement indication of invalid character 
codes (#1145).
   * Extend cell zoom to some Geometric Shapes U+25E2.., Dingbats 
U+1F67C.., and Symbols U+1FB00..U+1FBB3.

Startup
   * Trimming irrelevant and possibly confusing environment variables 
before child invocation (xterm).

Configuration
   * New themes helmholtz and luminous (contributed by Andy Koppe).
   * Setting helmholtz theme as default colour scheme.
   * New option -Rt to report the tty name of the child process / shell.
   * New option ShootFoot (#399, #252, #523, #602, #645, ~#524, ~#817, 
~#451).
   * New option RewrapOnResize (#82), interactive (Options dialog).
   * New user-definable function unicode-char.
   * Updated X11-derived data: compose sequences and colour names.

The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.

------
Thomas


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