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Auto Completion

• Intro Video: Auto Completion
• Intro Video: Auto Completion / History Commands
• Intro Video: Auto Completion / Quick Commands

Auto completion suggests commands, subcommands, command options, command parameters, history commands and quick commands from the QuickBar that are currently available.

Auto completion will recommend the most suitable parameters or phrases based on historical input, which greatly increases text input speed, because you don't have to memorize a large number of commands and type every letter in a command.

Auto completion supports:

• Linux Shell commands.
• MacOS Shell commands.
• Windows Cmd commands.
• PowerShell commands.
• Commands of any command line program, such as Git
• Quick Commands from the QuickBar

Usage:

Windows

Upgrade

Versions before Version 2.4.0

1. Start WindTerm and select the profiles directory and quit.
2. Replace the new .wind/profiles folder with the old profiles folder.
3. Restart WindTerm and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

Versions after Version 2.4.0

1. Start WindTerm and select the profiles directory containing the old .wind folder.
2. It is recommended to choose the Home Directory to facilitate subsequent upgrades.

If the .wind folder needs to be moved to another system:

1. Quit WindTerm.
2. Replace the new .wind folder with the old .wind folder.
3. Restart WindTerm and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

The .wind folder is cross-platform.

Known Issues:

• [ZMODEM] Only support file names contains ASCII characters in Windows, otherwise the file name of the transfered file will be garbled after transmission, but it does not affect the correctness of the file content. Linux and MacOS version does not have this problem.

Translation:

• [CHINESE] Update the language file, contributed by Lemonawa@github. #246 #721
• [FRENCH] Update the language file, contributed by EvoWebFrance@github. #499

Features:

• [SESSION] Supports auto completion for Linux Shell, MacOS Shell, PowerShell, Windows Cmd, Git and so on. Intro video
  • 22 Git Commands
  • 32 Windows Cmd Commands
  • 42 Linux / MacOS Shell Commands
  • 3695 PowerShell Commands of Windows Server 2022 and PowerShell v7.3
• [SESSION] Supports auto completion for the command snippets from the QuickBar. Intro video
• [SESSION] Supports auto completion for History Commands. Intro video
• [SESSION] Supports the encrypted storage of command history. The default maximum number of history commands is 10000.
• [SESSION] Supports modifying the default configuration of session. #775 #822
• [SESSION] Supports ignoring bells received more than once within a specified second, the default is 2 seconds.
• [SCHEME] Added macOS system, and all Shell sessions in the macOS system use the macOS by default.
• [SSH] Supports Duplicate Session and Duplicate SSH Channel. #623 #669
• [SHELL] Automatically add --login and -i parameters when importing Shell sessions. #753 #781
• [SHELL] Automatically detect and set LANG environment variables. #347 #705
• [TERM] Supports customizing the key values sent by the alt modifier key and meta modifier key.
• [GUI] The filtering algorithm of the filter boxes is modified to a multiple pattern matching algorithm.
• [GUI] Added Copy Command menu item in the term view to quickly copy the command output.
• [GUI] Supports setting whether to enable auto completion, completion content, etc in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Auto Completion. #773 #784 #785 #786 #792 #811 #815 #860
• [GUI] Supports setting the number of visual rows of the autocomplete list, and whether to preselect the most matching item in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Auto Completion.
• [GUI] Supports setting whether to store history command, as well as storage size, storage time, etc. in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Command History.
• [GUI] Supports deleting the saved history command in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Command History. #773
• [GUI] Supports setting the bell style in Session Settings Dialog - Terminal - Bell, including Mute, Beep and Customized, the default is Beep. #654 #655
• [GUI] Supports setting the Locale in Session Settings Dialog - Shell - Process - Locale environment variables. #347 #705
• [TAB] Restore the last modified tab name. #626
• [TAB] Automatically add a number sequence to tabs with the same title for easy identification.
• [FILER] Add menu items Copy directory path and Copy directory path to terminal.

Improvements:

• [SSH] Pageant and ssh-agent authentication are no longer performed by default.
• [SSH] When the automatic login fails, the login will no longer restart, but will continue to log in manually. #857
• [SSH] When a disconnection is detected during the login, the Reconnect button will be displayed to facilitate a quick reconnection.
• [GUI] Add the Remember this step check box to control whether to remember the authentication information of the current step when logging in. #787 #857
• [GUI] The filtering algorithm of the filter boxes prefers to match the first and consecutive characters.
• [GUI] Set the shortcut key for the action Window.DuplicateView to Ctrl+Shift+D. #770
• [GUI] Set the shortcut key for the action Terminal.OpenSession to Alt+O.
• [GUI] Change the shortcut key for the actionNew Session from Ctrl+N to Alt+N. #782 #800
• [GUI] Disabled the Font Ligature feature of most input boxes.
• [GUI] After clicking the clear authentication button, a message box will pop up to display the clear result.
• [GUI] In the Session Settings dialog, only the modified configuration items are written to the configuration file.
• [GUI] Replace all Window.ShowPane* with Window.TogglePane*. #880
• [SCHEME] Cmd supports highlighting Slash Options.
• [SCHEME] Impoved the highlighting of Slash Options.
• [SESSION] The default lines of scrollback history is limited to 999999.
• [SESSION] New reconnection requests are ignored during the connection process. #765
• [SESSION] When using the mouse to select text in vim, the alt modifier key must be pressed simultaneously to enter free type mode. #897
• [SESSION] In the free type mode, pressing the escape key will exit the mode instead of sending the key to the remote host.
• [SESSION] Automatically executed commands are no longer trimmed. #870
• [SENDER] The scroll bar is no longer forced to scroll to the bottom of the screen when sending commands.

Bugs:

• [SSH] When creating a remote tunnel, the application will crash if the connected port is already in use. #767
• [SSH] Closing a remote tunnel will cause other tunnels in the same session to be closed by mistake.
• [SSH] Cannot log in correctly when the password contains !=. #679
• [GUI] The menu item Session / Open Session does not open the Open Session dialog correctly.
• [GUI] The Listen Port does not updated correctly when clicking on a different tunnel item in the Tunnels dialog.
• [GUI] In full screen mode, the drop-down box of the address bar will pop up in a new window instead of the current window. #804
• [GUI] When there is some wrapped lines, the terminal view may not be drawn correctly when the size changes.
• [LOG] Failed to create log files when the session name contains illegal characters, such as :, |, <, >, etc.
• [TAB] The text is not correctly elided according to the width of the tab.
• [TERM] Special characters cannot be entered using the alt modifier key in macOS.
• [SFTP] The configuration item SSH - SFTP - Automatically fix invalid path characters did not take effect when it was set to false.
• [SCHEME] Percentages are incorrectly identified as command prompts. #897
• [SESSION] Clink fails to start when the application path contains spaces. #736 #746
• [SESSION] Unable to enter the Cyrillic characters р and Р. #783
• [MODEM] The path pasted in the sz download dialog did not take effect. #836

Roadmap of v2.6 (Late-August, for reference only)

• Resolve issues as much as possible
• Improved Filer
• Improved Transfer
• Improved Quickbar
• SSH Agent Forwaring
• New memory allocator and manager and garbage collector. (Postponed to a later version )
• Command Snippet Description (Postponed to a later version )
• SSH GSSAPI Authentication (Postponed to a later version )
• SSH Agent (Postponed to a later version )
• Search in sessions. (Postponed to a later version )

Intro Videos

• Auto Completion
• Auto Completion / History Commands
• Auto Completion / Quick Commands

Version 2.6.0 Prerelease 10 (2024-1-17)

If you want, you can try WindTerm 2.6.0 Prerelease 10 now. Currently Windows, macOS and Linux x86_64 version is available.