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@sunaku sunaku released this 18 Mar 03:23
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Version 2.0.0 (2016-03-17)

This release improves the local search engine's responsiveness, usability, and
appearance (especially on small displays, like those found in mobile devices);
improves search term highlighting; and fixes escaping bugs and HTML5 validity.

Major:

  • dasht-query-exec(1) now groups by first letter when nothing is searched.

    This gives you a better overview of the breadth of available topics (A-Z)
    than the previous approach of simply returning the first 100 topics did.

  • dasht-query-html(1) now wraps its HTML output, if any, in <table> tags.

    This moves the printing of HTML <table> tags into dasht-query-html(1)
    and makes dasht(1) run w3m(1) eagerly, which provides visual feedback to
    the user when a large HTML document is being read and buffered, and in
    the case where no results are found: terminate with a message on stderr.

Minor:

  • dasht-server-http(1) now streams search results to you as they are found.

    Serve the HTML header and search form immediately---before the search is
    even performed---so that the user instantly (and at the very least) sees
    the search form in case they decide to abort the HTTP transfer partway.

  • dasht-server-http(1) now provides a drop-down menu for docset selection.

    Drop the HTML5 <datalist> because it can only suggest a single item, and
    that too only when the text field is empty! Instead, provide a <select>
    drop-down menu from which the user can choose a single item and build up
    multiple docset selections iteratively, with repeated form submissions.

  • dasht-server-http(1) now word-wraps search results to fit small displays.

    Insert word-break opportunity <wbr> tags at the end of capitalized
    words, runs of lowercase text, numbers, and punctuation marks to help the
    browser fit search results to small displays, as found in mobile devices.

  • dasht-query-html(1): Underline search terms so they stand out in w3m(1).

Patch:

  • dasht-query-exec(1): escape SQL single quotes in the search pattern.

  • dasht-query-html(1): escape HTML entities in search result token name.

  • dasht-query-line(1): tr -s squeezes after translation, not beforehand.

    Searching for % % resulted in SQL LIKE %\%\% instead of %\%%\%%.

  • dasht-server-http(1): Fix W3C Validator error on scoped <style> element.

    Error: Element style is missing required attribute scoped.

  • dasht-server-http(1): Fix W3C Validator error on docsets <label> element.

    Error: The label element may contain at most one button, input, keygen,
    meter, output, progress, select, or textarea descendant.

  • dasht-server-http(1): Specify UTF-8 charset for special chars in docsets.

    Bash and Docker docsets use the special "…" ellipsis Unicode character.

  • dasht-query-html(1): Optimize search term highlighting and rework style.

    When an empty pattern was given, useless empty highlights (bold and
    italic) were added between every single character in a search result.

  • dasht-query-html(1): Emulate the IGNORECASE=1 feature for POSIX awk(1).

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