Updated: mintty 2.9.7
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Thu Mar 14 22:53:00 GMT 2019
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.7 with the following changes:
Highlights (details see below)
 * Significant improvements in bidirectional handling.
 * Text can be selected with the keyboard.
 * Explicit hyperlink attributes.
 * Avoid keyboard/echo latency.
Bidirectional rendering
 * Fixed handling of double-width chars within RTL.
 * Fixed handling of neutral chars in first or last position (UBA rule
N1).
 * Updated RTL mirroring data, generating them from Unicode.
Terminal features for ECMA-48 and other bidi control
 * Support BDSM control sequence (SM/RM bidirectional support, CSI 8 h/l).
 * Private mode DECSET 2501 for "autodetection of direction" (UBA
rules P2/P3).
 * Support SCP control sequences (LTR/RTL "Character Path").
 * Private mode DECSET 2500 for "box mirroring".
 * Bidi direction detection on paragraph level (wrapped lines).
Other terminal features
 * Support for OSC 8 hyperlink attribute (~#823).
 * Providing DECTABSR tab stop report.
 * Fixed DECRQM 12 which was inverted.
 * DEC Cyrillic NRCS (xterm 344).
Character rendering
 * Fixed and tweaked wavy underline / undercurl (#847).
Keyboard handling
 * Keyboard selecting mode (#84).
 * Avoid keyboard/echo/display update latency.
 * modifyOtherKeys mode supports control chars in non-Latin keyboard
layout.
 * Fix modifyOtherKeys mode 1 to support Ctrl+AltGr.
Mouse link hover and click handling
 * Consistent hover highlighting.
 * Overriding modifier is also accepted in non-application mouse mode
(#694).
Window handling
 * Fixed option --Border=void/frame (#843).
 * Fixed start from shortcut in Windows XP.
Documentation
 * Wiki Tips: note about UTF-8 requirement for emoji support (#842).
 * Fixed description of option HandleDPI (#824, #774, #853).
Configuration
 * Support for Win key modifier for user-defined keys (option
KeyFunctions).
 * Support for Win key modifier for options ScrollMod and ClickTargetMod.
 * New option HoverTitle.
 * New user-definable function toggle-bidi.
 * Dropping CR from missing option error message.
 * Added FF and ESC to FilterPasteControls characters (xterm 344).
The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.
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Thomas
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