[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.1.5

[Ken Brown]

On 5/20/2020 11:34 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> I have uploaded mintty 3.1.5 with the following changes:
> 
> Terminal features
>    * Limit coordinates of all mouse reports to text area (#972).
>    * Support bell volume escape sequence DECSWBV (#974) with wave files.
>    * Support margin bell feature (#974), with DECSET 44 enabling sequence (xterm).
>    * Support margin bell volume escape sequence DECSMBV (#974) with wave files.
>    * Support visible space indication.
>    * Fixed insert mode in single-width character mode (#964).
>    * DECFRA (fill rectangular area) works with wide and non-BMP characters.
>    * DECFRA works with NRCS and DEC Line Drawing characters (VT420).
>    * New CSI > 0 q to report terminal name and version (#881).
>    * New CSI 2/1 SP Z (ECMA-48 PEC) as character attribute to enforce 
> single/double width (#615, #979, #973, #938, #638, ~#88, ~#671).
>    * New CSI cps - p DECARR Select Auto Repeat Rate (VT520).
>    * Support Ctrl+Alt-mouse clicks (#987).
> 
> Character encoding
>    * Enhanced and documented GB18030 support (mintty/wsltty#224).
> 
> Keyboard handling
>    * Unmapped AltGr combinations: don't fallback to ESC prefixing (~#969).
>    * Guard Compose key against hotkey injection (~#877).
> 
> Unicode and Emoji data
>    * Unicode 13.0 update.
>    * Distinct support for EmojiOne (from unicode.org) and JoyPixels emojis.
> 
> Font rendering
>    * Enable auto-narrowing for Private Use characters (#979, "Nerd Fonts").
>    * Adjust and zoom rendering for geometric Powerline symbols (#979).
>    * Support emoji style OpenMoji (#985).
> 
> Window handling
>    * Tweak title bar dark mode adaptation to undocumented Windows changes (#983, 
> mintty/wsltty#157).
>    * Support dark mode for menus (#983, mintty/wsltty#157).
>    * DropCommands secured against multiple placeholders.
>    * DropCommands optionally pastes Windows format paths (#982).
>    * Drag-and-drop import of itermcolors schemes (mintty/wsltty#227).
>    * Workaround to interact with Hot Keyboard (#877, setting 
> SupportExternalHotkeys=4).
>    * Disable deprecated glass mode from interactive options (#501, 
> mintty/wsltty#241).
>    * Speedup of scrollback searching (#988, #986).
> 
> Other
>    * Warning and error popups are placed on top of desktop.
>    * Environment variables TERM_PROGRAM[_VERSION] provide unreliable info about 
> terminal application (#776, #881).
> 
> Configuration
>    * Options BellFile2 ... BellFile7 (#974).
>    * Options DispSpace, DispTab, DispClear.
>    * Options Suppress* are now resilient against space (mintty/wsltty#235).
>    * Option value SupportExternalHotkeys=4 (#877).
>    * Option value Emojis=openmoji (#985).
> 
> The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
> It also links to the issue tracker.

After this release the right Alt key on my keyboard has lost some functionality. 
  Alt-f and Alt-b no longer move forward and backward across words, and Alt-d no 
longer deletes the following word.  Alt-Backspace still deletes the previous 
word.  I'm using a standard US keyboard.

Ken