Every shell completion script (bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell) shells out
to bat to enumerate languages/themes for tab completion candidates. If
the user has wired bat into LESSOPEN (e.g. LESSOPEN='|-bat -f -pp %s'),
bat's normal pager auto-detection can engage when stdout looks like a
terminal at completion time and reflect ANSI escape sequences back into
the candidate list. The result is the issue's reproducer: tab completion
expands 'Per' to '\033[38;2;248;248;242mPerl' instead of 'Perl'.
The list-languages/list-themes calls are always meant to be machine-
readable, so they should never page. Pass --no-paging explicitly to
every bat invocation inside the four completion files. The flag is the
public alias for --paging=never (already documented in bat --help) and
is the same form completion scripts elsewhere in the codebase use.
Touches the four completion files only; no production code changes.
The previous awk script in `bat.zsh.in` split each line of
`bat --list-languages` on `:` or `,` and emitted every field as a
completion candidate, including the second column. That column lists
file matchers, which can be plain extensions (`rs`), globs (`*.rs`),
absolute paths (`/etc/profile`), or filenames (`Containerfile`). None
of those parse as `-l` arguments, so completing them produces
`unknown syntax` errors.
Switch to splitting on `:` only and emit the language name as the
completion value with the file-matcher list as its description, which
matches the bash completion's behavior.
Closes#3735.
Add a .cargo/config.toml that sets target-feature=+crt-static for the
i686, x86_64, and aarch64 MSVC targets so bat.exe no longer depends on
the vcruntime DLL. Mirrors the fix applied to fd in sharkdp/fd#1891.
Closes#3634
Add extensionless regression test files for tclsh, wish, and expect
shebangs so syntect bumps don't silently break first-line detection.
Move changelog entry from Features to Syntaxes per reviewer suggestion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add first_line_match to the Tcl syntax definition via a patch file,
enabling automatic Tcl highlighting for scripts with tclsh, wish,
or expect shebangs.
Fixes#3513
Add documentation showing how to erase the fish abbreviations for
--help and -h, since the dash-prefixed names make removal non-obvious.
The key is using -- before the abbreviation name to prevent fish from
interpreting it as a flag.
Closes#3536
The i686 .deb package declared its architecture as "i686", which
Debian does not recognize. Debian uses "i386" for 32-bit x86,
matching the convention already used by the other targets (arm64,
armhf, amd64).
Closes#3611
Control characters displayed in caret notation (e.g. ^@ for NUL)
occupy 2 terminal columns, but the width calculation treated them
as 0-width. Add a char_width() helper that returns 2 for control
characters, fixing incorrect line wrapping with --binary=as-text.
Fixes#3631
When --plain is set (via CLI or config file), --diff output loses all
visual markers, making it indistinguishable from plain text. The diff
line filtering still works, but without Changes markers or Snip
separators the output is not useful.
Automatically include Changes and Snip style components when --diff is
active alongside --plain. This preserves the --plain intent (no grid,
no header, no line numbers) while keeping diff output readable.
Closes#3630
Fix two inconsistencies in MUSL .deb package naming:
1. Change dpkg_arch for aarch64-unknown-linux-musl from `arm64` to
`musl-linux-arm64` to match the convention used by other MUSL targets.
2. Change the DPKG_BASENAME case pattern from `*-musl)` to `*-musl*)`
so it also matches `musleabihf`, giving the arm target the `bat-musl`
prefix like all other MUSL packages.
After this fix, all MUSL .deb packages follow the consistent pattern:
`bat-musl_VERSION_musl-linux-ARCH.deb`
Closes#3482
Matt Van Horn