CHANGELOG.md

Src

• added mermaid support to the ls command
• improved the markdown_viewer, now also renders html tables, span with colors and <u> <ins> <mark> <kbd> <ul> <ol> <li> <sup> tags
• improved the markdown_viewer, now html is parsed in a more correct way, fixing excessive new lines
• improved the markdown_viewer, now supports description lists, shortcodes (e.g. :thumbsup:), and superscript
• improved the markdown_viewer, now nested inline formatting (e.g. bold containing highlight) preserves outer styling
• improved the ls speed, now no longer auto decompressing
• improved the scraping logic, now does it based on width and height (not content-size) and now also doesn't download candidates (should make it way faster)
• fixed an issue in the markdown_viewer, that certain images would get splitted
• fixed an issue in the markdown_viewer, where images with links would be slightly misaligned on the first row on some terminals

V0.5.6

• improved the html to image, now upto 3x faster on retries of the same/similar html
• improved markdownify to be more relaxed, instead of failing it will give fallbacks more often.
• fixed an regression where text from stdin will not be considered markdown.
• added mermaid support

V0.5.5

• added support for JpegXL
• improved the image_preprocessor at the markdown_viewer, now 10% faster at rendering multiple images
• improved queries from url, now detects types using the ext of the url too if exists (now also when the mime type is app)
• fixed an issue that if an image with the same url will appear multiple times in the markdown_viewer, it will be rendered only once
• fixed an issue where images with sizes (html) in the markdown_viewer will sometimes not be respected for their sizes, sizes currently only support % and px
• fixed an issue where using -o image the image would be resized, losing image quality.
• fixed an issue in markdownify where some chars such as ">" won't be rendered into the markdown. effected both docx, opendoc and pptx.
• fixed an issue where files to image, would just be an image of the file text instead of html rendered

V0.5.4

• added pdf to the ls command, now pdf are printed as image rather then a stub svg
• added ghostty loading bar for ghostty users, replaces the previous loading bar for when fetching images from urls
• added logic to wrap table cells in the markdown_viewer, #63, (@sideshowbarker)
• improved queries from url, now detects types using the ext of the url too if exists
• improved the file tree rendering for when there is multiple files
• fixed an issue where files wouldn't carry over information in the pipeline, e.g. an pdf file would be converted to image, and the original path will be lost and not displayed
• fixed an issue that made the ls command ignore files in .gitignore
• fixed an issue in the markdown_viewer where color won't carry over in wrapped lines after a certain format
• fixed an issue in the markdown_viewer where thematic break would get wrapped in very small screens
• fixed an issue in the markdown_viewer where wrapping of lists inside other blocky elements like alert will be flawed, #72
• fixed an issue in the markdown_viewer where html elements inside "`" and "```" would be consumed as html, #70
• fixed an regression that would make converting an html file to image fail

V0.5.2

• improved odt,odp to md in markdownify
• improved docx to md in markdownify
• improved pptx to md in markdownify
• fixed regression in markdownify, where zip based formats would be parsed as zip instead of docx for exmp, #71

V0.5.1

• added --padding flag for the markdown viewer, applies horizontal padding
• added two-face for more file type support for syntax highlighting in the markdown viewer
• added pure Rust PDF rendering via hayro, no external tools required, #64
• added images inside archives are now embedded as data URIs for markdown rendering (--force-embed-images to force it)
• added -v flag for debug logging
• added interactive viewer vertical centering for images
• added scalex and scaley options, for the --opts flag
• added musl build to the CI, #57
• added support for viewing tar and zip archives with gz and xz compression.
• added tree view for the markdown viewer when viewing multiple files
• improved error messages from the image encoder
• improved argument parsing
• improved markdownify now detects file formats via magic bytes, no longer relies solely on file extension, #55
• improved text decoding no longer assumes UTF-8, #59
• improved the HTML to image, its now is slightly faster, and produces better images for small content
• improved the markdown viewer rendering, result should feel better formatted. fixes #56, #51
• improved the markdown_viewer wrapping logic, fixes #53
• improved the html_preprocessor for the markdown_viewer, now produces well formatted markdown. fixes #51
• fixed lsix text placement, text was slightly misaligned after a couple of images
• fixed an issue where color would persist after a simple code block in the markdown viewer
• fixed th break in markdown not wrapping correctly in the markdown_viewer
• fixed an issue in the html_preprocessor that caused some tags to not be escaped correctly

V0.4.6

• markdown viewer now renders YAML headers in a box, but now disabled by default - to show the header you supply the --header flag
• now .url files are also supported for image preview
• now .exe files are also supported for image preview
• now .lnk files are also supported for image preview
• the ls command now supports hyprlinks when supplied with the --hyprlink flag, or when the MCAT_HYPRLINK env var is set to either true or 1
• ls command now supports different sorting methods via the --sort flag, also with the --reverse flag

V0.4.5

• markdown viewer now supports <figure> and <figcaption> HTML elements
• added macOS x86_64 build to the release
• fixed an issue in the ls command where unicode characters that are more then a single byte could cause a panick

V0.4.4

• interactive viewer now supports albums - passing multiple images with -o interactive can now be viewed as an album (n/p to move between images)
• interactive viewer now automatically treats pdf/latex/typst as albums so you can view multiple pages.
• markdown viewer now handles multi line links better (link images too)
• markdown viewer now creates clickable links
• fixed an issue that stopped pdf files from being used with -o interactive
• fixed an issue that stopped certain files from being used with -o image

V0.4.2

• now latex/typst files can also be converted into images / inline images
• markdown viewer now handles local images too! (#24) by @Alb-O
• markdown viewer now also handles footnotes

V0.4.1

• fixed a cleanup issue that causes the markdown viewer to take longer when images are included.

V0.4.0

• markdown viewer now parses some HTML!, including align=center attributes on some elements
• markdown viewer now includes Images! - can be modified using --md-image all/small/none/auto the default is "auto"
• markdown viewer improved - better formatting for some elements and now indents content under headers.
• fixed an issue in the markdown viewer when certain styles would reset others

V0.3.8

• added autumn and spring themes
• improved the markdown viewer (prettier, comments HTML, better line wrapping in code blocks)
• HTML will now be treated as markdown when no output is specified -- allows for syntax highlighted code blocks instead of just printing it back.
• now removes the background color when converting HTML to image

V0.3.6

• added ayu, ayu_mirage, synthwave, material, rose_pine, kanagawa, vscode, everforest and github themes!
• markdown viewer now uses the theme colors and not terminal colors
• improved the markdown viewer - less clutter
• improved the pdf to markdown parser -- now maintain layout and draws lines, in the cost of being more text then markdown.
• screenshots of HTML/documents no longer says the filename / arg is too long

V0.3.4

• now allows selection from the interactive selector along with other inputs
• now converts PDF to images using pdftoppm/pdftocairo (if not installed fallback to markdown parsing)
• optimized build time
• fixed double linebreaks problem in the markdown viewer
• fixed codeblocks inside indented blocks being wider then the screen (markdown viewer).
• fixed an inconsistent box drawing character in codeblock (markdown viewer)
• fixed weird spacing when turning HTML to image in linux

V0.3.3

• changed the colors in the interactive selector
• added line wrapping for the markdown viewer -- doesn't skip lines in less now

V0.3.2

• fixed a bug where the names of files in the ls command won't show in windows
• made the interactive selector prettier -- now with icons, colors and more ANSI formatting
• added --paging, -p, -P flags to disable / enable paging forcefully
• added --pager flag and MCAT_PAGER env, to modify the pager used
• added --color -c -C flags to enable / disable ANSI formatting forcefully

V0.3.1

• fixed an issue that tmux passthrough won't be enabled on the ls command
• made the interactive image viewer blink less ~ to none -- making it easier to the eye
• added a --no-linenumber flag to remove line numbers from the markdown viewer
• raw text from stdin now defaults to markdown instead of txt in the markdown viewer
• improved rendering of images in tmux by moving the cursor after the image
• now allows configuring things through env variables
• improved GP support auto detetion -- especially in tmux
• the ls command now combines images by row to fix bugs from quick image printing
• added --ls-opts flag, allowing users to configure the ls command
• the --report flag now shows more info
• fixed an issue where the interactive selector had special visible in windows
• ascii video play now doesn't blink

V0.3.0

New Features:

• added -a --hidden flag for showing hidden files, along with making hidden files off by default.
• --pretty -p flag removed in favor of auto detecting if stdout is tty
• the pretty print of markdown is significantly improved
• now attempts to send text to a pager when the output is bigger then the screen and stdout is tty
• added catppuccin, nord, monokai, dracula, gruvbox, one_dark, solarized, tokyo_night themes!
• added --generate flag for generating shell completions for zsh/bash/fish/powershell
• kitty animation frames are stored in shm objects (writes the animation way faster, and less cpu power)
• added tmux support
• added kitty inline support; allows for having kitty images/animations be scrollable in apps like vim,tmux.
• added -o interactive mode to zoom & pan images for more detail

Fixes:

• fixed an issue where the zoom / pan aspect ratio would stay the same, making it difficult to see in some cases.
• fixed an issue in the ls command that would make the first item in a row up by 1 cell
• improved Iterm's graphic protocol support-detection
• fixed an issue that restricted rendering HTML into image directly
• fixed an issue where the process will quit when detecting symlink loop instead of just continuing

V0.2.8

• adding an ls command
• adding parallelism for heavy operations

V0.2.7

• bumping zip version because it was yanked

V0.2.6

• adding ascii encoder for images and videos!
• sixel terminals can now use the ascii encoder to view videos too!
• fixed a bug in markdownify pdf parser where certain text would appear twice 1 after the other
• added the --report flag to query info
• added loading bars for long operations
• added --silent flag to remove the loading bars

V0.2.5

• now expands ~
• naming files better when concatenating
• adding more filters to the recursive walk of dirs

V0.2.4

• more fixes to the PDF parser, along with attempts to context headers
• improving the -p --pretty flag

V0.2.3

• fixing issues with the PDF parser, along with improving it.

V0.2.1

• fixed an issue in the interactive dir selector, where branches with the same name will be confused
• fixed an issue with the sixel encoder failing if the image isn't a png in some cases

V0.2.0

• improved the PDF parser.
• now accepts from stdin (introspects the file type on its own.)
• handles URLs way better now, with more support for mime types. (including documents like PDF, ZIP, et..)

V0.1.52

• auto download is now an option through the flags --fetch-chormium, --fetch--ffmpeg. and also adding --fetch-clean to remove after them.
• added a --output pretty and -p for printing markdown as pretty text in the terminal

V0.1.51

• fixed issue with zombie process of chromium
• removed the --raw flag (chromium sandbox should suffice)

V0.1.5

• now says when a path doesn't exists instead of saying Failed Reading
• adding zoom, x, y in the inline-options (--inline-options "")

V0.1.4

now closing kitty animations when interrupted mid way

V0.1.3

removes feature that requires native-tls (for cross compile)

V0.1.2

new features

• concatenate images (vertical or horizontal)
• concatenate videos (time based, must be same format)
• scale image while maintaining center via --inline-options "scale="

improved

• text based concatenate

V0.1.1

now accepts multi input: mcat file.docx file.pptx file.odt ..

V0.1.0

First Release