- Sun Sep 17 2023: fix(py3.12):
SafeConfigParser->ConfigParser - Mon Jun 26 2023: fix #340: Clarify how to interact inside 'Denotate' window
- Sat Jun 24 2023: fix #339: urwid.str_util import fails on some distros
- Wed Mar 01 2023: List vit.config and vit.keybinding in packages
- Thu Mar 02 2023: Remove some unnecessary parenthesis from class definitions
- Wed Mar 01 2023: Remove inherits from object
- Wed Mar 01 2023: Use r-prefix when necessary
- Sat Oct 22 2022: Fixing IndexErrors in functions
- Wed Oct 19 2022: Allow flash configuration
- Sat Jul 09 2022: correctly calculate text width of full-width characters
- Sun May 08 2022: Fix required minimum Python version
- Sun May 01 2022: add note that windows doesn't support SIGUSR1 signal
- Sun May 01 2022: test for signal before adding handler
- Fri Apr 29 2022: add documentation for auto-refresh configuration
- Thu Apr 28 2022: fix bad variable reference
- Thu Apr 28 2022: place IS_VIT_INSTANCE into environ earlier
- Thu Apr 28 2022: example hook for intelligent VIT refresh
- Thu Apr 28 2022: inject environment variable
- Wed Apr 27 2022: skip pid teardown if pid_dir not set
- Wed Apr 27 2022: sample script to externally refresh VIT instances
- Wed Apr 27 2022: add Bash function example for vit wrapper
- Wed Apr 27 2022: skip raising error on not deleting pid file for now
- Wed Apr 27 2022: add pid_dir option to [vit] section See sample config.ini for details on usage
- Wed Apr 27 2022: add basic signal support SIGUSR1: refresh (equivalent to hitting refresh key in VIT) SIGTERM/SIGINT/SIGQUIT: quit VIT cleanly
- Tue Apr 26 2022: more user-friendly error message for unsupported color definitions
- Sun Apr 17 2022: add simple release checklist
- Sun Apr 17 2022: bump dependency versions
- Sun Apr 17 2022: bump minimum Python version to 3.7
- Tue Mar 22 2022: Simplify timezone handling
- Sat Jul 24 2021: Replace pytz and tzlocal by zoneinfo
- Sat Mar 05 2022: Make vit respect taskrc in config.ini
- Fri Nov 26 2021: fix #317: Broken links on PyPi
- Mon Nov 22 2021: fix #313: ACTION_REFRESH keybind triggers while entering text
- Wed Oct 27 2021: add
focus_on_addconfiguration parameter, allows focusing on newly added task - Wed Oct 27 2021: properly escape search terms
- Tue Oct 12 2021: Include 'report.X.context=0' option of tw 2.6.0
- Sat Oct 09 2021: fix #305: vit fails when using new context definition
- Wed Oct 06 2021: bump tasklib min version
- Wed Oct 06 2021: Support XDG_CONFIG_DIR taskrc location
- Wed Sep 29 2021: fix #302: display task id of created task in command bar
- Sun Aug 29 2021: fix #140, fix #230. smarter handling of spaces/quotes in autocomplete
- Sun Aug 29 2021: clarify doc for finding user config directory
- Sun Aug 11 2019: Add support for XDG Base Directory
- Thu Jul 15 2021: set VIT_TASK_UUID environment variable when executing external scripts
- Thu Jul 15 2021: allow passing custom environment variables to external commands
- Mon Jun 07 2021: fix #296: AutoComplete space_escape_regex not initialized for 'wait' command
- Tue Mar 16 2021: fix #287: Incorrect marker width calculation of Unicode symbols can cause markers to not be displayed
- Sun Feb 28 2021: add support for TaskWarrior >= 2.5.2 to changelog
Support for TaskWarrior >= 2.5.2
This release includes a breaking change to the keybinding parser, and may affect users who have implemented custom keybindings in their configuration.
See https://github.com/vit-project/vit/commit/dd0f34347e7b77dce37fe72e3797581d212f0d90 for more information.
- Mon Feb 01 2021: fix: blocked marker displaying for deleted/completed depends
- Thu Jan 28 2021: add quick start instructions to README
- Wed Dec 30 2020: [BREAKING CHANGE] correctly parse bracket expressions for keybinding keys
- Thu Dec 24 2020: Add 'abort_backspace' config, False by default. If true, hitting backspace against an empty prompt aborts the prompt.
- Fri Dec 25 2020: Use Python.ignore from github
This release includes compatibility with Taskwarrior 2.5.2 -- earlier releases of VIT may not work with Taskwarrior 2.5.2 and beyond.
- Wed Dec 23 2020: update URL to vit-project
- Wed Oct 14 2020: Make VIT uppercase
- Wed Oct 14 2020: Add digit-jumping keybindings suggestion to CUSTOMIZE doc
- Sun Sep 13 2020: fix #269: Can't set priority when uda.priority.values is customized
- Fri Sep 11 2020: fix #266: print.empty.columns truthness values are not properly handled
- Fri Sep 11 2020: fix #265: Project name completion only works for projects with pending tasks
- Fri Sep 11 2020: add logo
- Thu Sep 03 2020: fix #268: remove priority formatters, use uda formatters instead
- Tue Jul 28 2020: fix #256: Non-pending blocking tasks should not appear in reports as dependencies
- Tue Jul 28 2020: fix #260: n / N commands should honor search direction
- Tue Jul 28 2020: add debug section to devel readme
- Mon Jul 27 2020: Update issue templates
- Sun Jul 26 2020: add TEST-CASE description
- Sat Jul 25 2020: fix #255: vit freezes on startup if there is no taskrc file present
- Tue Jul 07 2020: API for variable replacements in keybindings
- Wed Jul 22 2020: fix #253: Crash on switch to newly created context
- Mon Jul 20 2020: fix #252: catch filter errors and display nicely
- Sat Jul 18 2020: Fix: #251 -- Filtering with empty attribute value yields a crash
- Wed Jul 15 2020: fix #250: provide default labels when none configured in report
- Fri Jul 10 2020: provide some feedback on failed user module load
- Sat May 16 2020: Fix crash when report has project column but no sort
- Wed Mar 11 2020: Fix #203: Column resizing incorrect when column labels are wider than column
- Fri Mar 06 2020: fix #222, fix #221: first step to properly supporting spaces in tab completion
- Sat Feb 29 2020: Fix #227: Provide default report/annotation format if none configured
- Tue Feb 25 2020: resolves #225: document keybinding config for capital letters
- Sun Nov 03 2019: fix #176: Readline edit shortcuts for command bar
- Wed Jan 08 2020: fix #186, part two: get correct project column index after cleaning
- Wed Jan 08 2020: add project to dummy task script
- Sat Dec 07 2019: fix #218: specify minimum versions for dependent packages
- Tue Nov 05 2019: Allows config option value to contain '='
- Sun Oct 20 2019: fix #211: Space at the end of keybinding not parsed
- Sun Oct 13 2019: cleanup on #203, only resize again if any columns need it
- Sun Oct 13 2019: fix #203: Descriptions not shown when mulitple columns need reducing
- Sun Oct 13 2019: fix display of last header column when abuts side of terminal window
- Sun Oct 06 2019: fix #206: passing negative filters through to task don't work
- Wed Oct 02 2019: Fix #192: add disallowed reports with error message
- Fri Sep 27 2019: add UPGRADE.md, include v2.0.0 upgrade instructions
- Thu Sep 26 2019: fix crash when shlex cannot parse a string to args
- Wed Sep 18 2019: fix #201: fall back to previous list position when no task found
- Tue Sep 17 2019: fix #202: properly group different filter types
- Tue Sep 17 2019: fix #203: Account for edge case with single adjusted column
- Sun Sep 15 2019: platform-independent temp dir, better debug file name
- Thu Aug 22 2019: fix crash for reports with no sort specified
- Wed Aug 21 2019: fix #200: change {TASKID} variable to {TASK_UUID}
- Thu Aug 15 2019: Remove MAX_COLUMN_WIDTH (Closes: #190)
- Tue Aug 06 2019: fix #196: Add action to sync with taskd
- Tue Aug 06 2019: fix #197: Allow disabling mouse support
- Sun Aug 04 2019: Correct import of vit modules in option parser
- Mon Jul 22 2019: fix #187: TZ env not setup by default in WSL
- Sun Jul 21 2019: fix #136: Context support in vit
- Thu Jun 20 2019: only activate autocomplete for autocomplete capable ops
- Tue Jun 11 2019: add script to generate a dummy installation
- Mon Jun 10 2019: fix #186: test for project column in report before updating project column header
- Sun Jun 9 2019: test for existence of project column when determining subproject_indentable report setting
- Fri Jun 7 2019: remove support for inverse color attribute, also add a caveat note to COLOR.md for a workaround
- Wed Jun 5 2019: try to focus by task UUID in no confirmation case
- Wed Jun 5 2019: fix #183: Confirmation dialog when starting a task
- Fri May 31 2019: fix #180: Crash when tasklib raises exception for illegal operation
- Fri May 31 2019: fix #182: User not returned to previous task on tasks after first page
- Wed Jun 5 2019: fix #183: Confirmation dialog when starting a task
- Thu May 30 2019: fix #178: Smarter column width formatting
- Mon May 27 2019: add missing color mappings for bright black/white
- Sun May 26 2019: id or short uuid for done
- Sun May 26 2019: fix endless loop on forward search with no results
- Sun May 26 2019: id or short uuid for delete/start/stop
- Sat May 25 2019: fix #179: Search forward and reverse should use same history
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is an alpha release, no guarantees are made for stability or data integrity. While the author has used the alpha code for over a month with no data corruption issues, it is strongly recommended to back up your data prior to usage.
Complete ground up rewrite in Python, feature-complete with VIT 1.x. New features include:
- Advanced tab completion
- Per-column colorization with markers (see COLOR.md)
- Intelligent sub-project indenting
- Multiple/customizable themes
- Override/customize column formatters
- Fully-customizable key bindings
- Table-row striping
- Show version/context/report execution time in status area
- Customizable config dir
- Command line bash completion wrapper
This release also changes the software license from GPL to MIT.
Sat Jun 14 2018 - fix "Negative repeat count does nothing" errors (GH#153)
Sat Jun 24 2017 - introduce feature for adding/removing tags (GH#5)
Sat Jun 24 2017 - add config option to disable wait prompts (GH#12)
Fri Jun 23 2017 - add config option to disable confirmation (GH#4)
Fri Jun 23 2017 - add "wait" command bound to 'w' (GH#3)
Sun Mar 12 2017 - add ctrl+g synonym for escape
Sun Mar 12 2017 - add start/stop toggle bound to 'b' (GH#152, part of GH#126)
Sat Aug 30 2016 - fix handling of CJK characters (GH#142)
Sat Aug 6 2016 - fix for multi-byte searches
Sun Jul 24 2016 - fix for multi-byte prompt input
Sun Jul 24 2016 - fix display of multi-byte report data
Sun Jul 17 2016 - do not exit if terminal resized to small height
Mon Jun 20 2016 - work around another instance of the Perl warning
Mon May 16 2016 - work around a warning from Perl versions >= v5.21.1
Sun Jan 10 2016 - annotations now correctly escape any character
Sun Jan 10 2016 - do not exit when invalid regex for search string (GH#148)
Sat Jan 9 2016 - clean up terminal on a Perl error or warning (part of GH#148)
Fri Jan 8 2016 - do not run 'task burndown' by default
Fri Jan 8 2016 - add config variable for 'task burndown'
Tue Jan 5 2016 - add support for config variables. See 'man vitrc'
Wed Sep 30 2015 - improve detection of annotations (GH#144)
Sun Mar 8 2015 - do not beep on a 'g' keystroke
Sat Mar 7 2015 - fix a bug where prompt text was invisible
Wed Mar 4 2015 - add support for End and Home keys (GH#137)
Mon Mar 2 2015 - add support for Del key in prompts (GH#120)
Sun Mar 1 2015 - allow Taskwarrior cmds to parse for 'a' and 'm' (GH#132, GH#135)
Sun Mar 1 2015 - in screen, VIT now highlights the entire line (GH#81, GH#129)
Sun Mar 1 2015 - update display after sync (GH#112)
Tue Aug 26 2014 - 'n'/'N' now work when not right after search
Sun Aug 24 2014 - store commands file in %prefix%/share/vit/
Wed Jul 30 2014 - update documentation URLs
Fri Jun 27 2014 - add prompt history scrolling with arrows (GH#54, GH#58)
Thu Jun 26 2014 - install files in more conventional paths (GH#118)
Wed Jun 25 2014 - fix vitrc man file (GH#119)
Wed Jun 25 2014 - Makefile no longer requires sudo (GH#118)
Sat Jun 21 2014 - '-version' prints the git hash if available
Fri Jun 20 2014 - all of vit's options work with two dashes
Fri Jun 20 2014 - 'vit -help' has 0 exit code
Fri Jun 20 2014 - 'vit -version' prints the version (GH#114)
Tue Apr 1 2014 - the <Esc> key can now be used in shortcuts
Tue Apr 1 2014 - exit with informative error if shortcut too long (see GH#103)
Thu Mar 13 2014 - fix colors for running VIT in tmux
Sat Mar 8 2014 - do not print control characters to prompts
Thu Mar 6 2014 - fix recognition of backspace in tmux
Thu Mar 6 2014 - fix a prompt bug that prevented editing
Mon Mar 3 2014 - 'vit -audit' now creates a log with debug info
Tue Feb 4 2014 - Add VIT man pages (#1284)
Mon Oct 21 2013 - Implement cursor movement in prompts (#1403)
Sun Oct 6 2013 - Clear project prompt string if escape (#1232)
Sun Oct 6 2013 - Remove confusing behavior from arrow keys in prompts (#1363)
Sun Sep 28 2013 - 'P' now sets priority and 'h', 'm', 'l', 'n' are freed (#1238)
Sun Sep 27 2013 - 'c' is renamed to 'm' (#1231)
Sun Sep 15 2013 - 't' now opens the command prompt with ":!rw task "
Sun Sep 15 2013 - shell commands can now pass the arguments VIT is using (#1338, #1237)
Sat Sep 14 2013 - custom keybinds can now be specified in ~/.vitrc (#1237, #1302, #1336)
Thu Sep 12 2013 - added ':!' to execute arbitrary string in shell
Sun Aug 12 2013 - When running an external command, VIT no longer echoes it
Sun Aug 11 2013 - VIT now cleans the terminal before exiting
Sun Aug 11 2013 - 'q' ('Q') now quits with(out) confirmation (#1266)
Thu Aug 9 2013 - fix a bug where prompt text was invisible
Mon Aug 5 2013 - 's' now runs 'task sync' if Taskwarrior >= 2.3.0 (#1301)
Sun Aug 4 2013 - when in search mode, backspace now removes a character
Sat Aug 3 2013 - 'D' now deletes a task when not over an annotation (#1230)
Sat Jul 6 2013 - added Copyright 2013, Scott Kostyshak
Sat Jul 6 2013 - added an AUTHORS file listing contributors
Sat Jul 6 2013 - 'gg' now moves to first line (#1229)
Sun Jun 23 2013 - added Copyright 2012 - 2013, Steve Rader
Wed Apr 3 2013 - fixes for not having color=on set in ~/.taskrc
Sun Mar 31 2013 - added <enter> for task info
Sun Mar 31 2013 - added logging error msgs when "-audit" is used
Sun Mar 31 2013 - added support for selection effects (e.g. bold)
Sun Mar 31 2013 - added setting the VIT header color via color.vit.header setting
Sat Mar 30 2013 - set the VIT header color via the color.header setting
Fri Mar 29 2013 - added support for the "inverse" and "bright" effects
Fri Mar 29 2013 - fixed parsing some ANSI underline effect escape sequences
Fri Mar 29 2013 - clear the screen before exec'ing external commands as per feature #1214
Fri Mar 29 2013 - fixed a bug where some commands (e.g. ":h") incorrectly waited after exec'ing
Fri Mar 29 2013 - added setting the default report via command line args as per feature #1216
Fri Mar 29 2013 - added support to allow for verbose=off as per topic #2851
Fri Mar 29 2013 - disallowed using a default.command which doesn't include an "ID" column
Fri Mar 29 2013 - added support for multiple effects, e.g. bold underline
Sun Mar 24 2013 - added '=' for task info as per feature #1156
Sun Mar 24 2013 - added 'u' for task undo
Thu Jan 1 2013 - fixed a bug where '/' and '?' caused a crash as per bug #1152
Wed Dec 12 2012 - added graceful handling of marking only task in current report "done"
Wed Dec 12 2012 - added "blinking" of the convergence info when convergence changes
Wed Dec 12 2012 - disallowed marking completed tasks as "done"
Wed Dec 12 2012 - fixed a problem where the selection could get lost after resize and '^l'
Mon Dec 10 2012 - added ./configure checks for the perl Curses and Time::HiRes modules
Mon Dec 10 2012 - added ./configure ab-end when /usr/bin/perl doesn't exist
Mon Dec 10 2012 - added ./configure substitution for the localized path to the "task" command
Sun Dec 9 2012 - fixed a problem where the selection color was lost after refresh
Sun Dec 9 2012 - added '/', '?', 'n' and 'N' for searching the current report
Sat Dec 8 2012 - added color.label to taskrc-gtk+
Fri Dec 7 2012 - added <tab> completion when using 'p' to set project
Thu Dec 6 2012 - added 'p' for setting project
Wed Dec 5 2012 - added 'n' for setting priority to none
Wed Dec 5 2012 - added 'l' for setting priority to L
Wed Dec 5 2012 - added 'm' for setting priority to M
Wed Dec 5 2012 - added 'h' for setting priority to H
Tue Dec 4 2012 - added 'f' for filter the current report
Mon Dec 3 2012 - added checking of task command closing short pipe error
Mon Dec 3 2012 - added checking of task command exit status
Sun Dec 2 2012 - added 'D' for delete the current annotation (denotate)
Sat Dec 1 2012 - added 'A' for add an annotation to the current task
Sat Dec 1 2012 - added 'e' for edit current task
Sat Dec 1 2012 - fixed problems with the header attributions (bold and underline)
Fri Nov 30 2012 - added ./configure (autoconf) (e.g. "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/vit")
Thu Nov 29 2012 - added support for '^w' (erase word) at the command line
Thu Nov 29 2012 - added default.command to the list of available reports
Wed Nov 28 2012 - added support for ":REPORT <filter>" syntax (e.g. ":minimal prio:H")
Wed Nov 28 2012 - added support for the DEL key ('^?') as per bug #1134
Wed Nov 28 2012 - added ":N" for move to task number N
Wed Nov 28 2012 - fixed problems with task reports that have no matches
Wed Nov 28 2012 - added ":h PATTERN" for help about PATTERN (e.g. ":h help")
Tue Nov 27 2012 - added ":h" for help
Tue Nov 27 2012 - removed the Term::ReadKey requirement
Tue Nov 27 2012 - removed xterm only requirement as per feature #1132
Tue Nov 27 2012 - fixed problems with marking the last task done
Mon Nov 26 2012 - added ":STRING<tab>" and ":<tab>" for changing the current report
Mon Nov 26 2012 - added ":REPORT" (e.g. ":long") for changing the report
Mon Nov 26 2012 - fixed problems with single tick and double quote
Mon Nov 26 2012 - added support for bold and underlines ANSI colors
Sun Nov 25 2012 - wrote taskrc-gtk+
Sun Nov 25 2012 - added task-native colorization
Sat Nov 24 2012 - added ' ' for move down one line
Sat Nov 24 2012 - various changes for task version 2.x
Sat Nov 24 2012 - added ":s/OLD/NEW/" for change description (e.g. ":s/opps/oops/")
Fri Nov 23 2012 - added ":q" for quit
Fri Nov 23 2012 - added 'c' for change current task
Fri Nov 23 2012 - added 'a' for add task
Wed Nov 21 2012 - added 'd' for mark current task done
Tue Nov 20 2012 - added the 'G' and '0'
Mon Nov 19 2012 - added the '^f' and '^b'
Sun Nov 18 2012 - added the 'L', 'M' and 'H'
Sat Nov 17 2012 - added the 'j' and 'k'
Fri Nov 16 2012 - designed the layout