v0.29.0

slk v0.29.0

A blazingly fast Slack TUI. Keyboard-driven, beautifully themed, under 20MB.

Changed

• Each sidebar section lists its channels first, then people, apps and group
  DMs, each group in alphabetical order. Until now only the Starred section
  did this, so apps and DMs in other sections were mixed in among the
  channels.
• Edits and deletes show at once. An edit appears in every pane showing the
  message as soon as you press Enter, and a deleted message leaves right
  away. If Slack refuses, the message goes back to what it was: a failed
  edit reopens the editor with your text, and a failed delete puts the
  message back where it was.
• A message that arrives while you have moved up the channel or thread no
  longer pulls the cursor and the view down to it. "-- more below --" shows
  instead, the view stays where you were, and the message stays unread until
  you scroll down to it.
• A failed send, reply or edit always gives your text back. It goes back to
  the composer, or, when you have already typed something new there, onto
  the clipboard together with any other unsent text, and the toast says so.

Fixed

• The update hint now shows up within a few hours of a release. slk asked
  GitHub at most once a day and only at startup, so a release published
  after that check went unnoticed until the next day, or until a restart.
• Your own messages no longer go missing or show twice. For a few seconds
  after each send slk hid every message of yours arriving in that channel,
  which could hide your file uploads and messages sent from another device
  until a reload, and a sent message could sometimes appear twice.
• Messages in a pane stay in time order, even when they arrive out of order.
• A request to Slack that hangs now times out. Sends, edits, deletes,
  reactions and history fetches could wait forever, and a stuck send kept
  your own new messages in that conversation from showing.
• Keys pressed right after Enter act on the message you just sent. Pressing
  D or e quickly could act on the message before it.
• Edits show their new text. An edited message kept drawing its old text
  until a reload, and "(edited)" disappeared after any reload. Link previews
  and reply-count updates no longer mark a message edited.
• A pending send, edit or delete survives a reload of the channel or thread.
• Slack's read position never moves backward on its own. A message that
  showed up late could mark newer messages unread again.
• A reply is counted once in its parent's reply count, and a parent loaded
  from the cache keeps its count when an event for it arrives.
• The view stays put when a message above it changes height, and a selected
  message is never pushed out of view. At the bottom of a pane, the last
  message is no longer half hidden under "-- more below --".
• The "── new ──" line no longer appears above your own message.
• The mention, channel and emoji pickers let Enter through once nothing
  matches what you typed. The first Enter used to be swallowed.
• A link whose label is empty is drawn as a plain link instead of the URL
  followed by a stray "|".
• A failed channel join or older-history load shows a toast instead of
  failing silently.

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Install

• Linux/macOS: download the appropriate .tar.gz, extract, and place slk in your $PATH
• Debian/Ubuntu: sudo dpkg -i slk_*.deb
• Fedora/RHEL: sudo rpm -i slk_*.rpm
• Alpine: sudo apk add --allow-untrusted slk_*.apk
• Windows: download the .zip, extract slk.exe, add to PATH

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v0.28.0

slk v0.28.0

A blazingly fast Slack TUI. Keyboard-driven, beautifully themed, under 20MB.

Added

• Messages that mention you stand out, the way they do in the Slack desktop
  app. A message that names you gets a yellow bar in the left gutter, a faint
  warm tint across the row, and a pill behind your @name. An @here,
  @channel or @everyone message gets only the bar. Your own messages are
  never marked. Custom themes can set mention_bar, mention_bg and
  mention_pill_bg; they default to shades of the theme's warning colour.

Changed

• The help overlay (?) credits this fork, made by Kira Howe, with a fainter
  line under it crediting Grant Ammons, who wrote slk up to v0.26.
• Channels in each sidebar section are listed alphabetically, ignoring case and
  accents. Channels pinned with a :N suffix in a config section still come
  first, and the Starred section still lists channels before people. slk can't
  read the sort order chosen in the official Slack client.
• When a channel matches more than one config section with the same order,
  it goes in the one whose name sorts first. It used to land in a different
  one from run to run.

Fixed

• Sending a message that starts with a number and a full stop no longer
  renumbers it: "2024. was a year" was sent as "1. was a year", and a list
  typed from 5 was sent counting from 1.
• Text typed on the same line as an opening ``` is no longer dropped
  when the message is sent.
• A block quote that wraps onto more than one line keeps its bar and muted
  colour on every line, not just the first.
• Bold, italics, links and mentions inside a block quote are formatted
  instead of showing their raw markup.
• A line typed right after a list, without indenting it, is sent as its own
  line instead of being joined onto the last list item.
• Loading older history into an empty channel could crash slk.
• Older history could show a message twice after one of your own messages was
  sent.
• When a message or thread reply failed to send, the cursor jumped to the next
  message. It now stays where it was.
• Removing a reaction in a channel could show the wrong reactions on the open
  thread's parent message.
• A config section named like a built-in one (for example Channels) was drawn
  twice in the sidebar.
• Page Down in the sidebar could move the cursor up after a fast scroll.
• The channel finder ranked names with accents, CJK or emoji below equally close
  plain-ASCII names.
• Activity and Threads cards with a link in them could run one column past the
  edge of the pane.
• Copying a selection that starts with a combining accent no longer drops the
  accent.
• A wide character (CJK or emoji) where the scrollbar is drawn no longer shifts
  the scrollbar a column to the left on that row.
• A blank entry in on_keyword sent a desktop notification for every message.
  Blank entries are now ignored.
• slk export in a time zone whose daylight saving time once began at midnight
  (such as America/Sao_Paulo) started those days an hour early.
• Saving a theme whose name contains the DEL character wrote a config file slk
  could not load.
• On Linux, slk open with a request slk rejects for length could report
  "connection reset by peer" instead of slk's reason.
• Installing or upgrading the Homebrew cask no longer prints a warning that
  postflight is deprecated.

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Install

• Linux/macOS: download the appropriate .tar.gz, extract, and place slk in your $PATH
• Debian/Ubuntu: sudo dpkg -i slk_*.deb
• Fedora/RHEL: sudo rpm -i slk_*.rpm
• Alpine: sudo apk add --allow-untrusted slk_*.apk
• Windows: download the .zip, extract slk.exe, add to PATH

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v0.27.0

slk v0.27.0

A blazingly fast Slack TUI. Keyboard-driven, beautifully themed, under 20MB.

First release of the kirahowe/slk fork. It starts from upstream's main after
v0.26.2.

Added

• slk open <permalink> shows a Slack message link in the slk that is already
  running, the way o does, so a script or URL handler can try slk before the
  browser. It exits 0 when slk showed the link, 1 when slk declined it, 2
  on a usage error and 3 when slk is not running. slk declines with slk is busy: <what> while a dialog, a : command, a search, the image preview, a
  message edit or an upload is in the way. If you are composing, it leaves
  insert mode and keeps your draft. The socket is run/slk.sock in the data
  directory (~/.local/share/slk/run/slk.sock, or under $XDG_DATA_HOME).
  Not available on Windows.
• slk tells you when a newer release exists. Once a day it checks GitHub for
  the latest stable release of kirahowe/slk, shows a 12-second status-bar toast
  with the upgrade command for your install, and then leaves a muted
  ↑ <version> on the right of the status bar. slk --version prints the same
  hint. Set check_for_updates = false under [general] to turn it off. Dev
  builds skip the check.
• :help opens the keybinding overlay, the same as ?.
• :quit and :qa quit with the same confirmation as Q.

Changed

• Ctrl+X now opens the draft in $EDITOR. Ctrl+E used to do this. It
  now moves to the end of the line, and Ctrl+A to the start, in both the
  channel and thread composers.
• :q on the last window now quits, with the :quit confirmation, like
  vim. With more than one window it still closes the focused one. Ctrl+w q
  keeps toasting "Cannot close last window".
• The sidebar hides itself on narrow terminals. It stays off screen while
  the channel pane beside it would be under 60 columns, which is below 100
  columns with the default widths. Ctrl+b still toggles it at any width.
  Showing a hidden sidebar pins it until you hide it again.
• Threads open beside the channel from 120 columns, down from 162. The sidebar
  gives way first: 120 to 151 columns show the channel and thread, and 152 and
  up show all three. Below 120 they stack as before.
• Emoji written as a base character plus VS16, such as the heart, now draw as
  the bare glyph instead of falling back to :shortcode: text, in messages,
  reaction pills, the reaction picker and viewer, sidebar section headers and
  peer status. Some terminals may draw the glyph in text style rather than
  colour. ZWJ sequences, flags, skin tones and keycaps still show the
  shortcode.
• Releases, the Homebrew cask (brew install --cask kirahowe/tap/slk) and the
  update check now use kirahowe/slk. go install still installs upstream,
  because the Go module path is unchanged, so the update hint no longer
  suggests it.
• The ? overlay groups its entries under Navigation, Search, Messages,
  Threads, Composer, Windows, Views, Commands and App. It lists Ctrl+U
  (clear message input), drops the "Press / to search" line, and shows the
  filter line only while you are searching.
• The pane scrollbar track is a dotted ┊ line, so it no longer looks like a
  second border next to the pane's own.
• The thread breadcrumb is inset one column to line up with the channel header,
  and the rule under it uses box-drawing characters.
• The presence menu's filter placeholder reads Type to filter... like the
  other filter boxes.

Fixed

• Line breaks, blank lines and repeated spaces typed in the composer are now
  preserved in sent messages.
• Sidebar section emoji such as :hammer_and_wrench: and :mountain: no longer
  push the sidebar edge, message pane and overlay borders one cell off (gammons#301).
• The reaction picker no longer shows a literal :heart: heart row among the
  glyphs.
• The sidebar no longer shows two cursor bars while Activity is open. The
  last-viewed channel drops its ▌ marker while Threads or Activity is the
  view on screen.

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Install

• Linux/macOS: download the appropriate .tar.gz, extract, and place slk in your $PATH
• Debian/Ubuntu: sudo dpkg -i slk_*.deb
• Fedora/RHEL: sudo rpm -i slk_*.rpm
• Alpine: sudo apk add --allow-untrusted slk_*.apk
• Windows: download the .zip, extract slk.exe, add to PATH

Verify downloads with checksums.txt.