v3.4

[saulpw]

v3.4

It's been the better part of a year since v3.3, and v3.4 is a big one: new features across the board, a thorough pass on markup rendering, and dozens of bugfixes.

Highlights:

• Search highlighting (hlsearch): every match for / and g/ is now highlighted in place; toggle with options.highlight_search. (feature: highlight patterns like vim's hlsearch #2861)
• Human-readable keys everywhere: the "prettykeys" overhaul means all bindings display with readable names (Ctrl+Up, Alt+d, …) in help, menus, and status. ([keys] use prettykeys internally for input bindings and other getkeystroke uses #2594)
• Smarter -f: filetype now separated between input and output, with -f for the input filetype, and -of for the output filetype, which supports compound format+compression types like json+gz; an explicit -f also overrides URL-scheme dispatch.
• Define your own commands in-session: define-command <longname> <execstr>, with currow.<ColName> available to read the cursor row's values. ([commands] access column values for current from execstr #655)
• Save edited options straight to your config with z Ctrl+S. ([options] persist edited values on optionssheet #2206)
• Split-pane file preview on the DirSheet. (Add split-pane file preview for DirSheet #3024)
• Customizable cell-editing keys via vd.editCellBindings. ([] Please provide a keystroke / command to move to the cell below during editing instead of shift + Down arrow #2986)
• Jump to any sheet by name with jump-sheet (with tab-completion).
• Change displayed float precision with setcol-precision (Alt+-/Alt++/g%).
• Drop into an interactive $SHELL with exec-shell.
• Aggregation bar showing aggregate totals. ([interface] add aggregator column totals below sheet #2209 Make visidata automatically show sum, average etc of a numerical column on the sidebar below when selected. #2995)
• Fuzzy input-history palette. (Feature request: Show history of regex searches #2684)
• Macros now support keystroke bindings and input parameters. ([macros] Ability to attach a keystroke to a macro #2784 [macros] Input Parameters for Macros #2785)
• Smarter SQLite exec-sql: named queries, types, and edit-sql. ([sqlite ] exec-sql command create sheets with unique or helpful names. #2136 exec-sql: query names, types, edit-sql, SheetsSheet query column #3020)
• GeoParquet support: decode WKB geometry and plot it.
• vdsql improvements: multi-schema browsing (Add option to show tables from all PgSQL schemas #2027) and SQL shown in the sidebar (sidebar with current sql query won't show up (at least for clickhouse) #2200).
• S3 recursive directory listing and anonymous-mode access.
• Better HTML tables: handle interspersed th/td and rowspan. ([html] Opening up an html table with interspersed headers #1346 [html rowspan] Rowspan is not handled. #1308)
• CSV now skips blank lines. (tsv drops empty lines, csv keeps them #3085)
• New adwaita light and dark themes. (feat: Add adwaita light and dark theme variants #3006)
• An embedded ptipython REPL. ([vdrepl] Merge vdrepl plugin into VisiData #2736)
• A command server for scripting VisiData.
• Experimental: vdaw, a transcript-based audio editor.
• Experimental: an llm plugin to analyze columns with Anthropic Claude. (Feature request: querying LLMs with visidata cells input #2947)
• Experimental: search_geo, bbox-overlap helpers for STAC catalogs.

Thanks to @midichef for a huge share of the bugfixes and improvements in this release, and to everyone who contributed: @daviewales, @meestahp, @pequiste, @maxim-uvarov-ai-assistant, @terencelaurent, @mplattner, @weichm, @iamleot, @ilyagr, @haoyeau, @rsmirnov90, @egwynn, @Tjorbenn, @Jonathan-Haddock, @leimgruberf, @justin2004, @tabibeyal, and @Jaredy899.

And thanks to Anthropic for providing @saulbert with tokens these past few months as part of their open source program; we shipped several features we wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

Please see the CHANGELOG for the full list of changes.

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