0.8.1 (March 9, 2018)

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug if a non-existent do_* method was added to the exclude_from_help list
  • Fixed a bug in a unit test which would fail if your home directory was empty on a Linux system
  • Fixed outdated help text for the edit command
  • Fixed outdated remove_unused.py
• Enhancements
  • Added support for sub-menus.
    • See submenus.py for an example of how to use it
  • Added option for persistent readline history
    • See persistent_history.py for an example
    • See the Searchable command history section of the documentation for more info
  • Improved PyPI packaging by including unit tests and examples in the tarball
  • Improved documentation to make it more obvious that poutput() should be used instead of print()
  • exclude_from_help and excludeFromHistory are now instance instead of class attributes
  • Added flag and index based tab completion helper functions
    • See tab_completion.py
  • Added support for displaying output which won't fit on the screen via a pager using ppaged()
    • See paged_output.py
• Attributes Removed (can cause breaking changes)
  • abbrev - Removed support for abbreviated commands
    • Good tab completion makes this unnecessary and its presence could cause harmful unintended actions
  • case_insensitive - Removed support for case-insensitive command parsing
    • Its presence wasn't very helpful and could cause harmful unintended actions

0.8.0 (February 1, 2018)

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed unit tests on Python 3.7 due to changes in how re.escape() behaves in Python 3.7
  • Fixed a bug where unknown commands were getting saved in the history
• Enhancements
  • Three new decorators for do_* commands to make argument parsing easier
    • with_argument_list decorator to change argument type from str to List[str]
      • do_* commands get a single argument which is a list of strings, as pre-parsed by shlex.split()
    • with_argparser decorator for strict argparse-based argument parsing of command arguments
      • do_* commands get a single argument which is the output of argparse.parse_args()
    • with_argparser_and_unknown_args decorator for argparse-based argument parsing, but allows unknown args
      • do_* commands get two arguments, the output of argparse.parse_known_args()
  • See the Argument Processing section of the documentation for more information on these decorators
    • Alternatively, see the argparse_example.py
      and arg_print.py examples
  • Added support for Argpasre sub-commands when using the with_argument_parser or with_argparser_and_unknown_args decorators
    • See subcommands.py for an example of how to use subcommands
    • Tab-completion of sub-command names is automatically supported
  • The __relative_load command is now hidden from the help menu by default
    • This command is not intended to be called from the command line, only from within scripts
  • The set command now has an additional -a/--all option to also display read-only settings
  • The history command can now run, edit, and save prior commands, in addition to displaying prior commands.
  • The history command can now automatically generate a transcript file for regression testing
    • This makes creating regression tests for your cmd2 application trivial
• Commands Removed
  • The cmdenvironment has been removed and its functionality incorporated into the -a/--all argument to set
  • The show command has been removed. Its functionality has always existing within set and continues to do so
  • The save command has been removed. The capability to save commands is now part of the history command.
  • The run command has been removed. The capability to run prior commands is now part of the history command.
• Other changes
  • The edit command no longer allows you to edit prior commands. The capability to edit prior commands is now part of the history command. The edit command still allows you to edit arbitrary files.
  • the autorun_on_edit setting has been removed.
  • For Python 3.4 and earlier, cmd2 now has an additional dependency on the contextlib2 module
• Deprecations
  • The old options decorator for optparse-based argument parsing is now deprecated
    • The old decorator is still present for now, but will be removed in a future release
    • cmd2 no longer includes optparse.make_option, so if your app needs it import directly from optparse

0.7.9 (January 4, 2018)

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a couple broken examples
• Enhancements
  • Improved documentation for modifying shortcuts (command aliases)
  • Made pyreadline a dependency on Windows to ensure tab-completion works
• Other changes
  • Abandoned official support for Python 3.3. It should still work, just don't have an easy way to test it anymore.

0.7.8 (November 8, 2017)

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed poutput() so it can print an integer zero and other falsy things
  • Fixed a bug which was causing autodoc to fail for building docs on Readthedocs
  • Fixed bug due to pyperclip dependency radically changing its project structure in latest version
• Enhancements
  • Improved documentation for user-settable environment parameters
  • Improved documentation for overriding the default supported comment styles
  • Added runcmds_plus_hooks() method to run multiple commands w/o a cmdloop

0.7.7 (August 25, 2017)

• Bug Fixes
  • Added workaround for bug which occurs in Python 2.7 on Linux when pygtk is installed
  • pfeedback() now honors feedback_to_output setting and won't redirect when it is False
  • For edit command, both editor and filename can now have spaces in the name/path
  • Fixed a bug which occurred when stdin was a pipe instead of a tty due to input redirection
• Enhancements
  • feedback_to_output now defaults to False so info like command timing won't redirect
  • Transcript regular expressions now have predictable, tested, and documented behavior
    • This makes a breaking change to the format and expectations of transcript testing
    • The prior behavior removed whitespace before making the comparison, now whitespace must match exactly
    • Prior version did not allow regexes with whitespace, new version allows any regex
  • Improved display for load command and input redirection when echo is True

0.7.6 (August 11, 2017)

• Bug Fixes
  • Case-sensitive command parsing was completely broken and has been fixed
  • <Ctrl>+d now properly quits when case-sensitive command parsing is enabled
  • Fixed some pyperclip clipboard interaction bugs on Linux
  • Fixed some timing bugs when running unit tests in parallel by using monkeypatch
• Enhancements
  • Enhanced tab-completion of cmd2 command names to support case-insensitive completion
  • Added an example showing how to remove unused commands
  • Improved how transcript testing handles prompts with ANSI escape codes by stripping them
  • Greatly improved implementation for how command output gets piped to a shell command

0.7.5

Release date: 2017-07-08

• Bug Fixes
  • case_insensitive is no longer a runtime-settable parameter, but it was still listed as such
  • Fixed a recursive loop bug when abbreviated commands are enabled and it could get stuck in the editor forever
    • Added additional command abbreviations to the "exclude from history" list
  • Fixed argparse_example.py and pirate.py examples and transcript_regex.txt transcript
  • Fixed a bug in a unit test which occurred under unusual circumstances
• Enhancements
  • Organized all attributes used to configure the ParserManager into a single location
  • Set the default value of abbrev to False (which controls whether or not abbreviated commands are allowed)
    • With good tab-completion of command names, using abbreviated commands isn't particularly useful
    • And it can create complications if you are't careful
  • Improved implementation of load to use command queue instead of nested inner loop

0.7.4

Release date: 2017-07-03

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed a couple bugs in interacting with pastebuffer/clipboard on macOS and Linux
  • Fixed a couple bugs in edit and save commands if called when history is empty
  • Ability to pipe cmd2 command output to a shell command is now more reliable, particularly on Windows
  • Fixed a bug in pyscript command on Windows related to \ being interpreted as an escape
• Enhancements
  • Ensure that path and shell command tab-completion results are alphabetically sorted
  • Removed feature for load command to load scripts from URLS
    • It didn't work, there were no unit tests, and it felt out of place
  • Removed presence of a default file name and default file extension
    • These also strongly felt out of place
    • load and _relative_load now require a file path
    • edit and save now use a temporary file if a file path isn't provided
  • load command has better error checking and reporting
  • Clipboard copy and paste functionality is now handled by the pyperclip module
  • shell command now supports redirection and piping of output
  • Added a lot of unit tests
• Other changes
  • Removed pause command
  • Added a dependency on the pyperclip module

0.7.3

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug in displaying a span of history items when only an end index is supplied
  • Fixed a bug which caused transcript test failures to display twice
• Enhancements
  • Added the ability to exclude commands from the help menu (eof included by default)
  • Redundant list command removed and features merged into history command
  • Added pyscript command which supports tab-completion and running Python scripts with arguments
  • Improved tab-completion of file system paths, command names, and shell commands
    • Thanks to Kevin Van Brunt for all of the help with debugging and testing this
  • Changed default value of USE_ARG_LIST to True - this affects the beavhior of all @options commands
    • WARNING: This breaks backwards compatibility, to restore backwards compatibility, add this to the
      init() method in your custom class derived from cmd2.Cmd:
      • cmd2.set_use_arg_list(False)
    • This change improves argument parsing for all new applications
  • Refactored code to encapsulate most of the pyparsing logic into a ParserManager class

0.7.2

Just added a MANIFEST.in file to make sure some additional files get included in the PyPI source distribution.