Bracketed Paste, Windows Improvements, Mainframes, and more

What do tapioca balls, IBM mainframes, and the Microsoft Windows Console API have in common? Bubble Tea v0.26.0, that’s what. Let’s get to it.

⚡️ Windows Input Improvements

A few years ago @erikgeiser, a penetration tester and ex-particle physicist, wrote this awesome library called coninput to majorly improve Bubble Tea input on Windows. @aymanbagabas has implemented the library in Bubble Tea and input on Windows is roughly 1000 times better now. In the short term, this means that for Windows users inputting non-Latin characters (like Greek, Cyrillic, Korean, Chinese and so on) stuff will “just work.”

The bigger news, however, is that this paves the way for Windows parity with our forthcoming support for super high fidelity input via Kitty Keyboard and Fixterms.

🍳 Hot Windows Resize Events

Terminal emulators on Windows don’t support the SIGWINCH signal, which is sent when the terminal is resized. It’s been a huge bummer for a really long time. Thanks (again) to @erikgeiser and @aymanbagabas, we’re now able to reach deep into Windows’ underpinnings, detect window resizes, and send tea.WindowSizeMsgs accordingly! This is a glorious moment for Bubble Tea on Windows indeed.

🫠 Bracketed Paste

While building a query editor for a CockroachDB client, @knz noticed that Bubble Tea didn't support Bracketed Paste. Performance-wise, that sucks because it means pasting large bodies of text (like SQL queries) will normally be seen as a bunch of little successive keypresses. That’s where Bracketed Paste comes in. When enabled at the terminal-level Bracketed Paste lets you slam down a bunch of text with one big, fat input event.

Bubble Tea enables bracketed paste by default, however you can opt out of it with the WithoutBracketedPaste() program option:

p := tea.NewProgram(myCuteModel, tea.WithoutBracketedPaste())

You can also enable and disable it on demand with the EnableBracketedPaste() and DisableBracketedPaste() commands.

🌿 Multiline tea.Println

In case you forgot, tea.Println (and it’s brother tea.Printf) is a Cmd that lets you print unmanaged output above a Bubble Tea program, similar to what you see with package managers like apt-get. Thanks to @Adjective-Object (who also implemented tea.Println in the first place) now you can send multi-line output, too. For a tea.Println refresher see the package manager example.

📀 Hello, z/OS

Don’t you think it’s about time we all ran Bubble Tea apps on our mainframes? Thanks to @dustin-ward that dream is now a reality, so long as you have a z/OS mainframe. We're thrilled to announce that Bubble Tea is now fully supported on z/OS.

🌹 Bug fixes

Bugfixes are the unsung heroes that sometimes get buried below the feature listings. This release has them and they’re good ones; see the changelog below for details.

Changelog

New!

• bracketed paste by @knz in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/397
• use windows console input buffer + resize events on windows by @aymanbagabas in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/878
• multiline tea.Println() messages by @Adjective-Object in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/490
• z/OS support by @dustin-ward in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/913

Changed

• use go 1.18; update bubbles by @caarlos0 in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/916

Fixed

• fix deadlock condition on model init panic by @eolso in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/926
• reduce console/term dependencies by @aymanbagabas in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/897
• optimize batches with one item by @systay in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/875

New Contributors

• @kevgo made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/893
• @canack made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/890
• @Pheon-Dev made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/621
• @rusinikita made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/835
• @hedhyw made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/864
• @mat2cc made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/871
• @stefanlogue made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/855
• @BigJk made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/885
• @sharunkumar made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/839
• @timmattison made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/908
• @dustin-ward made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/913
• @jaymorelli96 made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/802
• @siddhantac made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/906
• @taigrr made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/853
• @systay made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/875
• @gabe565 made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/728
• @zMoooooritz made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/902
• @j178 made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/709
• @arisnacg made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/948
• @braheezy made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/950
• @dhth made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/949
• @tearingItUp786 made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/944
• @aschey made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/597
• @petergloor made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/955
• @kaifulee made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/957
• @danenania made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/971
• @cuibuwei made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/977
• @agvxov made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/972
• @eolso made their first contribution in https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/pull/926

Full Changelog: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/compare/v0.25.0...v0.25.1

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