v3.0
—
v3.0 (2023-12-30)
This is a major release.
There have been several major improvements (sidebar, help panels, command palette), and a great many smaller improvements and bugfixes: over 1600 commits in the year since v2.11.
To put it to a word, 1.x was a library (apps welcome), 2.x was a platform (plugins welcome), and 3.x will be more like a product (apps and plugins included).
Highlights
- The sidebar shows status messages as well as context-dependent help panels.
- Help and guides in more and more places: try
vd -P open-guide-index
. - Command palette: Press
Space
and fuzzy search for commands to execute. - Themes: Try
vd --theme=light
orvd --theme=asciimono
. - The kitchen sink: most third-party plugins and loaders (including vdplus) are released with VisiData in the same package.
Upgrading from 2.x to 3.0
Most things should just work.
- Run
vd2to3.vdx
to convert the internal list of macros from tsv to jsonl. - Rename
{options.input_history}.jsonl
toinput_history.jsonl
(the option is deprecated and the name is no longer configurable).
There have been a few API changes that might require updates to plugins, or code in e.g. .visidatarc.
Changelog
Please see the CHANGELOG for the full list of changes.