WindTerm 2.5.0

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Auto Completion

• Intro Video: Auto Completion
• Intro Video: Auto Completion / History Commands
• Intro Video: Auto Completion / Quick Commands

Auto completion suggests commands, subcommands, command options, command parameters, history commands and quick commands from the QuickBar that are currently available.

Auto completion will recommend the most suitable parameters or phrases based on historical input, which greatly increases text input speed, because you don't have to memorize a large number of commands and type every letter in a command.

Auto completion supports:

• Linux Shell commands.
• MacOS Shell commands.
• Windows Cmd commands.
• PowerShell commands.
• Commands of any command line program, such as Git
• Quick Commands from the QuickBar

Usage:

Windows

Version	Architecture	Operating Systems
WindTerm_2.5.0_Windows_Portable_x86_32	x86_32	Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
WindTerm_2.5.0_Windows_Portable_x86_64	x86_64	Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
WindTerm_2.5.0_Mac_Portable_x86_64	x86_64	macOS 10.13, macOS 10.14, macOS 10.15, macOS 11, macOS 12
WindTerm_2.5.0_Linux_Portable_x86_64	x86_64	Generic Linux (glibc 2.17 and later)

Upgrade

Versions before Version 2.4.0

1. Start WindTerm and select the profiles directory and quit.
2. Replace the new .wind/profiles folder with the old profiles folder.
3. Restart WindTerm and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

Versions after Version 2.4.0

1. Start WindTerm and select the profiles directory containing the old .wind folder.
2. It is recommended to choose the Home Directory to facilitate subsequent upgrades.

If the .wind folder needs to be moved to another system:

1. Quit WindTerm.
2. Replace the new .wind folder with the old .wind folder.
3. Restart WindTerm and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

The .wind folder is cross-platform.

Known Issues:

• [ZMODEM] Only support file names contains ASCII characters in Windows, otherwise the file name of the transfered file will be garbled after transmission, but it does not affect the correctness of the file content. Linux and MacOS version does not have this problem.

Translation:

• [CHINESE] Update the language file, contributed by Lemonawa@github. Update "Chinese (Simplified) - 中文 (简体)" Translation #246 Update zh-CN translations #721
• [FRENCH] Update the language file, contributed by EvoWebFrance@github. French language #499

Features:

• [SESSION] Supports auto completion for Linux Shell, MacOS Shell, PowerShell, Windows Cmd, Git and so on. Intro video
  • 22 Git Commands
  • 32 Windows Cmd Commands
  • 42 Linux / MacOS Shell Commands
  • 3695 PowerShell Commands of Windows Server 2022 and PowerShell v7.3
• [SESSION] Supports auto completion for the command snippets from the QuickBar. Intro video
• [SESSION] Supports auto completion for History Commands. Intro video
• [SESSION] Supports the encrypted storage of command history. The default maximum number of history commands is 10000.
• [SESSION] Supports modifying the default configuration of session. Automatically saves log files to a directory #775 How to set default syntax schemes to none #822
• [SESSION] Supports ignoring bells received more than once within a specified second, the default is 2 seconds.
• [SCHEME] Added macOS system, and all Shell sessions in the macOS system use the macOS by default.
• [SSH] Supports Duplicate Session and Duplicate SSH Channel. type 'ctrl+d' will disconnect all the ssh sessions duplicated #623 Disconnect all sessions when trying to reach ten repetitions. #669
• [SHELL] Automatically add --login and -i parameters when importing Shell sessions. After opening bash, log in as the current user, not bash-3.2$（打开bash怎么默认以当前登录用户的身份登录） #753 By default, the built-in shell terminal adds the parameter -l（内置shell终端默认添加参数：-l） #781
• [SHELL] Automatically detect and set LANG environment variables. 中文乱码 #347 shell session locale （mac os） #705
• [TERM] Supports customizing the key values sent by the alt modifier key and meta modifier key.
• [GUI] The filtering algorithm of the filter boxes is modified to a multiple pattern matching algorithm.
• [GUI] Added Copy Command menu item in the term view to quickly copy the command output.
• [GUI] Supports setting whether to enable auto completion, completion content, etc in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Auto Completion. [AMA] Auto Completion #773 [request] Need an option for disabling auto completion #784 ssh中自动补全的如何去掉 #785 how to disable 'Auto completion suggests' #786 How to disable "Auto completion suggests commands" #792 怎么关闭语法提示 #811 How to turn off command prompts？  #815 How to disable Auto Completion / History Commands #860
• [GUI] Supports setting the number of visual rows of the autocomplete list, and whether to preselect the most matching item in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Auto Completion.
• [GUI] Supports setting whether to store history command, as well as storage size, storage time, etc. in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Command History.
• [GUI] Supports deleting the saved history command in Settings Dialog - Terminal - Command History. [AMA] Auto Completion #773
• [GUI] Supports setting the bell style in Session Settings Dialog - Terminal - Bell, including Mute, Beep and Customized, the default is Beep. How to remove the beep sound in WindTerm #654 Is there any settings to let WindTerm slience? #655
• [GUI] Supports setting the Locale in Session Settings Dialog - Shell - Process - Locale environment variables. 中文乱码 #347 shell session locale （mac os） #705
• [TAB] Restore the last modified tab name. Rename View #626
• [TAB] Automatically add a number sequence to tabs with the same title for easy identification.
• [FILER] Add menu items Copy directory path and Copy directory path to terminal.

Improvements:

• [SSH] Pageant and ssh-agent authentication are no longer performed by default.
• [SSH] When the automatic login fails, the login will no longer restart, but will continue to log in manually. How to save username in SSH session? #857
• [SSH] When a disconnection is detected during the login, the Reconnect button will be displayed to facilitate a quick reconnection.
• [GUI] Add the Remember this step check box to control whether to remember the authentication information of the current step when logging in. how to remember user account in ssh session #787 How to save username in SSH session? #857
• [GUI] The filtering algorithm of the filter boxes prefers to match the first and consecutive characters.
• [GUI] Set the shortcut key for the action Window.DuplicateView to Ctrl+Shift+D. How to set the shortcut for copy view (copy current session)? #770
• [GUI] Set the shortcut key for the action Terminal.OpenSession to Alt+O.
• [GUI] Change the shortcut key for the actionNew Session from Ctrl+N to Alt+N. CTRL-N is not work inside terminal #782 global keyboard combination conflicts  #800
• [GUI] Disabled the Font Ligature feature of most input boxes.
• [GUI] After clicking the clear authentication button, a message box will pop up to display the clear result.
• [GUI] In the Session Settings dialog, only the modified configuration items are written to the configuration file.
• [GUI] Replace all Window.ShowPane* with Window.TogglePane*. Keymap change "Window.ShowPane*" to "Window.TogglePane*" #880
• [SCHEME] Cmd supports highlighting Slash Options.
• [SCHEME] Impoved the highlighting of Slash Options.
• [SESSION] The default lines of scrollback history is limited to 999999.
• [SESSION] New reconnection requests are ignored during the connection process. Press enter when connecting to a server, app stuck #765
• [SESSION] When using the mouse to select text in vim, the alt modifier key must be pressed simultaneously to enter free type mode. history command include result #897
• [SESSION] In the free type mode, pressing the escape key will exit the mode instead of sending the key to the remote host.
• [SESSION] Automatically executed commands are no longer trimmed. [Feature Request] Don't remove leading space from auto executed command #870
• [SENDER] The scroll bar is no longer forced to scroll to the bottom of the screen when sending commands.

Bugs:

• [SSH] When creating a remote tunnel, the application will crash if the connected port is already in use. crash when ssh tunnel remote forwarding port is in use #767
• [SSH] Closing a remote tunnel will cause other tunnels in the same session to be closed by mistake.
• [SSH] Cannot log in correctly when the password contains !=. != not working in any text field (was: login to ssh session) #679
• [GUI] The menu item Session / Open Session does not open the Open Session dialog correctly.
• [GUI] The Listen Port does not updated correctly when clicking on a different tunnel item in the Tunnels dialog.
• [GUI] In full screen mode, the drop-down box of the address bar will pop up in a new window instead of the current window. The Mac version has a problem with the address bar in full screen mode #804
• [GUI] When there is some wrapped lines, the terminal view may not be drawn correctly when the size changes.
• [LOG] Failed to create log files when the session name contains illegal characters, such as :, |, <, >, etc.
• [TAB] The text is not correctly elided according to the width of the tab.
• [TERM] Special characters cannot be entered using the alt modifier key in macOS.
• [SFTP] The configuration item SSH - SFTP - Automatically fix invalid path characters did not take effect when it was set to false.
• [SCHEME] Percentages are incorrectly identified as command prompts. history command include result #897
• [SESSION] Clink fails to start when the application path contains spaces. Warning at startup because of path with spaces #736 Cmd doesn't start normally when WindTerm is installed in path with spaces #746
• [SESSION] Unable to enter the Cyrillic characters р and Р. No input for some cyrillic characters  #783
• [MODEM] The path pasted in the sz download dialog did not take effect. sz bug #836

Roadmap of v2.6 (Late-August, for reference only)

• Resolve issues as much as possible
• Improved Filer
• Improved Transfer
• Improved Quickbar
• SSH Agent Forwaring
• New memory allocator and manager and garbage collector. (Postponed to a later version )
• Command Snippet Description (Postponed to a later version )
• SSH GSSAPI Authentication (Postponed to a later version )
• SSH Agent (Postponed to a later version )
• Search in sessions. (Postponed to a later version )

Intro Videos

• Auto Completion
• Auto Completion / History Commands
• Auto Completion / Quick Commands

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This discussion was created from the release WindTerm 2.5.0.

[TheBlindM]

When executing some commands, the output will also be recorded as historical commands, such as df -h, I am curious how you get the historical commands

[wmashal]

I got this error when I am trying to open it in my mac
“WindTerm” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.

[bharadwaj-staked]

Looks like the macOS version isn't compatible with M2 chip.

[Azhun-HITwh]

How to use windterm on ubuntu 18.04? I got
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
when using tar -xzvf command to extract the tar.gz file

[jaukear]

WindTerm is the best SSH tool for me. I used many tools is not good!

[sipeiliu]

how to run it on linux?

[mikuUU-love]

哥们咱们就是能不能，优化一下命令历史记录偶尔显示偶尔不显示，而且会话不支持导出保存

[mikuUU-love]

哥们咱们就是能不能，优化一下命令历史记录偶尔显示偶尔不显示，而且会话不支持导出保存

[TheBlindM]

哥们咱们就是能不能，优化一下命令历史记录偶尔显示偶尔不显示，而且会话不支持导出保存

看一下T-Shell https://github.com/TheBlindM/T-Shell

[synohsu]

System:MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 (23B92)
OS language:Chinese
WindTerm:2.5.0
Session Windows:Serial
QS: can not display all，and display the “???”

[andmanoppo]

The problem I encountered was that after filling in the server IP, I clicked to connect. It did not appear. Fill in the user name and password option. Please find the reason.