v0.8.0

Features

• Support for a configuration file with the following simple format:

  --tabs=4
  --theme="Sublime Snazzy"
  
  # A line-comment
  --map-syntax .ignore:.gitignore
  --map-syntax PKGBUILD:bash
  --map-syntax Podfile:ruby
  
  # Flags and options can also be on a single line:
  --wrap=never --paging=never

  The configuration file path can be accessed via bat --config-file. On Linux,
  it is stored in ~/.config/bat/config.

• Support for the BAT_OPTS environment variable with the same format as specified
  above (in a single line). This takes precedence over the configuration file.

  See also #310.

• Support for custom syntax mappings via the -m/--max-syntax option.

  This allows users to (re)map certain file extensions or file names to an existing syntax:

  bat --map-syntax .config:json ...

  The option can be use multiple times. Note that you can easily make these mappings permanent by using bats new configuration file.

  See #169

• Support pager command-line arguments in PAGER and BAT_PAGER, see #352 (@Foxboron)

• Add support for wildcards in Windows CMD, see #309 (@Zxey)

• First-line syntax detection for all input types, see #205

• Encoding support for UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE, see #285

• New syntaxes: Robot framework (@sanga)

Changes

• Binary files are now detected and not displayed when the output goes to an interactive terminal, see #205

Bugfixes

• JavaDoc comments break syntax highlighting in .java files, see #81

• Bat Panics on Haskell Source Code, see #314

Other

• Better -h and --help texts.

• Updated documentation on how to configure bats pager

• Updated documentation for light backgrounds, see #328 (@russtaylor)

• Generate shell completions during build, see #115 (@davideGiovannini)

• A lot of new tests have been written

• bat is now available via Termux, see #341 (@fornwall)

• bat is now available via nix, see #344 (@mgttlinger)

• bat is now available via Docker, see #331 (@danlynn)