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This is the final release of RTV. See here for more information: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv/issues/696

Features

• Added a configuration option to toggle whether to open web browser links in a new tab or a new window.

Documentation

• Improved the mailcap example for the feh command.
• Fixed the the descriptions for the j & k keys (they were swapped).

Features

• Added a brand new inbox page for viewing private messages and comment replies. The inbox is accessible with the i key. Supported actions include viewing message chains and replying to messages, marking messages as read/unread, and opening the context of a comment.
• Added the ability to compose new private messages with the C key.
• Updated the inline help ? document to contain a more comprehensive list of commands.
• Opening a link from the command line is now faster at startup because the default subreddit will not be loaded beforehand.
• Added a new --debug-info command to display useful system information.

Bugfixes

• Fixed opening comments with the prompt / from the subscription window.
• The subscription and multireddit s/S keys now work from all pages.
• Relative time strings are now correctly pluralized.
• Fixed an unclosed file handler when opening the web browser.
• Fixed the application not starting if the user has an empty front page.

Configuration Changes

• Renamed the following keybindings to better represent their usage:

  • SORT_HOT -> SORT_1
  • SORT_TOP -> SORT_2
  • SORT_RISING -> SORT_3
  • SORT_NEW -> SORT_4
  • SORT_CONTROVERSIAL -> SORT_5
  • SORT_GILDED -> SORT_6
  • SUBREDDIT_OPEN_SUBSCRIPTIONS -> SUBSCRIPTIONS
  • SUBREDDIT_OPEN_MULTIREDDITS -> MULTIREDDITS

• Added new keybindings to support the inbox page:

  • SORT_7
  • PRIVATE_MESSAGE
  • INBOX_VIEW_CONTEXT
  • INBOX_OPEN_SUBMISSION
  • INBOX_REPLY
  • INBOX_MARK_READ
  • INBOX_EXIT

• Added new theme elements to support the inbox page:

  • <New>
  • <Distinguished>
  • <MessageSubject>
  • <MessageLink>
  • <MessageAuthor>
  • <MessageSubreddit>
  • <MessageText>

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing newlines to be stripped when posting comments and submissions.

Features

• You can now open HTML links that are embedded inside of comments and submissions by pressing the ENTER key and selecting a link from the list. This also works when copying links to the clipboard using Y.
• Added the --no-autologin command line argument to disable automatically logging in at startup.
• Added the max_pager_cols configuration option to limit the text width when sending text to the system PAGER.
• Additional filtering options have been added when viewing user pages.
• The gilded flair now displays the number of times a submission has been gilded.
• Submissions/comments now display the time that they were most recently edited.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the MIME parser for gfycat, and gfycat videos are now downloaded as mp4.
• Fixed formatting when composing posts with leading whitespace.
• Fixed crash when attempting to display a long terminal title.

Documentation

• RTV has been moved to the Arch Community Repository and installation instructions for Arch have been updated accordingly.

Features

• Python 3.7 is now officially supported.
• Lines that start with the hash symbol (#) are no longer ignored when composing posts in your editor. This allows # to be used with Reddit's markdown parser to denote headers.
• Added a new dark colorblind theme.
• Added support for the $RTV_PAGER environment variable, which can be used to set a unique PAGER for rtv.
• Added the ability to sort submissions by guilded.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash when setting the $BROWSER with python 3.7.
• Improved the error message when attempting to vote on an archived post.
• Cleaned up several outdated MIME parsers. Removed the vidme, twitch, oddshot, and imgtc parsers. Fixed the liveleak and reddit video parsers.

Features

• Submissions can now be marked as [hidden] using the space key. Hidden submissions will be removed from the feed when the page is reloaded.
• New MIME parsers have been added for vimeo.com and streamja.com.
• Added support for opening links with qutebrowser.

Bugfixes

• Fixed unhandled OAuth server log messages being dumped to stdout.
• Fixed the application crashing when performing rate-limited requests.
• Fixed crash when displaying posts that contain null byte characters.

Documentation

• Added README badge for saythanks.io.
• Updated the mailcap template to support v.redd.it links.

I forgot to check in a commit before publishing the 1.22.0 release (whoops!)

Bugfixes

• Updated the __version__.py file to report the current version.
• Added the missing v1.22.0 entry to the CHANGELOG.

Features

• Added the --no-flash option to disable terminal flashing.

Bugfixes

• Fixed automatically exiting on launch when trying to open an invalid subreddit with the -s flag.
• Fixed error handling for HTTP request timeouts when checking for new messages in the inbox.
• Fixed a typo in the sample theme config.

Documentation

• Added the FreeBSD package to the README.

Features

• Full support for customizable themes has been added. For more information, see the new section on themes in the README, and the THEMES.md file.

Bugfixes

• Fixed incorrect URL strings being sent to the opera web browser.
• Fixed timeout messages for the surf and vimb web browsers.
• Switched to using XDG_DATA_HOME to store the rtv browser history and credentials file.

Features

• Text piped to the $PAGER will now wrap on word / sentence breaks.
• New MIME parsers have been added for liveleak.com and worldstarhiphop.com.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a regression where text from the web browser's stdout/stderr was being sent to the terminal window.
• Fixed crashing on startup when the terminal doesn't support colors.
• Fixed broken text formatting when running inside of emacs term.

Codebase

• Dropped support for python 3.3 because it's no longer supported upstream by pytest. The application will still install through pip but will no longer be tested.
• Added a text logo to the README.