Visidata

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[v3.0.2](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/releases/tag/v3.0.2) (2024-01-15)

This is a another patch release with some necessary fixes. The most important fixes:

- [sort] a better fix for maintaining sort ordering on sheet copies 2190 2254
- [cmdpalette] only first 10 suggestions should have shortcut keys 2242
- [input] draw help sidebar on top of sheet/updater 2241
- [sidebar] grab user's keystroke of sidebar-toggle for helpstring 2250
- [tests] add "test" extras for installing PyPI packages needed to run tests

- [cli] add `--guides` option alias to open the guide index
- [shell] clean up DirSheet sidebar

Please see the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/v3.0.2/CHANGELOG.md) for the full list of changes.

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[v3.0.1](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/releases/tag/v3.0.1) (2024-01-07)

This is a patch release with some necessary fixes. The most important fixes (and the reasons a patch release was triggered):

- [dup-selected] dup-selected should unselect all rows in copied sheet 2225
- [cmdpalette] Enter executes first row, if partially typed out 2219
- [expr] fix KeyError crash with invalid inputs in `expr` for Python 3.12 2179
- [test] update unit tests to use packaged sample.tsv and benchmark.csv 2218

Other fixes and minor improvements:

- [color] add `options.color_longname` to use instead of `color_keystrokes` for command longnames 2219
- [cmdpalette] add sidebar for longname and aggregator palette 2219
- [guide] add `show-command-info` to display command info for a keystroke 2228
- [test] add `assert-expr` and `assert-expr-row` to evaluate Python expressions, and assert result is truthy

Please see the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/v3.0.1/CHANGELOG.md) for the full list of changes.

Most things should just work.

- Run `vd2to3.vdx` to convert the internal list of macros from tsv to jsonl.
- Rename `{options.input_history}.jsonl` to `input_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](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/v3.0/CHANGELOG.md) for the full list of changes.

QuLogic [kindly let us know](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/1934) that there was an API change in [Python 3.12's `Path` module](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/102476). This needed a shipped patch of VisiData to address, and so we made a [callout to the community](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/1937) for what else could be snuck into this patch.

What resulted is a tidy little collection of fixes. Stand-out stars are daviewales and midichef for their user-experience improvements. daviewales has been improving the [feel of the chooser](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/1936/commits/51c281586b65ae3f0a1f27a01c21814844432e63), the [output of the fixed-width saver](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/1936/commits/fa2e53aff2f196c191ad6b3cc8ba554ea71e87bd) and the [appearance of the Frequency Table](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/1936/commits/53bdff74b3d795b52a42eabd173463ea3ffaf03e), while midichef has been [tweaking](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/1936/commits/c707be4c8d8f29e520952b223e8cc592fb379ace) [the](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/1936/commits/66fbbaef423ac12eceed0582772329daf51a1caa) [graphs](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/1936/commits/3adc1ad75b1837579025899ebedc2b2bbe13d086) and [improved the display of json columns](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/1747).

All together, these contributed to a release that feels better than its predecessor, with a fairly minimal changelog.

As usual, the [Changelog](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/stable/CHANGELOG.md#v2111-2023-07-16) contains the full list of changes!

- dup-sheet (") now carries over attributes of columns added by add-column (helpful!)
- We added a new "concat" jointype. This behaves similar to "append", but keeps first sheet type and columns. This isn't the final word on this, but it addresses a particular usecase that seems important to include.

Please see [the CHANGELOG](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/v2.11/CHANGELOG.md) for the full list of changes.

Hi data friends!

This release primarily fixes startup issues related to importlib_metadata and automatic loading of plugins (1529). Other changes:

- added `-N`/`--nothing` option to disable loading visidatarc or any addons
- 1431 fix system clipboard on windows (thanks daviewales)
- 1527 Enter opens file on DirSheet
- 1532 allow vd to be truly idle
- Other bugs fixed: 1541 1547 1546 1452 1431 1471

Please see [the CHANGELOG](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/v2.10.2/CHANGELOG.md) for the full list of changes.

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