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4.2.0

🚀 Features

• Support several new sequences (#2360) via @​jerch
  • SL - Scroll left
  • SR - Scroll right
  • DECIC - Insert columns
  • DECDC - Delete columns

📦 API

• New base scroll sensitivity setting (#2485) via @​eamodio

  // Scroll 2 times faster than normal
  const term = new Terminal({
    scrollSensitivity: 2
  });

• Support fast scrolling while holding a modifier key (alt by default) (#2375) via @​csurquin

  // Scroll 10 times faster than normal when holding alt
  const term = new Terminal({
    fastScrollSensitivity: 10,
    fastScrollModifier: 'alt'
  });

• Surface the range of a link in its hover callback (#2470, #2492) via @​jmbockhorst

  interface ILinkMatcherOptions {
    tooltipCallback?: (event: MouseEvent, uri: string, location: IViewportRange) => boolean | void;
  }

🐞 Bug fixes

• Throw when Infinity and NaN are provided to an API that expects an integer (#2451) via @​Tyriar
• Have the unfocused cursor style match the normal cursor style (#2455) via @​JeffreyCA
• Send correct sequence for ctrl+up/down on macOS (#2467) via @​Tyriar
• Mark element and textarea correctly with | undefined in the API (#2473) via @​Tyriar
• Add ,, ; and : as default characters included in the wordSeparator option (#2474) via @​glneto
• Protect against exception when clicking on links (#2475) via @​Tyriar
• Fix scrollback going missing when increasing terminal size under conpty (#2476) via @​Tyriar
• Fix alerts provided by lgtm.com (#2496, #2505) via @​Tyriar
• Fix edge case in text decoder (#2504) via @​jerch
• Limit parse buffer size (#2508) via @​jerch
• Set IMarker.line to -1 when disposed (#2510) via @​Tyriar
• Apply scrollSensitivity when fast scrolling (#2514) via @​Tyriar

📝 Documentation and internal improvements

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• f30c38f Merge pull request #2515 from Tyriar/r420
• bfe11b7 v4.2.0
• a800dd3 Merge pull request #2514 from Tyriar/scroll
• a5a0779 Apply scrollSensitivity on fast scroll too
• 4fe5a5a Merge pull request #2512 from Tyriar/refine_range
• 974c721 Merge pull request #2511 from Tyriar/marker_doc
• 851fb7a Refine IViewportRange API to use 'cursor positions' for x value
• 1c72a66 Merge pull request #2507 from jerch/remove_obsolete_mouseencodings
• 6f8919a Merge branch 'master' into remove_obsolete_mouseencodings
• dac2da0 Clarify marker API docs
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