# bat v0.22.0

- Product: bat (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bat)
- Vendor: David Peter
- Date: 2022-09-06
- Version: v0.22.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases/tag/v0.22.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/bat/releases/v0.22.0

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- **added** — Make the default macOS theme depend on Dark Mode
- **added** — Support for separate system and user config files
- **fixed** — Prevent fork nightmare with PAGER=batcat
- **fixed** — Make --no-paging/-P override --paging=... if passed as a later arg
- **fixed** — Make --map-syntax and --ignored-suffix work together
- **fixed** — Strip byte order mark from output when in non-loop-through mode
- **changed** — Relax glibc requirements on amd64
- **changed** — Improve fish completions
- **changed** — Stop pre-processing ANSI escape characters
- **changed** — Map NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) to Lua
- **changed** — Correctly color fstab dump and pass fields
- **changed** — Update Command Help syntax
- **fixed** — Fix Julia syntax highlighting for function name starting with struct
- **changed** — Update LiveScript syntax
- **changed** — Associate .mts and .cts files with the TypeScript syntax
- **changed** — Map Fish history to YAML
- **changed** — Make bat::PrettyPrinter::syntaxes() iterate over new bat::Syntax struct instead of &syntect::parsing::SyntaxReference
- **fixed** — Clear highlights after printing

##### Features

- Make the default macOS theme depend on Dark Mode. See #2197, #1746 (@Enselic)
- Support for separate system and user config files. See #668 (@patrickpichler)

##### Bugfixes

- Prevent fork nightmare with `PAGER=batcat`. See #2235 (@johnmatthiggins)
- Make `--no-paging`/`-P` override `--paging=...` if passed as a later arg, see #2201 (@themkat)
- `--map-syntax` and `--ignored-suffix` now works together, see #2093 (@czzrr)
- Strips byte order mark from output when in non-loop-through mode. See #1922 (@dag-h)

##### Other

- Relaxed glibc requirements on amd64, see #2106 and #2194 (@sharkdp)
- Improved fish completions. See #2275 (@zgracem)
- Stop pre-processing ANSI escape characters. Syntax highlighting on ANSI escaped input is not supported. See #2185 and #2189 (@Enselic)

##### Syntaxes

- NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) is mapped to Lua, see #2151 (@Cre3per)
- Correctly color `fstab` dump and pass fields, see #2246 (@yuvalmo)
- Update `Command Help` syntax, see #2255
- `Julia`: Fix syntax highlighting for function name starting with `struct`, see #2230
- Minor update to `LiveScript`, see #2291
- Associate `.mts` and `.cts` files with the `TypeScript` syntax. See #2236 (@kidonng)
- Fish history is mapped to YAML. See #2237 (@kidonng)

##### `bat` as a library

- Make `bat::PrettyPrinter::syntaxes()` iterate over new `bat::Syntax` struct instead of `&syntect::parsing::SyntaxReference`. See #2222 (@Enselic)
- Clear highlights after printing, see #1919 and #1920 (@rhysd)