What's new in github-code-search v1.8.0

Full release notes: https://github.com/fulll/github-code-search/releases/tag/v1.8.0

Highlights

Cohesive purple TUI theme

The interactive view has been completely re-skinned around a purple colour palette.

Element	Before	After
Active row background	Grey (48;5;236)	Dark purple (48;5;53)
Active row left bar ▌	None	Saturated purple (38;5;129)
Repo names	Bold cyan	Bright purple bold (38;5;129)
Match count badge	Dim white	Muted purple (38;5;99)

The left bar spans the full terminal width so the selected row is unmistakable even in long result lists. Path and loc-suffix (:line:col) on the active extract row use bold white for visual consistency.

Fetch progress bar

A progress bar is now displayed during the GitHub API search so you can track paged requests in real time:

Fetching results ████████████████░░░░░░░░  8/13 pages

The bar fills in saturated purple and shows the current page / estimated total pages. It disappears automatically when all results are loaded.

Position indicator

A persistent indicator at the bottom of the TUI shows your exact position within the result list:

  ↕ row 14 of 49

The number always reflects the cursor position, not the scroll offset, so it updates on every keypress — including when you navigate upward inside an already-scrolled viewport.

Line-anchored file links (o)

When you press o on an extract row, the browser now opens the file at the exact matched line by appending a #L{line} anchor to the GitHub URL.

Before: https://github.com/org/repo/blob/main/src/foo.ts
After: https://github.com/org/repo/blob/main/src/foo.ts#L42

On a repo row, o still opens the repository home page unchanged.

Esc to close the help overlay

The help overlay (toggled with h or ?) can now also be dismissed with Esc, matching the expected behaviour of most terminal UIs.

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