Lite XL v2.1.4

This release addresses severe bugs not found in previous releases, and improves the usability of the editor.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads such as ZIP files for Windows and lightweight releases are available below.

For OS requirements, please refer to the relevant section in the README.

Features

• Add .pyi extension to language_python (#1728)
• Improve autocomplete suggestions box behavior with long text (#1734)
• Improve CommandView and autocomplete scroll behavior (#1732)
• Add from symbol to support ESM (#1754)
• Add Arduino syntax highlighting support in language_cpp (#1767)
• Skip patterns matching nothing in tokenizer (#1743)

Fixes

• Fix uninitialized variables in src/api/process.c (#1719)
• Fix language_js regex/comment distinction (#1731)
• Fix compilation on non-MINGW64 platforms (#1739)
• Limit language_js regex avoidance to numbers, and fix starting /* comments (#1744)
• Fix buffer_size in g_read for Windows (#1722)

Other Changes

• Rectify LICENSE dates and owners (#1748)
• Fix some typos in core.init (#1755)

Changes: v2.1.3...v2.1.4

Lite XL v2.1.4 Release Candidate 1

This release addresses severe bugs not found in previous releases, and improves the usability of the editor.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads such as ZIP files for Windows and lightweight releases are available below.

For OS requirements, please refer to the relevant section in the README.

Features

• Add .pyi extension to language_python (#1728)
• Improve autocomplete suggestions box behavior with long text (#1734)
• Improve CommandView and autocomplete scroll behavior (#1732)
• Add from symbol to support ESM (#1754)
• Add Arduino syntax highlighting support in language_cpp (#1767)
• Skip patterns matching nothing in tokenizer (#1743)

Fixes

• Fix uninitialized variables in src/api/process.c (#1719)
• Fix language_js regex/comment distinction (#1731)
• Fix compilation on non-MINGW64 platforms (#1739)
• Limit language_js regex avoidance to numbers, and fix starting /* comments (#1744)
• Fix buffer_size in g_read for Windows (#1722)

Other Changes

• Rectify LICENSE dates and owners (#1748)
• Fix some typos in core.init (#1755)

Changes: v2.1.3...v2.1.4-rc1

Lite XL v2.1.3

This release addresses severe bugs not found in previous releases.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads such as ZIP files for Windows and lightweight releases are available below.

For OS requirements, please refer to the relevant section in the README.

Important Notes

• Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display scale detection,
  causing UI elements to have incorrect sizing in High DPI displays.
  To workaround this issue, set the LITE_SCALE environment variable to your desired display scale.

• macOS users should not run xattr -C /Applications/Lite\ XL.app anymore,
  instead they could right-click the program in Finder and click "Open".
  This should allow the user to run Lite XL directly.

Fixes

• Fix doc:create-cursor-{previous,next}-line with tabs
  (#1697)

• Fix heap buffer overflow and memory leaks in process and renderer API
  (#1705)

• Improve Python number syntax highlighting
  (#1704)

• Fix inconsistent NagView options on doc:save
  (#1696)

• Fix crashes with autoreload when files are deleted externally and replaced with a directory
  (#1698)

• Improve JavaScript number syntax highlighting
  (#1710)

Other Changes

• Process API style changes
  (#1709)

Changes: v2.1.2...v2.1.3

Lite XL v2.1.3-rc2

Changes Log

2.1.3-rc2 - 2024-01-21

This release addresses severe bugs not found in previous releases.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads such as ZIP files for Windows and lightweight releases are available below.

For OS requirements, please refer to the relevant section in the README.

Important Notes

• Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display scale detection,
  causing UI elements to have incorrect sizing in High DPI displays.
  To workaround this issue, set the LITE_SCALE environment variable to your desired display scale.

• macOS users should not run xattr -C /Applications/Lite\ XL.app anymore,
  instead they could right-click the program in Finder and click "Open".
  This should allow the user to run Lite XL directly.

Fixes

• Fix doc:create-cursor-{previous,next}-line with tabs
  (#1697)

• Fix heap buffer overflow and memory leaks in process and renderer API
  (#1705)

• Improve Python number syntax highlighting
  (#1704)

• Fix inconsistent NagView options on doc:save
  (#1696)

• Fix crashes with autoreload when files are deleted externally and replaced with a directory.
  (#1698)

• Improve JavaScript number syntax highlighting
  (#1710)

Other Changes

• Process API style changes
  (#1709)

Changes: v2.1.2...v2.1.3-rc2

Lite XL v2.1.2

This release addresses some issues present in the previous release, and improves the performance and stability.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads such as ZIP files for Windows and lightweight releases are available below.

For OS requirements, please refer to the relevant section in the README.

Important Notes

• Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display scale detection,
  causing UI elements to have incorrect sizing in High DPI displays.
  To workaround this issue, set the LITE_SCALE environment variable to your desired display scale.

• macOS users should not run xattr -C /Applications/Lite\ XL.app anymore,
  instead they could right-click the program in Finder and click "Open".
  This should allow the user to run Lite XL directly.

New Features

• The context menu in TreeView is now navigable with a keyboard. (#1338)

• A universal build of Lite XL is now available for macOS.
  This build runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon macs. (#1458)

• Most Unicode characters should be displayed properly if your fonts support them. (#1524)

• LogView will no longer scroll automatically if the user had scrolled.
  The LogView will only scroll automatically when the user scrolls up to the last entry. (#1546)

• When using different fonts (especially fonts that render different scripts), the letters will be aligned vertically. (#1560)

• Unsaved named files are now saved in the workspace. (#1597)

• macOS builds are now signed with a developer certificate.
  This allows the user to right click the application in Finder and execute it directly. (#1656)

Performance Improvements

• Allow command buffer to be expanded. (#1297)

• Use table.move to implement common.splice. (#1324)

• Create renderer only when it doesn't exist. (#1315)

• Avoid drawing hidden text in DocView:draw_line_text. (#1298)

• Don't calculate widths per-uft8-char when not needed. (#1409)

• Allow tokenizer to pause and resume in the middle of a line. (#1444)

• Optimize CI build times on MSYS2. (#1435)

• Significant memory usage improvements when using huge fonts on Windows. (#1555)

• Optimize background tasks response time. (#1601)

Backward Incompatible Changes

• The native plugin API is now usable on multiple source files,
  without causing any duplicated symbol errors during compilation.
  Plugins using the new plugin API header must define LITE_XL_PLUGIN_ENTRYPOINT
  before importing the header, in one of their source files.
  (#1335)

• The native plugin API header now follows the Lua 5.4 API.
  Previously, the plugin API header followed the Lua 5.2 API.
  (#1436)

• On Linux, process.start() will now throw an error if execv() fails.
  (#1363)

Please refer to the changelog for bugfixes and other changes.
Changes: v2.1.1...v2.1.2

Lite XL v2.1.2 Release Candidate 4

This release addresses some issues present in the previous release.

Downloads

• Windows (Setup): 32-bit, 64-bit
• Linux (64-bit): AppImage, tarball
• macOS: Universal, Intel, Apple Silicon

Other downloads such as ZIP files for Windows and Base releases are available below.

New Features

• The context menu in TreeView is now navigable with a keyboard.
  (#1338)

• A universal build of Lite XL is now available for macOS.
  This build runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon macs.
  (#1458)

• Most Unicode characters should be displayed properly
  if your fonts support them.
  (#1524)

• LogView will no longer scroll automatically if the user had scrolled.
  The LogView will only scroll automatically when the user scrolls up
  to the last entry.
  (#1546)

• When using different fonts (especially fonts that render different scripts),
  the letters will be aligned vertically.
  (#1560)

• Unsaved named files are now saved in the workspace.
  (#1597)

• macOS builds are now signed with a developer certificate.
  This allows the user to right click the application in Finder and execute
  it directly.
  (#1656)

Performance Improvements

• Allow command buffer to be expanded.
  (#1297)

• Use table.move to implement common.splice.
  (#1324)

• Create renderer only when it doesn't exist.
  (#1315)

• Avoid drawing hidden text in DocView:draw_line_text.
  (#1298)

• Don't calculate widths per-uft8-char when not needed.
  (#1409)

• Allow tokenizer to pause and resume in the middle of a line.
  (#1444)

• Optimize CI build times on MSYS2.
  (#1435)

• Significant memory usage improvements when using huge fonts on Windows.
  (#1555)

• The program should be much more responsive when running background tasks.
  (#1601)

Backward Incompatible Changes

• The native plugin API is now usable on multiple source files,
  without causing any duplicated symbol errors during compilation.
  Plugins using the new plugin API header must define LITE_XL_PLUGIN_ENTRYPOINT
  before importing the header, in one of their source files.
  (#1335)

• The native plugin API header now follows the Lua 5.4 API.
  Previously, the plugin API header followed the Lua 5.2 API.
  (#1436)

• On Linux, process.start() will now throw an error if execv() fails.
  (#1363)

• Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display
  scale detection. This may be fixed in a later version of Lite XL.
  Set the LITE_SCALE environment variable to override this value.

Fixes and Other Changes

Fixes

• Fix minor typos in user module
  (#1289)

• Do not allow users to create an empty font group
  (#1303)

• Fix a memory leak
  (#1305)

• Make dirwatch sorting compatible with what file_bisect expects
  (#1300)

• Handle readlink errors
  (#1292)

• Disable horizontal scrolling when linewrapping is enabled
  (#1309)

• Update widgets install location

• Add missing luaL_typeerror symbol to plugin API
  (#1313)

• Defer lua error until after cleanup
  (#1310)

• Make empty groups in regex.gmatch return their offset
  (#1325)

• Add missing header declaration

• Fix msys build now requiring ca-certificates
  (#1348)

• Fix path to macOS arm64 cross file in GitHub workflows

• Fix Doc contextmenu not registering commands if scale plugin is not found
  (#1338)

• Fix TreeView contextmenu commands not working if the mouse hovers DocView
  (#1338)

• Fix incorrect contextmenu predicate
  (#1338)

• Properly rescale NagView on scale change
  (#1379)

• Scale plugin also rescales style.expanded_scrollbar_size
  (#1380)

• Improve DocView:get_visible_line_range precision
  (#1382)

• Fix up some post 5.1/JIT Symbols
  (#1385)

• Fix incorrect x_offset if opened docs have different tab sizes
  (#1383)

• Use correct view for scrolling to find-replace:repeat-find results
  (#1400)

• Improve text width calculation precision
  (#1408)

• Add asynchronous process reaping
  (#1412)

• Fix cursors positions when deleting multiple selections
  (#1393,
  #1463)

• Fix invalid EXEFILE and EXEDIR on Windows
  (#1396)

• Fix os.getenv() not supporting UTF-8 output
  (#1397)

• Fix differing stacktrace on stdout and file
  (#1404)

• Update api_require to expose more symbols
  (#1437)

• Make system.path_compare more case-aware
  (#1457)

• Fix for api_require wrong macro && conditions
  (#1465)

• Merge carets after doc:move-to-{previous,next}-char
  (#1462)

• Process API improvements (again)
  (#1370)

• Make system.path_compare more digit-aware
  (#1474)

• Check for HANDLE_INVALID in Process API
  (#1475)

• Fix linewrapping bug to do with wordwrapping

• Fix compiler warning for printing size_t in rencache.c

• Return error string from C searcher

• Restore horizontal scroll position after scale change
  (#494)

• Fix memory leak in renderer.c when freeing glyphsets

• Move lineguide below blinking cursor
  (#1511)

• Close lua state when exiting on a runtime error
  (#1487)

• Mark linewrapping open_files table as weak

• Don't use core.status_view if not yet initialized when logging

• Revert "core syntax: strip the path from filename on syntax.get (#1168)"
  (#1322)

• Make Doc:sanitize_position return a more appropriate col
  (#1469)

• Skip checking files if no filename was provided to syntax.get

• Normalize stroke before adding keybind
  (#1334)

• Make DocView aware of scrollbars sizes
  (#1177)

• Normalize strokes in fixed order
  (#1572)

• Defer core:open-log until everything is loaded
  (#1585)

• Fix returned percent when clicking the Scrollbar track

• Fix C++14 digit separators
  (#1593)

• Make linewrapping consider the expanded Scrollbar size

• Fix dimmed text when antialiasing is turned off
  (#1641)

• Mark unsaved named files as dirty
  (#1598)

• Make common.serialize() locale-independent and nan/inf compatible
  ...

Lite XL v2.1.2 Release Candidate 3

This release addresses some issues present in the previous release.

Notes

• macOS users no longer need to run xattr -cr /Applications/Lite\ XL.app before running Lite XL. Instead, locate Lite XL in Finder, right-click the application and select "Open".
• The Addons package is no longer the recommended way for extra plugins out-of-the-box. Users should use lpm to install and manage their plugins. lpm will be bundled in a future release of Lite XL.

New Features

• The context menu in TreeView is now navigable with a keyboard.
  (#1338)

• A universal build of Lite XL is now available for macOS.
  This build runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon macs.
  (#1458)

• Most Unicode characters should be displayed properly
  if your fonts support them.
  (#1524)

• LogView will no longer scroll automatically if the user had scrolled.
  The LogView will only scroll automatically when the user scrolls up
  to the last entry.
  (#1546)

• When using different fonts (especially fonts that render different scripts),
  the letters will be aligned vertically.
  (#1560)

• Unsaved named files are now saved in the workspace.
  (#1597)

• macOS builds are now signed with a developer certificate.
  This allows the user to right click the application in Finder and execute
  it directly.
  (#1656)

Backward Incompatible Changes

• The native plugin API is now usable on multiple source files,
  without causing any duplicated symbol errors during compilation.
  Plugins using the new plugin API header must define LITE_XL_PLUGIN_ENTRYPOINT
  before importing the header, in one of their source files.
  (#1335)

• The native plugin API header now follows the Lua 5.4 API.
  Previously, the plugin API header follows the Lua 5.2 API.
  (#1436)

• On Linux, process.start() will now throw an error if execv() fails.
  Previously, the function will return a valid Process object and the error message
  can be obtained by reading the standard output.
  (#1363)

• Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display
  scale detection. This may be fixed in a later version of Lite XL.

Performance Improvements

• Allow command buffer to be expanded.
  (#1297)

• Use table.move to implement common.splice.
  (#1324)

• Create renderer only when it doesn't exist.
  (#1315)

• Avoid drawing hidden text in DocView:draw_line_text.
  (#1298)

• Don't calculate widths per-uft8-char when not needed.
  (#1409)

• Allow tokenizer to pause and resume in the middle of a line.
  (#1444)

• Optimize CI build times on MSYS2.
  (#1435)

• Significant memory usage improvements when using huge fonts on Windows.
  (#1555)

• The program should be much more responsive when running background tasks.
  (#1601)

Fixes and other changes

Fixes

• Fix minor typos in user module
  (#1289)

• Do not allow users to create an empty font group
  (#1303)

• Fix a memory leak
  (#1305)

• Make dirwatch sorting compatible with what file_bisect expects
  (#1300)

• Handle readlink errors
  (#1292)

• Disable horizontal scrolling when linewrapping is enabled
  (#1309)

• Update widgets install location

• Add missing luaL_typeerror symbol to plugin API
  (#1313)

• Defer lua error until after cleanup
  (#1310)

• Make empty groups in regex.gmatch return their offset
  (#1325)

• Add missing header declaration

• Fix msys build now requiring ca-certificates
  (#1348)

• Fix path to macOS arm64 cross file in GItHub workflows

• Fix Doc contextmenu not registering commands if scale plugin is not found
  (#1338)

• Fix TreeView contextmenu commands not working if the mouse hovers DocView
  (#1338)

• Fix incorrect contextmenu predicate
  (#1338)

• Properly rescale NagView on scale change
  (#1379)

• Scale plugin also rescales style.expanded_scrollbar_size
  (#1380)

• Improve DocView:get_visible_line_range precision
  (#1382)

• Fix up some post 5.1/JIT Symbols
  (#1385)

• Fix incorrect x_offset if opened docs have different tab sizes
  (#1383)

• Use correct view for scrolling to find-replace:repeat-find results
  (#1400)

• Improve text width calculation precision
  (#1408)

• Add asynchronous process reaping
  (#1412)

• fix cursors positions when deleting multiple selections
  (#1393,
  #1463)

• Fix invalid EXEFILE and EXEDIR on Windows
  (#1396)

• Fix os.getenv() not supporting UTF-8 output
  (#1397)

• Fix differing stacktrace on stdout and file
  (#1404)

• Update api_require to expose more symbols
  (#1437)

• Make system.path_compare more case-aware
  (#1457)

• Fix for api_require wrong macro && conditions
  (#1465)

• Merge carets after doc:move-to-{previous,next}-char
  (#1462)

• Process API improvements (again)
  (#1370)

• Make system.path_compare more digit-aware
  (#1474)

• Check for HANDLE_INVALID in Process API
  (#1475)

• Fix linewrapping bug to do with wordwrapping

• Fix compiler warning for printing size_t in rencache.c

• Return error string from C searcher

• Restore horizontal scroll position after scale change
  (#494)

• Fix memory leak in renderer.c when freeing glyphsets

• Move lineguide below blinking cursor
  (#1511)

• Close lua state when exiting on a runtime error
  (#1487)

• Mark linewrapping open_files table as weak

• Don't use core.status_view if not yet initialized when logging

• Revert "core syntax: strip the path from filename on syntax.get (#1168)"
  (#1322)

• Make Doc:sanitize_position return a more appropriate col
  (#1469)

• Skip checking files if no filename was provided to syntax.get

• Normalize stroke before adding keybind
  (#1334)

• Make DocView aware of scrollbars sizes
  (#1177)

• Normalize strokes in fixed order
  (#1572)

• Defer core:open-log until everything is loaded
  (#1585)

• Fix returned percent when clicking the Scrollbar track

• Fixed C++14 digit separators
  (#1593)

• Make linewrapping consider the expanded Scrollbar size

• Fix dimmed text when antialiasing is turned off
  (#1641)

• Mark unsaved named files as dirty
  (#1598)

• Make common.serialize() locale-independent and nan/inf compatible
  (#1640)

• Ignore keypresses during IME composition
  (#1573)

• Fix deadlock if error handler jumps somewhere else
  (#1647)

• Avoid considering single spaces in detectindent
  (#1595)

• Fix deleting indentation with multiple cursors
  ([#1670](https://github...

Lite XL v2.1.1

Notes

• When installing on MacOS from the .dmg file (since Lite XL is not signed anymore) you will need to clear the App attributes in order to be able to launch it. To do so open the terminal and run xattr -cr /Applications/Lite\ XL.app, afterwards you should be able to launch Lite XL normally.

Addons vs non-addons packages

The addon packages besides including the Lite XL binary also include additional plugins to make the initial experience more accesible. The extra features the addon packages include are:

• All language plugins.
• All color scheme plugins.
• Widgets + settings gui plugin for easier configuration.
• Open externally plugin, which detects if a file been open is valid utf-8 and offers to open it externally if not.

New Features

• Add config.keep_newline_whitespace option (#1184)

• Add regex.find_offsets, regex.find, improve regex.match (#1232)

• Added regex.gmatch (#1233)

• add touch events (#1245)

Performance Improvements

• highlighter: autostop co-routine when not needed (#881)

• core: ported regex.gsub to faster native version (#1233)

Backward Incompatible Changes

• For correctness, the behaviour of regex.match was changed to more closely behave like string.match.

• regex.find_offsets now provides the previous functionality of regex.match with a more appropriate function name.

• regex.gsub doesn't provides the indexes of matches and replacements anymore, now it behaves more similar to string.gsub (the only known affected plugin was regexreplacepreview which has already been adapted)

UI Enhancements

• statusview: respect right padding of item tooltip (0373d29f)

• feat: encode home in statusview file path (#1224)

• autocomplete: wrap the autocomplete results around (#1223)

• feat: alert user via nagview if file cannot be saved (#1230)

• contextmenu: make divider less aggressive (#1228)

• Improve IME location updates (#1170)

• fix: move tab scroll buttons to remove spacing before 1st tab (#1231)

• Allow TreeView file operation commands when focused (#1256)

• contextmenu: adjust y positioning if less than zero (#1268)

Fixes

• Don't sort in Doc:get_selection_idx with an invalid index (b029f599)

• tokenizer: remove the limit of 3 subsyntaxes depth (#1186)

• dirmonitor: give kevent a timeout so it doesn't lock forever (#1180)

• dirmonitor: fix win32 implementation name length to prevent ub (5ab8dc0)

• Make linewrapping plugin recompute breaks before scrolling (#1190)

• Add missing get_exe_filename() implementation for FreeBSD (#1198)

• (Windows) Load fonts with UTF-8 filenames (#1201)

• Use subsyntax info to toggle comments (#1202)

• Pass the currently selected item to CommandView validation (#1203)

• Windows font loading hotfix (#1205)

• better error messages for checkcolor (#1211)

• Fix native plugins not reloading upon core:restart (#1219)

• Converted from bytes to characters, as this is what windows is expecting (5ab8dc02)

• Fix some syntax errors (#1243)

• toolbarview: Remove tooltip when hidden (#1251)

• detectindent: Limit subsyntax depth (#1253)

• Use Lua string length instead of relying on strlen (#1262) (#1262)

• dirmonitor: fix high cpu usage (#1271), (#1274)

• Fix popping subsyntaxes that end consecutively (#1246)

• Fix userdata APIs for Lua 5.4 in native plugin interface (#1188)

• Fix horizontal scroll with touchpad on MacOS (74349f8e)

Other Changes

• (Windows) MSVC Support (#1199)

• meson: updated all subproject wraps (#1214)

• set arch tuple in meson (#1254)

• update documentation for system (#1210)

• docs api: added dirmonitor (7bb86e16)

• trimwhitespace: expose functionality and extra features (#1238)

• plugins projectsearch: expose its functionality (#1235)

• Simplify SDL message boxes (#1249)

• Add example settings to overwrite an existing key binding (#1270)

• Fix two typos in data/init.lua (#1272)

• Updated meson wraps to latest (SDL v2.26, PCRE2 v10.42)

New Contributors

• @ColonelPhantom made their first contribution in #1190
• @vkedwardli made their first contribution in #1192
• @Delta-official made their first contribution in #1219
• @TorchedSammy made their first contribution in #1224
• @techie-guy made their first contribution in #1223
• @MFAshby made their first contribution in #1270
• @simonkrauter made their first contribution in #1272

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.1.1

Lite XL v2.1.0

Notes

• When installing on MacOS from the .dmg file (since Lite XL is not signed anymore) you will need to clear the App attributes in order to be able to launch it. To do so open the terminal and run xattr -cr /Applications/Lite\ XL.app, afterwards you should be able to launch Lite XL normally.

Addons vs non-addons packages

The addon packages besides including the Lite XL binary also include additional plugins to make the initial experience more accesible. The extra features the addon packages include are:

• All language plugins.
• All color scheme plugins.
• Widgets + settings gui plugin for easier configuration.
• Open externally plugin, which detects if a file been open is valid utf-8 and offers to open it externally if not.

New Features

• Make distinction between line and block comments, and added all appropriate functionality to the commenting/uncommenting lines.

• Added in line paste mode, if you copy without a selection.

• Many improvements to treeview, including keyboard navigation of treeview, and ability to specify single vs. double-click behavior.

• Added in soft line wrapping as core plugin, under linewrapping.lua, use F10 to activate.

• Revamped StatusView API with new features that include:

  • Support for predicates, click actions, tooltips on item hover and custom drawing of added items.
  • Hide items that are too huge by rendering with clip_rect.
  • Ability to drag or scroll the left or right if too many items to display.
  • New status bar commands accessible from the command palette that include: toggling status bar visibility, toggling specific item visibility, enable/disable status messages, etc...

• Added renderer.font.group interface to set up font fallback groups in the font renderer, if a token doesn't have a corresponding glyph.

  Example:

  local emoji_font = renderer.font.load(USERDIR .. "/fonts/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf", 15 * SCALE)
  local nonicons = renderer.font.load(USERDIR .. "/fonts/nonicons.ttf", 15 * SCALE)
  style.code_font = renderer.font.group({style.code_font, nonicons, emoji_font})

• Added in the ability to specify mouse clicks in the keymap, allowing for easy binds of ctrl+lclick, and the like.

  Example:

  keymap.add { ["ctrl+shift+3lclick"] = "core:open-log" }

• Improved ability for plugins to be loaded at a given time, by making the convention of defining a config for the plugin using common.merge to merge existing hashes together, rather than overwriting.

• Releases will now include all language plugins and the settings gui plugin.

• New core.warn was introduced.

• Added suggestions warping for CommandView.

• Allow regexes in tokenizer to split tokens with group.

• Added settings gui support to core plugins.

• Support for stricter predicates by appending a !, eg: "core.docview!".

• UTF8 support in tokenizer and new utf8 counter parts of string functions, eg: string.ulen, string.ulower, etc...

• Added utf8 support on doc lower and upper commands.

• Allow syntax patterns to match with the beginning of the line.

  Example:

  { pattern = "^my_pattern_starting_at_beginning", type="symbol" }

• Add View:on_file_dropped.

• Implemented new function to retrieve current process id of lite-xl system.get_process_id().

• Allow functions in keymap.

• Add type ahead to CommandView.

• Add syntax symbols to auto-complete.

• Add animation categories to enable finer transitions control.

• Added in a native plugin interface that allows for C-level interfacing with a statically-linked lite-xl. The implementation of this may change in future.

• Config: added new development option to prevent plugin version checking at startup named skip_plugins_version

• Added a smoothing and strikethrough option to font loading (#1087)

• Allow command predicates to manage parameters, allow overwriting commands (#1098)

• Added in simple directory search to treeview. (#1110)

• Added in native modules suffixes. (#1111)

• plugin scale: added option to set default scale (#1115)

• Added in ability to have init.so as a require for cpath. (#1126)

• Added system.raise_window() (#1131)

• Initial horizontal scrollbar support (#1124)

• IME support (#991)

Performance Improvements

• Load space metrics only when creating font

• Performance improvement of detect indent plugin.

• Improve performance of ren_draw_rect.

• Improved tokenizer performance.

• drawwhitespace: Cache whitespace location

• CommandView: improve performance by only drawing visible

Backward Incompatible Changes

• Upgraded Lua to 5.4, which should improve performance, and provide useful extra functionality. It should also be more available out of the box with most modern linux/unix-based package managers.

• Bumped plugin mod-version number as various interfaces like: DocView, StatusView and CommandView have changed which should require a revision from plugin developers to make sure their plugins work with this new release.

• Changed interface for key handling; now, all components should return true if they've handled the event.

• For plugin developers, declaring config options by directly assigning to the plugin table (eg: config.plugins.plugin_name.myvalue = 10) was deprecated in favor of using common.merge.

  Example:

  config.plugins.autowrap = common.merge({
    enabled = false,
    files = { "%.md$", "%.txt$" }
  }, config.plugins.autowrap)

• DocView:draw_text_line and related functions been used by plugin developers require a revision, since some of this interfaces were updated to support line wrapping.

• Removed cp_replace, and replaced this with a core plugin, drawwhitespace.lua.

Deprecated Features

• For plugins the usage of the --lite-xl version tag was dropped in favor of --mod-version.

• Overriding StatusView:get_items() has been deprecated in favor of the new dedicated interface to insert status bar items:

  New Interface:

  ------@return StatusView.Item
  function StatusView:add_item(
    { predicate, name, alignment, get_item, command, position, tooltip, separator }
  ) end

  Example:

  core.status_view:add_item({
    predicate = nil,
    name = "status:memory-usage",
    alignment = StatusView.Item.RIGHT,
    get_item = function()
      return {
        style.text,
        string.format(
          "%.2f MB",
          (math.floor(collectgarbage("count") / 10.24) / 100)
        )
      }
    end,
    command = nil,
    position = 1,
    tooltip = "lua memory usage",
    separator = core.status_view.separator2
  })

• CommandView:enter now accepts a single options table as a parameter, meaning that the old way of calling this function will now show a deprecation message. Also CommandView:set_text and CommandView:set_hidden_suggestions has been deprecated.

  Example:

  core.command_view:enter("Title", {
    submit = function() end,
    suggest = function() return end,
    cancel = function() end,
    validate = function() return true end,
    text = "",
    select_text = false,
    show_suggestions = true,
    typeahead = true,
    wrap = true
  })

Other Changes

• Removed dmon, and implemented independent backends for dirmonitoring. Also more cleanly split out dirmonitoring into its own class in lua, from core.init. We should now support FreeBSD; and any other system that uses kqueue as their dir monitoring library. We also have a dummy-backend, which reverts transparently to scanning if there is some issue with applying OS-level watches (such as system limits).

• Removed libagg and the font renderer; compacted all font rendering into a single renderer.c file which us...

Lite XL 2.0.5

This new release fixes some outstanding problem with the directory monitoring and add some minor improvements.

Improved project's module

Now any modification to the project's module is immediately applied when the file is saved.
This is very useful to configure a config.ignore_filesand have an immediate feedback.

As an additional improvement, now when reloading the project's module, we check again if the project fits within the maximum number of files and the application acts accordingly.
This means that if a project exceeds the max project files limit and we act by ignoring some large directories we immediately get back the usual behavior with all the project files indexed and easily reachable.

To be also more beginner friendly now, when creating a new project's module, we propose a template with some useful instructions.

Ignore files on path

Until now the ìgnore_files`mechanism was limited to the name of the file or directory and it was not possible to look at its path within the project folder.
We solved the problem by implementing two new mechanisms inspired by gitignore.

Essentially there are two new rules:

• if a '/' or a '/$' appear at the end of the pattern it will match only directories
• if a '/' appears anywhere in the pattern except at the end the pattern will be
  applied to the path

In the first case, when the pattern corresponds to a directory, a '/' will be
appended to the name of the directory before checking the pattern.

In the second case, when the pattern corresponds to a path, the complete path of
the file or directory will be used with an initial '/' for the project's root.

The new mechanisms are backward compatible so existing project's module should work as before.

Directory Monitoring Fixes

Fix several problems with the directory monitoring library.
Now the application should no longer assert when some related system call fails and we fallback to rescan when an error happens.
On linux we no longer use the recursive monitoring which was a source of problem.

Directory monitoring is now aware of symlinks and treat them appropriately.

Fix problem when encountering special files type on linux.

Improve directory monitoring so that the related thread actually waits without using
any CPU time when there are no events.

Project Change Improvements

Improve the suggestion when changing project folder or opening a new one.
Now the previously used directory are suggested but if the path is changed the actual existing directories that match the pattern are suggested.
In addition always use the text entered in the command view even if a suggested entry is highlighted.

With the new implementation it is to switch to a recently used project but you can also navigate the filesystem to easily find any directory.

NagView Improvements

The NagView warning window now no longer moves the documents' content.
The message is now completely drawn over the existing content to be less intrusive.