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Textadept nightly (11 May 2024)

12.4

Textadept 12.4 (01 May 2024)

Download:

• Textadept 12.4 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.4 -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.4 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.4 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed macOS bug where message dialogs did not return focus to the editor.
• Fixed Bash lexer to not highlight escaped '#' as comments.

Changes:

• Updated AutoHotkey, Perl, and Rust lexers with minor improvements.
• LSP: notify servers that diagnostics are supported.
• Scintilla: significantly reduce memory used for undo actions.
• Scintilla: added additional selection inactive colors to view.element_color.
• Scintilla: scale reverse arrow margin cursor to match user's cursor size.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.5.0.

12.3

Textadept 12.3 (01 Mar 2024)

Download:

• Textadept 12.3 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.3 -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.3 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.3 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed help files not showing up in Linux releases.
• Fixed ^⌘ key sequences not working on macOS.
• LSP: fixed diagnostics for some language servers that expect client diagnostic capababilities.
• Scintilla: workaround potential crash when a line contains both left-to-right and right-to-left
  text.

Changes:

• None.

12.3_beta

Textadept 12.3 beta (01 Jan 2024)

Download:

• Textadept 12.3 beta -- Windows
• Textadept 12.3 beta -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.3 beta -- Linux
• Textadept 12.3 beta -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Do not assume filter through command output is encoded in _CHARSET.
• Only close the initial buffer if it is blank too.
• Fixed CMake constantly redownloading Qt SingleApplication module.
• Qt version: Allow keypad Enter to invoke action in Find & Replace pane entries
• Scintilla: fixed regex reverse search bug where a shortened match was returned.
• Scintilla: avoid character fragments in regular expression search results.
• Scintilla: fixed excessive memory use when deleting contiguous ranges backwards.
• Scintilla: fixed incorrect substitution when searching for a regular expression backwards.
• Scintilla: fix potential Qt crash when using IME with a large amount of text selected.

Changes:

• Added textadept.snippets.active.
• Scratch: New module for treating untitled buffers as persistent scratch buffers.
• Scintilla: Ctrl+Click on a selection deselects it in multiple selection mode.
• Scintilla: added buffer:change_selection_mode().
• Scintilla: allow setting of buffer.move_extends_selection.
• Scintilla: improve global replace performance.
• Scintilla: make buffer:move_selected_lines_up() and buffer:move_selected_lines_down()
  work for regular selections.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.4.1.

12.2

Textadept 12.2 (01 Nov 2023)

Download:

• Textadept 12.2 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.2 -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.2 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.2 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Regex replacements with '^' anchors should only match once per line.
• Fix statusbar column number not including virtual space.
• Fixed terminal version crash in some list dialogs with UTF-8 characters in them.
• Gtk input dialogs are resizable.
• Fixed default Gtk icon dialog when none was specified.

Changes:

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish localizations.

12.2_beta

Textadept 12.2 beta (01 Oct 2023)

Download:

• Textadept 12.2 beta -- Windows
• Textadept 12.2 beta -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.2 beta -- Linux
• Textadept 12.2 beta -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crash during logout/restart on Windows while Textadept is still running.
• Prevent key bindings in the macOS menu from overriding user-specified bindings.
• Fixed interpretation of '-' command line argument as reading from stdin.
• Prevent duplicate key events from Scintilla.
• Only show message box icons in the Gtk version if they exist.
• Fixed display of window and dialog icons in Gtk.
• Correctly highlight built-in Bash variables surrounded by "${...}".

Changes:

• Implemented single-instance functionality on Windows (and Linux with Qt).
• Dropped legacy 11.x compatibility shims.
• Added Brazilian Portuguese localization.
• Updated Hare, fstab, and Matlab lexers.
• Updated Markdown lexer to detect code blocks delimited by ~~~.
• Updated Bash lexer to disable conditional and arithmetic operator highlighting due to performance.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.3.7.

12.1

Textadept 12.1 (01 Sep 2023)

Download:

• Textadept 12.1 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.1 -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.1 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.1 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Correctly recognize projects under Fossil version control.
• Fixed potential crash on GTK when opening a list dialog and immediately arrowing down.
• Fixed crash unsplitting a non-focused view whose other pane contains the focused view.
• Fixed some multi-byte characters in Julia lexer being incorrectly marked as operators.
• Fixed lack of legacy support for lexer.fold_consecutive_lines().
• Do not highlight Bash variable pattern expansion as comments.
• Fixed potential crash with proxy lexers like RHTML.
• Scintilla: fixed crash when using IME with a large amount of text selected.

Changes:

• Added textadept.run.run_without_prompt for running commands immediately
• Updated Hare lexer.

12.0

Textadept 12.0 (01 Aug 2023)

Please see the migration guide for migrating from Textadept 11 to 12.

Download:

• Textadept 12.0 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.0 -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.0 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.0 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed potential crash when using legacy lexers.
• Fixed error switching to the only buffer that exists.
• Fixed case insensitive word completion from all buffers.
• Fixed syntax highlighting glitches on Windows.
• LSP: small fixes for language servers that do not play nicely.
• LSP: work around Scintilla repeatedly sending hover events on Windows and Qt.
• LSP: fixed active Lua parameter calculation if documented function uses ':'.
• LSP: fixed inaccurate recording of 'goto' position for history navigation.
• Export: use the correct dialog when prompting for a file to export to.

Changes:

• Updated Python lexer to support soft keywords.
• Removed unnecessary Qt DLLs from Windows release.
• LSP: query for updated diagnostics if the buffer has since been modified.
• Scintilla: input method improvements on Qt.
• Updated to Lua 5.4.6.
• Updated to LPeg 1.1.0.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.3.6.

12.0_beta

Textadept 12.0 beta (01 Jul 2023)

Please see the migration guide for migrating from Textadept 11 to 12.

Download:

• Textadept 12.0 beta -- Windows
• Textadept 12.0 beta -- macOS 11+
• Textadept 12.0 beta -- Linux
• Textadept 12.0 beta -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a new view resetting a buffer's indentation settings.
• Fixed Qt bug where unsplitting in a second-level split view changed view focus.
• Do not silently print internal Lua errors.
• Fixed compile error with Gtk 2.0.
• Fixed Gtk list dialog display.
• Fixed Qt bug that disallowed literal '*' in list dialog filters.
• Fixed display of bullets in "session files not found" dialog on Windows.
• Do not attempt to show a snippet list without snippets.
• LSP: fixed calculation of character columns when tabs are enabled.
• LSP: Lua language server highlights ':' method parameters starting at 2, not 1.

Changes:

• Windows 10 and macOS 11 are the new minimum system requirements; Linux is unchanged.
• Moved "View Whitespace" and "Word Wrap" back into "View" menu and made them view-specific
  properties.
• Added alphanumeric macro registers.
• Autodetect dark mode and implement auto-switching between light and dark modes on Windows.
• Support Qt 6 and use it on Windows and macOS builds.
• Switch default indentation to size 8 tabs.
• Allow autocompleter functions to set separator character and sort order.
• Added lua-std-regex and its regex Lua module.
• Support TextMate- and LSP-style snippets, and deprecated old format.
• Alias Ctrl+Shift+U (upper-case selection) to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U in case the former is
  consumed by Linux for Unicode input.
• LSP: added support for snippet completions.
• LSP: support per-project language servers.

12.0_alpha_3

Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 (01 May 2023)

Please see the migration guide for migrating from Textadept 11 to 12.

Download:

• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- macOS 10.13+
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed syntax highlighting lag regression.
• Fixed updating buffer tab's "dirty" status on save all.
• Fixed error when backspacing over an auto-paired character before a multi-byte character.
• Fixed events.AUTO_C_CANCELED not existing.
• Fixed _L not returning non-localized messages.
• Do not show an empty quick open list.
• Qt version: fixed button3 and return_button options for ui.dialogs.list().
• LSP: fixed issue sending file URIs to language servers on Windows.
• LSP: fixed startup issue with many language servers that do not support selection ranges.
• LSP: test that call tip triggers are present before trying to find one.
• LSP: Lua language server writes its log to _USERHOME.
• Scintilla: fixed GTK bug with too many or too few lines when wrapping.
• Scintilla: draw background color for EOL annotations with no decorations or outlined with a box.
• Scintilla: fixed buffer:lines_join() bug where 'r' were incorrectly retained.
• Scintilla: fixed indicator drawing over the left margin in the Qt version.
• Scintilla: fix clipping of line end wrap symbol for view.WRAPVISUALFLAGLOC_END_BY_TEXT.

Changes:

• Autodetect dark mode and implement auto-switching between light and dark modes (macOS and
  Linux only for now).
• Revamped API documentation, mainly for buffer and view API to be more readable.
• Allow multiple selections in the recent file dialog.
• Added a dialog button to clear the recent files list.
• Hide the Windows popup console window when running Textadept as a Lua interpreter.
• ui.print_silent() and ui.output_silent() always print silently and return their print
  buffers.
• Restored ui.command_entry.height and textadept.snippets.paths.
• Increase io.quick_open_max.
• Allow short-hand access notation for menu items in textadept.menu.menubar.
• events.MOUSE emits a bit-mask of modifier keys instead of multiple booleans.
• Format: only ignore header lines that have no content.
• LSP: Lua language server supports local tables and functions.
• LSP: highlight the active call tip parameter when typing, if possible.
• Scintilla: draw lines more consistently by clipping drawing to just the line rectangle.
• Scintilla: draw view.MARK_BAR markers underneath other markers.
• Scintilla: enlarge view.INDIC_POINT* indicators and scale to be larger with text.
• Scintilla: make view:line_scroll() more accurate when the width of a space is not an integer.
• Scintilla: emit events.AUTO_C_COMPLETED when buffer.auto_c_choose_single is true.
• Scintilla: buffer:para_up*() go to the start position of the paragraph first.
• Scintilla: view.rectangular_selection_modifier works in the Qt version.
• Scintilla: support IME context in the GTK version.
• Scintilla: allow scrolling with mouse wheel when view.*_scroll_bar is false in the
  Qt version.
• Scintilla: added multi-threaded wrap to significantly improve performance of wrapping large
  files.
• Scintilla: allow individual bytes of multi-byte characters to be styled.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.3.4.
• Updated to Scinterm 5.0.