12.0_alpha_2

Textadept 12.0 alpha 2 (01 Mar 2023)

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

Download:

• Textadept 12.0 alpha 2 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 2 -- macOS 10.13+
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 2 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 2 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed auto-pair removal bug when backspacing over an auto-paired character.
• Fixed directory filters that contain directories to include.
• textadept.editing.autocomplete() should return false if no completions are displayed.
• Fixed clearing of a previous buffer's state when switching between buffers after closing one.
• Qt version: ensure the given directory is selected in Linux's directory selection dialog.
• Terminal version: fixed spawning processes on Linux and macOS.
• Terminal version: synchronize paragraph up/down extend selection key binding with GUI version.
• Scintilla: fixed scroll position update after view:vertical_center_caret().
• Scintilla: prevent autocompletion of lists created during events.CHAR_ADDED.
• LSP: fixed diagnostic display.
• LSP: silently print to LSP buffer when starting language servers.
• LSP: properly handle incoming server requests.
• LSP: fixed "Find References".
• LSP: gracefully shut down language servers on quit too, not just reset.
• LSP: improved startup and error notifications.
• LSP: synchronize unsaved document changes when switching away from a buffer or view.
• LSP: handle unexpected language server exit (i.e. crash).
• LSP: fixed display of signature help when more than one option is present.

Changes:

• Language modules are no longer auto-loaded when their files are opened.
• All language autocompletion and documentation has been delegated to the external LSP module.
• Deprecated C, CSS, Go, HTML, Lua, Python, and Ruby language modules.
• Textadept no longer generates or uses Lua tags and api documentation files.
• Deprecated the ctags module.
• Removed "Tools > Complete Symbol" and "Tools > Show Documentation" menu items.
• Removed textadept.editing.api_files and textadept.editing.show_documentation().
• Hide the Find & Replace pane after an "In Files" search.
• Allow lexers to dictate what constitutes a word character.
• Added lexer.names().
• Removed textadept.editing.transpose_chars().
• Replaced textadept.editing.typeover_chars with typeover_auto_paired.
• Renamed textadept.snippets.cancel_current() to cancel().
• Removed textadept.snippets.path.
• Added buffer representation argment to events.BUFFER_DELETED.
• Switched documentation format to LDoc from LuaDoc.
• Added -L and --lua command line option for running Textadept as a standalone Lua interpreter.
• Scroll all views showing print/output buffers when printed to.
• Renamed _SCINTILLA.next_* to _SCINTILLA.new_*.
• textadept.run.run_in_background applies even if the output buffer is not open.
• Notify of compile/run/build/test/project command success or failure in statusbar.
• Autoscroll to the bottom of compile/run/build/test/project output buffer if possible.
• Removed ui.command_entry.append_history() and ui.command_entry.height.
• Use Scintillua as a Lua library instead of as a Scintilla lexer.
• Removed support for buffer.property_int (not lexer.property_int).
• LSP: updated to LSP 3.17.
• LSP: implemented selection range.
• LSP: support language-specific completion and signature help trigger characters.
• LSP: support highlighting active parameters in signature help.
• LSP: show relative paths in "Go To ..." dialogs if possible.
• LSP: send "textDocument/didClose" notifications.
• LSP: added simple Lua language server and enable it by default for Lua files.
• LSP: stop logging to a buffer and added "Show Log" menu option instead.
• LSP: allow for launching servers outside a project.

12.0_alpha

Textadept 12.0 alpha (01 Jan 2023)

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

Download:

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

Bugfixes:

• Fixed io.get_project_root() on Windows network shares.
• Fixed display of Shift+Tab key bindings in menus.
• Fixed toggling comments in multi-language lexers.
• Do not show duplicate lexer names in the selection list.
• Correctly recognize UTF-8 files with NUL bytes in them.
• GTK version: fixed invalid cast warning for split views.
• GTK version: handle movement keys from the list dialog entry when interactive search is not active.
• Terminal version: fixed crash cleaning up after a spawned process.
• Terminal version: improved spawn command parsing.
• Terminal version: fixed suspend/resume.
• Terminal version: fixed interpretation of backspace key in CDK entry boxes.

Changes:

• Added Qt version and made it the default for all platforms.
• The Qt version of Textadept is not a single-instance application, only the GTK version is.
• The minimum required version of macOS is 10.13 (High Sierra).
• Switched to CMake-based build for building natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Redesigned key bindings to be more consistent and deterministic across OSes and platforms.
• Added 'Save' buttons to close and quit dialogs when there are unsaved buffers.
• Removed GTK support for Windows and macOS (Linux is still supported).
• Utilize "TEXTADEPT_HOME" environment variable, if it exists, in place of autodetected _HOME
  based on Textadept executable location.
• Added _G.QT.
• Include Go language module in separate set of modules.
• Quick open list shows relative paths if possible.
• Find in files result paths are relative to the searched directory.
• Buffer browser shows relative paths for files in the current project.
• More reasonable initial list dialog sizes.
• "Save As" dialog falls back onto the current directory if necessary.
• Deprecated reST and YAML modules.
• Added '-' command line option for reading from stdin into a new buffer.
• Removed 10-item find/replace history limit for the GUI version.
• Added ui.buffer_list_zorder option and removed zorder parameter from ui.switch_buffer().
  The buffer list order is most recently used first by default.
• Added ui.suspend() for the terminal version, allowing any key binding to suspend the editor.
• textadept.editing.auto_pairs and textadept.editing.typeover_chars auto-include '<>'
  characters for XML-like languages and removed textadept.editing.brace_matches.
• Added menu option and key binding to undo last selected word.
• ui.find.show_filenames_in_progressbar is false by default now.
• Filters for lfs.walk(), io.quick_open(), and ui.find_in_files() now use glob patterns
  instead of Lua patterns.
• Changed events.KEYPRESS to only emit string key representations.
• Changed events.TAB_CLICKED to use key modifier mask like other events.
• Changed textadept.editing.auto_pairs and textadept.editing.typeover_chars to use string
  character keys instead of bytes.
• Added textadept.run.INDIC_WARNING and textadept.run.INDIC_ERROR for underlining
  compile, run, build, and test warning and error messages.

11.5_alpha_2

Textadept 11.5 alpha 2 (01 Nov 2022)

Download:

• Textadept 11.5 alpha 2 -- Windows
• Textadept 11.5 alpha 2 -- Mac OSX 10.10+
• Textadept 11.5 alpha 2 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.5 alpha 2 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed memory leak after running timeout function.
• Fixed buffer.eol_annotation_style* settings.
• Fixed bug showing the buffer browser from the first buffer if zorder is true.
• Fixed display of compile/run commands in output.
• Fixed inability to use single-quoted command line arguments to os.spawn() in the terminal
  version.
• Open file mode: Fixed bug loading module during Textadept initialization.

Changes:

• Dropped BSD support.
• Separated GUI platform C code from non-GUI C code.
• Added _G.GTK.
• _G.OSX is now always true on macOS, not just in the GUI version.
• buffer.tab_label is now write-only.
• Replaced gtDialog with smaller set of built-in dialogs.
  • Deprecated ui.dialogs.*msgbox() in favor of ui.dialogs.message(),
    ui.dialogs.*inputbox() in favor of ui.dialogs.input(), ui.dialogs.fileselect() in
    favor of ui.dialogs.open(), ui.dialogs.filesave() in favor of ui.dialogs.save(),
    ui.dialogs.progressbar() in favor of ui.dialogs.progress(), and
    ui.dialogs.filteredlist() in favor of ui.dialogs.list().
  • Removed ui.dialogs.textbox(), ui.dialogs.*dropdown(), ui.dialogs.optionselect(),
    ui.dialogs.colorselect(), and ui.dialogs.fontselect().
  • Input and list dialogs return text and selections first before button indices.
  • Input dialogs no longer accept multiple text entries and labels.
  • Removed string_output option from dialogs.
  • Renamed the following dialog options: with_directory → dir, with_file → file,
    select_multiple → multiple, select_only_directories → only_dirs.
• Removed opts argument from io.quick_open().
• Find in Files' file scanning is shown with a progress dialog and can be stopped.
• Deprecated ui._print in favor of ui.print_to().
• _L no longer prefixes non-localized messages with "No Localization:".
• textadept.run.stop() presents a list dialog if there is more than one process running.
• Moved process spawning into platform C code.

11.5_alpha

Textadept 11.5 alpha (01 Oct 2022)

Download:

• Textadept 11.5 alpha -- Windows
• Textadept 11.5 alpha -- Mac OSX 10.10+
• Textadept 11.5 alpha -- Linux
• Textadept 11.5 alpha -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Better display of startup errors.
• Reset horizontal scroll position after loading files.
• Improved showing API documentation from Lua command entry.
• Do not record history for multiple selection edits.
• Updated Bash lexer to improve heredoc handling

Changes:

• Lexers no longer share the same Lua state with Textadept or each other.
• Deprecated lexer.colors and lexer.styles in favor of view.colors and view.styles,
  and deprecated lexer.fold* in favor of view.fold*.
• Implemented buffer.lexer_language.
• Added view:set_styles() for manually applying styles to views.
• Added ui.output() for compile/run/build/test output and removed
  textadept.run.error_patterns.
• Refreshed themes.
• Deprecated textadept.editing.INDIC_BRACEMATCH in favor of styles.
• Removed ui.silent_print in favor of ui.print_silent() and ui.output_silent().
• Changed ui.command_entry.run() to add label, remove height, add initial text, and add
  args to pass to function.
• Compile/run/build/test commands now utilize command entry and have their own command histories.
• Removed textadept.run.set_arguments().
• Added textadept.run.run_project() and textadept.run.run_project_commands for running
  project commands.
• Deprecated textadept.file_types.extensions and textadept.file_types.patterns in favor of
  lexer.detect_extensions and lexer.detect_patterns, and moved
  textadept.file_types.select_lexer into the menu.
• Added io.ensure_final_newline and decoupled this from
  textadept.editing.strip_trailing_spaces.
• Replaced "token" concept with "tags" when writing lexers, and deprecated lexer.token()
  in favor of lex:tag().
• Removed lexer.property_expanded.
• All lexers created with lexer.new() have a default whitespace style.
• Child lexers can extend their parent's keyword lists.
• Added allow_indent option to lexer.starts_line().
• Deprecated lexer.last_char_includes() in favor of lexer.after_set().
• lexer.word_match() can be used as an instance method for enabling users to set, replace,
  or extend word lists.
• Added lexer.number_() and friends for creating patterns that match numbers separated
  by arbitrary characters.
• Allow prefix to be optional in lexer.to_eol().
• Added "output" lexer for recognizing tool errors and warnings.
• Removed lexer.fold_line_groups.
• Scintilla: added view.MARK_BAR marker and view.INDIC_POINT_TOP indicator.
• Scintilla: optimized line state to avoid excessive allocations.
• Scintilla: added view.FOLDACTION_CONTRACT_EVERY_LEVEL for view:fold_all().
• Scintilla: allow large fonts to be used in view.STYLE_CALLTIP without affecting text display.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.3.0.

11.4

Textadept 11.4 (01 Aug 2022)

Download:

• Textadept 11.4 -- Windows
• Textadept 11.4 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.4 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.4 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed line comment toggling for Batch.
• Fixed lack of HTML documentation in releases since 11.3.
• Ensure the statusbar is updated after buffer:set_lexer().
• Ensure events.LEXER_LOADED is emitted on buffer.new().
• LSP: Fixed off-by-one errors for goto definition et. al. and find references.
• LSP: Fixed bug attempting to start a language server manually.
• Lua REPL: Fixed key bindings.
• Ruby: Fixed bug when trying to toggle a block at the end of the buffer.
• Scintilla: Fixed hiding selection when view.selection_layer is view.LAYER_UNDER_TEXT.
• Scintilla: Fix potential issues with drawing non-UTF-8 text.

Changes:

• Changed line duplication to line/selection duplication.
• Added ui.popup_menu() for displaying menus like the right-click context menu.
• The GUI version now recognizes the 'menu' key.
• Added support for Hare.
• Updated Spanish translation.
• Updated R, Fortran, and Go lexers.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.2.4.

11.4_beta

Textadept 11.4 beta (31 May 2022)

Download:

• Textadept 11.4 beta -- Windows
• Textadept 11.4 beta -- Mac OSX 10.10+
• Textadept 11.4 beta -- Linux
• Textadept 11.4 beta -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Correctly handle snippet mirrors in placeholders.
• Fixed default button theme on macOS.
• Fixed inability to run executables using some run commands on macOS.
• Scintilla: Fixed crash with unexpected right-to-left text.
• Scintilla: Fixed position of end-of-line annotation when fold display text is visible.
• Scintilla: Fixed partial updates and non-responsive scrollbars.

Changes:

• Scintilla: Improved performance of view:fold_all(view.FOLDACTION_EXPAND).
• Updated to Scintilla 5.2.3.

11.4_alpha

Textadept 11.4 alpha (01 Apr 2022)

Download:

• Textadept 11.4 alpha -- Windows
• Textadept 11.4 alpha -- Mac OSX 10.10+
• Textadept 11.4 alpha -- Linux
• Textadept 11.4 alpha -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug in ui.goto_view() when specifying a preferred view.
• Fixed busy loop in ui.update() on macOS when monitoring output of spawned processes.
• Ensure preferred "lexer.trigger.ext" snippet files are used over "trigger.ext".
• Improved Windows network directory path handling.
• Fixed alpha color value of brace matches.
• Fixed busy wait on spawned process exit in some cases.
• Resize line number margin on reset.
• Fixed search wrapping indicator not showing up in the statusbar.
• Fixed "Find Next" for zero-width regex searches.
• Fixed calling view:set_theme() from the command entry.
• Scintilla: Fixed assertion failure with autocompletion lists when order is ORDER_CUSTOM or ORDER_PERFORMSORT.
• Scintilla: On Wayland, fixed autocompletion window display on secondary monitor.
• Scintilla: Fixed some scrollbar inaccuracies with annotations and wrapped lines.
• Scintilla: Improved Chinese character alignment with roman characters.

Changes:

• Use GTK 3 by default on all platforms.
• Windows binaries are 64-bit now; dropped support for 32-bit Windows.
• The minimum required version of macOS is 10.10 (Yosemite).
• Tabs are now rearrangeable via drag and drop.
• Makefile allows building both the GUI and terminal versions concurrently.
• Updated test suite to run on Windows and macOS.
• Use Free Desktop Icon Naming Specification icon names in dialogs.
• New Docker image for building with GTK 3.
• Added ui.find.show_filenames_in_progressbar option for hiding filenames during Find in
  Files searches.
• Added move_buffer() function for rearranging buffers.
• Added support for flow control sequences in the non-Windows terminal version with -p and
  --preserve command line options.
• Updated Fennel lexer.
• Updated Python lexer to highlight class definitions.
• Scintilla: Improve performance for very long lines.
• Scintilla: Shift+Mouse Wheel scrolls horizontally.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.2.0.
• Updated to Lua 5.4.4.
• Updated to libtermkey 0.22.

11.3

Textadept 11.3 (01 Feb 2022)

Download:

• Textadept 11.3 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.3 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.3 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.3 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed attempted expansion of lexer name snippet that resolves to a table.
• Allow the line number margin to shrink when zooming out.
• Fixed menubar reset crash on macOS.
• Updated Ruby, C++, D, Gleam, Nim, and Verilog lexers to fix binary number parsing.

Changes:

• Improve repeated building of Textadept.app on macOS.
• Updated Perl lexer to recognize more numbers.

11.3_beta_3

Textadept 11.3 beta 3 (01 Dec 2021)

Download:

• Textadept 11.3 beta 3 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.3 beta 3 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.3 beta 3 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.3 beta 3 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Format: When formatting on save, check for filename first instead of assuming there is one.
• Scintilla: Fixed primary selection paste within same view.

Changes:

• Added '`' as an autopair and typeover character.
• textadept.editing.auto_enclose keeps text selected.
• Scintilla: DEL (0x7F) is considered a space character.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.1.4.

11.3_beta_2

Textadept 11.3 beta 2 (01 Nov 2021)

Download:

• Textadept 11.3 beta 2 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.3 beta 2 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.3 beta 2 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.3 beta 2 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed accidental drawing of whitespace, tab arrows, and indentation guides in margins when
  scrolling horizontally in the terminal version.
• Fixed accidental highlighting in margins when scrolling horizontally in the terminal version.
• Fixed occasional incorrect drawing when scrolling horizontally in the terminal version.
• Lua REPL: Fixed broken REPL on reset.

Changes:

• Hide the terminal cursor when the caret is out of view.
• Format: New module for formatting code and reformatting paragraphs.
• Debugger: Allow watch expressions without breaking on changes.
• Debugger: Implement setting stack frames in Lua and pretty-print variable values.
• Debugger: Prefer status buffers for variables and call stacks.