11.3_beta

Textadept 11.3 beta (01 Oct 2021)

Download:

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

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Windows directory typos in the manual.
• Prevent running the command entry while in the command entry.
• Fixed uncommenting comments that are not initially aligned.
• Scintilla: Fixed display of fold lines when wrapped so they are only drawn once per line.
• Scintilla: Fixed crash with too many subexpressions in regex searches.
• Scintilla: Fixed lack of display of underscores in some monospaced fonts on Linux.
• Scintilla: Respond to changes in Linux font scaling.

Changes:

• Updated Makefile lexer to support multiple targets.
• Updated VB lexer to support folding.
• Lexers support more complex folding keywords and improved case-insensitivity.
• Scintilla: Added to view.element_color the ability to color fold lines and hidden lines.
• Scintilla: Added view.caret_line_highlight_subline to highlight just the subline containing
  the caret.
• Scintilla: view:hide_lines() can now hide the first line or all lines.
• Scintilla: Make negative settings for extra ascent and descent safer.
• Scintilla: Deprecated view.property_expanded in favor of lexer.property_expanded.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.1.3.

11.2

Textadept 11.2 (01 Aug 2021)

Download:

• Textadept 11.2 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.2 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.2 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.2 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed trailing newline bug when filtering through with multiple/rectangular selection.
• Scintilla: Fixed bug in buffer:get_last_child() when level is -1.
• Scintilla: Word searching behaves more consistently at buffer boundaries.

Changes:

• Scintilla: Allow setting the appearance and color of character representations.
• Scintilla: Added buffer:replace_rectangular().
• Scintilla: Optimize search in documents that contain mainly ASCII text.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.1.1.

11.2_beta_3

Textadept 11.2 beta 3 (12 Jun 2021)

Download:

• Textadept 11.2 beta 3 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.2 beta 3 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.2 beta 3 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.2 beta 3 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Allow "Replace All" for empty regex matches like '^' and '$'.
• Fixed display of secondary selections on Linux.
• Fixed instances of incorrect caret/selection placement when typing after clearing buffer text.

Changes:

• Allow syntax highlighting to be preserved in selected text for default themes.
• textadept.editing.filter_through() respects multiple and rectangular selections.
• Support "Replace All" in multiple and rectangular selection.

11.2_beta_2

Textadept 11.2 beta 2 (01 Jun 2021)

Download:

• Textadept 11.2 beta 2 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.2 beta 2 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.2 beta 2 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.2 beta 2 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some file extension conflicts.
• Restore view scroll state after textadept.editing.filter_through().
• Do not clobber user's terminal on initialization error.
• Modules: Refresh debugger breakpoints when buffer content is replaced and persist breakpoints
  and watchpoints on reset.
• Scintilla: Respect system font settings like antialiasing.
• Scintilla: Fix primary selection on GTK 3 and Wayland.

Changes:

• Save/restore view state when undoing/redoing full-buffer changes (e.g. code formatting).
• Added ability to specify find & replace pane font via ui.find.entry_font.
• Replaced events.FILE_BEFORE_RELOAD and events.FILE_AFTER_RELOAD with
  events.BUFFER_BEFORE_REPLACE_TEXT and events.BUFFER_AFTER_REPLACE_TEXT.
• Added support for Gleam.
• Scintilla: Added view.indic_stroke_width, view.marker_fore_translucent,
  view.marker_back_translucent, view.marker_back_selected_translucent, and
  view.marker_stroke_width.
• Scintilla: Added new EOL annotation styles.
• Scintilla: Added view.element_color for setting UI element colors (e.g. selection,
  caret, etc.) and deprecated view:set_sel_fore(), view.sel_alpha, view.caret_fore,
  etc. Also added view.element_allows_translucent, view.element_base_color, and
  view.element_is_set.
• Scintilla: view.MARK_CHARACTER markers now support unicode characters.
• Scintilla: added view.selection_layer, view.caret_line_layer, and
  view.marker_layer in conjunction with view.element_color for alpha transparency.
• Scintilla: Included modifiers in events.INDICATOR_RELEASE.
• Scintilla: Update to Unicode 13.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.0.3.

11.2_beta

Textadept 11.2 beta (01 Apr 2021)

Download:

• Textadept 11.2 beta -- Win32
• Textadept 11.2 beta -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.2 beta -- Linux
• Textadept 11.2 beta -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed inability to replace found text with escapes like '\n' and '\t'.
• Fixed custom theme's overriding of default theme's colors.
• Do not mark GCC-style "note:" output as compile/run/build/test errors.
• Modules: Fixed inability to handle large LSP notifications.
• Modules: Prefer asynchronous LSP response reading on Windows in order to
  prevent hanging.
• Modules: Fixed bug where LSP is not notified of files opened during a session.
• Modules: Fixed LSP startup errors if the LSP command is ultimately nil.
• Modules: Fixed debugger status when paused.

Changes:

• Added ui.SHOW_ALL_TABS option for ui.tabs.
• Added support for TypeScript.
• The terminal version now uses a native terminal cursor instead of an
  artificially drawn one.
• Modules: Keep current line's scroll position when displaying LSP diagnostics.
• Modules: Added option to turn off LSP diagnostic display completely.
• Modules: Added debugger.project_commands for making project-specific
  debugging easier.
• Updated to Lua 5.4.2.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.0.0.

11.1

Textadept 11.1 (01 Feb 2021)

Download:

• Textadept 11.1 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.1 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.1 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.1 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Do not prompt for file reload during io.close_all_buffers().
• Ensure a bare ui.find.focus() call resets incremental and in files options.
• Fixed buffer:reload() only reloading up to a NUL byte, if present.
• Fixed minor file extension issues.
• Fixed bug restoring view state in an intermediate buffer after closing one.
• Fixed navigating back through history from a print buffer.
• Modules: Fixed incorrect LSP mouse hover query position.
• Modules: Only notify LSP servers about opened files after startup in order to
  avoid overwhelming the connection.

Changes:

• Save the current session prior to loading another one.
• Do not show deleted files in recent file list.
• Updated various lexers and fixed various small lexer issues.
• Added support for Clojure, Elm, Fantom, fstab, Julia, Meson, Pony, Reason,
  RouterOS, Spin, systemd, systemd-networkd, Xs, and Zig.
• Compile, run, and build command functions can also return environment tables.
• Added textadept.run.test() and textadept.run.test_commands.
• io.get_project_root() accepts an optional flag for returning a submodule
  root.

11.0

Textadept 11.0 (01 Dec 2020)

Please see the 10 to 11 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 10 to
Textadept 11.

Download:

• Textadept 11.0 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.0 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.0 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.0 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed find & replace entry unfocus when window is refocused.
• Modules: Fixed bug initializing spellcheck module in some instances.

Changes:

• Added optional mode parameter to ui.command_entry.append_history().
• keys[lexer] and snippets[lexer] tables are present on init.
• Added events.FIND_RESULT_FOUND.
• Added events.UNFOCUS.

11.0_beta_2

Textadept 11.0 beta 2 (01 Nov 2020)

Please see the 10 to 11 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 10 to
Textadept 11.

Download:

• Textadept 11.0 beta 2 -- Win32
• Textadept 11.0 beta 2 -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.0 beta 2 -- Linux
• Textadept 11.0 beta 2 -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed the listing of bookmarks for all open buffers.
• Fixed "Enclose as XML Tags" with multiple selections.
• Fixed clearing of "Replace" entry in Find & Replace pane on reset in the GUI.
• Fixed lack of statusbar updating when setting options like buffer EOL mode,
  indentation, and encoding from the menu.
• Do not clear highlighting when searching inside the "Find in Files" buffer.
• textadept.editing.strip_trailing_spaces should not apply to binary files.
• Handle recursive symlinks in lfs.walk().
• Modules: Fixed Lua debugger crash when inspecting variables with very large
  string representations.
• Modules: Support non-UTF-8 spelling dictionaries.
• Modules: Fixed YAML syntax checking notification.
• Modules: Fixed various small issues with the C debugger.

Changes:

• New textadept.history module.
• Updated German and Russian translations.
• Added ui.command_entry.append_history() for special command entry modes
  that need to manually append history.
• Implement U, L, u, and l case transformations in regex
  replacements.
• Added textadept.run.set_arguments().
• Modules: Each module in the separate modules download has its own repository
  now, but all are still bundled into a single archive for release.
• Modules: Greatly improved the speed of file comparison.
• Modules: Added ability to switch spelling dictionaries on the fly.
• Updated to CDK 5.0-20200923.
• Updated to LuaFileSystem 1.8.0.

11.0_beta

Textadept 11.0 beta (01 Oct 2020)

Please see the 10 to 11 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 10 to
Textadept 11.

Download:

• Textadept 11.0 beta -- Win32
• Textadept 11.0 beta -- Mac OSX 10.7+
• Textadept 11.0 beta -- Linux
• Textadept 11.0 beta -- Modules

Bugfixes:

• Fixed word left/right key bindings on macOS.
• Fixed regression with showing "No results found" in searches.
• Fixed regression in showing images in Lua command entry completions.
• Fixed restoration of Replace entry text in various instances, such as after
  "Find in Files" and "Replace All".
• Prevent infinite loops when highlighting found text.
• Fixed bugs in events.KEYPRESS handlers when command entry is active.
• Fixed bug in "Find in Files" results highlighting when jumping to a result of
  length 1.
• Fixed emission of events.UPDATE_UI when resuming from terminal suspend.
• Fixed initial query of ui.find.find_text and ui.find.repl_text in the
  terminal version.
• Fixed incorrect CSS key prefix incompatibility notice.
• Fixed error reporting the number of zero-length find results.
• Fixed call tip display in the terminal version.
• Always refresh during incremental find in the terminal version.
• Fixed io.quick_open() doing nothing when file limit was exceeded.
• gtDialog: Fixed potential crash when canceling a running progressbar dialog.
• Scintilla: Fixed position of marker symbols for view.MARGIN_RTEXT which were
  being moved based on width of text.
• Scintilla: Fixed hover indicator appearance when moving out of view.
• Scintilla: Fixed display of buffer.INDIC_TEXTFORE and gradient indicators on
  hover.

Changes:

• Rewrote manual and updated lots of other documentation and documentation
  generation pipeline.
• Prefer passing an environment table to os.spawn().
• Updated find & replace key bindings.
• Use comma-separated patterns in find & replace pane's "Filter" field.
• Removed "View EOL" menu item, key binding, and buffer setting.
• Accept a directory as a command line argument.
• Save the current working directory to session files.
• "View > Toggle Fold" toggles folding for the current block, regardless of
  line.
• Recognize Fossil projects.
• Added textadept.editing.auto_enclose() for auto-enclosing selected text.
• Show "Match X/Y" in statusbar when searching for text.
• Added ui.command_entry.active.
• Improved handling of print buffers and splits.
• Added "Edit > Preferences" menu item and key binding for opening
  ~/.textadept/init.lua.
• Disable ui.find.highlight_all_matches by default.
• GCC 7.1+ is now required for building, added support for
  building with Docker, and dropped automated Linux i386 builds.
• Added events.FIND_RESULT_FOUND.
• Added ui.find.active and prevent word highlighting when searching.
• Added support for jq language.
• Record directory in "Find in Files" searches.
• Added ui.update(), mainly for unit tests.
• Added events.FILE_BEFORE_RELOAD and events.FILE_AFTER_RELOAD
  events, and save/restore bookmarks.
• Added events.COMMAND_TEXT_CHANGED for when command entry text changes.
• Added _NOCOMPAT option to disable temporary key shortcut compatibility
  checking.
• Updated Spanish translation.
• gtDialog: Improved responsiveness for huge lists (greater than 10,000 items).
• Scintilla: Added view.multi_edge_column.
• Updated to Scintilla 4.4.5.
• Switched back to utilizing Scintillua and Scinterm.

11.0 alpha 3

(01 Aug 2020)

Please see the 10 to 11 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 10 to
Textadept 11.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed toggling of Find & Replace Pane visibility with ui.find.focus().
• Fixed potential hangs with os.spawn() in the terminal version.
• Fixed --line command line switch.
• Fixed ui.dialogs.optionselect()'s text option.
• Call os.spawn() exit callback after proc:wait().
• Fixed an instance of buffer selection data not being saved to a session.
• Fixed initial setting of ui.find.replace_entry_text in the GUI.
• Fixed keys.keychain[i] access if its length ever exceeded 1.
• Modules: Fixed custom Lua regex for generating Ctags.
• Modules: Fixed file comparison colors in the terminal version.
• Modules: Fixed many bugs in file comparison and merging.
• Modules: Fixed export of styles defined only in lexers.
• Scintilla: Fixed crash when lexer.lua cannot be found.
• Scintilla: Fixed crash when setting a style with no token.

Changes:

• Renamed buffer:set_theme() to view:set_theme().
• Replaced lfs.dir_foreach() with lfs.walk() generator.
• Renamed some buffer/view fields to use American English instead of Australian
  English (e.g. "colour" to "color").
• Changed key binding modifier keys from c (Ctrl), m (Meta/Command), a
  (Alt), and s (Shift) to ctrl, meta/cmd, alt, and shift,
  respectively.
• Renamed ui.bufstatusbar_text to ui.buffer_statusbar_text.
• Only save before compile/run if the buffer has been modified.
• Added support for Fennel.
• Added buffer:style_of_name() as an analogue to buffer:name_of_style().
• When requiring modules, read from LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH environment
  variables instead of TA_LUA_PATH and TA_LUA_CPATH.
• ui.goto_file_found() and textadept.run.goto_error() arguments are now
  optional.
• Moved Find Incremental into the Find & Replace pane (via
  ui.find.incremental), eliminated ui.find.find_incremental() and
  ui.find.find_incremental_keys, and added events.FIND_TEXT_CHANGED.
• Replaced textadept.editing.highlight_word() with
  textadept.editing.highlight_words auto-highlighting option.
• Find & Replace Pane now allows file filters to be specified for Find in Files.
• Use monospaced font in Find & Replace Pane text entries.
• Removed legacy "refresh syntax highlighting" feature.
• Modules: Added documentation for generating ctags and API files.
• Modules: Improved in-place editing of files during comparison.
• Scintilla: added lexer.colors and lexer.styles tables for use in
  themes. Also added new way to define and reference styles.
• Scintilla: Added lexer.fold* options instead of setting view properties.
• Scintilla: Optimized performance when opening huge files.
• Scintilla: Added buffer.eol_annotation_text analogue to
  buffer.annotation_text, but for EOL annotations.
• Scintilla: Display DEL control characters like other control characters.
• Scintilla: Allow caret width to be up to 20 pixel.
• Scintilla: Updated markdown and C lexers.
• Scintilla: Fixed bug with GTK on recent Linux distributions where underscores
  were invisible.
• Scintilla: Fixed GTK on Linux bug when pasting from closed application.
• Updated to Scintilla 3.21.0.