Release Notes: Sprint 19

What's New in Sprint 19

• Overall UI
  • Native menu bar on Mac and Windows. Menu-related APIs remain unchanged.
• Code Editing
  • CSS code hints (thanks to André Zoufahl) for properties & enum-style values
  • Final prep for CodeMirror3 migration: inline editors and scrolling now work well on the cmv3 branch (thanks to Marijn Haverbeke for fast turnaround on CodeMirror bug fixes)
• Search
  • Quick Open / Go to Definition ranks results much better
  • Go to Definition is more responsive, especially on longer files
• Localization
  • Swedish translation (thanks to Jack Billström)
  • Portuguese translation (thanks to Tiago Oliveira)
• JSLint
  • "Go to First JSLint Error" shortcut: F8 on Windows, Cmd+' on Mac

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

• Toggle Block Comment on Mac now uses Cmd+Opt+/ (instead of Cmd+Shift+/)
• Cmd+Left arrow on mac now behaves the same as Fn+Left arrow – the cursor moves to the first non-whitespace character on the line unless it's already on that char, in which case the cursor moves to the start of the line. (Previously, Cmd+Left always moved to the start of the line regardless of whitespace).

API Changes

Startup order of events - Extensions are now loaded prior to project and working set initialization. Modules should continue to use AppInit.htmlReady for DOM initialization and AppInit.appReady() for additional initialization such as menus, key bindings, etc.

Editor offsetTopChanged event deprecated - Editor currently dispatches an offsetTopChanged event on inline (Quick Edit) widgets when something happens that changes their vertical position relative to the page. This used to be necessary for CSS and JS inline editors, which were doing hacky things to position the right-hand-side list. As part of the CodeMirror v3 merge, we will be eliminating those hacks, and plan to remove this event eventually, so as of now the event is deprecated. Please let us know if you rely on this event.

ContextMenu contextMenuClose event removed - This event was not very useful/reliable; in many cases, it was never actually dispatched after a menu closed. We will likely reinstate it once we've improved our handling of popups (#1381).

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

None in this sprint.

Known Issues

• #1551: Changes within an extension (or a unit test) are not reflected by a simple "Debug > Reload Brackets." Workarounds:
  • Quit and re-launch Brackets to pick up the changes.
  • Open Developer Tools, click the gear icon in the lower-right, and select "Disable cache." This setting is remembered, but is only in effect so long as the Developer Tools browser tab remains open.
• Debug > Run Tests is disabled in the installer/DMG distributions of Brackets, because the unit test code is not included. To run unit tests, pull Brackets from GitHub instead.
• Debug > Show Developer Tools opens in a new tab in Chrome, rather than a new window in Brackets.
• Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) by default will not allow Brackets to run since it's not digitally signed yet. To work around this, right click the Brackets app and choose Open. You only need to do that once -- afterward, launching Brackets the normal way will work also.
• #2272: Windows Vista may not allow the Brackets installer to run (you may not see any error message). To work around this, right-click the installer file, choose Properties, and click the Unblock button.

Community contributions to Brackets

• CSS Code Hinting by André Zoufahl
• Portuguese translation by Tiago Oliveira
• Swedish translation by Jack Billström
• Fix #2464: If tag not closed, HTML hints missing attributes found on next tag by Chema Balsas
• Fix #2227: No color picker if rgba value starts with "." by chtennek
• Fix #1390: No 'Go to Definition' results in files containing length() by Chema Balsas
• Inform user about missing Brackets libraries by Jonathan Diehl
• Use "smart home" for Cmd+Left, not just Fn+Left by Aleksandr Motsjonov
• Fix #2434: restore_installed_build fails if spaces in path by Aleksandr Motsjonov
• Use default cursor more, pointing hand less by J.M.
• Enable syntax highlighting for CakePHP .ctp files by drewhjava
• Enable syntax highlighting for .dhtml, .xht, Python .pyw files by C1D
• Refactor jsTree to externalize CSS styles by Bernhard Sirlinger
• Russian translation update by noway421
• Spanish translation update by Chema Balsas
• German translation update (and for brackets.io) by J.M.
• Fix Turkish translation typo by Mahmut Bulut

Contributions from Brackets

Contributions to CodeMirror:

• widget.remove() should be widget.clear()
• Make temporary wheel measurement vars per-instance

Contributions to grunt-contrib-watch:

• Use grunt.file.expand to support exclusions

New jQuery plugin:

• Balanced text plugin/polyfill

Contribution to reveal.js:

• Fade transition

Bugs fixed in Sprint 19

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 19 bugs. A few of the fixed bugs might not be caught by this search query, however.