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.

11.0 alpha 2

(01 Jun 2020)

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

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some drive letter case issues on Windows resulting in duplicate open
  files.
• Fixed os.spawn exit callback and spawn_proc:wait() inconsistencies.
• Restore prior key mode after running the command entry.
• Fixed regression with word completion not respecting
  buffer.auto_c_ignore_case.
• Scintilla: Fixed display of windowed IME on Wayland.

Changes:

• Views can be used as buffers in most places, resulting in new
  API suggestions for buffer and view.
• Scintilla: Added buffer:marker_handle_from_line() and
  buffer:marker_number_from_line() for iterating through the marker
  handles and marker numbers on a line.
• Scintilla: Deprecated lexer.delimited_range() and lexer.nested_pair() in
  favor of lexer.range(), and added lexer.to_eol() and
  lexer.number.
• Scintilla: Automatically scroll text while dragging.
• Scintilla: Improved behavior of IME.
• Updated to Scintilla 3.20.0.

11.0 alpha

(31 Mar 2020)

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

Bugfixes:

• Fixed --help command line option.
• Fixed Textadept API autocompletion and documentation on Windows.
• Fixed bug that regards lexer-specific snippet files as global.
• Fixed hangs on Win32 terminal version with
  textadept.editing.filter_through().
• Fixed issues with buffer z-order when switching between views.
• Fixed accidental clipping of first character in a snippet under certain
  circumstances.
• Fixed C autocompletion error with typerefs.
• Fixed skipping of event handlers that come directly after one that was just
  run, but disconnected.
• Fixed bugs in the return values of ui.dialogs.standard_dropdown and msgbox
  dialogs.
• Fixed events.FILE_CHANGED not emitting a filename.
• Fixed bug with pipes in textadept.editing.filter_through().
• Fixed tab label display on Windows.
• Fixed bug in syntax highlighting with PHP, Django, and other lexers that embed
  themselves.

Changes:

• All buffer positions, lines, and countable entities start from 1 instead of 0.
• Support more Alt and Shift+Alt keys in the Win32 terminal version.
• textadept.editing.api_files acts as if it already has lexer tables defined.
• textadept.run.goto_error() wraps searches now.
• Added snippet trigger autocompletion via
  textadept.editing.autocomplete('snippet').
• Improved Lua API documentation generator.
• Localization keys in _L no longer contain GUI mnemonics ('_').
• textadept.snippets functions no longer have a '_' prefix.
• --help command line options are alphabetized.
• The Lua command entry can now run any view functions by name (e.g. split).
• Auto-pair, type-over, and auto-deletion of matching braces now works with
  multiple selections.
• Removed textadept.file_types.lexers table in favor of asking the LPeg lexer
  for known lexer names.
• Updated German translation.
• Changed textadept.bookmarks.toggle() to only toggle bookmarks on the current
  line.
• Removed '=' prefix in command entry that would print results; printing results
  has been the default behavior for quite some time.
• Replaced buffer.style_name[] with buffer:name_of_style().
• Session files are now Lua data files; old formats will no longer work.
• Added events.SESSION_SAVE and events.SESSION_LOAD events for
  saving and loading custom user data to sessions.
• Removed ~/.textadept/?.lua and ~/.textadept/?.{so,dll} from package.path
  and package.cpath, respectively.
• Lua errors in Textadept can now be jumped to via double-click or Enter.
• ui.dialogs.filteredlist() dialogs have a reasonable default width.
• Renamed keys.MODE to keys.mode.
• Moved individual buffer functions in io into buffer.
• Event handlers can now return any non-nil value instead of a boolean value
  and have that value passed back to events.emit().
• Lua command entry completions show images just like in Lua autocompletion.
• Align block comments by column if possible, not indent.
• Added per-mode command entry history which can be cycled through using the
  Up and Down keys.
• Added ui.dialogs.progressbar(), utilize it with Find in Files, and
  removed ui.find.find_in_files_timeout.
• GUI find/replace history Up/Down history key bindings swapped, mimicking
  traditional command line history navigation.
• The statusbar now indicates an active snippet.
• Updated to PDCurses 3.9.
• Experimental set of "standard" modules is provided in the modules archive
  instead of just language modules.

10.8

(01 Jan 2020)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed incorrect event arguments for events.AUTO_C_SELECTION_CHANGE.
• Fixed bug in "Replace All in selection" with match at the end of a selection.
• Fixed long line output for run, compile, and build commands.

Changes:

• Changed events.TAB_CLICKED to emit button clicked as well as modifier
  keys.
• Autocompletion and documentation for Textadept's Lua API only happens in
  Textadept files now (i.e. files in _HOME and _USERHOME).
• textadept.editing.api_files and _M.lua.tags can contain functions that
  return file paths.
• Added support for txt2tags.
• Scintilla: Added access to virtual space at the start and end of multiple
  selections.
• Scintilla: The target can have virtual space.
• Updated to Scintilla 3.11.2.