textadept

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.