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Textadept 12.0 beta (01 Jul 2023)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed a new view resetting a buffer's indentation settings.
Fixed Qt bug where unsplitting in a second-level split view changed view focus.
Do not silently print internal Lua errors.
Fixed compile error with Gtk 2.0.
Fixed Gtk list dialog display.
Fixed Qt bug that disallowed literal '*' in list dialog filters.
Fixed display of bullets in "session files not found" dialog on Windows.
Do not attempt to show a snippet list without snippets.
LSP: fixed calculation of character columns when tabs are enabled.
LSP: Lua language server highlights ':' method parameters starting at 2, not 1.

Changes:

Windows 10 and macOS 11 are the new minimum system requirements; Linux is unchanged.
Moved "View Whitespace" and "Word Wrap" back into "View" menu and made them view-specific
properties.
Added alphanumeric macro registers.
Autodetect dark mode and implement auto-switching between light and dark modes on Windows.
Support Qt 6 and use it on Windows and macOS builds.
Switch default indentation to size 8 tabs.
Allow autocompleter functions to set separator character and sort order.
Added lua-std-regex and its regex Lua module.
Support TextMate- and LSP-style snippets, and deprecated old format.
Alias Ctrl+Shift+U (upper-case selection) to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U in case the former is
consumed by Linux for Unicode input.
LSP: added support for snippet completions.
LSP: support per-project language servers.

Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 (01 May 2023)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed syntax highlighting lag regression.
Fixed updating buffer tab's "dirty" status on save all.
Fixed error when backspacing over an auto-paired character before a multi-byte character.
Fixed events.AUTO_C_CANCELED not existing.
Fixed _L not returning non-localized messages.
Do not show an empty quick open list.
Qt version: fixed button3 and return_button options for ui.dialogs.list().
LSP: fixed issue sending file URIs to language servers on Windows.
LSP: fixed startup issue with many language servers that do not support selection ranges.
LSP: test that call tip triggers are present before trying to find one.
LSP: Lua language server writes its log to _USERHOME.
Scintilla: fixed GTK bug with too many or too few lines when wrapping.
Scintilla: draw background color for EOL annotations with no decorations or outlined with a box.
Scintilla: fixed buffer:lines_join() bug where 'r' were incorrectly retained.
Scintilla: fixed indicator drawing over the left margin in the Qt version.
Scintilla: fix clipping of line end wrap symbol for view.WRAPVISUALFLAGLOC_END_BY_TEXT.

Changes:

Autodetect dark mode and implement auto-switching between light and dark modes (macOS and
Linux only for now).
Revamped API documentation, mainly for buffer and view API to be more readable.
Allow multiple selections in the recent file dialog.
Added a dialog button to clear the recent files list.
Hide the Windows popup console window when running Textadept as a Lua interpreter.
ui.print_silent() and ui.output_silent() always print silently and return their print
buffers.
Restored ui.command_entry.height and textadept.snippets.paths.
Increase io.quick_open_max.
Allow short-hand access notation for menu items in textadept.menu.menubar.
events.MOUSE emits a bit-mask of modifier keys instead of multiple booleans.
Format: only ignore header lines that have no content.
LSP: Lua language server supports local tables and functions.
LSP: highlight the active call tip parameter when typing, if possible.
Scintilla: draw lines more consistently by clipping drawing to just the line rectangle.
Scintilla: draw view.MARK_BAR markers underneath other markers.
Scintilla: enlarge view.INDIC_POINT* indicators and scale to be larger with text.
Scintilla: make view:line_scroll() more accurate when the width of a space is not an integer.
Scintilla: emit events.AUTO_C_COMPLETED when buffer.auto_c_choose_single is true.
Scintilla: buffer:para_up*() go to the start position of the paragraph first.
Scintilla: view.rectangular_selection_modifier works in the Qt version.
Scintilla: support IME context in the GTK version.
Scintilla: allow scrolling with mouse wheel when view.*_scroll_bar is false in the
Qt version.
Scintilla: added multi-threaded wrap to significantly improve performance of wrapping large
files.
Scintilla: allow individual bytes of multi-byte characters to be styled.
Updated to Scintilla 5.3.4.
Updated to Scinterm 5.0.

Textadept 12.0 alpha 2 (01 Mar 2023)

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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.

Textadept 12.0 alpha (01 Jan 2023)

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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.

Textadept 11.5 alpha 2 (01 Nov 2022)

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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.

Textadept 11.5 alpha (01 Oct 2022)

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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.

Textadept 11.4 (01 Aug 2022)

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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.

Textadept 11.4 beta (31 May 2022)

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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.

Textadept 11.4 alpha (01 Apr 2022)

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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.

Textadept 11.3 (01 Feb 2022)

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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.

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