Geany 0.12 (October 10, 2007)

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed opening the same file twice from the message window/command-line.
  • Fixed Ctrl-Shift keybindings not working when caps lock is on.
  • Fixed saving the wrong document when using Save All with unnamed documents.

  • Fixed replacing with '^' or '$' regex chars.

  • Fixed hang with Find All/Find Usage with '^' or '$' regex chars.
  • Fixed hang when replacing all '[ ]*' regex matches (closes #1757748).
  • Fixed displaying error indicators with Make after entering a subdirectory.

  • Fixed a possible segfault when parsing tags (a vString bug).

  • Fixed clipboard problems with some applications.
  • Fixed crash when trying to open the Save As dialog on Windows.
  • Fixed crash when saving a file after setting encoding "None".
  • Fixed scrolling bugs when searching text and the cursor is outside of the current visible area.

Filetypes:

  • Added reStructuredText filetype and parser.
  • Added Haskell tags support (thanks to Peter Strand).
  • Added decorator styling for Python.
  • Parse Python global variables and class variables.
  • Added support for Java Apache Ant compiler error messages (thanks to Jon Senior).

  • Added new filetypes CSharp and FreeBasic.

  • Added filetype Haxe (patch by blackdog, thank you).

Plugins:

  • Added basic plugin support (developers: see the HACKING file).
  • Added 'Enable plugin support' preference and -p, --no-plugins options.
  • Added Class Builder plugin (thanks to Alexander Rodin).
  • Added Export plugin to export current file as HTML or LaTeX.

Keyboard shorcuts:

  • Common bash Ctrl-[a-z] keyboard shortcuts now work when the VTE is focused, and there is an 'enable_bash_keys' hidden preference.

  • Added 'Move document left' and 'Move document right' keybindings.

  • Added Find keybinding.
  • Made fixed keybindings overridable.
  • Added fixed keybindings for switching to leftmost/rightmost document, Ctrl-Shift-{PageUp,PageDown}.

  • Change Previous/Next Paragraph fixed commands to Ctrl-{Up,Down}; adding Shift extends selection by paragraph. (Scroll by line is now

Alt-{Up,Down}).

  • Made pressing escape focus the editor when using incremental search or Goto Line toolbar fields.

  • Added keybinding for select current paragraph.

  • Added keybindings for smart indent and indent/deindent by one space.
  • Removed convert to lower-/upper-case keybindings.
  • Added toggle case keybinding and change shortcut to Ctrl-Alt-U.

General:

  • Added preference for 'smart' home key behaviour (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).

  • Added symbol list icons (thanks to Jean-François Wauthy, and KDevelop for the icons).

  • Added 'Current chars' indentation mode (closes #1726880).

  • Save and restore the current notebook page when quitting.
  • Added support for %e, %f in project run command.
  • Ignore punctuation chars when moving by word, and use word end boundaries when moving by word to the right (like most GTK+ widgets).

  • Added hidden editor preference 'use_gtk_word_boundaries'.

  • Added auto_complete_whilst_editing hidden preference.
  • Speed up Save All for C-like files.
  • Don't show file opened/saved/closed messages on the status bar.
  • Added --no-preprocessing, -P option when generating tags files to disable preprocessing of C/C++ source files.

  • Added default startup directory option (closes #1704988).

  • Use current locale as default encoding for new files.
  • Added simple code navigation (thanks to Dave Moore).
  • Re-maximize the main window on startup when closed in maximized state (closes #1730369).

  • Added auto focus (to auto focus widgets below mouse cursor).

  • Complete rewrite of auto completion to make it user-definable and much more flexible (please read documentation).

  • Added option to set a default encoding when opening files and disable auto detection of the file encoding.

  • Improved comment toggling by adding an additional character to mark.

  • Changed the background colour of the search bar in the toolbar according to the search result.

  • Use intltool to make geany.desktop translatable

  • Replace Geany's icon by a new one by Sebastian Kraft (thanks). (Thanks also to Christoph Berg for updating the icon code).

Docs:

  • Changed documentation generation tools from DocBook to reST (thanks to John Gabriele for his great work on this).

  • Added Plugins section.

  • Added 'Inserting unicode characters' Editing section (thanks to John Gabriele).

  • Added 'Hidden preferences' appendix.

  • Added 'Switching documents' keybindings section.

HACKING:

  • Added notes on adding a filetype.

Internationalisation:

  • New translations: en_GB.
  • Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, it, pl, pt_BR, zh_CN.

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