Geany 0.21 (October 2, 2011)

General

• Bump dependencies to GTK >= 2.12, GLib >= 2.16 and GIO.
• Add support for real-time symbol parsing.

• Remove old filetype templates support - use custom file templates instead.

• Add support for detecting the indentation width from the file content.

Bug fixes

• Fix generating tag files (-g) and --ft-names segfault.
• Replace dates on template insertion, not when loading templates.

• Fix segfault when inserting e.g. fileheader template when the template file is empty (#3070913, lphilpot).

• Use the same indentation for all templates (Matthew Brush, #3193527).

• Fix loading of non-UTF-8 templates.

• Fix completion and word completion with non-ASCII characters (#3313351).

• Fix HTML content-type detection (#3300703).

• Fix pattern filtering when using Find in Files not to search in sub-directories.

• Add a workaround to prevent Geany from crashing during loading of a LaTeX-file containing linebreaks inside headings.

Interface

• Add 'Save As' toolbar button option (Matthew Brush, #3153490).

• Add 'Open in New Window' command in the notebook tab menu (Matthew Brush, #3118059).

• Color schemes: use name and description for menu item and tooltip (Matthew Brush).

• Shift-Enter in search dialog and toolbar search entries now searches backwards.

• Improve Set Custom Commands dialog.

• Always destroy open and save dialogs after use (#3311258, #3304273, #3201050, #3163742, #3153120, #2985896).

• Add UI to edit formerly hidden preferences (Dimitar Zhekov, #3313315).

Editor

• Update Scintilla to version 2.25.
• Fix snippets bug: {ob}pc{cb} replaced by '%' instead of {pc}.
• Fix multiple snippet cursor positions for Tabs + Spaces mode.
• Avoid triggering autocompletion on PHP open tags (#3199442).
• Fix indentation brace matching (#3309606).

Configuration files

• Support copying filetype definition file group keys from a system keyfile with e.g. [styling=C].

• Make filetype group membership configurable using [Groups] in filetype_extensions.conf.

Search

• Don't auto-enable case-sensitive option when enabling regex in Find/Replace dialogs.

• Remember Find and Replace options across restarts (Dimitar Zhekov).

Keybindings

• Add fixed shortcuts for VTE copy (Ctrl-Shift-C) and paste (Ctrl-Shift-V).

• Add new keybinding 'Remove Markers and Error Indicators'.

Projects

• Store VTE path with the project session (Nicolas Sierro).

Filetypes

• Add Scala custom filetype (werg).
• Add Cython custom filetype (Matthew Brush).
• Add support for separate single and multiline comments.

• Add support for filetype-specific indentation settings (#3339420, #3390435)

• Fix detecting Matlab and Txt2Tags extensions by default (#3167315, #3154637).

• Fix detecting non-lowercase self-closing tags e.g.
  (#2226117).

• Highlight C# and Vala raw and verbatim strings.
• Improve JavaScript keyword handling and keyword lists (Jason Oster).
• Add filetype Cobol (Seth Keiper).
• Add file template for Vala (Mark Trompell).

Plugins

• File Browser: Make 'Hide object files' preference configurable with file extensions.

• Split Window: Fix a crash when changing filetype (Matthew Brush, #3255968).

• Split Window: Update styles when the filetype changes (Matthew Brush).

• Split Window: Enable code folding (Matthew Brush, #3097780).

• Split Window: Fix issues on Windows (Matthew Brush, #2725342).
• Class Builder: Improve dialog UI using a table (Matthew Brush).
• Export: Add option to insert line numbers (#3197150).

Documentation

• Add 'Reading styles from another filetype' subsection (Matthew Brush).

• Add 'Filenames' subsection for filetype definition files explaining the filename extensions and special cases.

• Add section 'Filetype group membership'.

Plugin API

• Add filetypes_get_sorted_by_name(), utils_find_open_xml_tag_pos() (Eugene Arshinov).

• Add plugin_idle_add(), plugin_timeout_add(), plugin_timeout_add_seconds(), ui_menu_add_document_items_sorted(), document_compare_by_display_name(),

document_compare_by_tab_order(), document_compare_by_tab_order_reverse().

• Deprecate ui_widget_set_tooltip_text().
• Fix public inclusion of config.h (#3384026).
• Add new signal "document-reload".

Internationalisation:

• Add translations: fa
• Update translations: ca, cs, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, gl, it, ja, nl, pt, pt_BR, sl, sv, tr, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW

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