Geany 1.25.0 (July 12, 2015)
General
- GTK3 support, while not enabled by default, is now considered stable.
- Improve MacOS X support (PR#396, PR#419, PR#420, Jiří Techet).
- Improve subprocess spawning (especially on Windows) (PR#441,
Dimitar Zhekov).
- Huge tag management performance improvement (auto-completion,
calltips, etc.) (PR#356, Jiří Techet).
- Remove broken "Show macro list" keybinding and feature (PR#378).
- Add
%l
substitution to build commands (PR#289, Martin Spacek).
- Depend on GTK 2.24 and GLib 2.28.
- Add per-project line wrapping, line breaking and comment
continuation settings.
- The plugin API is now split out of the main executable into libgeany,
a shared library plugins have to link against.
Bug fixes
- Fix applying filetype-specific indentation settings for newly
opened files.
- Fix relative project base path when creating a new project
(#1062).
- Fix next/previous keybindings when no files are open.
- Fix markup injection in some tooltips (#1091).
- Use absolute project path for projects opened from the command
line (PR#431, Jiří Techet).
- Fix goto tag in some cases when the same symbol name appears in
different languages (PR#487, Jiří Techet).
- Fix UI updating after loading a project.
- Fix the currently selected document after Save All.
- Fix leftovers in the Project dialog in some cases (PR#363, Jiří
Techet).
- Fix function return type in symbol list tooltips in some cases
(PR#475, Jiří Techet).
- Fix VTE path following on startup.
Interface
- Show document-related dialogs embedded in the main window ("info
bars") (PR#277, Matthew Brush and Thomas Martitz).
- Plugin manager dialog cleanup and overhaul (PR#251, PR#414).
- Filetypes can now define the MIME type used to select their icon
(PR#179).
- Close documents in the sidebar with middle mouse button (PR#172,
Pavel Roschin).
- Ask whether to replace project files when creating a project.
- Ask whether to adopt the open documents when creating a new
project (PR#315).
- Allow to disable the list of recent files.
- Fix many shadow inconsistencies (PR#411, Jiří Techet).
- Add virtual column and selected chars to the statusbar (Patch #10,
Dimitar Zhekov).
- Add "dirty" terminal indication (PR#476, Jiří Techet).
- Allow to select the None filetype in the Open File dialog
(Issue#483).
- Add configuration menu entries for all filetypes (PR#491, Jiří Techet).
Editor
- Update Scintilla to version 3.5.6 (#1041).
- Do not comment out blank lines when toggling comments (PR#79, Igor
Shaula).
- Improve handling of Verilog strings and comments.
- Support for keeping undo history when reloading files (PR#188, Arthur
Rosenstein). This is not enabled by default in this release.
- Respect filetype.common's wordchars if a filetype doesn't have its own
(Issue#492, PR#501).
Search
- Add support for single-line regular expressions (PR#310).
- Default action is now "Replace & Find" in the replace dialog but
can be configured (Roland Pallai).
- Activate default action from all fields in the Find in Files
dialog (#959).
Filetypes
- Add JSON filetype.
- Add Zephir filetype.
- Add CoffeScript filetype (PR#230, Mark Dresselhaus).
- Add Go tags parser (PR#373, PR#481, Issue#238, Jiří Techet).
- Add Erlang tags parser (PR#445, Beng Tan).
- Add PowerShell tags parser (PR#477).
- Many JavaScript parsing fixes and improvements.
- Many CSS parser fixes and improvements.
- Many Txt2tags parsing fixes and improvements (feature #690).
- Make parser fixes and improvements.
- Parse D enum base type (PR#404).
- Various small Rust fixes (PR#306, SiegeLord).
- Highlight C types in C++.
- Add some missing C11 keywords.
- Add some missing SQL keywords.
- Fix and add some CSS keywords (PR#333, Hannes Heute).
- Fix some FreeBasic keywords (#691).
- Add some missing D keywords (PR#293, Danyal Zia).
- Fix R keywords and wordchars (PR#273, landroni).
- Fix styling of some CSS elements.
- Fix styling of Lua preprocessor.
- Fix style of PHP variables interpolation.
- Recognize
.vbs
files as FreeBasic (PR#171, Nicolas Karolak).
- Recognize
.tpl
files as HTML.
- Recognize
.xtpl
files as XML.
- Recognize
.xpm
files as C.
- Recognize more Bash files (PR#291, Peter Bittner).
- Update templates for Python and Vala.
- Add template for HTML5.
- Fix parsing of some Python triple-quoted strings.
- Add some linting tools to some filetype's default Build menu.
- Fix scope of some Python symbols.
- Fix support of trigraphs in C-like languages.
- Add support of digraphs in C-like languages.
- Add support of
final
, override
and noexcept
C++11 keywords
(PR#544).
Internationalization
- Update translations: be, ca, cs, de, el, es, fr, id, it, ja, nl, pl,
pt_BR, pt, ru, sl, sr, sv, zh_CN.
Plugins
- File Browser: use "explorer" as the default open command on
Windows.
- File Browser: use icons based on the detected file's MIME type (PR#455,
Jiří Techet).
- Save Actions: use mode 0600 for backup copies (#833, PR#413).
- Split Window: Fix a few keybindings (cut, copy, paste, delete,
select all) (PR#467, Alex).
API
- Hide private API (PR#351, Jiří Techet, and PR#429, Matthew Brush and
Thomas Martitz).
- Cleaner and safer TagManager API (Part of PR#356, Jiří Techet).
- Entry point prototypes are now checked by the compiler (PR#359).
- Add pseudo-unique document IDs through
GeanyDocument::id
and
document_find_by_id()
. This is a safer API for keeping a reference
to a document for a long time (PR#256).
- Add convenient and portable spawning API:
spawn_sync()
, spawn_async()
,
spawn_with_callbacks()
, spawn_kill_process()
, spawn_check_command()
,
spawn_write_data()
(PR#441, Dimitar Zhekov).
plugin_signal_connect()
is now safe to use also with objects
destroyed before unloading the plugin.
- Add
document_reload_force()
to replace document_reload_file()
.
- Add
project_write_config()
(PR#361, Jiří Techet).
- Add
keybindings_get_modifiers()
and GEANY_PRIMARY_MOD_MASK
(Jiří
Techet).
- Fix emission of the
document-activate
signal in some cases.
- Add
ui_tree_view_set_tooltip_text_column()
.
- Add
scintilla_get_type()
.
Windows
- Use native Windows quoting rules for commands (on Windows, part of
subprocess spawning improvements).
- Prompt before overwriting existing files when using native Save As
dialog (PR#113, Adam Coyne).
- View -> Change Font now respects the native dialog setting.
- Fix main window freeze when displaying native dialogs.
- Use the same plugin directory as other platforms (PR#540, Thomas
Martitz).
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