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12.5 beta 3 (01 Oct 2024)

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Bugfixes:

Inherit entire login shell environment (including $PATH) on macOS without ~/.osx_env.sh.
Fixed regression in reset().
Fixed quick open and find in files filters to not ignore directories like .github.
Fixed slow-pasting of text into the terminal version.
Fixed rectangular selections not extending beyond end-of-line when virtual space is enabled.
Fail gracefully if terminal input cannot be read in the terminal version.
Fixed incremental find spamming find history.
Fixed insertion of zero-length snippets.
Fixed inability to quit the terminal version if an initialization error occured.
Fixed rebinding keys defined in the macOS menubar.
Support more movement keys in the command entry on macOS.
Fixed lack of padding in GTK list dialogs.
Fixed inability to show the first buffer tab in the Qt version when using ui.SHOW_ALL_TABS.
Format: added format.prefix_map for formatting paragraphs.
LSP: fixed autocompletion lists when items have spaces in them.
LSP: Lua language server recognizes conventional M identifier as the current module.
LSP: lazy-load Textadept API documentation for the Lua command entry.
LSP: do not scan Textadept’s _HOME more than once.
LSP: fixed Lua language server’s Textadept _HOME detection on macOS.

Changes:

Updated macOS icon to match Big Sur icon style.
Updated call tip background to match default background in themes.
Updated to Qt 6.7 on Windows, which uses Windows 11 theme widgets.
Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.
Renamed ‘ansi_c’, ‘dmd’, and ‘rstats’ lexers to ‘c’, ‘d’, and ‘r’, respectively.
- Language-specific keys have changed (e.g. use keys.c and snippets.c now).
Emit events.VIEW_BEFORE_SWITCH on view:split().
Enable view.caret_line_visible_always, but only on the current view when Textadept has focus.
Added select option to ui.dialogs.list().
Use a proper label widget for the command entry label instead of a Scintilla margin.
Increased terminal version Find & Replace history to 100 items.
Remove duplicates from Find & Replace history.
Added Edit > Deselect menu item and key binding.
Format: use Homebrew’s gfmt for formatting paragraphs on macOS.
Updated to CDK 5.0-20240619.

12.5 beta 2 (01 Sep 2024)

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Bugfixes:

Limit auto-detected indentation to between 2-8 spaces.
Fixed buffer:set_encoding() for single-byte conversions.
Fixed os.spawn() in the GTK and terminal versions with a large env table.
Document -L and --lua in help output.
Do not advance the incremental search anchor when Find Next is clicked and nothing was found.
Fixed error when textadept.run.run_without_prompt is enabled, but no command exists.
Do not accidentally scroll the view if no text was found.
Edits in typed buffers like Files Found Buffer should not be recorded in history.
Fixed Find in Files error when searching an empty directory.
Fixed incorrect buffer switching after clicking the tab close button for a non-focused buffer.
Fixed error return values for os.spawn():read().
Fixed view:split() not preserving scroll state.
Scintilla: fixed flickering cursor after some mouse action sequences.

Changes:

Removed encodings table argument from io.open_file(); use buffer:set_encoding() as needed.
Implemented timeout() for the terminal version.
Renamed _SCINTILLA.new_* functions to view.new_*.
Improved os.spawn() in the terminal version by using the reproc library.
quit() now accepts a status code to return after quitting.
New internal unit test framework.
events.REPLACE handlers can now return true to prevent subsequent emission of events.FIND.
Lua Command Entry and ui.print() now print to the Output Buffer (not the Message Buffer).
Removed ui.print_silent() (use ui.print_silent_to() instead).
Removed Message Buffer.
Changed ui.print_to() and ui.print_silent_to() to only accept a single string message.
Changed ui.output() and ui.output_silent() to only accept strings or numbers.
textadept.editing.auto_pairs and textadept.editing.select_enclosed support UTF-8 characters.
Scroll up/down by pages using Alt+PgUp and Alt+PgDn, respectively, on Windows and Linux, and ^⇞ and ^⇟ on macOS. (N/A in the terminal version.)
Removed ui.find.find_in_files(); ui.find.find_next() with ui.find.in_files invokes it.
textadept.editing.select_line() expands a multi-line selection to include whole lines.
Scintilla: increase maximum zoom to +60 points.
Scintilla: added buffer.copy_separator.
Scintilla: added buffer:line_indent() and buffer:line_dedent() for always indenting/dedenting instead of conditionally doing so with buffer:tab() and buffer:back_tab().
Updated to Scintilla 5.5.2.
Updated to Scinterm 5.1.

12.5 beta (01 Jul 2024)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed tab label not updating for silently created buffers.
Skip to next snippet placeholder if the word behind the caret is a lexer name with no snippet text.
Fixed infinite loop when passing nonexistant directory to lfs.walk().

Changes:

Added menu item to toggle showing line margins.
Improve Fossil SCM support.
Updated Spanish and Portuguese translations.
Added menu item to toggle showing the tab bar.
Support dynamic horizontal scrollbar resizing.
Added basic auto-detection of file indentation, conrtrolled with io.detect_indentation.
Updated to Lua 5.4.7.

12.4 (01 May 2024)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed macOS bug where message dialogs did not return focus to the editor.
Fixed Bash lexer to not highlight escaped ‘#’ as comments.

Changes:

Updated AutoHotkey, Perl, and Rust lexers with minor improvements.
LSP: notify servers that diagnostics are supported.
Scintilla: significantly reduce memory used for undo actions.
Scintilla: added additional selection inactive colors to view.element_color.
Scintilla: scale reverse arrow margin cursor to match user’s cursor size.
Updated to Scintilla 5.5.0.

12.3 (01 Mar 2024)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed help files not showing up in Linux releases.
Fixed ^⌘ key sequences not working on macOS.
LSP: fixed diagnostics for some language servers that expect client diagnostic capabilities.
Scintilla: workaround potential crash when a line contains both left-to-right and right-to-left text.

Changes:

None.

12.3 beta (01 Jan 2024)

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Bugfixes:

Do not assume filter through command output is encoded in _CHARSET.
Only close the initial buffer if it is blank too.
Fixed CMake constantly redownloading Qt SingleApplication module.
Qt version: Allow keypad Enter to invoke action in Find & Replace pane entries
Scintilla: fixed regex reverse search bug where a shortened match was returned.
Scintilla: avoid character fragments in regular expression search results.
Scintilla: fixed excessive memory use when deleting contiguous ranges backwards.
Scintilla: fixed incorrect substitution when searching for a regular expression backwards.
Scintilla: fix potential Qt crash when using IME with a large amount of text selected.

Changes:

Added textadept.snippets.active.
Scratch: New module for treating untitled buffers as persistent scratch buffers.
Scintilla: Ctrl+Click on a selection deselects it in multiple selection mode.
Scintilla: added buffer:change_selection_mode().
Scintilla: allow setting of buffer.move_extends_selection.
Scintilla: improve global replace performance.
Scintilla: make buffer:move_selected_lines_up() and buffer:move_selected_lines_down() work for regular selections.
Updated to Scintilla 5.4.1.

12.2 (01 Nov 2023)

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Bugfixes:

Regex replacements with ‘^’ anchors should only match once per line.
Fix statusbar column number not including virtual space.
Fixed terminal version crash in some list dialogs with UTF-8 characters in them.
Gtk input dialogs are resizable.
Fixed default Gtk icon dialog when none was specified.

Changes:

Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish localizations.

12.2 beta (01 Oct 2023)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed crash during logout/restart on Windows while Textadept is still running.
Prevent key bindings in the macOS menu from overriding user-specified bindings.
Fixed interpretation of ‘-‘ command line argument as reading from stdin.
Prevent duplicate key events from Scintilla.
Only show message box icons in the Gtk version if they exist.
Fixed display of window and dialog icons in Gtk.
Correctly highlight built-in Bash variables surrounded by “${…}”.

Changes:

Implemented single-instance functionality on Windows (and Linux with Qt).
Dropped legacy 11.x compatibility shims.
Added Brazilian Portuguese localization.
Updated Hare, fstab, and Matlab lexers.
Updated Markdown lexer to detect code blocks delimited by ~~~.
Updated Bash lexer to disable conditional and arithmetic operator highlighting due to performance.
Updated to Scintilla 5.3.7.

12.1 (01 Sep 2023)

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Bugfixes:

Correctly recognize projects under Fossil version control.
Fixed potential crash on GTK when opening a list dialog and immediately arrowing down.
Fixed crash unsplitting a non-focused view whose other pane contains the focused view.
Fixed some multi-byte characters in Julia lexer being incorrectly marked as operators.
Fixed lack of legacy support for lexer.fold_consecutive_lines().
Do not highlight Bash variable pattern expansion as comments.
Fixed potential crash with proxy lexers like RHTML.
Scintilla: fixed crash when using IME with a large amount of text selected.

Changes:

Added textadept.run.run_without_prompt for running commands immediately
Updated Hare lexer.

12.0 (01 Aug 2023)

Please see the migration guide for migrating from Textadept 11 to 12.

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Bugfixes:

Fixed potential crash when using legacy lexers.
Fixed error switching to the only buffer that exists.
Fixed case insensitive word completion from all buffers.
Fixed syntax highlighting glitches on Windows.
LSP: small fixes for language servers that do not play nicely.
LSP: work around Scintilla repeatedly sending hover events on Windows and Qt.
LSP: fixed active Lua parameter calculation if documented function uses ‘:’.
LSP: fixed inaccurate recording of ‘goto’ position for history navigation.
Export: use the correct dialog when prompting for a file to export to.

Changes:

Updated Python lexer to support soft keywords.
Removed unnecessary Qt DLLs from Windows release.
LSP: query for updated diagnostics if the buffer has since been modified.
Scintilla: input method improvements on Qt.
Updated to Lua 5.4.6.
Updated to LPeg 1.1.0.
Updated to Scintilla 5.3.6.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 go to 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.

11.4 beta (01 Jun 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.

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.

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.

11.3 beta 3 (01 Dec 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Format: When formatting on save, check for filename first instead of assuming there is one.
Scintilla: Fixed primary selection paste within same view.

Changes:

Added ‘`’ as an autopair and typeover character.
textadept.editing.auto_enclose keeps text selected.
Scintilla: DEL (0x7F) is considered a space character.
Updated to Scintilla 5.1.4.

11.3 beta 2 (01 Nov 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed accidental drawing of whitespace, tab arrows, and indentation guides in margins when scrolling horizontally in the terminal version.
Fixed accidental highlighting in margins when scrolling horizontally in the terminal version.
Fixed occasional incorrect drawing when scrolling horizontally in the terminal version.
Lua REPL: Fixed broken REPL on reset.

Changes:

Hide the terminal cursor when the caret is out of view.
Format: New module for formatting code and reformatting paragraphs.
Debugger: Allow watch expressions without breaking on changes.
Debugger: Implement setting stack frames in Lua and pretty-print variable values.
Debugger: Prefer status buffers for variables and call stacks.

11.3 beta (01 Oct 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed Windows directory typos in the manual.
Prevent running the command entry while in the command entry.
Fixed uncommenting comments that are not initially aligned.
Scintilla: Fixed display of fold lines when wrapped so they are only drawn once per line.
Scintilla: Fixed crash with too many subexpressions in regex searches.
Scintilla: Fixed lack of display of underscores in some monospaced fonts on Linux.
Scintilla: Respond to changes in Linux font scaling.

Changes:

Updated Makefile lexer to support multiple targets.
Updated VB lexer to support folding.
Lexers support more complex folding keywords and improved case-insensitivity.
Scintilla: Added to view.element_color the ability to color fold lines and hidden lines.
Scintilla: Added view.caret_line_highlight_subline to highlight just the subline containing the caret.
Scintilla: view:hide_lines() can now hide the first line or all lines.
Scintilla: Make negative settings for extra ascent and descent safer.
Scintilla: Deprecated view.property_expanded in favor of lexer.property_expanded.
Updated to Scintilla 5.1.3.

11.2 (01 Aug 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed trailing newline bug when filtering through with multiple/rectangular selection.
Scintilla: Fixed bug in buffer:get_last_child() when level is -1.
Scintilla: Word searching behaves more consistently at buffer boundaries.

Changes:

Scintilla: Allow setting the appearance and color of character representations.
Scintilla: Added buffer:replace_rectangular().
Scintilla: Optimize search in documents that contain mainly ASCII text.
Updated to Scintilla 5.1.1.

11.2 beta 3 (11 Jun 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Allow “Replace All” for empty regex matches like ‘^’ and ‘$’.
Fixed display of secondary selections on Linux.
Fixed instances of incorrect caret/selection placement when typing after clearing buffer text.

Changes:

Allow syntax highlighting to be preserved in selected text for default themes.
textadept.editing.filter_through() respects multiple and rectangular selections.
Support “Replace All” in multiple and rectangular selection.

11.2 beta 2 (01 Jun 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed some file extension conflicts.
Restore view scroll state after textadept.editing.filter_through().
Do not clobber user’s terminal on initialization error.
Modules: Refresh debugger breakpoints when buffer content is replaced and persist breakpoints and watchpoints on reset.
Scintilla: Respect system font settings like antialiasing.
Scintilla: Fix primary selection on GTK 3 and Wayland.

Changes:

Save/restore view state when undoing/redoing full-buffer changes (e.g. code formatting).
Added ability to specify find & replace pane font via ui.find.entry_font.
Replaced events.FILE_BEFORE_RELOAD and events.FILE_AFTER_RELOAD with events.BUFFER_BEFORE_REPLACE_TEXT and events.BUFFER_AFTER_REPLACE_TEXT.
Added support for Gleam.
Scintilla: Added view.indic_stroke_width, view.marker_fore_translucent, view.marker_back_translucent, view.marker_back_selected_translucent, and view.marker_stroke_width.
Scintilla: Added new EOL annotation styles.
Scintilla: Added view.element_color for setting UI element colors (e.g. selection, caret, etc.) and deprecated view:set_sel_fore(), view.sel_alpha, view.caret_fore, etc. Also added view.element_allows_translucent, view.element_base_color, and view.element_is_set.
Scintilla: view.MARK_CHARACTER markers now support unicode characters.
Scintilla: added view.selection_layer, view.caret_line_layer, and view.marker_layer in conjunction with view.element_color for alpha transparency.
Scintilla: Included modifiers in events.INDICATOR_RELEASE.
Scintilla: Update to Unicode 13.
Updated to Scintilla 5.0.3.

11.2 beta (01 Apr 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed inability to replace found text with escapes like ‘\n’ and ‘\t’.
Fixed custom theme’s overriding of default theme’s colors.
Do not mark GCC-style “note:” output as compile/run/build/test errors.
Modules: Fixed inability to handle large LSP notifications.
Modules: Prefer asynchronous LSP response reading on Windows in order to prevent hanging.
Modules: Fixed bug where LSP is not notified of files opened during a session.
Modules: Fixed LSP startup errors if the LSP command is ultimately nil.
Modules: Fixed debugger status when paused.

Changes:

Added ui.SHOW_ALL_TABS option for ui.tabs.
Added support for TypeScript.
The terminal version now uses a native terminal cursor instead of an artificially drawn one.
Modules: Keep current line’s scroll position when displaying LSP diagnostics.
Modules: Added option to turn off LSP diagnostic display completely.
Modules: Added debugger.project_commands for making project-specific debugging easier.
Updated to Lua 5.4.2.
Updated to Scintilla 5.0.0.

11.1 (01 Feb 2021)

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Bugfixes:

Do not prompt for file reload during io.close_all_buffers().
Ensure a bare ui.find.focus() call resets incremental and in files options.
Fixed buffer:reload() only reloading up to a NUL byte, if present.
Fixed minor file extension issues.
Fixed bug restoring view state in an intermediate buffer after closing one.
Fixed navigating back through history from a print buffer.
Modules: Fixed incorrect LSP mouse hover query position.
Modules: Only notify LSP servers about opened files after startup in order to avoid overwhelming the connection.

Changes:

Save the current session prior to loading another one.
Do not show deleted files in recent file list.
Updated various lexers and fixed various small lexer issues.
Added support for Clojure, Elm, Fantom, fstab, Julia, Meson, Pony, Reason, RouterOS, Spin, systemd, systemd-networkd, Xs, and Zig.
Compile, run, and build command functions can also return environment tables.
Added textadept.run.test() and textadept.run.test_commands.
io.get_project_root() accepts an optional flag for returning a submodule root.

11.0 (01 Dec 2020)

Please see the 10 to 11 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 10 to Textadept 11.

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Bugfixes:

Fixed find & replace entry unfocus when window is refocused.
Modules: Fixed bug initializing spellcheck module in some instances.

Changes:

Added optional mode parameter to ui.command_entry.append_history().
keys[lexer] and snippets[lexer] tables are present on init.
Added events.FIND_RESULT_FOUND.
Added events.UNFOCUS.

11.0 beta 2 (01 Nov 2020)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed the listing of bookmarks for all open buffers.
Fixed “Enclose as XML Tags” with multiple selections.
Fixed clearing of “Replace” entry in Find & Replace pane on reset in the GUI.
Fixed lack of statusbar updating when setting options like buffer EOL mode, indentation, and encoding from the menu.
Do not clear highlighting when searching inside the “Find in Files” buffer.
textadept.editing.strip_trailing_spaces should not apply to binary files.
Handle recursive symlinks in lfs.walk().
Modules: Fixed Lua debugger crash when inspecting variables with very large string representations.
Modules: Support non-UTF-8 spelling dictionaries.
Modules: Fixed YAML syntax checking notification.
Modules: Fixed various small issues with the C debugger.

Changes:

New textadept.history module.
Updated German and Russian translations.
Added ui.command_entry.append_history() for special command entry modes that need to manually append history.
Implement \U, \L, \u, and \l case transformations in regex replacements.
Added textadept.run.set_arguments().
Modules: Each module in the separate modules download has its own repository now, but all are still bundled into a single archive for release.
Modules: Greatly improved the speed of file comparison.
Modules: Added ability to switch spelling dictionaries on the fly.
Updated to CDK 5.0-20200923.
Updated to LuaFileSystem 1.8.0.

11.0 beta (01 Oct 2020)

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Bugfixes:

Fixed word left/right key bindings on macOS.
Fixed regression with showing “No results found” in searches.
Fixed regression in showing images in Lua command entry completions.
Fixed restoration of Replace entry text in various instances, such as after “Find in Files” and “Replace All”.
Prevent infinite loops when highlighting found text.
Fixed bugs in events.KEYPRESS handlers when command entry is active.
Fixed bug in “Find in Files” results highlighting when jumping to a result of length 1.
Fixed emission of events.UPDATE_UI when resuming from terminal suspend.
Fixed initial query of ui.find.find_text and ui.find.repl_text in the terminal version.
Fixed incorrect CSS key prefix incompatibility notice.
Fixed error reporting the number of zero-length find results.
Fixed call tip display in the terminal version.
Always refresh during incremental find in the terminal version.
Fixed io.quick_open() doing nothing when file limit was exceeded.
gtDialog: Fixed potential crash when canceling a running progressbar dialog.
Scintilla: Fixed position of marker symbols for view.MARGIN_RTEXT which were being moved based on width of text.
Scintilla: Fixed hover indicator appearance when moving out of view.
Scintilla: Fixed display of buffer.INDIC_TEXTFORE and gradient indicators on hover.

Changes:

Rewrote manual and updated lots of other documentation and the documentation generation pipeline.
Prefer passing an environment table to os.spawn().
Updated find & replace key bindings.
Use comma-separated patterns in find & replace pane’s “Filter” field.
Removed “View EOL” menu item, key binding, and buffer setting.
Accept a directory as a command line argument.
Save the current working directory to session files.
“View > Toggle Fold” toggles folding for the current block, regardless of line.
Recognize Fossil projects.
Added textadept.editing.auto_enclose() for auto-enclosing selected text.
Show “Match X/Y” in statusbar when searching for text.
Added ui.command_entry.active.
Improved handling of print buffers and splits.
Added “Edit > Preferences” menu item and key binding for opening ~/.textadept/init.lua.
Disable ui.find.highlight_all_matches by default.
GCC 7.1+ is now required for building, added support for building with Docker, and dropped automated Linux i386 builds.
Added events.FIND_RESULT_FOUND.
Added ui.find.active and prevent word highlighting when searching.
Added support for jq language.
Record directory in “Find in Files” searches.
Added ui.update(), mainly for unit tests.
Added events.FILE_BEFORE_RELOAD and events.FILE_AFTER_RELOAD events, and save/restore bookmarks.
Added events.COMMAND_TEXT_CHANGED for when command entry text changes.
Added _NOCOMPAT option to disable temporary key shortcut compatibility checking.
Updated Spanish translation.
gtDialog: Improved responsiveness for huge lists (greater than 10,000 items).
Scintilla: Added view.multi_edge_column.
Updated to Scintilla 4.4.5.
Switched back to utilizing Scintillua and Scinterm.

11.0 alpha 3 (01 Aug 2020)

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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 option.
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.

11.0 alpha 2 (01 Jun 2020)

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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.

11.0 alpha (31 Mar 2020)

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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 Windows 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 Windows 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.

10.8 (01 Jan 2020)

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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.

10.7 (01 Nov 2019)

Bugfixes:

Fixed scroll issues when toggling line wrap.
Properly handle absolute paths in run/compile/build output and also case-insensitivity on Windows.
Restore virtual space state when switching between buffers.
Restore rectangular selection state when switching between buffers.
Fixed opening of non-UTF-8-encoded filenames dropped into a view.
Fixed macro toggling with some key combinations.
Ensure events.BUFFER_AFTER_SWITCH is emitted properly during buffer.new().
Prevent double-counting fold points on a single line.

Changes:

Refactored “Replace All” to be more performant.
Added back textadept.editing.paste_reindent() as a separate menu/key/command from buffer.paste().
Enabled all theme colors by default, and changed line number color in the terminal version.
Replaced ui.command_entry.enter_mode() and ui.command_entry.finish_mode() with simplified ui.command_entry.run().
Added ui.find.find_incremental_keys table of key bindings during “Find Incremental” searches.
Replaced textadept.macros.start_recording() and textadept.macros.stop_recording() with textadept.macros.record().
Updated C, Rust, Prolog, and Logtalk lexers.
Added MediaWiki lexer.
Scintilla: Updated case conversion and character categories to Unicode 12.1.
Updated to Scintilla 3.11.1.

10.6 (01 Sep 2019)

Bugfixes:

Fail more gracefully when users attempt to create buffers on init.
Improve caret sticky behavior when switching between buffers.
Do not auto-indent when pressing enter at the start of a non-empty line.
Scintilla: Fix deletion of isolated invalid bytes.
Scintilla: Fix position of line caret when overstrike caret is set to block.

Changes:

Use CP1252 encoding instead of ISO-8859-1.
Added support for ksh and mksh.
Updated to Scintilla 3.11.0.

10.5 (01 Jul 2019)

Bugfixes:

Do not advance the caret on failed incremental find.
Fixed bug with filters that have extension includes and pattern excludes.

Changes:

Added case-insensitive option to textadept.editing.show_documentation().
Updated the default window size and some default dialog sizes.
Updated Markdown lexer.
Improved C++ lexer to support single quotes in C++14 integer literals.
Scintilla: Improved performance opening and closing large files with fold points.
Scintilla: Tweaked behavior of buffer.style_case’s buffer.CASE_CAMEL option to treat only letters as word characters.
Updated to Scintilla 3.10.6.

10.4 (01 May 2019)

Bugfixes:

Fixed scrolling found text into view on long lines.
Fixed crash on Mac with malformed regex patterns.

Changes:

Recognize .vue and .yml file extensions.
Line number margin grows for large files as needed.
Do not emit events.SAVE_POINT_LEFT event for unfocused views.
Updated CSS lexer to support CSS3.
Updated YAML lexer.
Updated to Scintilla 3.10.4.
Updated to LuaFileSystem 1.7.0 and LPeg 1.0.2.

10.3 (01 Mar 2019)

Bugfixes:

Fixed block comment support for Nim.
Fixed escaping of newlines (\n) in Lua and C API documentation.

Changes:

Version control markers like .git are not limited to directories.
Allow redefinition of WGET in Makefile for
Updated to Scintilla 3.10.2.

10.3 beta (01 Jan 2019)

Bugfixes:

Ensure Esc clears highlighted words.
Fixed behavior of Home and Shift+Home keys on non-OSX platforms.
Fixed some instances of snippet next/prev not working correctly.
Fixed Alt+Gr key handling in the Windows terminal version.
Only pass command entry text to function passed to ui.command_entry.finish_mode().
Fixed handling of escaped double-quotes in os.spawn() in the terminal version.
Ensure long filenames are visible in the reload dialog prompt in the terminal version.

Changes:

Added optional position argument to textadept.editing.show_documentation().
textadept.editing.highlight_word() does not select the word by default anymore.
Changed file filter format to be more flat and intuitive.
Added -l and --line command line options to go to a buffer line.
Updated to PDCurses 3.6 for the Windows terminal version.

10.2 (01 Nov 2018)

Bugfixes:

Fixed error when performing “select enclosed” on a non-ASCII character.
Fixed regression of Retina display support of Mac OSX.
Fixed key handling on some international keyboards.
Fixed tab labels not updating when loading message buffers from a session.
Fixed potential crashes in string.iconv() with tiny strings.
Fixed inability to resize one split view configuration with the mouse in the terminal version.

Changes:

Renamed spawn() to os.spawn().
os.spawn() now allows omission of cwd and env parameters.
spawn_proc:wait() returns the process’ exit code.
textadept.editing.filter_through() halts on non-zero status instead of clobbering the buffer or selected text.
Removed textadept.editing.paste() and textadept.editing.paste_reindents option; Textadept no longer reindents pasted text by default.
Experimentally added textadept.macros module for recording, playing, saving, and loading keyboard macros.
Scintilla: Improve efficiency of idle wrapping.
Scintilla: Updated case conversion and character categories to Unicode 11.
Scintilla: Updated ConTeXt, HTML, and Markdown lexers.
Updated to Scintilla 3.10.1.

10.1 (01 Oct 2018)

Bugfixes:

Fixed view focus synchronization issues when dropping files into split views.
Fixed potential crash with non-UTF-8 bytes copy-pasted into non-UTF-8 buffer.
spawn_proc:read() correctly handles \r\n sequences.

Changes:

Added ability to save/restore persistent data during a reset event via events.RESET_BEFORE and events.RESET_AFTER.
Replaced ui.find.find_in_files_filter with ui.find.find_in_files_filters table for project-specific filters.
Added Chinese localization.
Updated to GTK 2.24.32 on Windows, which fixes a number of various GTK-related issues.

10.0 (01 Aug 2018)

Please see the 9 to 10 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 9 to Textadept 10.

Bugfixes:

Fixed markdown lexer lists and C# lexer keywords.
Fixed child lexers that embed themselves into parents and fixed proxy lexers.
Fixed handling of custom fold functions in legacy lexers.
Fixed buffer:set_theme() for lexers that have their own styles.
Scintilla: Fixed potential crash with newer versions of ncurses.
Scintilla: Fixed some regex searching corner-cases.

Changes:

Updated German localization.
Scintilla: Added new buffer.INDIC_GRADIENT and buffer.INDIC_GRADIENTCENTRE indicators.
Scintilla: Added buffer.WRAPINDENT_DEEPINDENT line wrapping option.
Updated to Scintilla 3.10.0.
Updated to Lua 5.3.5.

10.0 beta 2 (01 Jun 2018)

Bugfixes:

Fixed unset lexer bug upon splitting a newly created buffer.
Fixed a potential infinite loop with “replace in selection”.
Fixed crash on Mac OSX with regex searches.
Fixed selection of “find in files” result if it’s at the start of the line.
Properly handle abbreviated setting of write-only buffer properties via command entry.

Changes:

Removed bit32 module in favor of Lua’s bitwise operators.
Makefile can be used to build on case-insensitive filesystems.
Interpret \uXXXX sequences in regex replacement text.

10.0 beta (01 May 2018)

Bugfixes:

Fixed incorrect style settings when splitting views.
Fixed restoration of vertical scroll for buffers with different line heights.
Fixed potential crash in terminal version with newer versions of ncurses.

Changes:

Change SQL comments to use -- instead of #.
Updated Textadept icon.
Minimum required Mac OSX version is now 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or higher.
Removed LuaJIT version of Textadept.

10.0 alpha 3 (01 Apr 2018)

Bugfixes:

Fixed hang in the terminal version on Windows.
Fixed accidental stripping of leading newlines in pasted text.
Fixed initialization errors not showing in the terminal version.

Changes:

Textadept requires GCC 4.9 (circa early-2014) or later to compile (not run).
C++11 regex replaces old TRE library.
Scintillua and Scinterm were merged into Scintilla and are no longer dependencies.
Emacs-style ^K for OSX and the terminal version joins lines at EOL.
Pasted text reindents an extra level after a fold header.
buffer.set_theme() now takes an initial buffer argument like all other buffer functions and does not have any call restrictions.
Scintilla: Added events.AUTO_C_SELECTION_CHANGE event.
Updated to Scintilla 3.8.0.

10.0 alpha 2 (01 Mar 2018)

Bugfixes:

Fixed clang build warnings/errors regarding LuaJIT.
Fixed busy wait in second instance of Textadept on Windows.
Fixed bug in remote-controlled Textadept when no arguments were initially given.
Fixed session loading when only it is provided as a command line argument.
Fixed copy-paste between views in the terminal version.
Fixed crash when attempting to show a badly-encoded filename in the titlebar.
Scintilla: Fixed double-click word selection on Windows 10.
Scintilla: Fixed rectangular and line modal selection movements.

Changes:

Added fold.compact buffer property.
Added buffer.move_extends_selection for enhanced modal keyboard movement.
Auto-detect UTF-16-encoded files automatically.
Save to the loaded session on quit and removed the textadept.session.default_session option.
Various Makefile improvements.
The terminal version can immediately focus on a clicked split view.
Textadept only minimally supports GTK3 now – it still compiles, but deprecated function calls have not been, and will not be migrated.
The terminal key sequence for Ctrl+Space is now 'c ' instead of 'c@'.
The terminal version can now remap ^H (which was previously locked to Backspace).

10.0 alpha (01 Jan 2018)

Bugfixes:

Scintilla: Fixed a couple of wrapped line drawing cases.
Scintilla: Ensure overtype caret is drawn when manually set.
Scintilla: Fixed some instances of incorrect scrollbar drawing and flickering.
Scintilla: Fixed line selection when clicking in the margin when scrolled.

Changes:

Textadept requires GTK 2.24 (circa early-2011) or greater.
Pasted text is reindented by default via textadept.editing.paste(), and is configured with textadept.editing.paste_reindents.
Replaced textadept.editing.match_brace() with a menu function, enhanced textadept.editing.select_enclosed() behavior, and removed redundant “Select in …” menu items.
Removed the need for ~/.textadept/properties.lua. All buffer settings set in ~/.textadept/init.lua will apply to the first and subsequent buffers.
Renamed ui.set_theme() to buffer.set_theme().
Enforce extra argument to buffer:brace_match() added back in Scintilla 3.7.0.
Added events.ZOOM.
New, object-oriented way to create lexers.

9.6 (01 Nov 2017)

Bugfixes:

Regular expressions consider \r to be a newline character.
Fixed block comments for APDL.

Changes:

Scintilla: Block caret appears after selection end instead of on it. (Reverts change from Textadept 9.3)

9.5 (01 Sep 2017)

Bugfixes:

Do not attempt to provide code completions when there is no context.
Properly handle buffer.margin_left and buffer.margin_right.
Ensure context menus are configurable outside of events.INITIALIZE.
Various fixes in diff, Forth, and Elixir lexers.
Character transposing is now UTF-8-aware.

Changes:

Added z-order parameter to ui.switch_buffer().
When searching in files, show more lines below a match.
Added optional encoding parameter to io.open_file().
Improved file associations on Mac OSX.
Added support for Myrddin.
The terminal version updates its cursor position for display in tools like tmux.

9.5 beta (01 Jul 2017)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug that deleted characters outside of mangled snippets.
Fixed start-anchored “Find Prev” regex searches.
Correctly handle multiple ‘!’-prefixed patterns in file filters.
Scintilla: Pressing Esc while rectangular selection is active does not collapse it.

Changes:

Changed “Cancel Snippet” key binding from Ctrl+Shift+K (⌥⇧⇥ on Mac OSX | M-S-K in curses) to Esc.
Added buffer.caret_line_frame option for outlining the current line.
Added buffer:line_reverse() for reversing selected lines.
Added ui.dialogs.colorselect() and ui.dialogs.fontselect() dialogs.
Handle pipes in shell commands for filter-through.
The Lua command entry prints results like Lua 5.3’s interactive prompt (e.g. no need for explicit ‘=’ prefix).
The Lua command entry now invokes bare functions as commands (e.g. copy invokes buffer:copy(), split invokes view:split(), etc.).
Scintilla: Updated case conversion and character categories to Unicode 9.
Scintilla: Update scroll bar when annotations are added, removed, or changed.
Effectively updated to Scintilla 3.7.5.

9.4 (01 May 2017)

Bugfixes:

Fixed some C++ and Moonscript file associations.
Fixed some bugs in “Replace All”.
Fixed some instances of snippet insertion with selected text.
Fixed make install for desktop files and icons.
Scintilla: Fixed crash in edge-case for fold tags (text shown next to folds).
Scintilla: Fixed stream selection collapsing when caret is moved up/down.
Scintilla: Fixed bugs in fold tag drawing.
Scintilla: Fixed crash in GTK accessibility (for screen readers) code.
Scintilla: Only allow smooth scrolling in Wayland.
Scintilla: Fixed popup positioning on a multi-monitor setup.

Changes:

Added support for Logtalk.
Scintilla: Accessibility improvements including the ability to turn it off.
Effectively updated to Scintilla 3.7.4.

9.3 (01 Mar 2017)

Bugfixes:

Improved LuaJIT compatibility with 3rd-party modules.
Do not move over selected typeover characters.
Fixed “Match Case” toggling during “Regex” searches.
Fixed building from the source when dependencies are updated.
Fixed folding in multiple-language lexers.
Fixed accidental editing of cached lexers.
Scintilla: Minimize redrawing for buffer.selection_n_* settings.
Scintilla: Fixed individual line selection in files with more than 16.7 million lines.
Scintilla: Various accessibility fixes for GTK on Linux.
Scintilla: Fixed a couple of folding regressions.
Scintilla: Fixed various issues on GTK 3.22.
Scintilla: Fixed inability to extend selection up or down in stream selection mode.

Changes:

Lexer initialization errors are printed to the Message Buffer.
Updated Polish locale.
Updated C, C++, Scheme, Shell, and JavaScript lexers.
Added support for rc and Standard ML.
Scintilla: Block caret appears on selection end instead of after it.
Updated to Scintilla 3.7.3.
Updated to Lua 5.3.4.

9.2 (21 Dec 2016)

Bugfixes:

Scintilla: Fixed crash when destroying Scintilla objects.

Changes:

None.

9.1 (11 Dec 2016)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in find/replace with consecutive matches.
Fixed encoding detection for encodings with NUL bytes (e.g. UTF-16).
Fixed duplicate entries in io.recent_files when loading sessions.
Scintilla: Fixed caret placement after left or right movement with rectangular selection.
Scintilla: Fixed GTK 3 incorrect font size in autocompletion list.
Scintilla: Fixed various minor GTK bugs.

Changes:

Added support for Protobuf and Crystal.
On Linux systems that support it, make install installs .desktop files too.
Removed MacRoman encoding detection and options.
Scintilla: Character-based word selection, navigation, and manipulation.
Scintilla: Added view.EDGE_MULTILINE, view:multi_edge_add_line(), and view:multi_edge_clear_all() for multiple edge lines.
Scintilla: Added buffer.MARGIN_COLOUR and buffer.margin_back_n for setting arbitrary margin background colors.
Scintilla: Added buffer.margins for more margins.
Scintilla: Added accessibility support for GTK on Linux.
Scintilla: Added buffer:toggle_fold_display_text() and buffer.fold_display_text_style for showing text next to folded lines.
Scintilla: Added new buffer.INDIC_POINT and buffer.INDIC_POINTCHARACTER indicators.
Scintilla: Added buffer.tab_draw_mode for changing the appearance of visible tabs.
Scintilla: Margin click line selection clears rectangular and multiple selection.
Updated to Scintilla 3.7.1.

9.0 (01 Oct 2016)

Please see the 8 to 9 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 8 to Textadept 9.

Bugfixes:

Better error handling with “filter-through”.
Fixed error in building projects.
Better handling of key bindings on international keyboards.
Scintilla: Respect indentation settings when inserting indentation within virtual space.
Scintilla: Fixed bug with expanding folds.
Scintilla: Fix GTK 3 runtime warning.

Changes:

Added TaskPaper lexer.
Scintilla: Added buffer.VS_NOWRAPLINESTART option to buffer.virtual_space_options.
Updated to Scintilla 3.6.7.

9.0 beta (01 Sep 2016)

Bugfixes:

Fixed potential bug with events.disconnect().
Fixed potential infinite loop with “Replace All” in selection.
Fixed passing of quoted arguments to OSX ta script.
Fixed CapsLock key handling.
Fixed button order in the terminal version’s dialogs.
Fixed potential crash on Windows with textadept.editing.filter_through() and some locales.
Fixed infinite loop in “Replace All” with zero-length regex matches.

Changes:

Added events.TAB_CLICKED event.

9.0 alpha 2 (11 Jul 2016)

Bugfixes:

Check range bounds for buffer:text_range().
Fixed inability to properly halt lfs.dir_foreach().

Changes:

Replaced Lua pattern searches with regular expressions.
Added timeout prompt to Find in Files. (10 second default.)
Better differentiation between Python 2 and 3 run commands.

9.0 alpha (01 Jul 2016)

Bugfixes:

Fixed stack overflow when accessing nil keys in textadept.menu.
Fixed inability to re-encode files incorrectly detected as binary.
Scintilla: Fixed crash when idle styling is active upon closing Textadept.
Scintilla: Fixed various bugs on GTK 3.20.
Lua: Fixed potential crash with four or more expressions in a for loop.

Changes:

Renamed io.snapopen() to io.quick_open() and tweaked its arguments, renamed io.SNAPOPEN_MAX to io.quick_open_max, and renamed io.snapopen_filters to io.quick_open_filters.
Removed BOM (byte order mark) encoding detection. (BOM use is legacy and discouraged.)
Removed detection and use of extinct \r (CR) line endings.
Removed project support for CVS and assume Subversion v1.8+.
Key and menu commands must be Lua functions; the table syntax is no longer recognized.
Renamed lfs.FILTER to lfs.default_filter and tweaked arguments to lfs.dir_foreach().
Locale files can optionally use # for comments instead of %.
Renamed ui.SILENT_PRINT to ui.silent_print.
Renamed all textadept.editing.[A-Z]+ options to their lower-case equivalents and renamed textadept.editing.braces to textadept.editing.brace_matches.
post_init.lua files for language modules are no longer auto-loaded; use events.LEXER_LOADED to load additional bits instead.
Renamed ui.find.FILTER to ui.find.find_in_files_filter and added an optional argument to ui.find.find_in_files().
Renamed all textadept.session.[A-Z]+ options to their lower-case equivalents.
Removed syntax checking support, renamed textadept.run.RUN_IN_BACKGROUND to textadept.run.run_in_background, removed textadept.run.cwd and textadept.run.proc, added optional arguments to textadept.run.compile(), textadept.run.run(), and textadept.run.build(), and changed the format of textadept.run.error_patterns.
Rewrote sections 7-9 in the manual and added a new part to section 11. Understanding how to configure and script Textadept should be easier now.
textadept.editing.goto_line() takes a 0-based line number like all Scintilla functions.
ui.goto_view() and view:goto_buffer() now take actual view and buffer arguments, respectively, or a relative number.
Added file-based snippet capabilities.
Updated to Scintilla 3.6.6.
Updated to Lua 5.3.3

8.7 (01 May 2016)

Bugfixes:

Much better UTF-8 support in the terminal version.
Completely hide the menubar if it is empty.
Fix building for some BSDs.
Added some block comment strings for languages lacking them.
Fixed a number of small encoding issues in various corner cases.
Fixed bug in textadept.editing.convert_indentation() with mixed indentation.
Fixed an obscure side-effect that reset buffer properties when working with non-focused buffers.
Fixed incremental find with UTF-8 characters.
Fixed bug in session restoration of scroll and caret positions in multiple views.
Fixed bug where existing files were not closed when a session is loaded.
Fixed corner case in “replace within selection”.
Fixed regression for %<...> and %[...] in snippets.
When executing compile/run commands from a different directory, indicate it.
Fixed error when showing style popup at the end of a buffer.
“Find in Files” should not print the contents of binary files.
Fixed lack of environment in spawned processes on Linux.
Scintilla: Support longer regexes in searches.

Changes:

Support UTF-8 pattern matching in “Lua Pattern” searches by incorporating bits of luautf8.
Improved efficiency of autocompleting words from all open buffers.
“Find in Files” defaults to the current project’s root directory.
Submenus and menu items can be accessed by name. (See textadept.menu.menubar for an example.)
Only show snippet trigger and text when selecting from a dialog.
More efficient screen refreshes in the terminal version.
Save and restore horizontal scroll position when switching buffers.
The undocumented keys.utils was removed. This will break custom key bindings that depend on it. See this mailing list post for more information.
The menubar is loaded on events.INITIALIZED now. See the above mailing list post for more information.
Allow file-specific compile commands and run commands.
Added new dialog for specifying compile/run command arguments to “Tools” menu.
textadept.editing.enclose() works with multiple selections.
Disabled textadept.run.CHECK_SYNTAX by default.
Updated to lspawn 1.5.
Updated to Scintilla 3.6.5.
Updated to Scinterm 1.8.

8.6 (01 Mar 2016)

Bugfixes:

Prevent silent crash reports from being generated on Mac OSX when child processes fail to be spawned.
Do not “busy wait” for spawned process stdout or stderr on Mac OSX.
Fixed bug in escaping ([{< after mirrors in snippets.
Only change spawned process environment if one was specified on Mac OSX.
Fixed focus bug in view:goto_buffer() with non-focused view.
Fixed building the terminal version in debug mode.
Fixed potential crash with malformed style properties.
Fixed unlikely buffer overflow in messages coming from Scintilla.
Fixed potential memory access error when closing Textadept while a spawned process is still alive.
Fixed bug in setting view properties when restoring sessions with nested splits.

Changes:

Added support for APL, Docker, Faust, Ledger, MoonScript, man/roff, PICO-8, and Pure.
Enabled idle-styling of buffers in the background in the GUI version.
Undocumented buffer:clear_cmd_key() only takes one argument now.
Added -v and --version command line parameters.
Added single-instance functionality on Windows.
Require GLib 2.28+.
Recognize the weight style property.
Added lexer.line_state and lexer.line_from_position() for stateful lexers.
Updated to lspawn 1.4.
Updated to Scintilla 3.6.3.
Updated to Scinterm 1.7.

8.5 (01 Jan 2016)

Bugfixes:

Fixed some ‘%’ escape sequences in snippets.
Fixed bug resolving relative paths with multiple ‘../’ components.
Do not visit buffers that do not need saving in io.save_all_files().
Fixed various small bugs in snippets.
Fixed restoration of split view sizes in large windows.
Lua: Fixed potential crash in io.lines() with too many arguments.

Changes:

Allow compile, run, and build commands functions to specify a working directory.
Added support for SNOBOL4.
Added support for Icon.
Added support for AutoIt.
Updated to Lua 5.3.2.

8.4 (11 Nov 2015)

Bugfixes:

Various fixes for snippet bugs introduced in the refactoring.
Fixed S-Tab in Find & Replace pane in the terminal version.
Do not error when attempting to snapopen a non-existant project.
Scintilla: fixed height of lines in autocompletion lists.
Scintilla: fixed bug in buffer:line_end_display().

Changes:

Bookmarks are saved in sessions.
New snippet placeholder for a list of options (%n{list}).
Snippets can now be functions that return snippet text.
Added Lua API tags to the “ansi_c” module.
Updated Swedish translation.
Added support for Gherkin.
Scintilla: whitespace can be shown only in indentation.
Scintilla: optimized marker redrawing.
Updated to Scintilla 3.6.2.
Updated to LPeg 1.0.

8.3 (01 Oct 2015)

Bugfixes:

Stop annoying black box from flashing when saving some files on Windows.
Fixed bug in parsing Ruby error output.
Do not emit events.LEXER_LOADED for the command entry.
Fixed bug with Python syntax checking on Windows.
Scintilla: fixed bug in buffer:count_characters().
Scintilla: small GTK fixes.

Changes:

Improved API documentation lookup behind the caret.
Refactored snippets to longer display placeholder text.
os.spawn() can now optionally specify the child’s environment.
Added Gherkin lexer.
Updated to Scintilla 3.6.1.

8.2 (01 Sep 2015)

Bugfixes:

Fixed crash when quitting while the command entry is open.
Block commenting respects indentation levels.
Handle typeref in ansi_c module’s ctags support.
Do not error when block commenting in an unsupported language.
Scintilla: fix scrollbar memory leaks.

Changes:

Highlight found text in “Find in Files” searches.
Added Italian translation and updated French translation.
Added automatic syntax checking as source files are saved, along with textadept.run.CHECK_SYNTAX and textadept.run.GOTO_SYNTAX_ERRORS configuration fields.
Scintilla: multiple selection works over more key commands like caret movement, selections, and word and line deletions.
Scintilla: new events.AUTO_C_COMPLETED event for when autocompleted text has been inserted.
Updated to Scintilla 3.6.0.

8.1 (01 Jul 2015)

Bugfixes:

Detect #!/usr/bin/env ... properly.
Fix incorrect menu shortcut key display on Windows.
Fixed ASP, Applescript, and Perl lexers.
Fixed segfault in parsing some instances of style definitions.
Scintilla: fixed performance when deleting markers from many lines.
Scintilla: fixed scrollbar drawing on GTK 3.4+.
Scintilla: respect encoding for margin text.

Changes:

Added support for Elixir and Windows Script Files (WSF).
Added parameter to textadept.editing.select_word() for selecting all occurrences.
Scintilla: added buffer:multiple_select_add_next() and buffer:multiple_select_add_each() for creating multiple selections from selected text.
Scintilla: added buffer:is_range_word() and buffer:target_whole_document() helper functions for search and replace.
Updated to Scintilla 3.5.7.
Updated to Lua 5.3.1.

8.0 (01 May 2015)

Please see the 7 to 8 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 7 to Textadept 8.

Bugfixes:

Fixed filename encoding issues on Windows.

Changes:

Added textadept.run.RUN_IN_BACKGROUND for shell commands.

8.0 beta (21 Apr 2015)

Bugfixes:

Fixed require() bug with lfs and utf8 libraries in LuaJIT version.
Fixed Perl lexer corner-case.
VB lexer keywords are case-insensitive now.

Changes:

Added symlink filter option for ignoring symlinked files and folders to io.snapopen(), lfs.dir_foreach(), and ui.find.FILTER.
Added _FOLDBYINDENTATION field for lexers that fold by indentation.
Updated to Scintilla 3.5.5.

8.0 alpha (01 Apr 2015)

Bugfixes:

Ensure events.BUFFER_AFTER_SWITCH is fired before events.BUFFER_DELETED.
Prevent command line help options from exiting an open instance of Textadept.

Changes:

Upgraded to Lua 5.3, LPeg 0.12.2, lfs 1.6.3, and lspawn 1.2.
Removed keys.LANGUAGE_MODULE_PREFIX, but left that prefix unused on all platforms.
textadept.editing.filter_through() now uses os.spawn().
Removed long-hand compile and run macros in favor of shorter ones.
textadept.bookmarks.toggle() accepts an optional line to bookmark.
Added support for Rust and TOML.
“Go To Bookmark” now lists bookmarks in all open buffers.
spawn_proc:kill() can send signals to processes.
New lexer._FOLDBYINDENTATION field for lexers that fold based on indentation.

7.9 (11 Mar 2015)

Bugfixes:

Fixed command entry’s abbreviated environment to allow functions to return values.
Fixed accidental firing of “Escape” key on window focus lost.
Fixed tab stop calculation in the terminal version.
Improved performance of lexers that fold by indentation.
Scintilla: fixed adaptive scrolling on Mac OSX.

Changes:

The following view-specific properties are now considered buffer-specific: “view EOL”, “view whitespace”, “wrap mode”, “margin type”, and “margin width”; updated the “Buffer” and “View” menus appropriately.
Officially supported language modules moved to a new repository.
Added Fish lexer and updated PHP and Python lexers.
Merged events.FILE_SAVED_AS into events.FILE_AFTER_SAVE as a new parameter.
Merged textadept.file_types.shebangs into textadept.file_types.patterns.
Removed io.boms.
Scintilla: added buffer.indic_hover_fore and buffer.indic_hover_style for styling indicators differently when the mouse is over them.
Added new buffer.INDIC_COMPOSITIONTHIN, buffer.INDIC_FULLBOX, and buffer.INDIC_TEXTFORE indicators.
Updated to Scintilla 3.5.4.

7.8 (01 Feb 2015)

Bugfixes:

Fixed snippets bug where name matches lexer name.

Changes:

Removed language-specific context menus; manipulate textadept.menu.context_menu directly from language modules.

7.8 beta 3 (21 Jan 2015)

Bugfixes:

Fixed opening files with network paths on Windows.
Fixed minor GTK 3 issues.
Fixed bug in hiding caret when Textadept loses focus.
Fixed bug in overwriting fold levels set by custom fold functions.
Scintilla: fixed placement of large call tips.
Scintilla: fixed background color of annotation lines with text margins.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of paste on Mac OSX.
Scintilla: fixed incorrect margin click handling in the terminal version.

Changes:

Restore ^Z key binding as “undo” if terminal suspend is disabled.
Added events.SUSPEND and events.RESUME events for terminal suspend and resume.
Updated to Scintilla 3.5.3.

7.8 beta 2 (11 Jan 2015)

Bugfixes:

Improved C module’s ctags lookups and autocompletion.
Do not select a line when clicking on its first character in the terminal version.
Fixed some cases of toggling find options via API in the terminal version.
Improved folding by indentation.
Scintilla: fixed caret blinking when holding down Del.
Scintilla: avoid extra space when pasting from external applications.

Changes:

The terminal version can suspend via ^Z (changed “undo” key binding to M-Z and added additional M-S-Z “redo” binding).
Added spawn_proc:close() for sending EOF to spawned processes.
Updated Tcl lexer.
Scintilla: Added buffer.ANNOTATION_INDENTED for indented, non-bordered annotations.
Scintilla: tab arrows, wrap markers, and line markers are now drawn in the terminal version.
Updated to Scintilla 3.5.2.

7.8 beta (01 Dec 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fixed extra space pasting from external Windows apps.
Fixed bug in C autocompletion.
Disable GCC optimizations when compiling with debug symbols.
Ensure “find in files” is off when activating normal find.
Fixed return values from ui.dialogs.optionselect().
The command entry does not hide when the window loses focus.
Fixed ‘//’ bug when iterating over root directory with lfs.dir_foreach().
Fixed bug in jumping to compile/run errors and clear annotations before building projects.
Fixed memory leaks in ui.dialog().

Changes:

Replaced the command entry text field with a Scintilla buffer and added ui.command_entry.editing_keys for changing the editing keys in all modes.
Added lexer and height parameters to ui.command_entry.enter_mode().
Support bracketed paste in the terminal version.
Allow handling of unknown CSI events.
Added mouse support for buffers and eliminated many terminal version incompatibilities.
Added _G.LINUX and _G.BSD platform flags for the sake of completeness.
Rectangular selections with the mouse on Linux use the Alt modifier key instead of Super.
Display the current working directory in fileselect dialogs.
Added _SCINTILLA.next_image_type() for registering images.
Added Arabic translation.
File dialogs in the terminal span the whole view.
Added basic UTF-8 support for terminal widgets – locales such as Russian now display properly.
Added UTF-8 input mode for Mac OSX (⌘⇧U) and the terminal version (M-U).
Show character information in “Show Style” popup.

7.7 (01 Oct 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fixed corner-case in switching to most recent buffer after closing.
Fixed find/replace bug when embedded Lua code evaluates to a number.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of the autocompletion window not showing up.
Scintilla: fixed sizing of the autocompletion window.

Changes:

Mac OSX GUI version can truly os.spawn() processes now.
Improved performance for lexers with no grammars and no fold rules.
Updated to Scintilla 3.5.1.

7.6 (01 Sep 2014)

Bugfixes:

Recognize DEL when emitted by the Backspace key in the terminal version.
Scintilla: fixed buffer:del_word_right() selection redrawing bug.
Scintilla: fixed autocompletion list memory leak.
Scintilla: fixed overtype caret when it is over multi-byte characters.

Changes:

Terminal version can truly os.spawn() processes now.
Added Linux .desktop files for menus and launchers.
Indicate presence of a BOM in the statusbar.
Switch to previous buffer after closing a buffer.
More options for lfs.dir_foreach().
Updated to Scintilla 3.5.0.

7.5 (11 Jul 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fixed Bash heredoc highlighting.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of indicators not being removed properly.
Scintilla: fixed crash with Ubuntu’s overlay scrollbars.

Changes:

New events.FOCUS event for when Textadept’s window receives focus.
Condensed manual and API documentation into single files.
Added Polish translation.
Scintilla: added buffer.auto_c_multi for autocompleting into multiple selections.
Updated to Scintilla 3.4.4.

7.4 (11 Jun 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fix crash in Windows with sending input to spawned processes.
Fix compile, run, and build command output with split views.
Fix #RRGGBB color interpretation for styles.
Fix word autocompletion when ignoring case.

Changes:

Pressing the Enter key in the message buffer and find in files buffer simulates a double-click.

7.3 (01 Jun 2014)

Bugfixes:

Export Lua symbols correctly on Windows.
Fixed occasional bug when double-clicking in the message buffer.
Fixed an edge-case in word highlighting.
Fixed some folding by indentation edge cases.
Scintilla: fixed caret invisibility when its period is zero.
Scintilla: fixed flickering when scrolling in GTK 3.10+.

Changes:

Added reST and YAML lexers and official language modules for each.
Use os.spawn() for launching help.
Renamed io.set_buffer_encoding() to buffer:set_encoding().
Removed Adeptsense in favor of autocompleter functions, but kept existing api file format.
Renamed textadept.editing.autocomplete_word() to textadept.editing.autocomplete('word').
New textadept.editing.AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL field for autocompleting words from all open buffers.
Dropped support for official java, php, rails, and rhtml modules; they are on the wiki now.
Removed textadept.editing.HIGHLIGHT_BRACES option, as indicator style can be changed to hide highlighting.
Removed textadept.editing.select_indented_block().
In-place menu editing via textadept.menu.menubar, textadept.menu.context_menu, and textadept.menu.tab_context_menu tables.
Removed textadept.command_entry.complete_lua() and textadept.command_entry.execute_lua() and moved their key bindings into their module.
Updated D lexer.
Scintilla: added buffer.FOLDFLAG_LINESTATE for lexer debugging aid.
Updated to Scintilla 3.4.2.

7.2 (01 May 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fixed cases of incorrect Markdown header highlighting.

Changes:

Message buffer can send input to spawned processes.

7.2 beta 4 (11 Apr 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in parsing output from a canceled dropdown dialog.
Always use absolute file paths so sessions are saved and reloaded properly.
Temporarily disabled asynchronous spawning on OSX due to GLib crashes.

Changes:

None.

7.2 beta 3 (01 Apr 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in Windows terminal version with “shifted” character input.
Scintilla: fixed bug when moving caret down on wrapped lines.
Scintilla: fixed instances of bad caret positioning within characters.
Scintilla: fixed automatic indentation when the caret is within virtual space.
Scintilla: fixed annotation deletion from lines.
Scintilla: fixed placement of large call tips.

Changes:

New optionselect dialog.
Added ui.SILENT_PRINT option for printing messages.
The GUI version can spawn processes in separate threads.
Removed experimental Windows io.popen() and os.execute() replacements due to spawning support.
Snapopen now supports projects; added new menu entry and key command.
Added support for building projects.
Scintilla: draw unicode line ends as blobs.
Scintilla: added buffer.WRAP_WHITESPACE for wrapping on whitespace, not style changes.
Updated to LuaJIT 2.0.3.
Updated to Scintilla 3.4.1.

7.2 beta 2 (01 Mar 2014)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with empty entries in multiple entry inputboxes.

Changes:

Terminal version now has split views along with key bindings for them.

7.2 beta (11 Feb 2014)

Bugfixes:

Handle ./ and ../ sequences in filepaths.
Correctly restore views with word wrap enabled.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of caret placement when scrolling.

Changes:

Added Swedish translation.
Added support for multiple entry boxes in inputdialogs.
Updated LaTeX and Go lexers.
Scintilla: added buffer:drop_selection_n() for dropping a multiple selection.
Scintilla: added buffer.call_tip_pos_start for altering call tip backspace behavior.
Scintilla: added buffer.MARK_BOOKMARK marker symbol.
Scintilla: better marker drawing.
Updated to Scintilla 3.3.9.

7.2 alpha (01 Jan 2014)

Bugfixes:

Honor ui.maximized setting in session files.
Do not halt opening files if one of them is already open.
Better key input handling in the terminal version.
Fixed Makefile bug in grabbing dependencies with older versions of wget.
Recognize lower-case drive letter names for files passed from external programs in Windows.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of adjacent indicator drawing.
Scintilla: fixed scroll width tracking for annotated lines.
Scintilla: fixed horizontal scroll bar range.
Scintilla: fixed caret placement when margins change.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of incorrect selection redrawing.

Changes:

Added Dart lexer.
Do not split the view when printing messages if tabs are enabled.
Look for ~/.textadept/osx_env.sh for OSX environment variables due to changes in Mac OSX 10.9.
[Experimental] Replaced Lua’s io.popen() and os.execute() with versions that do not flash the “black box” on Windows.
Added read-only access to the current key chain via keys.keychain.
Renamed “hypertext” lexer and its corresponding module to “html”.
Added configurable tab context menus via textadept.menu.set_contextmenus().
New GUI theme for Mac OSX.
[Experimental] Merged separate lexer states into Textadept’s Lua state.
Updated HTML lexer.
Scintilla: the Ctrl modifier in Mac OSX mouse clicks is recognized as buffer.MOD_META.
Scintilla: added buffer.representation for changing the representation of characters.
Scintilla: added buffer:position_relative() for character navigation.
Scintilla: added buffer.mouse_selection_rectangular_switch for aiding in rectangular selection creation.
Updated to Lua 5.2.3.
Updated to Scintilla 3.3.7.

7.1 (11 Nov 2013)

Bugfixes:

Textbox dialogs’ scroll_to option works correctly.
Emit autocompletion and hotspot events properly.
Handle replacement captures with escapes properly.
Fixed slowdown in processing long lines for folding.
Fixed slowdown with large HTML files.

Changes:

Tabs for multiple buffers along with ui.tabs API.
Split C/C++ lexer into separate lexers and replaced default “cpp” module with “ansi_c”.
Find and replace text may utilize “%0” capture containing the entire match.
Disable textadept.editing.STRIP_TRAILING_SPACES by default.
ui.clipboard_text is no longer read-only.
Added events.FILE_CHANGED event.

7.0 (01 Nov 2013)

Please see the 6 to 7 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 6 to Textadept 7.

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with buffer.SCFIND_REGEX flag.
Fixed OSX Command key recognition for click events.
Fixed compile error with GTK3.
HTML and XML lexers maintain their states better.

Changes:

Added Assembly (NASM) lexer with compile and run commands.
textadept.adeptsense.goto_ctag() can show all known tags now.
textadept.editing.enclose() encloses the whole current word.

7.0 beta 5 (21 Oct 2013)

Bugfixes:

Show more helpful user-init startup error messages.
Lua run command buffers output correctly.
Fixed corner case in paragraph selection.
Fixed corner case in block uncommenting.
Disable folding when fold property is 0.

Changes:

Changed ui.set_theme() API to accept a table of property assignments.
Added Nimrod lexer and compile and run commands.
Use textadept.editing.INDIC_BRACEMATCH indicator for brace highlighting instead of styles.
The buffer API applies to all buffers now, not just the global one.
Added “Save All” to the menu.
Updated D lexer.
Added additional parameter to lexer.load() to allow child lexers to be embedded multiple times with different start/end tokens.
Lexers do not need an “any_char” rule anymore; it is included by default.
Child lexers do not need an explicit M._lexer = parent declaration anymore; it is done automatically.

7.0 beta 4 (01 Oct 2013)

Bugfixes:

Fixed various compile and install errors.
Fixed error when block commenting plain text.
Fixed occasional crash when getting the lexer name in a multi-language lexer.

Changes:

events.disconnect() now accepts function argument instead of ID.
buffer.filename and all internal filenames are no longer encoded in UTF-8, but in _CHARSET.
Removed many unused Scintilla constants and stripped many constants of SC and SC_ prefixes.
Changed marker margin symbols via properties.lua.
Calling textadept.editing.select_word() repeatedly makes multiple selections.
Renamed buffer:convert_eo_ls() to convert_eols().
Added textadept.run.MARK_WARNING marker.
Renamed textadept.run.compile_command and textadept.run.run_command to compile_commands and run_commands, respectively.
Renamed textadept.run.error_detail to error_patterns and changed its internal structure.
Compile and run commands for languages that support them are now built-in along with their respective warning and error messages. The supplemental ones on the wiki are no longer needed.
New ui.dialogs module for more user-friendly dialog support. Removed ui.filteredlist() as a result.
Changed io.open_file() and io.snapopen() to accept tables of files and paths instead of “\n” delimited strings.
Changed lexer.get_fold_level(), lexer.get_indent_amount(), lexer.get_property(), and lexer.get_style_at() functions to be lexer.fold_level, lexer.indent_amount, lexer.property, and lexer.style_at tables, respectively.
Added lexer.property_int and lexer.property_expanded tables.
Changed API for lexer.delimited_range() and lexer.nested_pair().
Only enable fold.by.indentation property by default in whitespace-significant languages.

7.0 beta 3 (11 Sep 2013)

Bugfixes:

User functions that connect to events.BUFFER_NEW and events.VIEW_NEW are run on startup.
Fixed potential crash caused by split views.

Changes:

Copied constants from _SCINTILLA.constants into buffer.
Renamed events.LANGUAGE_MODULE_LOADED to events.LEXER_LOADED.
Renamed gui to ui.
Renamed _M.textadept to textadept.
New events.INITIALIZED event.
Renamed buffer:get_style_name() to buffer.style_name.
Renamed ui.docstatusbar_text to ui.bufstatusbar_text.
Removed textadept.bookmarks.BOOKMARK_COLOR, textadept.editing.HIGHLIGHT_COLOR, and textadept.run.ERROR_COLOR while exposing their respective marker and indicator numbers for customization.
Moved buffer IO functions into io module.
Updated to CDK 5.0-20130901.

7.0 beta 2 (11 Aug 2013)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with theme loading when resetting.
Fixed bug with property settings in gui.set_theme() not persisting.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of case conversions.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of word wrapping and improved performance.
Scintilla: fixed minor memory leak.

Changes:

New gui.maximized field so Textadept can remember its maximized state.
Changed lexer._tokenstyles to be a map instead of a list.
Scintilla: improved UTF-8 case-insensitive searching.
Updated to Scintilla 3.3.4.

7.0 beta (11 Jul 2013)

Bugfixes:

Added file type for Go.
Fixed disorienting scrolling in some instances of splitting views.
Fixed corner-case bug in Lua Pattern “Replace All”.

Changes:

Renamed _M.textadept.mime_types to _M.textadept.file_types.
Eliminated mime_types.conf files. Add or modify file type tables directly.
Changed scrollbar look and feel on Mac OSX.

7.0 alpha 2 (01 Jul 2013)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in user theme loading.
Fixed “Enter” key autocompletion in the terminal version.
Fixed crash when transposing in an empty buffer.
Fixed bug in find and run double-click event handlers.

Changes:

Makefile improvements. See compiling for more information. The source release is no longer necessary.
Removed _G._LEXERPATH and _L._EXISTS().
Renamed Adeptsense image fields.
Renamed _M.textadept.editing.STRIP_WHITESPACE_ON_SAVE to STRIP_TRAILING_SPACES.
_M.textadept.editing.block_comment() supports block comment delimiters.
Block comments for languages is now built-in. The supplemental ones on the wiki are no longer needed.
gui.set_theme() accepts key-value argument pairs for overriding theme properties.
Removed gui.select_theme() since selected themes do not persist.
Removed _G.RESETTING flag.
Consolidated _M.textadept.bookmarks.goto_*() functionality into _M.textadept.bookmarks.goto_mark().
Updated to LuaJIT 2.0.2.
New nightly builds.

7.0 alpha (01 Jun 2013)

Bugfixes:

Scintilla: fixed memory access bug.
Scintilla: fixed crash when pasting in Windows.
Scintilla: fixed some event reporting in GTK 3.x.
Scintilla: fixed undo grouping with tab and backtab.

Changes:

Completely new theme implementation.
New properties.lua for custom buffer and view properties.
Updated to Scintilla 3.3.3.

6.6 (01 Jun 2013)

Bugfixes:

Fixed GTK assertion errors in find/replace history.
Command entry loses focus less often.
Allow empty tables as keychains if they have metatables.
Fixed caret placement in block comment/uncomment.
Use ‘\n’ keycode in the terminal version instead of ‘\r’.
Fixed crash caused by split views.
Scintilla: fixed typing into multiple carets in virtual space.

Changes:

Removed _M[lang].set_buffer_properties() functions. Set properties through events.LANGUAGE_MODULE_LOADED instead.
Print the results of ‘=’ Lua commands.
Updated D lexer.
Scintilla: added buffer.INDIC_COMPOSITIONTHICK indicator.
Updated to Scintilla 3.3.2.

6.6 beta (01 May 2013)

Bugfixes:

Fixed rendering on Mac OSX retina displays.
Fixed rectangle indicator display in the terminal version.
Fixed Fn key recognition on Mac OSX.
Fixed compile errors for Mac OSX.
Find Previous for Lua patterns works.

Changes:

Textadept supports multiple curses platforms, not just ncurses. Make targets now use “curses” instead of “ncurses”.
Better 16-color terminal support in lexer theme.
Reduced the delay when pressing Esc in the terminal version.
Messagebox dialogs can show icons via --icon and --icon-file.
New Windows terminal version.
New key modes functionality.
Scintilla: added buffer.auto_c_order for sorting autocompletion lists.
Updated to Scintilla 3.3.1.
Renamed _G.buffer_new() to buffer.new().
Changed the display of highlighted words, including removing _M.textadept.editing.INDIC_HIGHLIGHT_ALPHA.
Changed _M.textadept.editing.autocomplete_word() API.
Removed _M.textadept.menu.menubar, _M.textadept.menu.contextmenu, and events.handlers tables from the API.
Moved _M.textadept.filter_through module functionality into _M.textadept.editing.filter_through().
Mark errors in compile/run commands and added _M.textadept.run.goto_error() menu options and key shortcuts.
Renamed gui.find.goto_file_in_list() to gui.find.goto_file_found().
Consolidated _M.textadept.editing.grow_selection() functionality into _M.textadept.editing.select_enclosed().
Renamed io.try_encodings to io.encodings.
No need for ‘!’ in front of font faces anymore.

6.5 (01 Apr 2013)

Bugfixes:

Only consider visible directories in _USERHOME/themes/ as themes.
Indicator for highlighted words works in ncurses.
Improved message double-clicking behavior for compile and run commands by adding _M.textadept.run.cwd.
Fixed disorienting scrolling when wrapping only one search result.
Fixed crash when attempting to load a non-existant lexer.
Fixed CSS preprocessor styling.
Fixed labels for inputbox dialogs.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of incorrect folded text display.
Scintilla: fixed buffer:visible_from_doc_line() to never return a line beyond the end of the buffer.
Scintilla: fixed buffer:line_scroll() for negative columns.
Scintilla: fixed tab marker display when indentation lines are visible.

Changes:

Reset Lua state after selecting a new theme.
Added lfs.dir_foreach().
Added file and directory filtering for Find in Files.
Moved _M.textadept.snapopen into io.
Renamed some lexer constants.
Added Less, Literal Coffeescript, and Sass lexers.
Scintilla: added buffer:scroll_range() for scrolling ranges into view.
Updated to Scintilla 3.3.0.
Updated to Lua 5.2.2.

6.4 (01 Mar 2013)

Bugfixes:

Dialogs belong to the Textadept window.
Double-clicking a filteredlist item selects it.
Fixed bug in documentation link generator.
Fixed bug with indexable buffer properties that return strings.
Scintilla: fixed scrollbar drawing when toggling visibility.

Changes:

Added command line options for loading sessions on startup.
Added command line options for running Lua code on startup.
Updated AWK lexer.
Updated to Scintilla 3.2.5.
Updated to LuaJIT 2.0.1.

6.3 (01 Feb 2013)

Bugfixes:

Do not error on non-existant dropped URIs.
Fixed crash in Python module when parsing some syntax error messages.
Scintilla: fixed pasting with NULL bytes.
Scintilla: autocompletion should only have one undo step.
Scintilla: fixed crash when drawing very long lines.
Scintilla: fixed unexpected collapse of selections when extending by character.

Changes:

Use Scintilla API for ncurses mark mode.
Scintilla: added buffer.caret_line_visible_always for showing the caret line despite not having focus.
Updated to Scintilla 3.2.4.
Added typeover characters.

6.2 (01 Jan 2013)

Bugfixes:

None.

Changes:

Greatly improved speed when loading large files.
make install and make ncurses install install separate binaries on Linux.
Changed API for _M.textadept.snapopen.open() and removed PATHS.

6.1 (11 Dec 2012)

Bugfixes:

Do not set current directory when opening/saving files.
Detect Linux processor arch better.
Recognize special ncurses keys better.
Fixed potential bug with determining _HOME on Linux.
Fixed bug when opening non-existent files from the command line.
LuaJIT compiles correctly on ARM now.

Changes:

Improved speed and memory usage of lexers.
Better Makefile support for building packages for Linux distros.
Rewrote LuaDoc API documentation.
Added French translation.
Updated to LuaJIT 2.0.0.
Improved speed and memory usage of lexers.
Updated Java lexer.

6.0 (01 Nov 2012)

Please see the 5 to 6 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 5 to Textadept 6.

Bugfixes:

Handle rapidly pressing Esc twice in ncurses dialogs.
Complete transition to buffer.tab_size from buffer.indent.
Fixed regression in ncurses command selection.
Fixed GUI menu key shortcut handling.
Fixed string collation bug in ncurses due to CDK.
Pass Esc to Scintilla correctly in ncurses.
Fix errors when specifying directories and files for file dialogs.
Fixed some operators in Bash lexer.
Scintilla: fixed hang when removing all characters from an indicator at the the end of a buffer.
Scintilla: fixed crash when drawing margins in GTK 3.
Scintilla: do not draw spaces after an italic style at the end of a line in the terminal version.

Changes:

Added key binding for toggling fold points.
Added ncurses key bindings for bookmarks.
Added event.FIND_WRAPPED event.
Removed _M.textadept.run.execute().
Updated documentation and documentation formatting.
Added Python module.
Rewrote Makefile lexer.
Scintilla: improved performance when performing multiple searches.
Updated to Scintilla 3.2.3.
Updated to LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta11.

6.0 beta 3 (01 Oct 2012)

Bugfixes:

Canceling in buffer:close() caused unwanted key propagation.
Correctly emit RUN_OUTPUT events.
Fixed bug with extra empty entry in the buffer browser.
Fixed incremental find in ncurses.
Fixed ncurses crash when pasting with no clipboard text.
Keep termios disabled in ncurses CDK widgets.
Do not write ncurses initialization errors over titlebar.
Fixed bug in string.iconv().
Include _ as identifier char in Desktop lexer.

Changes:

Attempt to autodetect locale using LANG environment variable.
Removed _M.textadept.menu.rebuild_command_tables().
Manual and Lua API documentation largely re-written.
Key Bindings reference moved from Appendix to _M.textadept.keys LuaDoc.
Plain text lexer name changed from container to text.
New application icon.
Removed ./?.lua and ./?.so from package.path and package.cpath, respectively.
Added marks for making selections in ncurses.

6.0 beta 2 (01 Sep 2012)

Bugfixes:

Disabled --help option to ncurses version due to terminal output mangling.
ncurses replace entry can now be focused.
Fixed ncurses memory leaks.
Fixed multiple selection in Mac OSX.
Show key shortcuts in ncurses _M.textadept.menu.select_command().
Scintilla: fixed rectangular selection range after backspacing.
Scintilla: fixed bug with negative ranges in call tip highlighting.

Changes:

Added make install and make uninstall rules for optional installation.
Updated manual with ncurses key bindings.
Consolidated _M.textadept.bookmarks.add() and _M.textadept.bookmarks.remove() into _M.textadept.bookmarks.toggle().
Updated manual images.
_M.textadept.snapopen.DEFAULT_DEPTH is now 99 since MAX is the limiting factor.
Use constant names in theme options instead of nondescript integers.
Added new lexer.last_char_includes() function for better regex detection.
Updated AWK lexer.
Scintilla: added buffer.selection_empty.
Scintilla: added buffer:vc_home_display() and buffer:vc_home_display_extend() for navigating wrapped lines.
Updated to Scintilla 3.2.2.

6.0 beta (01 Aug 2012)

Bugfixes:

Lots of bugfixes to the experimental ncurses version.
Fixed bug with $$ variables in Perl lexer.
Scintilla: do not show empty autocompletion list if buffer.auto_c_choose_single is set.
Scintilla: fixed buffer:marker_delete() to only delete one marker per call.
Scintilla: fixed caret positioning after undoing multiple deletions.
Scintilla: fixed margin drawing after buffer.margin_style is altered.
Scintilla: fixed margin click handling.
Scintilla: fixed hang when drawing block carets on a zero-width space at the beginning of a buffer.
Scintilla: fixed crash deleting negative ranges.
Scintilla: fixed drawing of overlapping characters.

Changes:

Removed Lua, Ruby, and PHP modules’ goto_required() functions.
Moved _M.textadept.editing.prepare_for_save() directly into event handler.
Moved _M.textadept.session.prompt_load() and prompt_save() functionality into _M.textadept.session.load() and _M.textadept.session.save().
Removed _G.user_dofile().
Converted some buffer “get” and “set” functions into properties.
Moved _M.textadept.adeptsense.complete_symbol() and show_documentation() functionality into _M.textadept.adeptsense.complete() and show_apidoc().
New 64-bit Windows version (note: without LuaJIT).
Updated Perl lexer.
Scintilla: added buffer.punctuation_chars, buffer.word_chars, and buffer.whitespace_chars for manipulating character sets.
Updated to Scintilla 3.2.1.

5.5 beta (01 Jul 2012)

Bugfixes:

None.

Changes:

Experimental ncurses support.
No more 'gtk-' stock menu item support and changed 'separator' to ''.
Renamed gui.gtkmenu() to gui.menu().
Changed gui.statusbar_text to be write-only.
Changed ‘Quit’ key command to ‘Ctrl+Q’ on Windows and Linux.
Show text that could not be localized.
Changed make commands for compiling Textadept.
x86_64 binary provides libpng12 executables by default.
Can cross compile to Mac OSX from Linux.
Updated AWK lexer.
Updated HTML lexer to recognize HTML5 ‘script’ and ‘style’ tags.
Updated to Lua 5.2.1.
Updated to LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta10.

5.4 (01 Jun 2012)

Bugfixes:

Scintilla: fixed boxed annotation drawing.
Scintilla: fixed virtual space selection bug in rectangular selections.
Scintilla: replacing multiple selections with newlines is a single undo action.
Scintilla: fixed autocompletion list height in GTK 3.
Scintilla: fixed mouse scrolling due to recent GTK changes.

Changes:

Identify more file extensions.
Updated Batch lexer.
Scintilla: Ctrl+Double Click and Ctrl+Triple Click adds words and lines, respectively, to selections.
Scintilla: added buffer:delete_range() for deleting ranges of text.
Scintilla: added buffer.WRAPVISUALFLAG_MARGIN for drawing wrap markers in margins.
Scintilla: improved UTF-8 validity checks.
Updated to Scintilla 3.2.0.

5.3 (01 May 2012)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with run/compile commands in LuaJIT version.
User annotation preferences are preserved.
Fixed bug with number representation in some locales.
Scintilla: fixed selection drawing in word wrap indentation.
Scintilla: fixed styling bug.
Scintilla: fixed problems with drawing in margins.
Scintilla: fixed corner case in buffer:move_selected_lines_*().
Scintilla: fixed scrolling with mousewheel.
Scintilla: fixed column calculations to count tabs correctly.

Changes:

Annotations are used for showing run/compile command output.
Textadept is single-instance by default on Linux and Mac OSX.
Textadept requires GTK 2.18 or higher now instead of 2.16.
The provided Textadept binaries require GLib 2.28 or higher.
Scintilla: added buffer.auto_c_case_insensitive_behaviour for controlling case sensitivity in autocompletion lists.
Scintilla: \0 in regex replacements represents the full found text.
Updated to Scintilla 3.1.0.

5.2 (01 Apr 2012)

Bugfixes:

Fixed LuaDoc for buffer:get_lexer().
Fixed bug with relative paths from command line files.
buffer:get_lexer(true) is used more often when it should be.
Improved message double-clicking behavior for run and compile commands.
Scintilla: line and selection duplication is one undo action.
Scintilla: allow indicators to be set for entire document.
Scintilla: fixed crash in buffer:move_selected_lines_*().
Scintilla: fixed image and fold marker drawing.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of multiple clicks in margins.
Scintilla: fixed buffer:page_*() not returning to the original line.
Scintilla: fixed various issues with wrapped lines.
Scintilla: fixed line end selection drawing.

Changes:

_M.set_buffer_properties() is now optional for language modules.
Added keypad keys to keys.KEYSYMS.
_G.timeout() accepts fractional seconds.
Replaced scripts/update_doc with src/Makefile targets.
New Manual and LuaDoc HTML page formatting.
_M.textadept.editing.autocomplete_word() accepts default words.
Added documentation on generating LuaDoc and Lua Adeptsense.
Moved Markdown: comments into LuaDoc.
Added Spanish and German translations.
Updated VB and VBScript lexers.
Improved the speed of simple code folding.
Use GTK 2.24 on Windows.
Updated to Scintilla 3.0.4.

5.1 (01 Mar 2012)

Bugfixes:

Fixed crash caused by gui.filteredlist() dialogs.
Support multiple @return tags in Lua Adeptsense.
Fixed display of buffer._type when it has slashes in its name.

Changes:

Better Lua Adeptsense formatting.
Use new Cocoa-based GtkOSXApplication library for better OSX support.
Lexers with no tokens can be styled manually.
Added more OSX default key shortcuts.

5.0 (01 Feb 2012)

Please see the 4 to 5 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 4 to Textadept 5.

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with recent files in sessions.
Scintilla: fixed page up/down in autocompletion lists.
Scintilla: fixed fold highlighting.

Changes:

Added default extension and folder filters in modules/textadept/snapopen.lua.
Added ChucK lexer.
Updated Lua lexer.
Updated to Scintilla 3.0.3.
Also include LuaJIT executables in releases.

5.0 beta (11 Jan 2012)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in reset() from update to Lua 5.2.

Changes:

Changed locale.localize() to global _L table and removed locale module.
Renamed _m to _M.
Do not clear registered images when autocompleting with Adeptsense.
Renamed editing module’s current_word() to select_word().
Updated manual.
Updated D lexer.

5.0 alpha (21 Dec 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in Matlab lexer for operators.
Fixed highlighting of variables in Bash.
Fixed multi-line delimited and token strings in D lexer.

Changes:

Updated to Lua 5.2.
Updated sections in the manual to reflect Lua 5.2 changes.
Textadept can be compiled with LuaJIT.

4.3 (01 Dec 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with opening files in the current directory from the command line.
Fixed erroneous charset conversion.
Fixed bug with folding line comments.
Scintilla: fixed drawing at style boundaries on Mac OSX.
Scintilla: fixed crash when painting uninitialized pixmaps.

Changes:

Added on-the-fly theme switching.
All new light and dark themes.
Removed _m.textadept.editing.select_style().
Simplify theming via gtkrc by naming GtkWindow only.
Added lexer.REGEX and lexer.LABEL tokens.
Updated to Scintilla 3.0.1.

4.2 (01 Nov 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with %n in Replace introduced in 4.1.
Fixed Adeptsense autocomplete for single item.
Scintilla: fixed annotation drawing in multiple, wrapped views.

Changes:

Scintilla: drawing improvements and various optimizations.
Scintilla: call tips can be displayed above text.
Updated to Scintilla 3.0.0.

4.1 (01 Oct 2011)

Bugfixes:

Only fold when clicking on fold margin, not any sensitive one.
Fixed bug with CALL_TIP_CLICK event disconnect in Adeptsense.
Fixed bug with autocomplete and capitalization.
Scintilla: fixed incorrect mouse cursor changes.
Scintilla: fixed end-of-document indicator growth.

Changes:

Handle mouse dwell events DWELL_START and DWELL_END.
Rearranged Tools menu slightly.
Slight API changes:
- _BUFFERS and _VIEWS structure changed.
- Removed buffer.doc_pointer and view.doc_pointer.
- Added view.buffer field.
- Renamed gui.check_focused_buffer() to buffer:check_global().
- view:goto_buffer() and gui.goto_view() arguments make sense now. (May require changes to custom key bindings.)
Directory is remembered in file chooser dialog after open or save as.
Added language-specific context menu support.
Use LuaCoco patch for Lua 5.1.4.
Use lexer at the caret for key bindings and snippets.
Added selected and monospaced-font options for dropdown and textbox dialogs, respectively.
Updated to Scintilla 2.29.

4.0 (01 Sep 2011)

Please see the 3 to 4 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 3 to Textadept 4.

Bugfixes:

Makefile should only link to libdl.so on Linux/BSD.
Fixed memory access bug in gui.dialog().
Autocompletion list sort order respects buffer.auto_c_ignore_case now.
Fixed split view focus bug with the same buffer in two views.
Set new buffer EOL mode properly on Mac OSX.
Fixed some general bugs in folding.

Changes:

Added Russian translation.
Changed some key bindings from 4.0 beta 2.
Do not hide the statusbar when the command entry has focus.

4.0 beta 2 (11 Aug 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed transpose characters bug at end of buffer.
Do not autosave over explicitly loaded session.
Fixed startup crash on Mac OSX.
Fixed resize crash on Mac OSX Lion.

Changes:

Added Scala lexer.
Add recent file list to session files.
Autocomplete supports multiple selections.
Swapped OSX c and m key command definition modifiers.
Changed some key bindings from 4.0 beta.

4.0 beta (01 Aug 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed Markdown lexer styles.
Fixed bug when setting both dialog with and height.
Scintilla: fixed incorrect mouse cursor changes.
Scintilla: fixed bug with annotations beyond the document end.
Scintilla: fixed incorrect drawing of background colors and translucent selection.
Scintilla: fixed lexer initialization.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of fold highlight drawing.
Scintilla: fixed some cases of case insensitive searching.

Changes:

Mac OSX uses GTK 2.24.
Added io.open_recent_file().
Changes to localization file again.
buffer functions may omit the first buffer argument (e.g. buffer.line_down() is allowed).
Complete overhaul of menus and added accelerators to menu items.
Renamed _m.textadept.editing.SAVE_STRIPS_WS to _m.textadept.editing.STRIP_WHITESPACE_ON_SAVE.
Renamed _m.textadept.editing.select_scope() to _m.textadept.editing.select_style().
Completely new set of key bindings.
Scintilla: translucent RGBA images can be used in margins and autocompletion and user lists.
Scintilla: added new buffer.INDIC_DOTBOX indicator.
Scintilla: IME input now works.
Scintilla: Ctrl+Shift+U used for Unicode input.
Updated to Scintilla 2.28.

3.9 (01 Jul 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug for when gui.dialog() steals focus.
Colors are now styled correctly in the Properties lexer.
Scintilla: fixed bug with wrong colors being drawn.
Scintilla: fixed font leak.
Scintilla: fixed automatic scrolling for wrapped lines.
Scintilla: fixed multiple selection typing when selections collapse.
Scintilla: expand folds when needed in word wrap mode.
Scintilla: fixed edge line drawing for wrapped lines.
Scintilla: fixed unnecessary scrolling in buffer:goto_line().
Scintilla: fixed undo functionality when deleting within virtual space.

Changes:

Added support for GTK 3.0.
Use ID generator functions for marker, indicator, and user list IDs.
Scintilla: added buffer:set_empty_selection() for setting selections without scrolling or redrawing.
Scintilla: added new buffer.INDIC_DASH, buffer.INDIC_DOTS, and buffer.INDIC_SQUIGGLELOW indicators.
Scintilla: added option to allow margin clicks to select wrapped lines.
Updated to Scintilla 2.27.
Use string constants for event names.
Compile and run commands emit events.
Enhanced Luadoc and Lua Adeptsense.
Added fold.line.comments property for folding multiple single-line comments.
Use GTK 2.22 on Windows.
Can localize the labels and buttons in the GUI find frame.
Added ConTeXt lexer and updated Coffeescript, HTML, LaTeX, and TeX lexers.
Multiple single-line comments can be folded with the fold.line.comments property set to 1.

3.8 (11 Jun 2011)

Bugfixes:

Removed non-existant key chain.
Fixed bug in snippets.
Fixed bug in lexers that fold by indentation.
Scintilla: fixed indentation guide drawing on the first line.
Scintilla: fixed display of folds for wrapped lines.
Scintilla: fixed various GTK-related bugs.

Changes:

Updated Adeptsense and documentation.
events.handlers is accessible.
Added menu mnemonics for indentation size.
Added support for indicator and hotspot events.
Updated documentation for installing official modules.
Scintilla: allow highlighting of margin symbols for the current folding block.
Scintilla: added buffer:move_selected_lines_up() and buffer:move_selected_lines_down() for moving lines.
Scintilla: added new buffer.INDIC_STRAIGHTBOX indicator.
Scintilla: indicators can be used for brace matching.
Scintilla: translucency can be changed for buffer.INDIC_*BOX indicators.
Scintilla: improved text drawing and measuring.
Updated to Scintilla 2.26.
Writing custom folding for lexers is much easier now.
Added native folding for more than 60% of existing lexers. The rest still use folding by indentation by default.
Added regex support for Coffeescript lexer.
Embed Coffeescript lexer in HTML lexer.

3.7 (01 May 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in buffer:get_lexer().

Changes:

Changed Mac OSX Adeptsense complete key command from ~ to Ctrl+Escape.
Added PHP module.

3.7 beta 3 (01 Apr 2011)

Bugfixes:

Small Adeptsense bugfixes.
Snapopen respects filesystem encoding.
Standard input dialogs have “Cancel” button by default.
Scintilla: fixed performance with the caret on a long line.

Changes:

Adeptsense tweaks for better completion and apidoc support.
Language modules load a user post_init.lua script if it exists.
Added Ruby on Rails lexer and module.
Added RHTML module.
Updated mime-types and prioritize by shebang, pattern, and then file extension.
buffer:get_lexer(true) returns the lexer at the caret position.
Adeptsense can be triggered in embedded lexers now.
Added C standard library and Lua C API to C/C++ Adeptsense.
Lua module fields are now in Lua Adeptsense.
Updated to Scintilla 2.25.
Rewrote _m.textadept.snippets with syntax changes.
Alt+I (Ctrl+I on Mac OSX) is now “Select Snippet” instead of “Show Style”. “Show Style” is now Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I (Ctrl+Apple+Shift+I).
Adeptsense can exclude types matched by sense.syntax.type_declarations patterns.
Ctrl+T, V (Apple+T, V on Mac OSX) keychain for toggling whitespace, wrap, etc. is now Ctrl+Shift+B (Apple+Shift+B).
Key bindings and menu definition syntax changed.
Snapopen allows for multiple-selection.
gui.print() handles nil and non-string arguments properly.
Officially supported modules have their own repository and are available as a separate download.
Added cancel button to standard dialogs.

3.7 beta 2 (01 Mar 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with Windows paths in Adeptsense goto_ctag().
Adeptsense could not recognize some symbols.
Handle \n sequences correctly in Adeptsense apidoc.
Fixed bug with Adeptsense C/C++ type declarations.
Adeptsense can now recognize more than 1 level of inheritence.
Keychain is cleared on key command error.
Fixed infinite loop bug in _m.textadept.editing.select_scope().
Fixed bug with nested embedded lexers.
Scintilla: fixed memory leak.
Scintilla: fixed double-click behavior around word boundaries.
Scintilla: right-click cancels autocompletion.
Scintilla: fixed some virtual space problems.
Scintilla: fixed unnecessary redrawing.
Scintilla: fixed rectangular selection creation performance.

Changes:

Scintilla: events.UPDATE_UI now occurs when scrolling.
Scintilla: added per-margin mouse cursors.
Updated to Scintilla 2.24.
Updated mime-types.
Line margin width is now 4.
Adeptsense completion list images are accessible via scripts.
Added class context completion to Adeptsense.
Added class type-inference through variable assignment to Adeptsense.
Added Adeptsense tutorial.
Added _m.textadept.adeptsense.always_show_globals setting for showing globals in completion lists.
Ctrl+H (highlight word) is now Ctrl+Shift+H.
Ctrl+H now shows Adeptsense documentation.
Added Adeptsense complete() and show_documentation() functions to the menu.
Language modules condensed into single init.lua file.
Added sense.syntax.word_chars to Adeptsense.
Included libpng12 build for 64-bit Debian-based Linux distros (Ubuntu).
Added CSS, HTML, Java, and Ruby modules with Adeptsenses.
Updated BibTeX lexer.

3.7 beta (01 Feb 2011)

Bugfixes:

update_ui is called properly for buffer_new and view_new events.
Use proper pointer type for Scintilla calls.
Fixed bug with loading lexers from _USERHOME on Windows.

Changes:

More informative error message for unfocused buffer.
Added Adeptsense, a smarter form of autocompletion for programming languages.
Emit a language_module_loaded as appropriate.
Added indentation settings to “Buffer” menu (finally).
Added gui.filteredlist() shortcut for gui.dialog('filteredlist', ...).
Can navigate between bookmarks with a filteredlist.
Language-specific char_matches and braces can be defined.
command_entry_keypress event accepts modifier keys.
Updated BibTeX and Lua lexers.

3.6 (01 Jan 2011)

Bugfixes:

Fixed infinite recursion errors caused in events.
Fix statusbar update bug with key chains.
Do not emit buffer_new event when splitting the view.
Fixed comment bug in Caml lexer.

Changes:

buffer.rectangular_selection_modifier on Linux is the Super/Windows key.
Improved HTML lexer.
Added Markdown, BibTeX, CMake, CUDA, Desktop Entry, F#, GLSL, and Nemerle lexers.
Added _m.textadept.filter_through module for shell commands.
Moved GUI events from core/events.lua to core/gui.lua.
Separated key command manager from key command definitions.

3.5 (01 Dec 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug introduced when exposing Find in Files API.
Fixed bug in Tcl lexer with comments.

Changes:

Lua files are syntax-checked for errors on save.
Menus are easier to create.
Changed _m.textadept.editing.enclose() behavior.
Windows and Mac OSX packages are all-in-one bundles; GTK is no longer an external dependency.
New manual.
Added file_after_save event.

3.4 (01 Nov 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed menu item conflicts.
Pressing Cancel in the Switch Buffers dialog does not go to the selected buffer anymore.
Autocomplete lists sort properly for machines with a different locale.
Statusbar is not cleared when set from a key command.
Unreadable files are handled appropriately.
Scintilla: fixed scrolling bug where caret was not kept visible.
Scintilla: fixed caret position caching after autocompletion.
Scintilla: fixed paging up/down in virtual space.
Scintilla: fixed crash with negative arguments passed to buffer:marker_add() and buffer:marker_add_set().
Scintilla: dwell notifications are not emitted when the mouse is outside the view.

Changes:

Multi-language lexers (HTML, PHP, RHTML, etc.) are processed as fast as single language ones, resulting in a huge speed improvement.
An update_ui event is triggered after a Lua command is entered.
gui.dialog() can take tables of strings as arguments now.
_m.textadept.snapopen.open() takes a recursion depth as a parameter and falls back on a DEFAULT_DEPTH if necessary.
Removed _m.textadept.editing.smart_cutcopy() and _m.textadept.editing.squeeze() functions.
Added _m.textadept.editing.SAVE_STRIPS_WS option to disable strip whitespace on save.
Changed locale implementation. Locale files are much easier to create now.
gui.statusbar_text is now readable instead of being write-only.
Can highlight all occurances of a word.
Added jsp lexer.
More consistant handling of \ directory separator for Windows.
Consolidated textadept.h and lua_interface.c into single textadept.c file.
Added _G.timeout() function for calling functions and/or events after a period of time.
Find in files is accessible through find API.
Updated XML lexer.
Added search-column and output-column options for filteredlist dialogs.
Scintilla: added buffer:contracted_fold_next() for retrieving fold states.
Scintilla: added buffer:vertical_centre_caret().
Updated to Scintilla 2.22.
Renamed _G.MAC to _G.OSX.

3.3 (01 Oct 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed buggy snippet menu.
Comments do not need to begin the line in Properties lexer.

Changes:

Added _m.textadept.snapopen module with menu options for rapidly opening files.
Added coffeescript lexer.
Updated D and Java lexers.

3.2 (01 Sep 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed “Replace All” infinite loop bug.
Handle strings properly in Groovy and Vala lexers.
Scintilla: fixed drawing bug after horizontally scrolling too much.
Scintilla: fixed various folding bugs.

Changes:

Updated to the new Scintillua that does not required patched Scintilla.
Updated to Scintilla 2.21.

3.1 (21 Aug 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed memory leak in Mac OSX.
Scintilla: fixed crash when searching for empty strings.
Scintilla: fixed lexing and folding bugs when pressing enter at the beginning of a line.
Scintilla: fixed bug in line selection mode.
Scintilla: fixed alpha indicator value ranges.
Scintilla: fixed compiler errors for some compilers.
Scintilla: fixed memory leak in autocompletion and user lists.

Changes:

Refactored key commands to support propagation.
Updated TeX lexer.
Only highlight C/C++ preprocessor words, not the whole line.
Scintilla: added new buffer.CARETSTICKY_WHITESPACE caret sticky option.
Scintilla: lexing improvements.
Updated to Scintilla 2.20.
Added Lua autocompletion.

3.0 (01 Jul 2010)

Please see the 2 to 3 migration guide for upgrading from Textadept 2 to Textadept 3.

Bugfixes:

None

Changes:

More accurate CSS and Diff lexers.

3.0 beta (21 Jun 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed Mac OSX paste issue.
Fixed buffer:text_range() argcheck problem.
Differentiate between division and regex in Javascript lexer.
Fixed bug with child’s main lexer not having a _tokenstyles table.
Scintilla: fixed flashing while scrolling.
Scintilla: fixed marker movement when inserting newlines.
Scintilla: fixed middle-click paste in block-selection mode.
Scintilla: fixed selection bounds returned for rectangular selections.
Scintilla: fixed case-insensitive searching for non-ASCII characters.
Scintilla: fixed bad-UTF-8 byte handling.
Scintilla: fixed bug when rectangular selections were extended into multiple selections.
Scintilla: fixed incorrect caret placement after scrolling.
Scintilla: fixed text disappearing after wrapping bug.
Scintilla: fixed various regex search bugs.
Scintilla: improved scrolling performance.
Scintilla: fixed Shift+Tab handling for rectangular selection.

Changes:

Remove initial “Untitled” buffer when necessary.
Moved core extension modules into textadept module.
New API.
~/.textadept/init.lua is created for you if one does not exist.
No more autoload of ~/.textadept/key_commands.lua and ~/.textadept/snippets.lua
Updated Java and D lexers.
Scintilla: added buffer.multi_paste for pasting into multiple selections.
Updated to Scintilla 2.12.
Abbreviated Lua commands in the command entry.
Dynamic command line arguments.
Added statusbar notification on reset().
Added Gtkrc, Prolog, and Go lexers.

2.2 (11 May 2010)

Bugfixes:

Save buffer before compiling or running.
Fixed error in the manual for ~/.textadept/init.lua example.
Ignore file:// prefix for filenames.

Changes:

_USERHOME comes before _HOME in package.path so require searches ~/.textadept/ first.

2.2 beta 2 (01 May 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed crash with buffer:text_range().
Fixed snippets bug with %n sequences.
Respect tab settings for snippets.
Fixed help hanging bug in Windows.
Fixed Lua module commands bug.
Fixed bug with style metatables.
Fixed bug with XML namespaces.

Changes:

Added BSD support.
Removed kill-ring from editing module.
Compile and Run commands are in language modules.
Block comment strings are in language modules now.
Remove “Untitled” buffer when necessary.
Moved “Search” menu into “Tools” menu to prevent Alt+S key conflict.
Rewrote lexers implementation.
Added Inform, Lilypond, and NSIS lexers.
_m.textadept.editing.enclosure is now an accessible table.
Updated D, Java, and LaTeX lexers.

2.2 beta (01 Apr 2010)

Bugfixes:

Fixed transform bug in snippets.
Fixed bug with Io lexer mime-type.
Fixed embedded css/javascript bug in HTML lexer.
Fixed bug in multi-language lexer detection.

Changes:

Removed _m.textadept.mlines module since Scintilla’s multiple selections supercedes it.
Removed side pane.
New gui.dialog('filteredlist', ...) from gtdialog.
Can select buffer from filteredlist dialog (replacing side pane buffer list).
Can select lexer from filteredlist dialog.
Can have user key_commands.lua, snippets.lua, mime_types.conf, locale.conf that are loaded by their respective modules.
Added Matlab/Octave lexer and updated Haskell lexer.
Backspace deletes auto-inserted character pairs.
Added notification for session files not found.
Snippets use multiple carets.
Removed api file support.

2.1 (01 Mar 2010)

Bugfixes:

Do not close files opened from command line when loading PM session.
Fixed bug for running a file with no path.
Fixed error message for session file not being found.
Fixed key command for word autocomplete on Windows.
Changed conflicting menu shortcut for Lexers menu.
Fixed typos in templates generated by modules PM browser.
Scintilla: fixed crash after adding an annotation and then adding a new line below it.
Scintilla: fixed buffer:get_sel_text().
Scintilla: fixed some instances of text positioning.
Scintilla: fixed various problems with rectangular selections and rectangular pastes.
Scintilla: fixed some instances of navigation through and display of wrapped lines.
Scintilla: fixed drag and drop.
Scintilla: fixed extra background styling at the end of the buffer.
Scintilla: fixed crash when adding markers to non-existant lines.
Scintilla: fixed indentation guide drawing over text in some cases.

Changes:

Added Dot and JSON lexers.
Search _USERHOME in addition to _HOME for themes.
Added command line option for not loading/saving session.
Modified key bindings to be more key-layout agnostic.
Added reset_before and reset_after events while textadept.reset() is being run.
Reload current lexer module after textadept.reset().
Added ~/.textadept/modules/ to package.path.
Scintilla: added support for multiple selections and virtual space.
Scintilla: buffer.first_visible_line is no longer read-only.
Scintilla: added buffer.whitespace_size for changing the size of visible whitespace.
Scintilla: added buffer.auto_c_current_text for retrieving the currently selected autocompletion text.
Updated to Scintilla 2.03.
Modified quit and close dialogs to be more readable.

2.0 (01 Oct 2009)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with reloading PM width from session file.
Only show a non-nil PM context menu.
Fixed bug in modules/textadept/lsnippets.lua.
Fixed bug in core/ext/mime_types.lua caused during textadept.reset().
Close all buffers before loading a session.
Identify shellscript files correctly.
D lexer no longer has key-command conflicts.

Changes:

Refactored modules/textadept/lsnippets.lua.
Updated key bindings.
Allow PM modules in the ~/.textadept user directory.
Added style_whitespace to lexers for custom styles.
Added standard F3 key command for “Find Next” for Windows/Linux.

2.0 beta (31 Jul 2009)

Bugfixes:

Alphabetize lexer list.
Fixed some locale issues.
Fixed some small memory leaks.
Try a list of encodings rather than just UTF-8 so “conversion failed” does not happen so often.
Restore a manually set lexer.

Changes:

Removed _m.textadept.macros module and respective PM browser (use Lua instead).
Linux version can be installed and run from anywhere; no need to recompile anymore.
Added many more events to hook into lots of core functionality.
Updated to Scintilla 1.79.
Run module allows more flexible compile commands and run commands.
Save project manager cursor over sessions.
Allow mime-types and compile and run commands to be user-redefinable in user scripts.
Use ~/.textadept/ for holding user lexers, themes, sessions, etc.
Added “Help” menu linking to Manual and LuaDoc.
Textadept compiles as C99 code. (Drops Microsoft Visual Studio support.)
Sessions functionality moved to modules/textadept/session.lua from core/file_io.lua.
The char_added event now passes an int, not a string, to handler functions.
Replaced cocoaDialog and lua_dialog with my C-based gtdialog.
Incremental find via the Lua command entry.
NO dependencies other than GTK on all platforms.
- Windows no longer requires the MSVC++ 2008 Runtime.
- Linux no longer requires libffi.
- Mac OSX no longer requires cocoaDialog.
Can cross compile to Windows from Linux.
Removed confusing local function and local table LuaDoc.
Rewrote the manual and most of the documentation.

1.6 (01 Apr 2009)

Bugfixes:

Fixed NULL byte bug associated with Lua interface due to multi-encoding support.
Find marker is colored consistently.
Fixed issue with buffer browser cursor saving.
Fixed block character insertion issue on GTK-OSX.

Updates:

Trimmed theme files.
Added file_before_save event.

1.6 beta (01 Mar 2009)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bookmarks bugs.
PM browsers are not re-added to the list again on textadept.reset().
Fixed ctags PM browser bug with filenames.
Marker colors are set for all views now.
Fixed never-ending “reload modified file?” dialog bug.
Fixed key command for m_snippets.list.
Fixed issues with _m.textadept.run module.
Fixed document modification status bug for unfocused split views.
Fixed filename encoding issues for Windows.

Updates:

Added key bindings and menu items to navigate “Find in Files” list.
The recent_files popup list behaves better.
Attempt to preserve existing EOL mode for opened files.
Add drag-and-dropped directories to the PM browser list.
Removed project PM browser.
Multiple character encoding support for opening and saving files.

1.5 (20 Feb 2009)

Bugfixes:

Fixed some corner cases in Find in Files user interface.
Fixed some OSX key command issues for consistency.
Fixed some key command modifiers for “enclose in” series.

Updates:

Consolidated core/ext/key_commands_{std,mac}.lua into single core/ext/key_commands.lua.
Can use the Tab and Shift+Tab keys for snippets now.
Removed support for Textmate-style snippets in favor of Lua-style snippets.
Load drag-and-dropped directories into file browser.
Can toggle showing “dot” files in file browser.
Prompt for file reload when files are modified outside Textadept.
Added textadept.context_menu field for right-click inside Scintilla.
Project Manager cursors are saved and restored.
Only use escape sequences in Lua pattern searches.
Rewrote modules/textadept/run.lua to be easier to use and configure.
Find in Files marks the selected line for easier reference.
Save special buffers in session file (e.g. error buffer, message buffer, etc.)
Moved mime-types into core/ext/mime_types.conf configuration file.
Moved localization into core/locale.conf configuration file.

1.4 (10 Feb 2009)

Bugfixes:

Handle empty clipboard properly.
Fixed some widget focus issues.
Fixed a couple Find in Files bugs.
Workaround for GTK-OSX pasting issue.

Updates:

Added menu options for changing line endings.
The Project Manager Entry responds better.
Improved Lua State integrity for critical data.
Keep only 10 items in Find/Replace history.
Special buffers are not “Untitled” anymore.
Moved textadept.locale table to _G.

1.3 (30 Jan 2009)

Bugfixes:

Binary files are opened and handled properly.
Drag-and-dropped files are now opened in the correct split view they were dropped in.
Fixed some various GTK-OSX UI issues.
Fixed a special case of “Replace All”.
Clicking “Ok” closes any error dialogs on init.
Fixed statusbar glitch when creating new buffers.
Windows’ CR+LF line endings are handled properly.
Do not go to non-existent buffer index when loading session.
Do not attempt to open non-existent files when double-clicking error messages.

Updates:

Look for ~/.ta_theme for setting Textadept _THEME.
_THEME can now be a directory path.
Themes now contain their own lexer.lua for defining lexer colors.
Added “Find in Files” support.
Can set the Project Manager cursor through Lua.
Look for ~/.ta_modules to load instead of default modules in init.lua.
Added “Replace All” for just selected text.
Removed menu label text in favor of using menu id numbers for menu actions.
Added Find/Replace history.
Use a combo entry for the Project Manager browser entry.
Print messages to a split view instead of switching buffers.

1.2 (21 Jan 2009)

Bugfixes:

None.

Updates:

Windows command line support (“Open With Textadept” works too).
New _m.textadept.run module for compiling and running programs. Output is displayed in a message buffer and you can double-click errors and warnings to go to them in the source file.

1.1 (11 Jan 2009)

Bugfixes:

Fixed core/ext/key_commands_std.lua key conflict (Ctrl+V).

Updates:

Dramatic speed increase in lexing for large, single-language files.
Added localization support.
Added bookmarks support.
All require statements have been moved to init.lua for easy module configuration.
Various improvements to efficiency, speed, and readability of source code.
Manually parse ~/.gtkrc-2.0 on Mac since GTK-OSX does not do it.

1.0 (01 Jan 2009)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with placeholders in Lua-style snippets.
Fixed view grow/shrink error thrown when the view is not split.
Various fixes to recognize windows directory separators.
Fixed some Find bugs.
Fixed macro recording and playback bugs.

Updates:

Added actions for all menu items.
Added Lua interface functions and fields for the find box.
Nearly full Mac OSX support with GTK-OSX.
Compile LPeg and LuaFileSystem libraries into Textadept by default.
Use UTF-8 encoding by default.
Added light color theme used by default.
New Textadept icons.
Added a true project manager.

0.6 (03 Oct 2008)

Bugfixes:

Gracefully exit when core/init.lua fails to load.

Updates:

Windows support! (finally)
Theming support (SciTE theme used by default).
Added textadept.size field and save it in session files.
Some C++ API-simplifying changes.
Drag-and-drop files into Textadept works as expected.
Revised manual.
Buffer and View properties are no longer set in C++, but in Lua through “buffer_new” and “view_new” event handlers respectively.
File types can be recognized by pattern matching the first line.

0.5 (23 Jul 2008)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in Lua module when there is no matching file to go to.

Updates:

Added user-friendly key bindings and menus.
Added 43 more lexers.
Moved block-comment commands from language modules to textadept.editing module.
Updated some Luadoc.

0.4 (25 Jun 2008)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug with “%” being contained in text to replace.
Fixed compile warnings.
Fixed bug for menu actions on non-focused buffer.

Updates:

Added bookmark support through modules/textadept/bookmarks.lua (not loaded by default).
Added icons to Textadept.
Added a modules browser for adding, deleting, and editing modules easily.
Consolidated source files into textadept.c, textadept.h, and lua_interface.c.
Always load project manager settings from session file if available.
Include liblua5.1.a for compiling Lua into Textadept.
Added true tab-completion to Lua command entry.
Added Doxygen documentation for C source files.
Updated Luadoc, and added Textadept manual.

0.3 (04 Mar 2008)

Bugfixes:

Fixed bug in editing module’s select_indented_block().
Fixed empty buffer.filename bug in textadept.io.save_as().
Fixed setting of Ruby lexer after detecting filetype.

Updates:

Makefile builds Textadept to optimize for small size.
Lua is no longer an external dependency and built into Textadept.
Zenity is no longer a dependency on Linux. lua_dialog is used instead.
Resources from io.popen() are handled more appropriately.
Added textadept.reset() function for for reloading Lua scripts.
Added new find in files project manager browser.
Fixed some code redundancy and typos in documentation.

0.2 (20 Dec 2007)

Bugfixes:

Fixed command line parameters bug.
Fixed package.path precedence bug.
Use 8 style bits by default.

Updates:

Scintilla-st.
Lexers.
Improved support for embedded language-specific snippets.

0.1 (01 Dec 2007)

Initial Release