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Geany 1.25

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General

  • GTK3 support, while not enabled by default, is now considered stable.
  • Improve MacOS X support (PR#396, PR#419, PR#420, Jiří Techet).
  • Improve subprocess spawning (especially on Windows) (PR#441,
    Dimitar Zhekov).
  • Huge tag management performance improvement (auto-completion,
    calltips, etc.) (PR#356, Jiří Techet).
  • Remove broken "Show macro list" keybinding and feature (PR#378).
  • Add %l substitution to build commands (PR#289, Martin Spacek).
  • Depend on GTK 2.24 and GLib 2.28.
  • Add per-project line wrapping, line breaking and comment
    continuation settings.
  • The plugin API is now split out of the main executable into libgeany,
    a shared library plugins have to link against.

Bug fixes

  • Fix applying filetype-specific indentation settings for newly
    opened files.
  • Fix relative project base path when creating a new project
    (#1062).
  • Fix next/previous keybindings when no files are open.
  • Fix markup injection in some tooltips (#1091).
  • Use absolute project path for projects opened from the command
    line (PR#431, Jiří Techet).
  • Fix goto tag in some cases when the same symbol name appears in
    different languages (PR#487, Jiří Techet).
  • Fix UI updating after loading a project.
  • Fix the currently selected document after Save All.
  • Fix leftovers in the Project dialog in some cases (PR#363, Jiří
    Techet).
  • Fix function return type in symbol list tooltips in some cases
    (PR#475, Jiří Techet).
  • Fix VTE path following on startup.

Interface

  • Show document-related dialogs embedded in the main window ("info
    bars") (PR#277, Matthew Brush and Thomas Martitz).
  • Plugin manager dialog cleanup and overhaul (PR#251, PR#414).
  • Filetypes can now define the MIME type used to select their icon
    (PR#179).
  • Close documents in the sidebar with middle mouse button (PR#172,
    Pavel Roschin).
  • Ask whether to replace project files when creating a project.
  • Ask whether to adopt the open documents when creating a new
    project (PR#315).
  • Allow to disable the list of recent files.
  • Fix many shadow inconsistencies (PR#411, Jiří Techet).
  • Add virtual column and selected chars to the statusbar (Patch #10,
    Dimitar Zhekov).
  • Add "dirty" terminal indication (PR#476, Jiří Techet).
  • Allow to select the None filetype in the Open File dialog
    (Issue#483).
  • Add configuration menu entries for all filetypes (PR#491, Jiří Techet).

Editor

  • Update Scintilla to version 3.5.6 (#1041).
  • Do not comment out blank lines when toggling comments (PR#79, Igor
    Shaula).
  • Improve handling of Verilog strings and comments.
  • Support for keeping undo history when reloading files (PR#188, Arthur
    Rosenstein). This is not enabled by default in this release.
  • Respect filetype.common's wordchars if a filetype doesn't have its own
    (Issue#492, PR#501).

Search

  • Add support for single-line regular expressions (PR#310).
  • Default action is now "Replace & Find" in the replace dialog but
    can be configured (Roland Pallai).
  • Activate default action from all fields in the Find in Files
    dialog (#959).

Filetypes

  • Add JSON filetype.
  • Add Zephir filetype.
  • Add CoffeScript filetype (PR#230, Mark Dresselhaus).
  • Add Go tags parser (PR#373, PR#481, Issue#238, Jiří Techet).
  • Add Erlang tags parser (PR#445, Beng Tan).
  • Add PowerShell tags parser (PR#477).
  • Many JavaScript parsing fixes and improvements.
  • Many CSS parser fixes and improvements.
  • Many Txt2tags parsing fixes and improvements (feature #690).
  • Make parser fixes and improvements.
  • Parse D enum base type (PR#404).
  • Various small Rust fixes (PR#306, SiegeLord).
  • Highlight C types in C++.
  • Add some missing C11 keywords.
  • Add some missing SQL keywords.
  • Fix and add some CSS keywords (PR#333, Hannes Heute).
  • Fix some FreeBasic keywords (#691).
  • Add some missing D keywords (PR#293, Danyal Zia).
  • Fix R keywords and wordchars (PR#273, landroni).
  • Fix styling of some CSS elements.
  • Fix styling of Lua preprocessor.
  • Fix style of PHP variables interpolation.
  • Recognize .vbs files as FreeBasic (PR#171, Nicolas Karolak).
  • Recognize .tpl files as HTML.
  • Recognize .xtpl files as XML.
  • Recognize .xpm files as C.
  • Recognize more Bash files (PR#291, Peter Bittner).
  • Update templates for Python and Vala.
  • Add template for HTML5.
  • Fix parsing of some Python triple-quoted strings.
  • Add some linting tools to some filetype's default Build menu.
  • Fix scope of some Python symbols.
  • Fix support of trigraphs in C-like languages.
  • Add support of digraphs in C-like languages.
  • Add support of final, override and noexcept C++11 keywords
    (PR#544).

Internationalization

  • Update translations: be, ca, cs, de, el, es, fr, id, it, ja, nl, pl,
    pt_BR, pt, ru, sl, sr, sv, zh_CN.

Plugins

  • File Browser: use "explorer" as the default open command on
    Windows.
  • File Browser: use icons based on the detected file's MIME type (PR#455,
    Jiří Techet).
  • Save Actions: use mode 0600 for backup copies (#833, PR#413).
  • Split Window: Fix a few keybindings (cut, copy, paste, delete,
    select all) (PR#467, Alex).

API

  • Hide private API (PR#351, Jiří Techet, and PR#429, Matthew Brush and
    Thomas Martitz).
  • Cleaner and safer TagManager API (Part of PR#356, Jiří Techet).
  • Entry point prototypes are now checked by the compiler (PR#359).
  • Add pseudo-unique document IDs through GeanyDocument::id and
    document_find_by_id(). This is a safer API for keeping a reference
    to a document for a long time (PR#256).
  • Add convenient and portable spawning API: spawn_sync(), spawn_async(),
    spawn_with_callbacks(), spawn_kill_process(), spawn_check_command(),
    spawn_write_data() (PR#441, Dimitar Zhekov).
  • plugin_signal_connect() is now safe to use also with objects
    destroyed before unloading the plugin.
  • Add document_reload_force() to replace document_reload_file().
  • Add project_write_config() (PR#361, Jiří Techet).
  • Add keybindings_get_modifiers() and GEANY_PRIMARY_MOD_MASK (Jiří
    Techet).
  • Fix emission of the document-activate signal in some cases.
  • Add ui_tree_view_set_tooltip_text_column().
  • Add scintilla_get_type().

Windows

  • Use native Windows quoting rules for commands (on Windows, part of
    subprocess spawning improvements).
  • Prompt before overwriting existing files when using native Save As
    dialog (PR#113, Adam Coyne).
  • View -> Change Font now respects the native dialog setting.
  • Fix main window freeze when displaying native dialogs.
  • Use the same plugin directory as other platforms (PR#540, Thomas
    Martitz).

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