h3pdesign/Neon-Vision-Editor v0.6.6

Neon Vision Editor v0.6.6

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[v0.6.6] - 2026-05-09

Why Upgrade

• File opening from Finder/system dialogs is now more robust: existing windows are brought back to the foreground instead of staying in the background.
• Empty startup tabs are now cleanly reused when opening a file, preventing unnecessary extra tabs.
• Large UI monoliths were further modularized, making follow-up fixes significantly lower risk.
• iPad hardware shortcuts can now be configured directly in Settings and keyboard editing is fully reliable (text selection, copy/cut/paste, undo/redo, close tab).
• Toolbar customization on iPhone/iPad is more practical with visibility controls for primary icons and an optional compact custom 5-icon mode.
• plist files can now be shown in a structured, collapsible tree view alongside raw text.
• Welcome Tour and support prompt flows now share a consistent modern visual style, with improved spacing and button ergonomics on iPhone, iPad, and macOS.
• Release gating now runs as a single script step that combines the platform matrix build and release preflight checks.

Highlights

• Improved external file-open routing on macOS: after opening, the target editor window is brought to foreground and activated.
• Added clean untitled tab replacement flow in EditorViewModel.openFile(url:) when only a single untouched placeholder tab exists.
• Continued structural split of oversized UI files:
  • EditorTextView in shared/macOS/iOS files
  • ContentView responsibilities split into focused extensions (session persistence, AI completion, quick switcher/find, markdown preview UI, tab/status chrome)
• Added self-assignable editor shortcuts in Settings (command format like cmd+shift+f) with default reset support.
• Added a structured plist mode with sorted dictionary keys, color-coded value-type badges, and collapsible tree rows.
• Added a new Quick Open command (Open plist Structure) that switches to structured plist mode when a plist file is active.
• Expanded regression coverage for syntax highlighting (JSON/Markdown/HTML/CSS/C/C#/Swift/Python), shortcut parsing, and Markdown PDF pagination ranges.
• Redesigned Welcome Tour pages around a translucent full-surface layout with feature-specific symbols, a dedicated “What’s New” card format, and tuned navigation controls.
• Redesigned the post-start support prompt to match the Welcome Tour style, with centered content/actions and symbol-backed benefit bullets.
• Added scripts/ci/release_gate.sh as the unified final release gate (build_platform_matrix + release_preflight) and wired release_all.sh to use it.
• Added iPhone/iPad toolbar favorite-count control with compact presets (4, 5, 6, 8, 10, All) for visible primary actions.
• Added dedicated visibility toggles for the four primary toolbar icons (Open File, Undo, Settings, Help) on iPhone/iPad.
• Added an optional compact Custom 5 Icons mode with a picker sheet so users can choose up to five specific toolbar actions without cluttering Settings.
• Added user-configurable Close Tab shortcut support (Cmd+W default) to shared shortcut preferences and iPad keyboard command bridge.
• Updated GitHub Actions workflow dependencies to Node-24-ready action versions (actions/checkout@v5, actions/setup-python@v6).

Fixes

• Fixed background-open behavior where files opened externally could load without reliably surfacing the correct editor window.
• Fixed tab proliferation on first open by replacing a pristine untitled tab instead of always creating a second tab.
• Fixed macOS dock-icon click not reactivating the editor window by adding applicationShouldHandleReopen delegate.
• Fixed Reopen Last Session on sandboxed macOS setups for files outside the app container by performing file-existence checks under active security-scoped resource access.
• Fixed macOS shortcut settings mismatch by wiring menu commands to ShortcutPreferences and re-enabling the shortcut section as functional UI.
• Fixed iPad text-selection regressions with Magic Keyboard/trackpad and external mice by stabilizing responder handling and pointer-drag selection behavior in the editor.
• Fixed iPad Magic Keyboard Cmd+A selection not working by registering dedicated UIKeyCommand in EditorTextView+iOS.swift.
• Fixed iPad hardware-keyboard editing parity by adding explicit Cmd+C, Cmd+X, Cmd+V, Cmd+Z, and Cmd+Shift+Z command routing in the editor.
• Fixed iPad Cmd+W so closing the active tab now works through the iPad keyboard shortcut bridge.
• Fixed iPad pointer/cursor text selection reliability by preventing drag-to-dismiss behavior from competing with editor selection gestures.
• Fixed JSON URL/escape highlighting regressions by enforcing coverage for escaped string patterns and numeric tokens.
• Fixed markdown PDF range slicing edge cases with explicit single-page and dense-block pagination tests.
• Fixed release-flow robustness when release metadata files are already dirty by allowing release scripts to continue when only approved release files changed.
• Fixed compact-toolbar customization scope so reducing visible primary actions no longer affects actions exposed through the ... (More) menu.
• Added regression test coverage for clean-tab replacement on file open (EditorViewModelFileOpenTests).

Milestone Issues (GitHub #18)

Closed:

• #111 [Bug]: OSX: when opening file via standard app, app window is not in foreground
• #124 [Feature]: Toolbar favorites count on iPhone/iPad with independent More menu
• #100 [Bug]: selecting text with Magic Keyboard not possible
• #108 [Feature]: Add structured plist editor support
• #107 [Bug]: not aligned text in language search box
• #106 [Bug]: empty space in search window
• #105 [Bug]: Label for German language not aligned
• #97 [Feature]: Clarify toolbar customization settings
• #109 [Feature]: Add self-assignable key commands

Breaking changes

• None.

Migration

• None.