orbitalquark/textadept textadept_11.0_alpha_3

11.0 alpha 3

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(01 Aug 2020)

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

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 switch.
• 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.