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12.0_alpha_3

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Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 (01 May 2023)

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

Download:

• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- Windows
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- macOS 10.13+
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- Linux
• Textadept 12.0 alpha 3 -- Modules

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.