orbitalquark/textadept textadept_13.0

Textadept 13.0 beta (01 Apr 2026)

Please see the migration guide for migrating from Textadept 12 to 13.

Bugfixes:

Fixed code signing issues on macOS that prevent Textadept from running.
Qt version: fixed occasional bug restoring buffer state after closing a buffer.
Prevent crashes caused by timeouts firing while quitting.
Fixed statusbar notification for manually stopped compile/run/build/test commands.
Fixed Alt+Backspace on macOS.
Fixed "Find Next" and "Find Prev" bug after finishing incremental find.
Fixed occasional inability to start Textadept again after quitting on macOS.
Prevent clobbering the previous session if a startup error occurs.
Qt version: fixed ui.get_clipboard_text() with multi-byte characters.
LSP: changed some conflicting macOS key bindings.
Spellcheck: do not attempt to load the 'C' language.
Scintilla: fixed buffer.selection_n_start and buffer.selection_n_end to behave more sensibly.
Scintilla: fixed lexing after undo at end of buffer.

Changes:

The terminal version requires a wide-character implementation of ncurses.
Updated to Qt 6.10 on Windows and Qt 6.11 on macOS.
Added simpler key bindings for switching between views on macOS.
Added native "Window" menu on macOS to hook into window tiling, etc.
Save fold state in sessions.
Support language-specific auto-paired characters.
Changed some default key bindings (see migration guide).
Removed io.track_changes.
textadept.editing.strip_trailing_spaces ignores diff/patch files.
Updated Lua, LaTeX, Perl, and Go lexers.
Added lexer.ignore_extensions and lexer.ignore_patterns for ignoring trailing
filename suffixes.
Added support for Arduino.
Format: added config_file_contains() and config_file_exists() convenience functions.
Updated to Scintilla 5.6.0.

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