4 * Build system reworked to be much more configurable (by Lex Trotman).
5 * Use POSIX system/GNU regex engine for find & replace. This alters
6 regex syntax - we now support '?' operator and match newlines.
7 * Support adding custom filetype files.
8 * Add new command line option --list-documents to return a list
9 of currently opened documents
10 * Remove deprecated --debug flag. Please use --verbose/-v instead.
13 * Add option 'System Default' for toolbar icon style and size to use
14 the GTK default value.
15 * Allow '+<number>' and '-<number>' as values for Goto Line inputs
16 to jump relative to the current line.
17 * Add preference to add new document tabs beside the current one
18 (patch by Colomban Wendling).
19 * Enable type-ahead find for sidebar symbols and documents tabs
20 (patch by Thomas Martitz).
21 * Make Ctrl-click on any notebook tab switch to the last used
23 * Add Edit->Commands menu.
24 * Add 'Edit->Plugin Preferences' menu item and keybinding.
25 * Add 'View->Editor->Color Schemes' menu (only shown if color
29 * Hide 'Tabs and Spaces: Hard tab width' preference - it should
30 always be 8. (Hidden setting kept in case users have modified it).
31 * Add sidebar position interface pref.
32 * Add project long line marker customisation (patch from Eugene
36 * Update Scintilla to 2.11.
37 * Add preference and support for virtual spaces.
38 * Add word part autocompletion for the current selected item when
39 pressing keybinding (default Tab) - Enter still completes normally.
40 * Remove LaTeX autocompletion from Geany's core and move it to the
44 * New filetype: Txt2Tags (patch by Eric Forgeot).
45 * New filetype: Abc (patch by Eric Forgeot).
46 * New filetype: Verilog (patch from Kelvin Gardiner).
47 * New custom filetype: Genie.
48 * Improvements in symbol parsing of PHP and Python files.
49 * Add R tagmanager symbol parser (patch by Jon Senior).
50 * Update Perl tag parser from ctags - removes support for
51 buggy local/my/our but parses constant/format/labels.
52 * Parse more VHDL tags (patch from Kelvin Gardiner).
53 * Highlight D & Java types from a global tags file.
54 * Parse Python lambda functions (patch from Colomban Wendling).
57 * Add keybindings to switch to the sidebar's Document and Symbol list as
58 well as to the Message Window's current tab (patch by Eugene Arshinov).
59 * Add 'Remove Markers' and 'Remove Error Indicators' keybindings.
60 * Make 'Reflow block/lines(s)' keybinding use line breaking column when
61 enabled (patch by Lex Trotman).
62 * Add 'Select to previous/next word part' keybindings.
63 * Add 'Switch to Messages' focus keybinding.
64 * Add 'Move line(s) up/down' keybindings.
65 * Make Switch to Editor keybinding reshow the document statistics line.
68 * Move filetype template defaults into custom file template files.
69 * Read custom file templates from system as well as user dir.
70 * Add new special template wildcard "{command:...}" to use the output
71 of a shell command in templates.
72 * Support {ob}, {cb} and {pc} to escape wildcard strings with {, }, %
73 for snippets, fileheader and file templates.
74 * Add {project}, {description} template wildcards (#2954737).
75 * Reload templates when saving a document in the templates config dir.
78 * Support more filetypes.common folding icon styles: arrows, +/- and no
80 * Support Scintilla lexer properties in [lexer_properties] filetypes.*
82 * Add filetypes.xml asp.default.language property (Ross McKay).
85 * Classbuilder: Add support for creating PHP classes
86 (patch by Ondrej Donek).
87 * HTMLchars: Make plugin remember whether replacement of special
88 characters was activated.
91 * Support very long build commands.
92 * Add a preference for choosing between GTK and native File Open/Save
93 dialogs (only available on Windows).
96 * Added translations: ast.
97 * Updated translations: de, en_GB, es, fr, gl, ja, nl, pt, ru, sl, sv,
101 * Improve documentation contents page.
102 * Add Stash mini-library setting, pref & widget functions to API.
103 * Add plugin_configure_single() plugin symbol which is easier to
104 implement than plugin_configure().
105 * Add new plugin signals: "document-before-save", "document-filetype-set",
106 "geany-startup-complete".
107 * Add PLUGIN_SET_TRANSLATABLE_INFO macro to the plugin API so plugins' meta
108 information can be translated already in the plugin manager dialog
109 (patch by Colomban Wendling).
110 * Use full function name for GeanyFunctions function pointers. This
111 avoids naming conflicts e.g. with C++'s 'new' keyword.
112 * GeanyKeyBinding label fields can now contain underscores, which won't
113 be displayed by Geany. This saves adding near-duplicate translation
115 * Add GeanyKeyGroup callback support.
116 * Add more Scintilla function wrappers, foreach_dir(), foreach_str(),
117 utils_get_file_list_full(), document_get_notebook_page(),
118 editor_insert_text_block().
119 * Don't install unnecessary headers.
120 * Remove deprecated header pluginmacros.h - use geanyfunctions.h
122 * Deprecate documents_foreach(), use foreach_document() instead.
123 * Deprecate PLUGIN_KEY_GROUP() macro - use plugin_set_key_group()
127 Geany 0.18.1 (February 14, 2010)
130 * Define G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT to fix build on GLib 2.8.
131 * Use AC_PATH_PROG instead of 'which' for portability (patch by Erik
135 * Remove filetypes.common invert_all option - use 'Invert syntax
136 highlighting colors' pref instead (fixes #2854525).
139 * Fix 'Open Selected File' for unsaved new documents.
140 * Fix updating main menu accelerators after changing keybindings
141 (thanks to Lex Trotman).
142 * Fix using 'Insert date' keybinding when a custom date string has
144 * Set the cursor color for the split window plugin.
145 * Remove plugin from plugin manager dialog on unloading if it no
146 longer exists or is incompatible.
147 * Fix 'Reflow block' command when at the last paragraph and there's
148 no last newline (patch by Eugene Arshinov, thanks).
149 * Fix opening filenames beginning with two dots (closes #2858487).
150 * Show Find in Files stderr output in messages window instead of
151 debug window so that invalid regex messages can be seen easily.
152 * Speed up sorting in utils_get_file_list(). This reduces the file
153 browser delay on displaying a big directory, e.g. /usr/bin.
154 * Fix a bug with not w3c compatible HTML code on export plugin
155 * Fix non-working Home and End keys on numpads.
156 * Fix loading of files on network resources on Windows.
157 * Fix wrong alignment of printed pages when page headers are disabled
161 * Extend auto_latex() function to check whether an environment has
162 been closed within the next lines to avoid auto adding double
164 * Replace some icons which could cause licensing problems by icons
165 from the Rodent icon theme.
168 * Parse contents of D extern{} and version{} blocks.
169 * Fix creating D interface tags properly.
170 * Parse D functions with contracts (fixes #1885480).
171 * Parse D alias statement like typedef.
172 * Improve parsing of LaTeX, PHP and Python files.
175 * Add 'Scope autocompletion' section.
176 * Add 'Tools menu items' section to explain configuration files
177 submenu, reload configuration item.
178 * Minor updates/fixes.
181 * Add gcc commands to build a plugin to the HowTo.
184 * Add section 'Plugin API/ABI design'.
185 * Add 'Compiler options & warnings' section.
186 * Update Style section to be clearer about code alignment and show
188 * Add 'Doc-comments' plugin API subsection.
190 Internationalisation:
191 * Added translations: gl
194 Geany 0.18 (August 16, 2009)
197 * Fix scrolling horizontally after finding a search match with the
198 search bar or Find Next/Previous which is off-screen.
199 * Remove relative/untidy path elements from filenames when opening
200 documents (#2823998).
201 * Create initial template files with proper platform-specific line
203 * Improve inserting of comment templates like File header or licence
207 * Add 'Show Paths' documents list popup item.
208 * Add filetypes.common to 'Configuration Files' menu.
209 * Implement a graphical toolbar editor.
210 * Add 'Build' toolbar button to the default layout.
211 * Add 'Replace' toolbar button (closes #2798225).
212 * Use a more Tango like icon for 'Save All' (by Jesse Mayes, thanks).
213 * Add a popup menu for the keybinding list in the preferences dialog
214 to easily expand and collapse all groups.
217 * Implement Most-Recently-Used document switching when pressing
218 'Switch to last used document' keybinding (Ctrl-Tab).
219 * Add 'Mark All' keybinding (Ctrl-Shift-M).
220 * Add 'Reflow lines/block' keybinding, (Ctrl-J; thanks to
222 * Make the Scintilla keybindings 'Delete to end of line' and
223 'Go to end of display line' configurable.
224 * Switching notebook tabs now works for the currently used notebook
225 widget instead of always using the documents notebook.
228 * Fix a redraw when documents were first drawn uncolourised.
229 * Delay highlighting matching braces by 100ms to speed up scrolling
231 * Support 'tab indents, space aligns' style when indenting (#2789109).
232 * Add 'Autocomplete all words in document' pref; also used when forcing
233 autocompletion and there's no symbol names to show.
234 * Add 'Drop rest of word on completion' pref.
235 * Update Scintilla to version 1.79.
236 * Improve displaying and reshowing of calltips.
239 * Reload color schemes via Tools menu (thanks to Eugene Arshinov).
240 * Implement named styles support for filetypes.* using a
241 filetypes.common [named_styles] section; used as
242 "style=named_style,bold". (See the manual for details).
243 * Allow style definitions with missing fields to use the
244 filetypes.common default style's fields.
245 * Make C-like filetype styles use named styles & default background
246 color. (Anyone who wants to likewise update any other filetype's
247 styles, please let us know ;-)).
248 * Allow indentation of wrapped lines (see style 'line_wrap_indent').
249 * Add new styles 'line_height' and 'marker_mark'.
252 * Add Markdown filetype (thanks to Jon Strait).
253 * Highlight D WYSIWYG backtick `strings` and r"strings" (#1895745).
254 * Minor improvements for filetypes: Fortran, Haxe, HTML, Lua,
255 Matlab, Pascal, Python, Tcl.
258 * Read custom system global tags files from $prefix/share/geany/tags
260 * Autocomplete scoped fields like struct members when typing '.' (and
261 also '->' or '::' in C/C++) if the language's tag parser supports it.
262 * Save field tags for C/C++ when generating a global tags file (you may
263 want to regenerate your tag files).
264 * Parse Python calltips.
265 * Show relative paths in Diff filename tags.
266 * Group reStructuredText symbol list items by scope level.
269 * Add geanyplugin.h single include.
270 * Add plugin_signal_connect() for connecting plugin signals at
271 runtime and also for connecting to any GObject signal.
272 * Add documents_foreach(), filetypes[], documents[], utils_strdupa()
273 and various foreach_type() macros.
274 * Make GeanyDocument::file_type always be non-NULL.
277 * Fix quoting the build command string on Windows (closes #2791769).
278 * Fix LaTeX view commands on Windows (part of #2807688).
279 * Expand system environment variables (%variableName%) on Windows when
280 running Build commands.
282 Internationalisation:
283 * Added translations: lb, sl, pt_PT
284 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, en_GB, fi, fr, ja, pt_BR, ru, tr
287 Geany 0.17 (May 02, 2009)
290 * Fix broken selection of "Document->Set Encoding" menu items.
291 * Fix broken non-incremental search with the toolbar search entry when
292 pressing Enter (closes #2638180).
293 * Fix parsing of Make output (closes #2694479, patch by Andrea Mazzoleni).
294 * Fix crashes on quitting Geany (closes #2533990).
295 * Fix disabled Go to Tag items in the editor menu when using the
297 * Prevent crashes when two or more top level items in the symbol
298 list have the same name (closes #2778246).
301 * Add an option to set an additional plugin lookup path.
302 * Add a hidden preference 'use_safe_file_saving'. This has serious side
303 effects, please read the documentation before enabling this.
306 * Add 'Send Selection to Terminal' command to the Edit->Format menu.
307 * Change the background colour of the search entries in the Find
308 and Replace dialogs according to the search results.
309 * Add 'Close Other Documents' and 'Close All' menu items to the tab bar
311 * Add an option to allow appending the toolbar to the main menu bar
312 to save some vertical space.
313 * When a project is loaded, replace the project base path with the
314 project name in the Documents sidebar for parent items (closes #2723679).
315 * Make the file open dialog more compact.
316 * Ellipsize tab labels and some status messages for very long
317 filenames (closes #2777348).
318 * Add new toolbar element: Print (patch by Roland Baudin).
319 * Remember the active sidebar page between sessions.
320 * Add "Recent Projects" menu to the Project menu (#2728630,
321 patch by Elias Pschernig).
322 * Add Tools->Configuration Files item for snippets.conf.
325 * Fix wrong Fortran 90 comment characters when inserting templates.
326 * Add filetype ActionScript (patch by Chris Macksey).
327 * Fixes for CSS, Fortran and Ruby parsers.
328 * Add a trivial symbol parser for NSIS files.
331 * On Windows, change the working directory to the Geany installation
332 path at startup to avoid unwanted directory locking(closes #2626124).
333 * Fix window positioning on startup.
334 * Make build commands on Windows run synchronously to avoid problems
335 with reading build commands' output.
338 * HTMLchars: Extend plugin by bulk replace and replace on
339 input for special characters to their HTML entities.
340 * Splitwindow: Add keybindings for the split actions.
341 * VCDiff: Remove plugin from Geany. Use GeanyVC instead.
344 * Deprecate sci_get_text(), sci_get_selected_text() and
345 sci_get_text_range().
346 * Add sci_get_contents(), sci_get_contents_range() and
347 sci_get_selection_contents() as replacement functions to provide
348 an easier and cleaner API (initial patch by Frank).
349 * Make GEANY_FILETYPES_NONE = 0, sort filetype IDs randomly (so we can
350 append new filetypes without breaking the ABI); add
351 filetypes_by_title sorted list to GeanyData.
354 * Describe how to build Geany using the Waf build system.
356 Internationalisation:
357 * Updated translations: be, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, pt_BR, ru,
361 Geany 0.16 (February 15, 2009)
364 * Fix indenting for Tabs & Spaces mode when inserting snippets.
365 * Fix snippets and smart indent using too much indentation when the
366 line contains whitespace after non-whitespace characters (#2215044).
367 * Fix segfault when showing Find in Files dialog when no documents are
369 * Fix not switching to 2nd last used document when the last used
370 document has been closed (#1945162).
373 * Group child tags by their parents in the symbol list for C-like
374 filetypes, Python, Conf (thanks to Conrad Steenberg).
375 * Use a tree for the Documents sidebar, grouped by path.
376 * Add 'Tools->Configuration Files' menu with items to open
377 filetype_extensions.conf and ignore.tags. These files are also
378 reloaded automatically when saved.
379 * Change configuration directory path to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/geany
380 (most often this is ~/.config/geany).
381 * Allow to specify files on the command line and from remote instances
382 to be URIs (local and with GIO also remote URIs).
383 * Increase minimum required GTK version to 2.8.
386 * Add Project Indentation prefs, which override the Editor
387 Preferences dialog options. For new projects, these default to
388 the editor indent prefs.
389 * Add an interface pref for whether to hide additional widgets when
390 double-clicking on document notebook tabs (off by default).
391 * Add a preference to invert all colours for syntax highlighting.
392 * Add a hidden preference "allow_always_save" to make the Save buttons
393 and menu items always sensitive.
396 * Rework the toolbar: now all elements can be added/removed/reordered
397 using a simple XML file.
398 * Add new toolbar buttons for Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Preferences,
399 Close All and Build (including a submenu for Make actions).
400 * Add a progressbar widget to the statusbar to show progress for time
404 * Make Ctrl-click go to matching brace if there's no current word.
405 * Make Shift+Mouse wheel scroll the editor view horizontally.
406 * Make the 'Mark' button for Find highlight the results with rounded boxes
407 instead of marking the whole line.
408 * Add auto-closing of braces, brackets and quotes (Guillaume de Rorthais).
409 * Support multiple %cursor% wildcards in Snippets (Thomas Martitz).
412 * Add new filetypes Ada, CMake, Matlab, NSIS, Vala and YAML.
413 * Update HTML character entities (thanks to Tyler D'Agosta).
414 * Parse restructuredText sections in the order of first-used underline
415 character, which can now be any punctuation character (as per the spec).
416 * Remove GTK global tags, replace them with C (C99) tags. The GTK tags
417 file is still available for download on the website.
418 * Minor improvements for filetypes CSS, Fortran, FreeBasic, HTML, Tcl
422 * Improve tab close icon size.
423 * Changes to the Windows installer:
424 - The full installer now includes the GTK 2.14 runtime environment.
425 - Register ".geany" as Geany Project File extension.
426 - Install GTK translation files only if installation of translation
427 files were requested (saves about 22 MB otherwise).
428 - Support silent installations.
431 * Add Split Window 'Split Vertically' command (thanks to Moritz Barsnick).
432 * Make Version Diff plugin set the indent type for diffs based on the
433 current file's indent type.
434 * Minor improvements to the filebrowser plugin
437 * Generate plugin API header geanyfunctions.h containing macros to
438 avoid having to type the function pointer names manually.
439 * Deprecate pluginmacros.h in favour of geanyfunctions.h.
440 * Add "editor-notify" to the plugin API.
441 * Add new plugin symbol plugin_help() which is called by Geany when the
442 plugin should show its documentation (if any, symbol is optional).
445 * Update Scintilla regular expression info for v1.77 (character
446 classes, ASCII escaping, character sets containing square
447 brackets peculiarities). Adapted from SciTE doc.
448 * Complete 'Hello World' Plugin Howto.
450 Internationalisation:
451 * Updated translations: bg, ca, cs, de, en_GB, fr, hu, it, ja,
452 pt_BR, sv, ru, tr, vi, zh_CN
455 Geany 0.15 (October 19, 2008)
458 * Add Previous Message, Previous Error commands (thanks also to Beau
460 * Add 'Close Other Documents' File menu command (#1976724).
461 * Add Find Document Usage popup menu command & keybinding.
462 * Check that the current file is still on disk (as well as checking the
464 * Add support for custom file templates (found at startup) in the
465 ~/.geany/templates/files directory, shown underneath filetype templates
466 in the New with Template menu.
467 * Make socket open command support filename:line:column syntax.
468 * Add filetypes.* [build_settings] key 'error_regex' to support custom
469 error message parsing using a GNU-style extended regular expression.
470 * Allow loading projects from command line (#1961083).
471 * Add alternative build system: Waf.
472 * Add Tools menu item to reload configuration data without a restart.
473 * Add support to use template wildcards in snippets.
474 * Increase LSB compliance.
477 * Make disk check timeout configurable (zero disables disk checks).
478 * Add search pref: 'Use the current file's directory for Find in Files'
482 * Make keyboard shortcuts dialog non-modal (#1999384).
483 * Add a debug messages window to easily view debug messages/warnings.
486 * Update Scintilla to version 1.77 (includes many fixes).
487 * Add basic Line Breaking option in the Document menu and 'Line breaking
488 column' editor pref (for now only works when typing characters past
489 the line breaking column number).
490 * Don't colourise any documents until they need to be drawn (this
491 should make opening a session faster for filetypes that support typename
493 * Make Ctrl-click on a word perform Go to Tag Definition.
494 * Add 'Max. symbol name suggestions' autocompletion pref.
495 * Show ellipsis (...) item when there are too many symbol names for
497 * Highlight matching brace indent guides (thanks to Jason Oster;
499 * Show brace indent guides on empty lines when appropriate (thanks to
500 Jason Oster; #2105982).
501 * Add 'Tab key indents' pref, on by default.
502 * Implement soft tabs support (#1662173). There's now a 'Tabs & Spaces'
503 Indent Type, and separate Width, Hard Tab Width indent prefs. (Thanks
504 to Joerg Desch for explaining how it needed to work).
505 * Auto-update the line margin width as lines are added (thanks to Jason
507 * Add "Replace spaces by tabs".
510 * Install plugins into lib/ not into plugins/.
511 * Install Geany's message catalogs into share/locale rather than
512 lib/locale as GTK does since 2.12.2.
515 * Add Go to Start/End of Line keybindings (#1996175).
516 * Add 'Switch to Compiler' keybinding (useful when checking build
518 * Add keybindings for Line wrapping, Line breaking, Toggle fold and
519 Replace Spaces by tabs, Previous/Next word part.
522 * Add OpenGL Shader Language (GLSL) filetype (thanks to Colomban
524 * Add R language filetype (thanks to Andrew Rowland; #2121502).
525 * Split filetype Fortran into Fortran 77 and Fortran 90.
526 * Add Gettext translation filetype (#2131985).
527 * CSS improvements, thanks to Jason Oster.
530 * Fix hang when restarting the VTE (#1990323) with VTE 0.16.14.
531 (Note that with VTE 0.16.14 the reset sometimes leaves a blank
532 terminal, but pressing enter makes it then behave as normal).
535 * Add Split Window plugin (should work OK for viewing; full editing
536 support is not implemented yet).
537 * Merge InstantSave, AutoSave and BackupCopy plugins into the new
538 plugin 'Save Actions'.
541 * Add Tips and Tricks appendix.
542 * Updated Installation section.
543 * Update 'Build system' for custom error regexes.
544 * Add a section for internal plugins.
547 * Many changes; see the API documentation (make api-doc) and the
548 geany-devel list archives.
549 * Deprecated: plugin_fields, plugin_info symbols.
551 Internationalisation:
552 * New translations: ko, tr.
553 * Updated translations: be, ca, de, en_GB, fi, hu, it, ja, pl,
557 Geany 0.14 (April 19, 2008)
560 * Don't beep when using Replace All in Session unless all open files
561 have no replacements (fixes #1893796).
562 * Only use filetype detection after Save As, not on every save when the
563 filetype is None (fixes #1891778).
564 * Make Go to Tag commands look for the tag in the current document
565 before searching the workspace.
566 * Check file on disk for changes also when pressing a key.
567 * Ignore documents with no absolute path when saving session files.
568 * Fix segfault with Run command when a project is open and the current
569 file's filetype has no run command.
570 * Make Next Error and Next Message commands add positions to the
571 navigation queue, so the user can move backwards through the list items
572 and return to where they were.
573 * Make pressing escape in the sidebar focus the editor.
574 * Make navigation queue position based to restore the line and column when
575 returning to a previous position (closes #1936927).
576 * Save sorting order of the symbol list when saving a file (fixes #1917262).
577 * Improve "Send Selection To" code (fixes #1909452).
578 * Install header files and add a pkg-config file for external plugins.
579 * Use monospace font for text entry fields in search dialogs (#1907117).
580 * Don't open zero byte sized files read-only (e.g. files in /proc).
583 * Improve Makefile parser to detect targets.
584 * Update PHP tags file to latest PHP API docs (closes #1888691).
585 * Add translucency settings to filetypes.common for semi-transparency.
586 * Add HTML parser to get h1, h2, h3 symbols as well as link anchors and
587 JavaScript functions (fixes #1896068).
588 * Update Javascript, Tcl and Assembler parser.
591 * When closing a tab when using left-to-right tabs, focus the next
592 document, not the previous.
593 * Move Load Tags item from File to Tools menu.
596 * Don't scroll the editor view if it is unnecessary when using Find
597 Next/Previous, Find Selected, incremental search, Go to Marker or Go to
598 Matching Brace commands.
599 * Fix bug with showing macro list items all on one line.
600 * Fix Python auto-indentation when line endings are set to CR/LF.
601 * Unfold hidden code when the fold point modified (fixes #1923350).
602 * Update Scintilla to version 1.76.
603 * Add (basic) column mode editing (patch by "chuck").
606 * Replace untitled file header filename after Save As and add to recent
607 files on Windows too.
608 * Resolve Windows shortcuts when opening files.
609 * Fix modal dialog problems on Windows by not setting taskbar hint
611 * Add new process spawning implementation. This makes the VCdiff plugin
612 to work on Windows (patch by Pierre Joye, thanks).
613 * Fix crash on Windows when a project could not be opened.
616 * Add configurable plugin keybindings support.
617 * Add a HTML Characters keybinding to show the dialog.
618 * Add File Browser keybindings to focus the Path Entry and File List
619 * Rename VCDiff plugin Version Diff.
620 * When quitting, remember plugin filenames that couldn't be loaded at
621 startup as well as active plugins.
624 * Add PLUGIN_KEY_GROUP and keybindings_set_item() to setup a keybinding
626 * keybindings_send_command() arguments have changed because of
627 keybinding groups - this breaks the API for plugins already using it.
628 * Make VERSION_CHECK deprecated in favour of PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK.
631 * Add descriptions for several options in the preferences dialog
632 (patch from Robert McGinley).
634 Internationalisation:
635 * New translations: ro.
636 * Updated translations: bg, de, en_GB, es, fr, hu, it, ja, pt_BR, ru.
639 Geany 0.13 (February 05, 2008)
642 * Improve configure script and fix some compatibility issues.
643 * Add support for project session files.
644 * Add native GTK printing support (only with GTK 2.10+).
645 * Prevent execution of commands by Geany if the VTE may contain any
646 text on the prompt (thanks to "Jeff Pohlmeyer for reporting).
647 * Store more document-related settings when saving session in the
648 configuration file (including the file encoding).
649 * Detect in-file specified file encoding by scanning the file using
651 * Add binary relocation support.
654 * Add configurable default file extension setting for filetype
656 * Fix reST autocompletion.
659 * Show arrays and modifiers like const in calltip return types for
661 * Update C global tags file for GTK+ 2.12.
662 * Fix parsing the correct D class name when inheriting, D constructor
663 tags and ignore D import statements.
664 * Remove unnecessary tagmanager status file.
665 * Improve PHP, Ruby and FreeBasic parsers.
668 * Add 'Indent Type' option in the Document menu.
669 * Add 'Detect from file' Editor indentation pref.
670 * Show TAB or SP for current document's indent type.
671 * Add a 'Newline strips trailing spaces' pref (thanks to Catalin
673 * Add 'Strip Trailing Spaces' document menu item.
674 * Add combo box input history for 'Make Custom Target' dialog.
675 * Make Open, Save As dialogs start in project base path (or default
676 path pref) when the current file has no filename.
677 * Add 'Make in base path' project file preference.
678 * Make 'Open Selected File' first try the current file's directory,
679 falling back to the project base path if no file was found.
680 * Fix broken window maximization.
681 * Improve appearance of used treeviews and use rules hints to respect
682 user colour settings.
685 * Fix hidden lines after deleting a line that is a collapsed fold
687 * Make Fold All/Unfold All attempt to scroll the current line in view.
688 * Show line wrap symbol at start of line for wrapped lines.
689 * Allow scrolling past end of document, so the user can append text
690 with the last lines drawn at the top of the view.
691 * Rename "Construct autocompletion" to "Snippets".
692 * Improve usage of "Unfold all children" option.
693 * Update Scintilla to version 1.75.
696 * Add configurable keybindings for Cut, Copy and Paste.
697 * Ask the user whether to override an existing keybinding when setting
698 a combination that is already in use.
699 * Add 'Override Geany keybindings' VTE prefs dialog option (replaces
700 hidden pref), which makes the VTE interpret all keyboard shortcuts
701 except focus group keybindings.
704 * Add File Browser sidebar plugin.
705 * Add Version Control Diff plugin (VC Diff), which supports SVN, CVS and
706 GIT (thanks to Yura Siamashka).
707 * Add plugin manager dialog to select plugins to load at startup and to
708 call a plugin configure dialog.
709 * Add new signals: project_open, project_save, project_close.
710 * Add Auto Save plugin.
713 * Add keybindings_send_command() and some other functions.
714 * Add pluginmacros.h to define common macros for app, p_utils, etc.
715 * Add more documentation/comments to demoplugin.c.
716 * Add configure symbol for plugins which is called by Geany when a
717 configure dialog for the plugin is requested, optionally.
718 * Add author field to plugin info struct.
721 * Enable build support.
722 * Prevent prefs dialog being hidden after using the prefs file dialog.
723 * Create Geany's configuration directory in user's appdata path
724 instead of the default home directory.
727 * Show default shortcuts in Keybindings section.
728 * Update Project section for project-based session support.
729 * Add Indentation subsection under Editor section.
730 * HACKING: Update 'Adding a filetype' section.
732 Internationalisation:
733 * New translations: ja, uk, el.
734 * Updated translations: ca, de, en_GB, fr, it, pt_BR, hu, sv, vi.
737 Geany 0.12 (October 10, 2007)
740 * Fixed opening the same file twice from the message window/command-line.
741 * Fixed Ctrl-Shift keybindings not working when caps lock is on.
742 * Fixed saving the wrong document when using Save All with unnamed
744 * Fixed replacing with '^' or '$' regex chars.
745 * Fixed hang with Find All/Find Usage with '^' or '$' regex chars.
746 * Fixed hang when replacing all '[ ]*' regex matches (closes #1757748).
747 * Fixed displaying error indicators with Make after entering a
749 * Fixed a possible segfault when parsing tags (a vString bug).
750 * Fixed clipboard problems with some applications.
751 * Fixed crash when trying to open the Save As dialog on Windows.
752 * Fixed crash when saving a file after setting encoding "None".
753 * Fixed scrolling bugs when searching text and the cursor is outside of
754 the current visible area.
757 * Added reStructuredText filetype and parser.
758 * Added Haskell tags support (thanks to Peter Strand).
759 * Added decorator styling for Python.
760 * Parse Python global variables and class variables.
761 * Added support for Java Apache Ant compiler error messages (thanks to
763 * Added new filetypes CSharp and FreeBasic.
764 * Added filetype Haxe (patch by blackdog, thank you).
767 * Added basic plugin support (developers: see the HACKING file).
768 * Added 'Enable plugin support' preference and -p, --no-plugins options.
769 * Added Class Builder plugin (thanks to Alexander Rodin).
770 * Added Export plugin to export current file as HTML or LaTeX.
773 * Common bash Ctrl-[a-z] keyboard shortcuts now work when the VTE is
774 focused, and there is an 'enable_bash_keys' hidden preference.
775 * Added 'Move document left' and 'Move document right' keybindings.
776 * Added Find keybinding.
777 * Made fixed keybindings overridable.
778 * Added fixed keybindings for switching to leftmost/rightmost document,
779 Ctrl-Shift-{PageUp,PageDown}.
780 * Change Previous/Next Paragraph fixed commands to Ctrl-{Up,Down};
781 adding Shift extends selection by paragraph. (Scroll by line is now
783 * Made pressing escape focus the editor when using incremental search
784 or Goto Line toolbar fields.
785 * Added keybinding for select current paragraph.
786 * Added keybindings for smart indent and indent/deindent by one space.
787 * Removed convert to lower-/upper-case keybindings.
788 * Added toggle case keybinding and change shortcut to Ctrl-Alt-U.
791 * Added preference for 'smart' home key behaviour (thanks to Jeff
793 * Added symbol list icons (thanks to Jean-François Wauthy, and KDevelop
795 * Added 'Current chars' indentation mode (closes #1726880).
796 * Save and restore the current notebook page when quitting.
797 * Added support for %e, %f in project run command.
798 * Ignore punctuation chars when moving by word, and use word end
799 boundaries when moving by word to the right (like most GTK+ widgets).
800 * Added hidden editor preference 'use_gtk_word_boundaries'.
801 * Added auto_complete_whilst_editing hidden preference.
802 * Speed up Save All for C-like files.
803 * Don't show file opened/saved/closed messages on the status bar.
804 * Added --no-preprocessing, -P option when generating tags files to
805 disable preprocessing of C/C++ source files.
806 * Added default startup directory option (closes #1704988).
807 * Use current locale as default encoding for new files.
808 * Added simple code navigation (thanks to Dave Moore).
809 * Re-maximize the main window on startup when closed in maximized state
811 * Added auto focus (to auto focus widgets below mouse cursor).
812 * Complete rewrite of auto completion to make it user-definable and
813 much more flexible (please read documentation).
814 * Added option to set a default encoding when opening files and disable
815 auto detection of the file encoding.
816 * Improved comment toggling by adding an additional character to mark.
817 * Changed the background colour of the search bar in the toolbar
818 according to the search result.
819 * Use intltool to make geany.desktop translatable
820 * Replace Geany's icon by a new one by Sebastian Kraft (thanks).
821 (Thanks also to Christoph Berg for updating the icon code).
824 * Changed documentation generation tools from DocBook to reST
825 (thanks to John Gabriele for his great work on this).
826 * Added Plugins section.
827 * Added 'Inserting unicode characters' Editing section (thanks to
829 * Added 'Hidden preferences' appendix.
830 * Added 'Switching documents' keybindings section.
833 * Added notes on adding a filetype.
835 Internationalisation:
836 * New translations: en_GB.
837 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, it, pl, pt_BR, zh_CN.
840 Geany 0.11 (May 21, 2007)
842 Notes for existing users:
843 * Tab is now used for construct completion (for, if, etc.), but it
844 is configurable with the new 'Complete construct' keybinding.
845 * Template files are now stored in ~/.geany/templates/ and the
846 'template.' filename prefix is no longer used. You will need to
847 move any custom template files you have.
848 * Inserting a file header is now optional for filetype templates.
849 Use the string '{fileheader}' to mark where the file header should
851 * Drag'n'Drop of text inside the editor widget will now move the
852 text instead of copying it.
855 * Fix segfault when pressing Ctrl-Enter when there are no workspace
857 * Remove error indicators in all documents when linking (#1705374).
858 * Sort symbol list tags also by line number (#1703575).
859 * Fix #1717418, Hang on SQL file load.
860 * Fix #1718532 - Crash when opening a special HTML file.
861 * Add workaround for PHP closing brace de-indenting.
862 * Fix reloading of read-only documents.
865 * Add keybinding to show project properties dialog.
866 * Add project Run command support.
867 * Run Make All and Make Custom from the project base directory.
870 * Update C global tags for GTK+ 2.10 and it's dependencies.
871 * Add option --generate-tags (-g) to generate a global tags file
872 from a list of source files (see docs).
873 * Load global tag files stored in ~/.geany/tags at startup #.
874 * Add Load Tags command in the File menu #.
875 # This is not supported for Pascal, PHP or LaTeX files yet.
877 Calltips (for C-like files):
878 * Show up and down arrows when there are multiple calltip matches.
879 * Show classname in calltips.
880 * Parse pointers in function return type.
881 * Add calltip support for D constructors.
884 * Parse 'Entering directory' Make messages so opening files from
885 error messages works for subdirectories (thanks to Josef Whiter).
886 * Make Go to Tag Definition/Declaration work for all tags.
887 * Support filetype templates for all filetypes (see docs).
888 * Make file header optional for filetype templates.
889 * Add 'Find Selected' and 'Find Prev Selected' search commands and
890 keybindings (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
891 * Add Mark button to the Find dialog, and a Remove Markers item to
893 * Add 'Recurse in subfolders' and 'Extra options' checkboxes to the
894 Find in Files dialog.
895 * Add 'Switch to last used document' keybinding (Ctrl-Tab).
896 * Add Goto Previous/Next Marker keybindings (Ctrl-, and Ctrl-.).
897 * Add Toggle Marker keybinding (Ctrl-M).
898 * Add keybinding for construct completion, and set the default to
900 * Add MimeType associatiations for: C++ header, Pascal, Perl,
901 Python, httpd-PHP and XML files (thanks to Iñaki Rodriguez).
902 * Add brace indenting support for Perl and Tcl.
903 * Make backspace unindent when using spaces for indentation.
904 * Wrap notebook pages when switching tabs.
905 * Speed up loading multiple C-like files slightly.
906 * New filetypes: JavaScript, Lua and Haskell.
907 * Set several widget names to allow users to define custom styles
909 * Add context actions to run custom commands on current selection
910 or the current word below cursor.
911 * Add different auto indention modes.
912 * Improve replacing in rectangle selections.
913 * Add custom commands to send selected text through some definable
914 commands and replace the selection with the output.
915 * Add command line option --column to allow setting the initial
916 column for the first opened file on command line.
917 * Improve the auto scrolling of documents.
918 * Improve loading of the VTE library.
919 * Add an option for using spaces or tabulators when inserting some
921 * Add an option to disable Drag'n'Drop in the editor widget.
924 * Add Project Management, Global Tags, Construct Completion
926 * Add Bookmarks section (thanks to John Gabriele).
927 * Update Filetype Templates, Search sections.
929 Internationalisation:
930 * New translations: bg.
931 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fr, zh_CN.
934 Geany 0.10.2 (February 25, 2007)
937 * Fixed serious crash of complete X session when using the Stop
938 command when Geany is run from the program menu (closes #1668017).
941 Geany 0.10.1 (February 23, 2007)
944 * Wrong tab foreground colour for unmodified documents.
945 * Fixed crashes when closing dialogs by clicking X on some systems.
946 * Fixed missing global tags for C files when a C++ source file was
948 * Fixed autocompletion missing tag matches.
949 * Fixed a wrong PASCAL autocompletion.
950 * Set single undo action when toggling multiple lines or stripping
952 * Prevent some possible invalid memory reads.
953 * Convert config, application and documentation dir paths to locale
954 encoding before using it.
955 * Fixed errors when changing directories containing special
956 characters within the VTE component (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
957 * Support newer so-names when loading the VTE library (thanks to
959 * Fixed paste problems on Windows.
960 * When using Save As the returned filename needs to be converted
962 * Fixed error when parsing of compiler errors by the va_list system.
963 * Added MimeType entry as suggested by Nick Schermer.
964 * LaTeX parser: Allow \section*{} and other commands with *.
965 * Change default keybinding for Close All to Ctrl-Shift-W.
966 * Allow Make for files with no extension - prevent Build when the
967 output filename would be the same as the source file.
968 * Ensure the VTE visual settings are applied when switching to VTE
969 when the Message Window is hidden.
970 * Fixed several issues while opening files and improved code.
971 * Improved the auto scrolling of documents and fixed a bug when
972 opening files remotely.
973 * Fixed wrong D function return type after a class definition.
974 * Added several missing style types for filetype Perl (thanks to
975 John Gabriele for reporting).
976 * Prevent right click in Symbol list from selecting a tag.
977 * Update the symbol list when starting a new document.
978 * Scroll Compiler and Messages window in view when using Next Error
980 * Auto close brackets only when auto completion of constructs is
981 enabled (closes #1665015).
982 * Fixed switching to the wrong tab when showing the unsaved dialog.
984 Internationalisation:
985 * New translations: fi (thanks to Harri Koskinen).
986 * Updated translations: cs, de, es, fr, hu.
989 Geany 0.10 (December 21, 2006)
992 * Added a dialog to insert HTML special characters.
993 * Added new command line option --line to set the initial line for
994 the first opened file.
995 * Implemented new, own Undo system to undo/redo encoding changes.
996 * Added simple parser for filetype Diff to create tags for each
997 patched file in a diff file.
998 * Added new encoding "None" to open files without any character
1000 * Added Stop button to abort the Run command.
1001 * New filetype VHDL.
1002 * New scintilla lexer for filetype D with several improvements.
1003 * Improved auto completion of multi line comments
1004 * Added option to execute programs in the VTE instead of executing
1005 them in a terminal emulation window
1006 * Removed the limit on the number of files open.
1007 * Save the build includes and arguments when quitting.
1008 * Added Next Message search command and Next Error build command.
1009 * Make search bar automatically wraparound if necessary.
1010 * Applied patch from Bob Doan to prevent unnecessary search
1011 scrolling and add a preference to suppress some of the search
1013 * Added Find Previous, Find All in Document/Session buttons for the
1015 * Added Replace (but don't Find) button for the Replace dialog.
1016 * Added 'Hide Message Window' popup menu command.
1017 * Added Alt-[1-9] shortcuts to switch to a certain tab number.
1018 * Limit search dialog history to 30 entries.
1019 * Change python default compile command to create a compiled
1020 python .pyc file (thanks to Bajusz Tamás).
1023 * Fix #1611530 'file has changed' message on Windows after saving.
1024 * Fixed wrong paste behaviour under Windows with some applications.
1027 * Fixed crash when using "Make object" on new files.
1028 * Fixed incompatible use of read command in the created shell
1029 script to execute programs.
1030 * Fixed wrong insert position when the cursor was moved by keyboard
1031 and comments, includes or a date was inserted.
1032 * Fixed some segfaults when inserting comments, dates and
1033 includes at a position prior to some deleted text.
1034 * Fix message window horizontal scrollbar being too tall on some
1035 systems (thanks to Rob van der Linde).
1037 Internationalisation:
1038 * New translations: fr, hu, it, zh_CN, zh_TW.
1039 * Updated translations: be, ca, cs, de, es, vi.
1042 Geany 0.9 (September 29, 2006)
1045 * Added function calltips for files open in the current workspace
1046 for C-like languages.
1047 * Open a second instance by default when starting Geany with no
1048 filenames specified on the command-line.
1049 * Added better error message support for D, for both DMD and GDC;
1050 also GCC-style linker error messages are now parsed.
1051 * Text selections now use syntax highlighting foreground colours
1052 (but can still be overridden in filetypes.common).
1053 * Find in Files improvements: fixed string and whole word only
1054 matching options; a directory selector dialog; filenames passed
1055 to Grep are now sorted alphabetically.
1056 * Remember the VTE current directory at startup.
1057 * Show the messages window on build failure or for Find Usage.
1058 * Added -s command-line option to not load session files (-i is now
1059 used to force a new instance).
1060 * Added comment toggle functionality to easily comment and
1061 uncomment a line with one shortcut.
1062 * Separated filetypes PHP and HTML for better usage.
1063 * New filetypes: Diff, Fortran 77 and Ferite.
1064 * Added auto completion tags for PASCAL.
1065 * Improved VTE usage by adding options for selecting the used shell
1066 and ignoring menu bar accelerator (default F10).
1067 * Added menu items to insert configurable date/time strings.
1068 * Removed the whole FIFO code and replaced it with support for
1069 (Unix Domain) Sockets(including Windows support).
1072 * Implemented Run command (from the build menu) under Windows.
1073 * Enabled socket code on Windows to detect a running instance.
1074 * Enabled notification if file on disk has changed under Windows.
1077 * Fixed a segfault at startup if terminal follow path setting is
1079 * Fixed clicking on error messages being dependent on the current
1081 * Fixed a bug when clicking on a recent file got the wrong
1083 * Fixed a crash when a compiler output reports an error in a blank
1084 line(can happen in LaTeX)
1085 * Fixed a crash when switching between several filetypes.
1086 * Fixed segfault when replacing tabs by spaces.
1088 Internationalisation:
1089 * New translations: cs, nl, vi.
1090 * Updated translations: de, es.
1093 Geany 0.8 (August 09, 2006)
1096 * Find in files feature added which uses the Grep tool.
1097 * Added Make object command to compile using the Make tool.
1098 * Editor notebook tabs can now be reordered by drag and drop.
1099 * Added support for back references when using regex replace.
1100 * Added a Find button to the Replace dialog to skip matches.
1101 * Greatly improved the speed of Replace all/in selection.
1102 * Scroll to 1/4 of the view when jumping to a line number.
1103 * Show messages on the status bar and in the Status window.
1104 * Preferences options for Auto-indentation and Line wrapping.
1105 * Use the mouse click position for Go to tag.
1106 * Added separate filetype_extensions.conf system file.
1107 * Added makefiles for building on Windows.
1108 * Added keyboard shortcuts for increase/decrease of line
1110 * Added functionality to uncomment code.
1112 * Added support for Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
1113 * Redesigned preferences dialog.
1114 * Added Undo and Redo toolbar buttons.
1116 * Added simple printing support.
1117 * Mark errors while compiling source code within Geany with
1118 indicators(small squiggly underlines)
1121 * Use the full path for files opened from the command-line.
1122 * Fixed saving a file from the unsaved file dialog.
1123 * Fixed replacing with regexes the correct matched text length.
1124 * Fixed applying virtual terminal widget settings at startup.
1125 * Fixed prepending items to the Recent files menu.
1126 * Fixed clipboard commands used in the find entry and Scribble.
1127 * Fixed wrong interpretation of syntax highlighting colours
1131 * Don't add .c extension when saving with the All files filter.
1132 * Fixed a tool chooser dialog crash when path doesn't exist.
1133 * Fixed locale problems with Windows message dialogs.
1135 Internationalisation:
1136 * New translations: be, es, pt_BR, ru.
1137 * Updated translations: ca, de, pl.
1140 * Added Scintilla keyboard commands for editing appendix.
1141 * Improved search section; added all find and go to commands.
1142 * Added section about character sets.
1145 Geany 0.7 (June 04, 2006)
1147 * user-definable keyboard shortcuts
1148 * filetype definition files can be overridden in Geany's
1149 configuration directory (please see documentation)
1150 * added filetypes Ruby and Tcl/Tk
1151 * improved build system (for Perl, Python, Ruby and others)
1152 * loading of Virtual Terminal Emulation can be disabled in the
1154 * new menu item "Search" with Find items from Edit menu and new
1155 item "Find Previous"
1156 * fixed the bug which let Geany crash with newer GTK versions
1157 * improved documentation: added documentation for keyboard
1158 shortcuts, the build system and filetype definition files
1159 * new translations: Catalan and Polish
1160 * many small improvements
1161 * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)
1164 Geany 0.6 (April 30, 2006)
1166 * added option to place new file tabs to the right or left of
1168 * improved file open dialog
1169 * improved scrolling of the compiler output window
1170 * rewrote most of the code for compiling files, now all
1171 settings are read from filetype definition files
1172 * now, you can drag files from a file manager into Geany and
1174 * improved handling of filenames which contain non-UTF8 chars
1175 * added user-definable comment characters to all filetype
1177 * implemented folding
1178 * added file properties dialog
1179 * improved search and find dialogs
1180 * Geany now creates a FIFO, to communicate between different
1181 instances for opening files in an already running instance
1182 * added filetypes SQL and (O)Caml
1183 * many small improvements
1184 * fixed lots of bugs, including #1419473, #1422135, #1421776
1186 * for more details read the ChangeLog
1189 Geany 0.5 (January 27, 2006)
1191 * set the Open File dialog directory to the same directory as
1192 the current file (thanks to Nick Treleaven for this patch)
1193 * fixed some bugs when opening files with non UTF-8 filenames
1194 * updated included Scintilla to version 1.67
1195 * improved auto indention, now "for (...) {" works, too
1196 * added popup menu to sidebar lists, to quickly hide them
1197 * symbol list support for filetypes LaTeX and DocBook
1198 * added .cc, .hh and .hxx extension for filetype C++
1199 * added new keywords for PHP5
1200 * added new option "Beep on errors" to disable beeping
1201 * eliminated compiler (gcc4) warnings
1202 * closed bug #1387828 and #1387839
1203 * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)
1206 Geany 0.4 (December 21, 2005)
1208 * new filetype: Assembler
1209 * new filetype: Conf for configuration files
1210 * added a terminal emulation widget, needs only libvte.so at
1211 runtime, but it also runs without it, see documentation
1212 * made some general improvements to increase startup speed
1213 * changed "build with make" keyboard shortcut to Shift+F9 to
1214 avoid problems with window managers key bindings
1215 * added auto-closing [ and { brackets in LaTex-Mode
1216 * improved documentation, but it is not yet complete
1217 * improved the symbol list to categorise the tags in a tree
1218 * some new options in the preferences dialog
1219 * added popup menu to the list of open files
1220 * there are lots of other small changes made since last release
1221 * some bugfixes (please see ChangeLog for details)
1224 Geany 0.3 (November 20, 2005)
1226 * Geany now has a mailing list, for details see
1227 http://geany.uvena.de
1228 * added open files list in the left treeview widget
1229 * added toolbar button to open the color chooser
1230 * heavily improved recent files menu
1231 * added shortcut for "walking" between open documents by
1232 pressing STRG+LEFT resp. STRG+RIGHT
1233 * created template files for new files with specified filetype
1234 * added highlighting support for Python (please give feedback)
1235 * extracted all hardcoded styling definitions for all filetypes
1236 so they can be easily edited
1237 * added vertical line to mark long lines
1238 * fixed a bug that caused a segfault if configuration directory
1240 * fixed a bug which prevented auto-completion from working
1241 * many minor bugfixes (see ChangeLog for details)
1244 Geany 0.2 (October 26, 2005)
1246 * improved file open dialog
1247 * improved Find dialog
1248 * powerful Replace dialog
1249 * gcc4 compilation fix
1253 Geany 0.1 (October 19, 2005)
1255 * first official release