1 Geany 1.24 (unreleased)
4 * Add experimental support for GTK3.
7 * Fix custom GTK styles under KDE (#3607935).
10 Geany 1.23 (March 10, 2013)
13 * Various fixes to language theming (#3573213).
14 * Various Windows makefile fixes.
15 * Rewrite printing code (#2629121, #2804000, #3475444, #3580268,
17 * Use the Geany icon from the theme (#3576695).
18 * Make Geany-specific icons themeable.
21 * Fix too aggressive scope caching (#2142789, #2667917, #2868850).
22 * Fix showing project name in the Documents sidebar.
23 * Fix opening filenames with leading or trailing spaces from the
24 command line into a running instance.
25 * Fix re-opening files with unknown but detected encoding
27 * Fix crash when loading a broken or incompatible VTE library.
28 * Report scope including classes, namespaces and alike (#1996778).
29 * Fix cancelling Project Close when showing the unsaved changes
31 * Only use "allow_always_save" setting for direct user interaction
33 * Fix some keybinding not getting properly displayed in the menus
34 after being updated (#1912683, #3599251).
35 * Make Terminal tool setting more flexible to support any terminal.
36 * Fix replacing file name in files header upon save.
37 * Fix UAC Virtualization issue on newer Windows versions when trying
38 to save files to read-only locations (#3566329, #3515490).
41 * Control-click on the symbols sidebar don't focus the editor.
42 * Add an option to place the message window on the right.
43 * Fix display of non-ASCII tags in the symbols tree for non-UTF-8
45 * Replace 'Open file in a new tab' save dialog option with new
46 'Document->Clone' menu item.
47 * Fix clashing button mnemonic in detect/reload dialog (#3587465).
48 * Grab focus in the embedded terminal upon middle click (#3574724).
49 * Add support for embedded terminal background image (Mislav
53 * Update Scintilla to version 3.2.3 (#2808638, #2909124, #3094431,
55 * Properly indent even if the indenting character isn't the last
57 * Always display text in LTR direction.
58 * Improve collapsing fold behavior when start point is offscreen.
59 * Faster squiggle underlining.
60 * Fix multiline comments at end of file (#3026691).
61 * Keep caret and anchor position upon indent and unindent
63 * Complete on dash (-) too in CSS documents.
64 * Make wordchars have precedence over whitespacechars (#3429368).
65 * Fix cursor position after comment toggling with no selection
67 * Fix reshowing calltip after autocompletion list closed.
68 * Fix uncommenting multiline comments when cursor is on a delimiter.
69 * Clear search markers on Mark All keybinding when already set.
70 * Never strip trailing spaces from Diff documents.
71 * Reduce unnecessary redraws when typing (Evandro Borracini).
72 * Fix comment toggling inside PHP and HTML with bottom-up selection.
75 * 'Mark All' now also uses the fully-featured PCRE engine
77 * Only set Find in Files directory once per-document.
78 * Fix a crash when matching the very last character of the document.
79 * Fix search and replacement of empty matches.
80 * Fix a possible crash when searching on a range.
83 * Add keybinding for 'Go to Start of Display Line' (#3182425).
84 * Allow to change the keybinding for 'Quit'.
87 * Parse '!' char in D parameter lists.
88 * Fix parsing of Haskell comments inside a type (#3552129).
89 * Fix Cython auto indentation.
90 * Add more keywords to Forth (Oco).
91 * Add some missing Haxe keywords (#3448664).
92 * Add some missing CSS3 keywords (Trong Thanh Tran).
93 * Add some missing D keywords (#3595187) (Felix Totir).
94 * Fix a crash parsing some C macros (#3556536).
95 * Update some Python keywords.
96 * Update Python global tags file.
97 * Show VHDL blocks in the symbol list.
98 * Fix ruby scope after "do" (#3046418).
99 * Fix parsing of ruby keywords when followed by a semicolon
101 * Lots of JavaScript symbols parsing improvements (#2992393,
102 #3034303, #3034339, #3036476, #3398636, #3470609, #3568542,
104 * Use "scala" extension for Scala (#3574723).
105 * Fix parsing of reStructuredText titles containing UTF-8
106 characters (#3578050).
107 * Parse C++11 final classes (#3577559).
108 * Parse C++11 enums with type specifier and classed enums
110 * Fix highlighting of C++11 raw strings (#3578557).
111 * Fix parsing of colons in D (#3577788).
112 * Fix parsing of D 'static assert' (#3582833).
113 * Parse scope for D nested template blocks (#3582833).
114 * Ignore D angle brackets.
115 * Fix reStructuredText comment marker (#3585377).
116 * Add Asciidoc filetype.
117 * Fix parsing of Python keywords followed by a tab (\t).
118 * Add more HTML5 self-closing tags (Duncan de Wet).
119 * Update default D template to use a more standard prototype for
121 * Fix improperly translated string in Pascal template (#3602314).
122 * Add Go language filetype (tomboy64).
125 * Export: Fix missing linking on libm (Chow Loong Jin)
126 * File Browser: Backspace now moves to parent directory.
129 * Fix plugin_add_toolbar_item() insertion order (#3522755)
133 * Fix spawning synchronous commands on Windows.
134 * Show Find in Files status summary.
135 * Add icon to the Explorer context menu item.
138 * Add translations: et, eu, he, hi, sr
139 * Update translations: ca, cs, de, es, fi, gl, it, kk, lt, nl,
140 pt_BR, ru, sv, sl, tr
141 * Fix a crash when using the Turkish translation (#3560181).
144 Geany 1.22 (June 18, 2012)
147 * Bump dependencies to GTK >= 2.16 and GLib >= 2.20.
148 * Switch to Glade 3 and dynamically loaded XML UI description.
149 * Rewrite theming support for better flexibility.
150 * Add support for opening files read-only from the command line.
151 * Always load the default session if configured to do so.
152 * Make all filetypes use named styles to simplify color scheme
154 * Make 'Replace Spaces by Tabs' only match leading spaces to
157 Possibly incompatible changes
158 * Theming and filetype style changes mean old filetypes and color
159 schemes are not compatible with this version of Geany.
160 * There are some default keybinding changes but these will only
161 apply to newly created configurations.
162 * Changes to the "project-dialog*" signals may affect plugins.
165 * Fix escaping of session file paths (#3425969).
166 * Fix closing when minimized under Windows (#3421282).
167 * Properly handle remote URIs received through drag 'n drop
168 (#2966770, #3479567).
169 * Fix build with bleeding-edge GLib (#3483388).
170 * Fix color scheme selection in Ubuntu Unity (#3479674).
171 * Fix very slow regex tag parsing on Windows (e.g. for HTML).
172 * Fix detecting a changed file on disk when opening from
173 the command-line (Windows).
174 * Fix quick search entry behavior on Windows.
175 * Fix keybindings conflicts check when swapping a binding.
176 * Fix comments insertion in some cases (#3449635, #3534320).
177 * Add missing Windows mio makefile.
180 * Split "always wrap search and hide find dialog" pref into
181 "always wrap search" and "hide find dialog" (Dimitar Zhekov).
182 * Add Project Properties overrides for 'Saving files' prefs.
183 * Add hidden VTE preference "send_cmd_prefix" to prefix commands sent
184 to the VTE. (See the manual for details).
187 * Add support for switching to the last used document after closing
189 * Improve the tab switching dialog for better usability (Jiří Techet).
190 * Add support for user-defined labels for 'Send Selection to'
192 * Fix sidebar width when on the right (#3514436).
193 * Use case-insensitive document list path comparison on Windows.
194 * Replace Color Schemes menu with custom dialog.
195 * Show selected line count on status bar when whole lines are
199 * Update Scintilla to version 2.29.
200 * Add a "join lines" command (Eugene Arshinov).
201 * Hide autocompletion when the only entry has been typed (#3516212).
204 * Add full PCRE regular expressions support.
205 * Extra options passed to grep through Find in Files now follows a
206 real shell-style syntax (#3516263).
207 * Search pattern length is no longer limited to 248 characters.
208 * Fix showing Find/Replace regex compile errors on the status bar.
211 * Add Project New/Open/Properties/Close keybindings.
212 * Show overridden keybindings in bold for prefs dialog tree.
215 * Speed up loading of multiple global tags files.
216 * Show global tags file preprocessing errors on stderr & add
217 current directory to include path.
218 * Add C/C++ ignore.tags wildcard format 'PREFIX*'.
221 * Add support for regex-based filetype detection.
222 * C snippets no longer apply to all filetypes.
223 * Improve support for HTML embedded filetypes (#2863829, #3127598).
224 * Add filetype Objective-C (Elias Pschernig, P#3325139).
225 * Fix highlighting of ``...R"`` inside C and C++ (#3425107).
226 * Fix TCL keyword highlighting in some situations (#3432877).
227 * Parse PHP functions with multiline argument list (#3037797).
228 * Handle ``/bin/dash`` shebang (#3470986).
229 * Update JavaScript parser from CTags.
230 * Parse D class/struct/interface template bodies and template
231 blocks; ignore 'static if' expressions; parse function
232 @attributes, pure/nothrow and immutable/inout/shared return types.
233 * Fix broken tag/word autocompletion in HTML/PHP documents.
234 * Enable &entity; completion for all XML-based filetypes.
237 * Split Window: show marker margin.
238 * Split Window: enable basic context menu.
241 * document_save_file() now shows the Save As dialog when necessary.
242 * Rename signal "project-dialog-create" to "project-dialog-open" and
243 add new "project-dialog-close" signal.
244 * setptr is deprecated in favour of SETPTR.
245 * Add ui_hookup_object() and ui_lookup_object().
246 * Add ui_lookup_stock_label().
247 * Add build_{activate,get_current,remove,set}_menu_item(),
248 build_get_group_count().
249 * Add stash_group_free_settings().
250 * Add support for plugins written in C++.
252 Internationalization:
253 * Add translations: ar, id, lt, mn, nn, sk
254 * Update translations: de, es, fr, hu, it, ja, kk, lt, nl, pl, pt,
255 pt_BR, sk, sl, sv, tr, zh_CN, zh_TW
258 Geany 0.21 (October 2, 2011)
261 * Bump dependencies to GTK >= 2.12, GLib >= 2.16 and GIO.
262 * Add support for real-time symbol parsing.
263 * Remove old filetype templates support - use custom file
265 * Add support for detecting the indentation width from the file
269 * Fix generating tag files (-g) and --ft-names segfault.
270 * Replace dates on template insertion, not when loading templates.
271 * Fix segfault when inserting e.g. fileheader template when the
272 template file is empty (#3070913, lphilpot).
273 * Use the same indentation for all templates (Matthew Brush,
275 * Fix loading of non-UTF-8 templates.
276 * Fix completion and word completion with non-ASCII characters
278 * Fix HTML content-type detection (#3300703).
279 * Fix pattern filtering when using Find in Files not to search in
281 * Add a workaround to prevent Geany from crashing during loading of
282 a LaTeX-file containing linebreaks inside headings.
285 * Add 'Save As' toolbar button option (Matthew Brush, #3153490).
286 * Add 'Open in New Window' command in the notebook tab menu
287 (Matthew Brush, #3118059).
288 * Color schemes: use name and description for menu item and
289 tooltip (Matthew Brush).
290 * Shift-Enter in search dialog and toolbar search entries now
292 * Improve `Set Custom Commands` dialog.
293 * Always destroy open and save dialogs after use (#3311258,
294 #3304273, #3201050, #3163742, #3153120, #2985896).
295 * Add UI to edit formerly hidden preferences (Dimitar Zhekov,
299 * Update Scintilla to version 2.25.
300 * Fix snippets bug: {ob}pc{cb} replaced by '%' instead of {pc}.
301 * Fix multiple snippet cursor positions for Tabs + Spaces mode.
302 * Avoid triggering autocompletion on PHP open tags (#3199442).
303 * Fix indentation brace matching (#3309606).
306 * Support copying filetype definition file group keys from a system
307 keyfile with e.g. [styling=C].
308 * Make filetype group membership configurable using [Groups] in
309 filetype_extensions.conf.
312 * Don't auto-enable case-sensitive option when enabling regex in
313 Find/Replace dialogs.
314 * Remember Find and Replace options across restarts (Dimitar Zhekov).
317 * Add fixed shortcuts for VTE copy (Ctrl-Shift-C) and paste
319 * Add new keybinding 'Remove Markers and Error Indicators'.
322 * Store VTE path with the project session (Nicolas Sierro).
325 * Add Scala custom filetype (werg).
326 * Add Cython custom filetype (Matthew Brush).
327 * Add support for separate single and multiline comments.
328 * Add support for filetype-specific indentation settings (#3339420,
330 * Fix detecting Matlab and Txt2Tags extensions by default (#3167315,
332 * Fix detecting non-lowercase self-closing tags e.g. <BR> (#2226117).
333 * Highlight C# and Vala raw and verbatim strings.
334 * Improve JavaScript keyword handling and keyword lists (Jason Oster).
335 * Add filetype Cobol (Seth Keiper).
336 * Add file template for Vala (Mark Trompell).
339 * File Browser: Make 'Hide object files' preference configurable with
341 * Split Window: Fix a crash when changing filetype (Matthew Brush,
343 * Split Window: Update styles when the filetype changes (Matthew
345 * Split Window: Enable code folding (Matthew Brush, #3097780).
346 * Split Window: Fix issues on Windows (Matthew Brush, #2725342).
347 * Class Builder: Improve dialog UI using a table (Matthew Brush).
348 * Export: Add option to insert line numbers (#3197150).
351 * Add 'Reading styles from another filetype' subsection (Matthew
353 * Add 'Filenames' subsection for filetype definition files explaining
354 the filename extensions and special cases.
355 * Add section 'Filetype group membership'.
358 * Add filetypes_get_sorted_by_name(), utils_find_open_xml_tag_pos()
360 * Add plugin_idle_add(), plugin_timeout_add(), plugin_timeout_add_seconds(),
361 ui_menu_add_document_items_sorted(), document_compare_by_display_name(),
362 document_compare_by_tab_order(), document_compare_by_tab_order_reverse().
363 * Deprecate ui_widget_set_tooltip_text().
364 * Fix public inclusion of config.h (#3384026).
365 * Add new signal "document-reload".
367 Internationalisation:
368 * Add translations: fa
369 * Update translations: ca, cs, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, gl, it, ja, nl, pt,
370 pt_BR, sl, sv, tr, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW
373 Geany 0.20 (January 5, 2011)
376 * Improve compatibility with GVFS using GIO to save documents (Alexey
378 * Fix crash when closing a modified document (usually without a
379 trailing newline) and choosing Save (fixes #3111058).
380 * Fix crash when using 'Send Selection to Terminal' and the VTE
381 is not loaded, and when using Ctrl-A after enabling the 'Load VTE'
382 pref (Dimitar Zhekov).
383 * Fix a slightly wrong encoding detection on Windows (#3019573).
384 * Fix issue with single-line commenting/uncommenting blocks when using
385 Windows line endings.
386 * Fix saving project indent prefs straight after using project
388 * Fix wrongly changing edited keybindings when cancelling the
390 * Fix auto-displaying of sidebar, tab bar, symbols and documents tabs
391 when only plugin tabs are visible (fixes #3101867).
392 * Save build commands for filetype None (Lex Trotman).
393 * Waf: Check for libsocket on OpenSolaris to fix build.
396 * Color build command fields light grey unless overridden (Lex
398 * Replace /home/user with ~ in the documents list (Jon
400 * Display 'new instance' on title bar for 2nd instances (Eugene
402 * Don't add duplicates to combo box histories.
403 * Reorganise Find in Files dialog and add Files pattern to filter
405 * Implement 'Select All' for the VTE widget.
406 * Reorganise editor popup menu for shorter size - some items were moved
408 * Move Go to Marker menu items to Search menu.
409 * Group Open dialog encoding options by submenus (Adam Ples; #3047717).
410 * Show mimetype icon in sidebar Documents list and notebook popup menu
414 * Ensure inserted templates always have proper line ending characters
415 according to the current document's preference.
416 * Add per-document indent width setting (Jiří Techet).
417 * Add 'Project->Apply Default Indentation' menu command to override
418 every document's indentation settings.
419 * Display better error messages when saving a document fails (Dimitar
421 * Don't prompt for reloading if the document has not been edited
423 * Add Close button to the detected file changed dialog.
426 * Fix wrong snippet indentation when original cursor line has
427 non-indentation whitespace (david).
428 * Fix passing quoted arguments when using 'Send Selection to'. This
429 means e.g. sed 's/\./(dot)/g' now works.
430 * Add alternative color scheme based on Python colors
431 (View->Editor->Color Schemes).
432 * Replace HTML automatic <table> tag completion with a 'table' snippet
434 * Auto-indent after an HTML/XML line without a closing tag (Eugene
436 * Respect 'Smart' home key pref for Shift[+Alt]+Home (fixes #3100290,
438 * Scroll to the current line when moving the cursor to the next
439 cursor position in a snippet (#3139490).
440 * If the current word's tag is on the current line, make Go to Tag
441 Definition look for a tag declaration instead and vice versa.
442 * Make Reflow Lines/Block command use the current indented block, not
443 the whole paragraph (which could have mixed indentation).
446 * Load insertion templates from system path, don't create them in
447 the user's config dir.
448 * File templates are now reloaded on saving.
451 * Add 'Ensure consistent line endings' file saving pref (Manuel Bua).
452 * Add 'statusbar_template' hidden pref (Dimitar Zhekov).
453 * Add 'new_document_after_close' hidden pref to open a new document
454 automatically after closing all documents.
455 * Add hidden pref 'find_selection_type' with option to use the X
456 selection or to repeat the last search when there's no selection,
458 * Add 'gio_unsafe_save_backup' hidden pref (Lex Trotman).
459 * Add filetypes.common 'fold_symbol_highlight' color setting.
460 * Add 'symbol_list_sort_mode' per-filetype setting.
463 * Fix Alt+[0-9] switching tabs even when other modifiers are also held.
464 * Add snippet keybinding support (Eugene Arshinov).
465 * Add 'Insert New Line Before/After Current' keybindings (Eugene
469 * Add Forth filetype (Thomas Huth).
470 * Add Lisp filetype (Mário Silva).
471 * Add Erlang filetype (Taylor Venable).
472 * Ada: Fix wrong comments.
473 * C++: Disable user fold points with new lexer property
474 fold.cpp.comment.explicit.
475 * Python: Update list of builtins for Python 2.6, simplify
476 Compile/Syntax Check command. Use named styles for color scheme
477 support (use alt.conf color scheme if you want the old colors).
478 * Matlab: Support Octave # comment char.
479 * Txt2Tags: add highlighting (Forgeot Eric - #3020632).
480 * Make: fix possible infinite loop in tag parser.
481 * D: Parse template functions, ignore /+ +/ comments, ignore
482 unittest blocks, add keywords 'ref', 'macro' and D2 keywords.
483 * Vala: Parse functions with contracts (#3080232).
484 * Markdown, reStructuredText and Txt2Tags: Sort tags by line number by
486 * Basic: Parse property, constructor, destructor as functions
487 (pottersson; #2992167).
488 * HTML: Add HTML5 element names and attributes (Ross McKay).
489 * PHP: Parse final functions (fixes #3111171).
490 * Markup: Add xml_indent_tags filetype setting for documents using the
491 HTML/XML lexers (Eugene Arshinov).
494 * File Browser: Add history to path entry.
495 * HTML Characters: Only automatically replace characters when the
496 current document is a Markup document.
498 Internationalisation:
499 * Add translations: kk.
500 * Update translations: cs, de, en_GB, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, nl, pt,
504 * Update 'Custom filetypes', 'Ignore Tags' sections.
505 * Add 'HTML Characters', 'Configuration file paths', 'Color schemes
507 * Explain how to grep the Scintilla source for lexer properties.
510 * Add 'Bugs to watch out for' section.
513 * Improve Stash GUI example.
514 * Fix not loading plugins built against a newer API when Geany doesn't
515 provide the required version given in PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK().
516 * Make GEANY_API_VERSION, GEANY_ABI_VERSION macros instead of enums
517 so you can protect code with '#if GEANY_API_VERSION >= 200'.
518 * Add signals "build-start", "project-dialog-create" and
519 "project-dialog-confirmed" - to append a Project Properties
520 notebook tab (Jiří Techet).
521 * Add macro foreach_range().
522 * Add GeanyMainWidgets::message_window_notebook (#3061342).
523 * Add main_widgets.project_menu (Jiří Techet).
524 * Add msgwin_set_messages_dir() (Jiří Techet).
525 * Add highlighting_is_{string,comment,code}_style(),
526 editor_find_snippet(), editor_insert_snippet(),
527 utils_find_open_xml_tag() (Eugene Arshinov).
528 * Add ui_combo_box_add_to_history(), editor_goto_pos(),
529 dialogs_show_input(), Add sci_get_lexer().
530 * Add filetypes_get_display_name() as "None" is no longer translated.
533 Geany 0.19.2 (December 01, 2010)
535 * Fix bug where Geany did not always report an error message when
536 saving a document fails.
539 Geany 0.19.1 (August 18, 2010)
542 * Fix broken autocompletion after using scope completion.
543 * Fix scrolling the editor line in view (e.g. after loading a session
544 and switching document tabs).
545 * Fix using filetype extension patterns with upper case letters on
547 * Fix a slightly wrong encoding detection on Windows (#3019573).
548 * Re-enable comment folding.
549 * Fix not loading plugins built against a newer API when Geany doesn't
550 provide the required version given in PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK().
551 * Fix infinite loop in Markdown lexer (patch by Colomban Wendling,
553 * Fix saving non-project filetype error regex.
554 * Focus toolbar item when pressing Go to Line keybinding only when
555 it's not in the toolbar's drop down overflow menu (#3027454).
556 * Escape the name of the current document for markup when using
557 document name for menu items (#3038844).
558 * File Browser: Allow Find in Files when no items are selected.
559 * Fix build menu translation problems.
560 * Fix segfault on Tools->Reload Configuration when no documents are
562 * Fix building with Waf on Solaris.
563 * Fix a memory leak (thanks to Daniel Marjamäki).
564 * Use g_free instead of free (patch by Daniel Marjamäki, thanks).
567 * Always use white background color when printing (except for text
568 with a white foreground) to save ink (#2968998).
569 * Limit build error editor indicators to 50, but parse all errors in
570 the Compiler tab (#3019823).
571 * Align notebook tab close buttons centred vertically (thanks to
573 * Show the Project Properties build tab when choosing 'Set Build
574 Commands' when a project is open to prevent confusion with
575 non-project commands.
578 * Fix wording - restarting is required for hidden prefs.
579 * Fix Grep --exclude-dir example.
582 Geany 0.19 (June 12, 2010)
585 * Build system reworked to be much more configurable (by Lex Trotman).
586 * Use POSIX system/GNU regex engine for find & replace. This alters
587 regex syntax - we now support '?' operator and match newlines.
588 * Support adding custom filetype files.
589 * Add new command line option --list-documents to return a list
590 of currently opened documents
591 * Remove deprecated --debug flag. Please use --verbose/-v instead.
594 * Add option 'System Default' for toolbar icon style and size to use
595 the GTK default value.
596 * Allow '+<number>' and '-<number>' as values for Goto Line inputs
597 to jump relative to the current line.
598 * Add preference to add new document tabs beside the current one
599 (patch by Colomban Wendling).
600 * Enable type-ahead find for sidebar symbols and documents tabs
601 (patch by Thomas Martitz).
602 * Make Ctrl-click on any notebook tab switch to the last used
604 * Add 'Edit->Commands' menu.
605 * Add 'Edit->Plugin Preferences' menu item and keybinding.
606 * Add 'View->Editor->Color Schemes' menu (only shown if color
610 * Hide 'Tabs and Spaces: Hard tab width' preference - it should
611 always be 8. (Hidden setting kept in case users have modified it).
612 * Add sidebar position interface pref.
613 * Add project long line marker customisation (patch from Eugene
617 * Update Scintilla to 2.12.
618 * Add preference and support for virtual spaces.
619 * Add word part autocompletion for the current selected item when
620 pressing keybinding (default Tab) - Enter still completes normally.
621 * Remove LaTeX autocompletion from Geany's core and move it to the
625 * New filetype: Txt2Tags (patch by Eric Forgeot).
626 * New filetype: Abc (patch by Eric Forgeot).
627 * New filetype: Verilog (patch from Kelvin Gardiner).
628 * New custom filetype: Genie.
629 * Improvements in symbol parsing of PHP and Python files.
630 * Add R tagmanager symbol parser (patch by Jon Senior).
631 * Update Perl tag parser from ctags - removes support for
632 buggy local/my/our but parses constant/format/labels.
633 * Parse more VHDL tags (patch from Kelvin Gardiner).
634 * Highlight D & Java types from a global tags file.
635 * Parse Python lambda functions (patch from Colomban Wendling).
638 * Add keybindings to switch to the sidebar's Document and Symbol list as
639 well as to the Message Window's current tab (patch by Eugene Arshinov).
640 * Add 'Remove Markers' and 'Remove Error Indicators' keybindings.
641 * Make 'Reflow block/lines(s)' keybinding use line breaking column when
642 enabled (patch by Lex Trotman).
643 * Add 'Select to previous/next word part' keybindings.
644 * Add 'Switch to Messages' focus keybinding.
645 * Add 'Move line(s) up/down' keybindings.
646 * Make Switch to Editor keybinding reshow the document statistics line.
649 * Move filetype template defaults into custom file template files.
650 * Read custom file templates from system as well as user dir.
651 * Add new special template wildcard "{command:...}" to use the output
652 of a shell command in templates.
653 * Support {ob}, {cb} and {pc} to escape wildcard strings with {, }, %
654 for snippets, fileheader and file templates.
655 * Add {project}, {description} template wildcards (#2954737).
656 * Reload templates when saving a document in the templates config dir.
659 * Support more filetypes.common folding icon styles: arrows, +/- and no
661 * Support Scintilla lexer properties in [lexer_properties] filetypes.*
663 * Add filetypes.xml asp.default.language property (Ross McKay).
666 * Classbuilder: Add support for creating PHP classes
667 (patch by Ondrej Donek).
668 * HTMLchars: Make plugin remember whether replacement of special
669 characters was activated.
672 * Support very long build commands.
673 * Add a preference for choosing between GTK and native File Open/Save
674 dialogs (only available on Windows).
676 Internationalisation:
677 * Added translations: ast.
678 * Updated translations: de, en_GB, es, fr, gl, ja, nl, pt, ru, sl, sv,
682 * Improve documentation contents page.
683 * Add Stash mini-library setting, pref & widget functions to API.
684 * Add plugin_configure_single() plugin symbol which is easier to
685 implement than plugin_configure().
686 * Add new plugin signals: "document-before-save", "document-filetype-set",
687 "geany-startup-complete".
688 * Add PLUGIN_SET_TRANSLATABLE_INFO macro to the plugin API so plugins' meta
689 information can be translated already in the plugin manager dialog
690 (patch by Colomban Wendling).
691 * Use full function name for GeanyFunctions function pointers. This
692 avoids naming conflicts e.g. with C++'s 'new' keyword.
693 * GeanyKeyBinding label fields can now contain underscores, which won't
694 be displayed by Geany. This saves adding near-duplicate translation
696 * Add GeanyKeyGroup callback support.
697 * Add more Scintilla function wrappers, foreach_dir(), foreach_str(),
698 utils_get_file_list_full(), document_get_notebook_page(),
699 editor_insert_text_block().
700 * Don't install unnecessary headers.
701 * Remove deprecated header pluginmacros.h - use geanyfunctions.h
703 * Deprecate documents_foreach(), use foreach_document() instead.
704 * Deprecate PLUGIN_KEY_GROUP() macro - use plugin_set_key_group()
708 Geany 0.18.1 (February 14, 2010)
711 * Define G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT to fix build on GLib 2.8.
712 * Use AC_PATH_PROG instead of 'which' for portability (patch by Erik
716 * Remove filetypes.common invert_all option - use 'Invert syntax
717 highlighting colors' pref instead (fixes #2854525).
720 * Fix 'Open Selected File' for unsaved new documents.
721 * Fix updating main menu accelerators after changing keybindings
722 (thanks to Lex Trotman).
723 * Fix using 'Insert date' keybinding when a custom date string has
725 * Set the cursor color for the split window plugin.
726 * Remove plugin from plugin manager dialog on unloading if it no
727 longer exists or is incompatible.
728 * Fix 'Reflow block' command when at the last paragraph and there's
729 no last newline (patch by Eugene Arshinov, thanks).
730 * Fix opening filenames beginning with two dots (closes #2858487).
731 * Show Find in Files stderr output in messages window instead of
732 debug window so that invalid regex messages can be seen easily.
733 * Speed up sorting in utils_get_file_list(). This reduces the file
734 browser delay on displaying a big directory, e.g. /usr/bin.
735 * Fix a bug with not w3c compatible HTML code on export plugin
736 * Fix non-working Home and End keys on numpads.
737 * Fix loading of files on network resources on Windows.
738 * Fix wrong alignment of printed pages when page headers are disabled
742 * Extend auto_latex() function to check whether an environment has
743 been closed within the next lines to avoid auto adding double
745 * Replace some icons which could cause licensing problems by icons
746 from the Rodent icon theme.
749 * Parse contents of D extern{} and version{} blocks.
750 * Fix creating D interface tags properly.
751 * Parse D functions with contracts (fixes #1885480).
752 * Parse D alias statement like typedef.
753 * Improve parsing of LaTeX, PHP and Python files.
756 * Add 'Scope autocompletion' section.
757 * Add 'Tools menu items' section to explain configuration files
758 submenu, reload configuration item.
759 * Minor updates/fixes.
762 * Add gcc commands to build a plugin to the HowTo.
765 * Add section 'Plugin API/ABI design'.
766 * Add 'Compiler options & warnings' section.
767 * Update Style section to be clearer about code alignment and show
769 * Add 'Doc-comments' plugin API subsection.
771 Internationalisation:
772 * Added translations: gl
775 Geany 0.18 (August 16, 2009)
778 * Fix scrolling horizontally after finding a search match with the
779 search bar or Find Next/Previous which is off-screen.
780 * Remove relative/untidy path elements from filenames when opening
781 documents (#2823998).
782 * Create initial template files with proper platform-specific line
784 * Improve inserting of comment templates like File header or licence
788 * Add 'Show Paths' documents list popup item.
789 * Add filetypes.common to 'Configuration Files' menu.
790 * Implement a graphical toolbar editor.
791 * Add 'Build' toolbar button to the default layout.
792 * Add 'Replace' toolbar button (closes #2798225).
793 * Use a more Tango like icon for 'Save All' (by Jesse Mayes, thanks).
794 * Add a popup menu for the keybinding list in the preferences dialog
795 to easily expand and collapse all groups.
798 * Implement Most-Recently-Used document switching when pressing
799 'Switch to last used document' keybinding (Ctrl-Tab).
800 * Add 'Mark All' keybinding (Ctrl-Shift-M).
801 * Add 'Reflow lines/block' keybinding, (Ctrl-J; thanks to
803 * Make the Scintilla keybindings 'Delete to end of line' and
804 'Go to end of display line' configurable.
805 * Switching notebook tabs now works for the currently used notebook
806 widget instead of always using the documents notebook.
809 * Fix a redraw when documents were first drawn uncolourised.
810 * Delay highlighting matching braces by 100ms to speed up scrolling
812 * Support 'tab indents, space aligns' style when indenting (#2789109).
813 * Add 'Autocomplete all words in document' pref; also used when forcing
814 autocompletion and there's no symbol names to show.
815 * Add 'Drop rest of word on completion' pref.
816 * Update Scintilla to version 1.79.
817 * Improve displaying and reshowing of calltips.
820 * Reload color schemes via Tools menu (thanks to Eugene Arshinov).
821 * Implement named styles support for filetypes.* using a
822 filetypes.common [named_styles] section; used as
823 "style=named_style,bold". (See the manual for details).
824 * Allow style definitions with missing fields to use the
825 filetypes.common default style's fields.
826 * Make C-like filetype styles use named styles & default background
827 color. (Anyone who wants to likewise update any other filetype's
828 styles, please let us know ;-)).
829 * Allow indentation of wrapped lines (see style 'line_wrap_indent').
830 * Add new styles 'line_height' and 'marker_mark'.
833 * Add Markdown filetype (thanks to Jon Strait).
834 * Highlight D WYSIWYG backtick `strings` and r"strings" (#1895745).
835 * Minor improvements for filetypes: Fortran, Haxe, HTML, Lua,
836 Matlab, Pascal, Python, Tcl.
839 * Read custom system global tags files from $prefix/share/geany/tags
841 * Autocomplete scoped fields like struct members when typing '.' (and
842 also '->' or '::' in C/C++) if the language's tag parser supports it.
843 * Save field tags for C/C++ when generating a global tags file (you may
844 want to regenerate your tag files).
845 * Parse Python calltips.
846 * Show relative paths in Diff filename tags.
847 * Group reStructuredText symbol list items by scope level.
850 * Add geanyplugin.h single include.
851 * Add plugin_signal_connect() for connecting plugin signals at
852 runtime and also for connecting to any GObject signal.
853 * Add documents_foreach(), filetypes[], documents[], utils_strdupa()
854 and various foreach_type() macros.
855 * Make GeanyDocument::file_type always be non-NULL.
858 * Fix quoting the build command string on Windows (closes #2791769).
859 * Fix LaTeX view commands on Windows (part of #2807688).
860 * Expand system environment variables (%variableName%) on Windows when
861 running Build commands.
863 Internationalisation:
864 * Added translations: lb, sl, pt_PT
865 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, en_GB, fi, fr, ja, pt_BR, ru, tr
868 Geany 0.17 (May 02, 2009)
871 * Fix broken selection of "Document->Set Encoding" menu items.
872 * Fix broken non-incremental search with the toolbar search entry when
873 pressing Enter (closes #2638180).
874 * Fix parsing of Make output (closes #2694479, patch by Andrea Mazzoleni).
875 * Fix crashes on quitting Geany (closes #2533990).
876 * Fix disabled Go to Tag items in the editor menu when using the
878 * Prevent crashes when two or more top level items in the symbol
879 list have the same name (closes #2778246).
882 * Add an option to set an additional plugin lookup path.
883 * Add a hidden preference 'use_safe_file_saving'. This has serious side
884 effects, please read the documentation before enabling this.
887 * Add 'Send Selection to Terminal' command to the Edit->Format menu.
888 * Change the background colour of the search entries in the Find
889 and Replace dialogs according to the search results.
890 * Add 'Close Other Documents' and 'Close All' menu items to the tab bar
892 * Add an option to allow appending the toolbar to the main menu bar
893 to save some vertical space.
894 * When a project is loaded, replace the project base path with the
895 project name in the Documents sidebar for parent items (closes #2723679).
896 * Make the file open dialog more compact.
897 * Ellipsize tab labels and some status messages for very long
898 filenames (closes #2777348).
899 * Add new toolbar element: Print (patch by Roland Baudin).
900 * Remember the active sidebar page between sessions.
901 * Add "Recent Projects" menu to the Project menu (#2728630,
902 patch by Elias Pschernig).
903 * Add Tools->Configuration Files item for snippets.conf.
906 * Fix wrong Fortran 90 comment characters when inserting templates.
907 * Add filetype ActionScript (patch by Chris Macksey).
908 * Fixes for CSS, Fortran and Ruby parsers.
909 * Add a trivial symbol parser for NSIS files.
912 * On Windows, change the working directory to the Geany installation
913 path at startup to avoid unwanted directory locking(closes #2626124).
914 * Fix window positioning on startup.
915 * Make build commands on Windows run synchronously to avoid problems
916 with reading build commands' output.
919 * HTMLchars: Extend plugin by bulk replace and replace on
920 input for special characters to their HTML entities.
921 * Splitwindow: Add keybindings for the split actions.
922 * VCDiff: Remove plugin from Geany. Use GeanyVC instead.
925 * Deprecate sci_get_text(), sci_get_selected_text() and
926 sci_get_text_range().
927 * Add sci_get_contents(), sci_get_contents_range() and
928 sci_get_selection_contents() as replacement functions to provide
929 an easier and cleaner API (initial patch by Frank).
930 * Make GEANY_FILETYPES_NONE = 0, sort filetype IDs randomly (so we can
931 append new filetypes without breaking the ABI); add
932 filetypes_by_title sorted list to GeanyData.
935 * Describe how to build Geany using the Waf build system.
937 Internationalisation:
938 * Updated translations: be, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, pt_BR, ru,
942 Geany 0.16 (February 15, 2009)
945 * Fix indenting for Tabs & Spaces mode when inserting snippets.
946 * Fix snippets and smart indent using too much indentation when the
947 line contains whitespace after non-whitespace characters (#2215044).
948 * Fix segfault when showing Find in Files dialog when no documents are
950 * Fix not switching to 2nd last used document when the last used
951 document has been closed (#1945162).
954 * Group child tags by their parents in the symbol list for C-like
955 filetypes, Python, Conf (thanks to Conrad Steenberg).
956 * Use a tree for the Documents sidebar, grouped by path.
957 * Add 'Tools->Configuration Files' menu with items to open
958 filetype_extensions.conf and ignore.tags. These files are also
959 reloaded automatically when saved.
960 * Change configuration directory path to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/geany
961 (most often this is ~/.config/geany).
962 * Allow to specify files on the command line and from remote instances
963 to be URIs (local and with GIO also remote URIs).
964 * Increase minimum required GTK version to 2.8.
967 * Add Project Indentation prefs, which override the Editor
968 Preferences dialog options. For new projects, these default to
969 the editor indent prefs.
970 * Add an interface pref for whether to hide additional widgets when
971 double-clicking on document notebook tabs (off by default).
972 * Add a preference to invert all colours for syntax highlighting.
973 * Add a hidden preference "allow_always_save" to make the Save buttons
974 and menu items always sensitive.
977 * Rework the toolbar: now all elements can be added/removed/reordered
978 using a simple XML file.
979 * Add new toolbar buttons for Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Preferences,
980 Close All and Build (including a submenu for Make actions).
981 * Add a progressbar widget to the statusbar to show progress for time
985 * Make Ctrl-click go to matching brace if there's no current word.
986 * Make Shift+Mouse wheel scroll the editor view horizontally.
987 * Make the 'Mark' button for Find highlight the results with rounded boxes
988 instead of marking the whole line.
989 * Add auto-closing of braces, brackets and quotes (Guillaume de Rorthais).
990 * Support multiple %cursor% wildcards in Snippets (Thomas Martitz).
993 * Add new filetypes Ada, CMake, Matlab, NSIS, Vala and YAML.
994 * Update HTML character entities (thanks to Tyler D'Agosta).
995 * Parse restructuredText sections in the order of first-used underline
996 character, which can now be any punctuation character (as per the spec).
997 * Remove GTK global tags, replace them with C (C99) tags. The GTK tags
998 file is still available for download on the website.
999 * Minor improvements for filetypes CSS, Fortran, FreeBasic, HTML, Tcl
1003 * Improve tab close icon size.
1004 * Changes to the Windows installer:
1005 - The full installer now includes the GTK 2.14 runtime environment.
1006 - Register ".geany" as Geany Project File extension.
1007 - Install GTK translation files only if installation of translation
1008 files were requested (saves about 22 MB otherwise).
1009 - Support silent installations.
1012 * Add Split Window 'Split Vertically' command (thanks to Moritz Barsnick).
1013 * Make Version Diff plugin set the indent type for diffs based on the
1014 current file's indent type.
1015 * Minor improvements to the filebrowser plugin
1018 * Generate plugin API header geanyfunctions.h containing macros to
1019 avoid having to type the function pointer names manually.
1020 * Deprecate pluginmacros.h in favour of geanyfunctions.h.
1021 * Add "editor-notify" to the plugin API.
1022 * Add new plugin symbol plugin_help() which is called by Geany when the
1023 plugin should show its documentation (if any, symbol is optional).
1026 * Update Scintilla regular expression info for v1.77 (character
1027 classes, ASCII escaping, character sets containing square
1028 brackets peculiarities). Adapted from SciTE doc.
1029 * Complete 'Hello World' Plugin Howto.
1031 Internationalisation:
1032 * Updated translations: bg, ca, cs, de, en_GB, fr, hu, it, ja,
1033 pt_BR, sv, ru, tr, vi, zh_CN
1036 Geany 0.15 (October 19, 2008)
1039 * Add Previous Message, Previous Error commands (thanks also to Beau
1041 * Add 'Close Other Documents' File menu command (#1976724).
1042 * Add Find Document Usage popup menu command & keybinding.
1043 * Check that the current file is still on disk (as well as checking the
1045 * Add support for custom file templates (found at startup) in the
1046 ~/.geany/templates/files directory, shown underneath filetype templates
1047 in the New with Template menu.
1048 * Make socket open command support filename:line:column syntax.
1049 * Add filetypes.* [build_settings] key 'error_regex' to support custom
1050 error message parsing using a GNU-style extended regular expression.
1051 * Allow loading projects from command line (#1961083).
1052 * Add alternative build system: Waf.
1053 * Add Tools menu item to reload configuration data without a restart.
1054 * Add support to use template wildcards in snippets.
1055 * Increase LSB compliance.
1058 * Make disk check timeout configurable (zero disables disk checks).
1059 * Add search pref: 'Use the current file's directory for Find in Files'
1063 * Make keyboard shortcuts dialog non-modal (#1999384).
1064 * Add a debug messages window to easily view debug messages/warnings.
1067 * Update Scintilla to version 1.77 (includes many fixes).
1068 * Add basic Line Breaking option in the Document menu and 'Line breaking
1069 column' editor pref (for now only works when typing characters past
1070 the line breaking column number).
1071 * Don't colourise any documents until they need to be drawn (this
1072 should make opening a session faster for filetypes that support typename
1074 * Make Ctrl-click on a word perform Go to Tag Definition.
1075 * Add 'Max. symbol name suggestions' autocompletion pref.
1076 * Show ellipsis (...) item when there are too many symbol names for
1078 * Highlight matching brace indent guides (thanks to Jason Oster;
1080 * Show brace indent guides on empty lines when appropriate (thanks to
1081 Jason Oster; #2105982).
1082 * Add 'Tab key indents' pref, on by default.
1083 * Implement soft tabs support (#1662173). There's now a 'Tabs & Spaces'
1084 Indent Type, and separate Width, Hard Tab Width indent prefs. (Thanks
1085 to Joerg Desch for explaining how it needed to work).
1086 * Auto-update the line margin width as lines are added (thanks to Jason
1088 * Add "Replace spaces by tabs".
1091 * Install plugins into lib/ not into plugins/.
1092 * Install Geany's message catalogs into share/locale rather than
1093 lib/locale as GTK does since 2.12.2.
1096 * Add Go to Start/End of Line keybindings (#1996175).
1097 * Add 'Switch to Compiler' keybinding (useful when checking build
1099 * Add keybindings for Line wrapping, Line breaking, Toggle fold and
1100 Replace Spaces by tabs, Previous/Next word part.
1103 * Add OpenGL Shader Language (GLSL) filetype (thanks to Colomban
1104 Wendling; #2060961).
1105 * Add R language filetype (thanks to Andrew Rowland; #2121502).
1106 * Split filetype Fortran into Fortran 77 and Fortran 90.
1107 * Add Gettext translation filetype (#2131985).
1108 * CSS improvements, thanks to Jason Oster.
1111 * Fix hang when restarting the VTE (#1990323) with VTE 0.16.14.
1112 (Note that with VTE 0.16.14 the reset sometimes leaves a blank
1113 terminal, but pressing enter makes it then behave as normal).
1116 * Add Split Window plugin (should work OK for viewing; full editing
1117 support is not implemented yet).
1118 * Merge InstantSave, AutoSave and BackupCopy plugins into the new
1119 plugin 'Save Actions'.
1122 * Add Tips and Tricks appendix.
1123 * Updated Installation section.
1124 * Update 'Build system' for custom error regexes.
1125 * Add a section for internal plugins.
1128 * Many changes; see the API documentation (make api-doc) and the
1129 geany-devel list archives.
1130 * Deprecated: plugin_fields, plugin_info symbols.
1132 Internationalisation:
1133 * New translations: ko, tr.
1134 * Updated translations: be, ca, de, en_GB, fi, hu, it, ja, pl,
1138 Geany 0.14 (April 19, 2008)
1141 * Don't beep when using Replace All in Session unless all open files
1142 have no replacements (fixes #1893796).
1143 * Only use filetype detection after Save As, not on every save when the
1144 filetype is None (fixes #1891778).
1145 * Make Go to Tag commands look for the tag in the current document
1146 before searching the workspace.
1147 * Check file on disk for changes also when pressing a key.
1148 * Ignore documents with no absolute path when saving session files.
1149 * Fix segfault with Run command when a project is open and the current
1150 file's filetype has no run command.
1151 * Make Next Error and Next Message commands add positions to the
1152 navigation queue, so the user can move backwards through the list items
1153 and return to where they were.
1154 * Make pressing escape in the sidebar focus the editor.
1155 * Make navigation queue position based to restore the line and column when
1156 returning to a previous position (closes #1936927).
1157 * Save sorting order of the symbol list when saving a file (fixes #1917262).
1158 * Improve "Send Selection To" code (fixes #1909452).
1159 * Install header files and add a pkg-config file for external plugins.
1160 * Use monospace font for text entry fields in search dialogs (#1907117).
1161 * Don't open zero byte sized files read-only (e.g. files in /proc).
1164 * Improve Makefile parser to detect targets.
1165 * Update PHP tags file to latest PHP API docs (closes #1888691).
1166 * Add translucency settings to filetypes.common for semi-transparency.
1167 * Add HTML parser to get h1, h2, h3 symbols as well as link anchors and
1168 JavaScript functions (fixes #1896068).
1169 * Update Javascript, Tcl and Assembler parser.
1172 * When closing a tab when using left-to-right tabs, focus the next
1173 document, not the previous.
1174 * Move Load Tags item from File to Tools menu.
1177 * Don't scroll the editor view if it is unnecessary when using Find
1178 Next/Previous, Find Selected, incremental search, Go to Marker or Go to
1179 Matching Brace commands.
1180 * Fix bug with showing macro list items all on one line.
1181 * Fix Python auto-indentation when line endings are set to CR/LF.
1182 * Unfold hidden code when the fold point modified (fixes #1923350).
1183 * Update Scintilla to version 1.76.
1184 * Add (basic) column mode editing (patch by "chuck").
1187 * Replace untitled file header filename after Save As and add to recent
1188 files on Windows too.
1189 * Resolve Windows shortcuts when opening files.
1190 * Fix modal dialog problems on Windows by not setting taskbar hint
1192 * Add new process spawning implementation. This makes the VCdiff plugin
1193 to work on Windows (patch by Pierre Joye, thanks).
1194 * Fix crash on Windows when a project could not be opened.
1197 * Add configurable plugin keybindings support.
1198 * Add a HTML Characters keybinding to show the dialog.
1199 * Add File Browser keybindings to focus the Path Entry and File List
1200 * Rename VCDiff plugin Version Diff.
1201 * When quitting, remember plugin filenames that couldn't be loaded at
1202 startup as well as active plugins.
1205 * Add PLUGIN_KEY_GROUP and keybindings_set_item() to setup a keybinding
1207 * keybindings_send_command() arguments have changed because of
1208 keybinding groups - this breaks the API for plugins already using it.
1209 * Make VERSION_CHECK deprecated in favour of PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK.
1212 * Add descriptions for several options in the preferences dialog
1213 (patch from Robert McGinley).
1215 Internationalisation:
1216 * New translations: ro.
1217 * Updated translations: bg, de, en_GB, es, fr, hu, it, ja, pt_BR, ru.
1220 Geany 0.13 (February 05, 2008)
1223 * Improve configure script and fix some compatibility issues.
1224 * Add support for project session files.
1225 * Add native GTK printing support (only with GTK 2.10+).
1226 * Prevent execution of commands by Geany if the VTE may contain any
1227 text on the prompt (thanks to "Jeff Pohlmeyer for reporting).
1228 * Store more document-related settings when saving session in the
1229 configuration file (including the file encoding).
1230 * Detect in-file specified file encoding by scanning the file using
1231 regular expressions.
1232 * Add binary relocation support.
1235 * Add configurable default file extension setting for filetype
1237 * Fix reST autocompletion.
1240 * Show arrays and modifiers like const in calltip return types for
1242 * Update C global tags file for GTK+ 2.12.
1243 * Fix parsing the correct D class name when inheriting, D constructor
1244 tags and ignore D import statements.
1245 * Remove unnecessary tagmanager status file.
1246 * Improve PHP, Ruby and FreeBasic parsers.
1249 * Add 'Indent Type' option in the Document menu.
1250 * Add 'Detect from file' Editor indentation pref.
1251 * Show TAB or SP for current document's indent type.
1252 * Add a 'Newline strips trailing spaces' pref (thanks to Catalin
1254 * Add 'Strip Trailing Spaces' document menu item.
1255 * Add combo box input history for 'Make Custom Target' dialog.
1256 * Make Open, Save As dialogs start in project base path (or default
1257 path pref) when the current file has no filename.
1258 * Add 'Make in base path' project file preference.
1259 * Make 'Open Selected File' first try the current file's directory,
1260 falling back to the project base path if no file was found.
1261 * Fix broken window maximization.
1262 * Improve appearance of used treeviews and use rules hints to respect
1263 user colour settings.
1266 * Fix hidden lines after deleting a line that is a collapsed fold
1268 * Make Fold All/Unfold All attempt to scroll the current line in view.
1269 * Show line wrap symbol at start of line for wrapped lines.
1270 * Allow scrolling past end of document, so the user can append text
1271 with the last lines drawn at the top of the view.
1272 * Rename "Construct autocompletion" to "Snippets".
1273 * Improve usage of "Unfold all children" option.
1274 * Update Scintilla to version 1.75.
1277 * Add configurable keybindings for Cut, Copy and Paste.
1278 * Ask the user whether to override an existing keybinding when setting
1279 a combination that is already in use.
1280 * Add 'Override Geany keybindings' VTE prefs dialog option (replaces
1281 hidden pref), which makes the VTE interpret all keyboard shortcuts
1282 except focus group keybindings.
1285 * Add File Browser sidebar plugin.
1286 * Add Version Control Diff plugin (VC Diff), which supports SVN, CVS and
1287 GIT (thanks to Yura Siamashka).
1288 * Add plugin manager dialog to select plugins to load at startup and to
1289 call a plugin configure dialog.
1290 * Add new signals: project_open, project_save, project_close.
1291 * Add Auto Save plugin.
1294 * Add keybindings_send_command() and some other functions.
1295 * Add pluginmacros.h to define common macros for app, p_utils, etc.
1296 * Add more documentation/comments to demoplugin.c.
1297 * Add configure symbol for plugins which is called by Geany when a
1298 configure dialog for the plugin is requested, optionally.
1299 * Add author field to plugin info struct.
1302 * Enable build support.
1303 * Prevent prefs dialog being hidden after using the prefs file dialog.
1304 * Create Geany's configuration directory in user's appdata path
1305 instead of the default home directory.
1308 * Show default shortcuts in Keybindings section.
1309 * Update Project section for project-based session support.
1310 * Add Indentation subsection under Editor section.
1311 * HACKING: Update 'Adding a filetype' section.
1313 Internationalisation:
1314 * New translations: ja, uk, el.
1315 * Updated translations: ca, de, en_GB, fr, it, pt_BR, hu, sv, vi.
1318 Geany 0.12 (October 10, 2007)
1321 * Fixed opening the same file twice from the message window/command-line.
1322 * Fixed Ctrl-Shift keybindings not working when caps lock is on.
1323 * Fixed saving the wrong document when using Save All with unnamed
1325 * Fixed replacing with '^' or '$' regex chars.
1326 * Fixed hang with Find All/Find Usage with '^' or '$' regex chars.
1327 * Fixed hang when replacing all '[ ]*' regex matches (closes #1757748).
1328 * Fixed displaying error indicators with Make after entering a
1330 * Fixed a possible segfault when parsing tags (a vString bug).
1331 * Fixed clipboard problems with some applications.
1332 * Fixed crash when trying to open the Save As dialog on Windows.
1333 * Fixed crash when saving a file after setting encoding "None".
1334 * Fixed scrolling bugs when searching text and the cursor is outside of
1335 the current visible area.
1338 * Added reStructuredText filetype and parser.
1339 * Added Haskell tags support (thanks to Peter Strand).
1340 * Added decorator styling for Python.
1341 * Parse Python global variables and class variables.
1342 * Added support for Java Apache Ant compiler error messages (thanks to
1344 * Added new filetypes CSharp and FreeBasic.
1345 * Added filetype Haxe (patch by blackdog, thank you).
1348 * Added basic plugin support (developers: see the HACKING file).
1349 * Added 'Enable plugin support' preference and -p, --no-plugins options.
1350 * Added Class Builder plugin (thanks to Alexander Rodin).
1351 * Added Export plugin to export current file as HTML or LaTeX.
1354 * Common bash Ctrl-[a-z] keyboard shortcuts now work when the VTE is
1355 focused, and there is an 'enable_bash_keys' hidden preference.
1356 * Added 'Move document left' and 'Move document right' keybindings.
1357 * Added Find keybinding.
1358 * Made fixed keybindings overridable.
1359 * Added fixed keybindings for switching to leftmost/rightmost document,
1360 Ctrl-Shift-{PageUp,PageDown}.
1361 * Change Previous/Next Paragraph fixed commands to Ctrl-{Up,Down};
1362 adding Shift extends selection by paragraph. (Scroll by line is now
1364 * Made pressing escape focus the editor when using incremental search
1365 or Goto Line toolbar fields.
1366 * Added keybinding for select current paragraph.
1367 * Added keybindings for smart indent and indent/deindent by one space.
1368 * Removed convert to lower-/upper-case keybindings.
1369 * Added toggle case keybinding and change shortcut to Ctrl-Alt-U.
1372 * Added preference for 'smart' home key behaviour (thanks to Jeff
1374 * Added symbol list icons (thanks to Jean-François Wauthy, and KDevelop
1376 * Added 'Current chars' indentation mode (closes #1726880).
1377 * Save and restore the current notebook page when quitting.
1378 * Added support for %e, %f in project run command.
1379 * Ignore punctuation chars when moving by word, and use word end
1380 boundaries when moving by word to the right (like most GTK+ widgets).
1381 * Added hidden editor preference 'use_gtk_word_boundaries'.
1382 * Added auto_complete_whilst_editing hidden preference.
1383 * Speed up Save All for C-like files.
1384 * Don't show file opened/saved/closed messages on the status bar.
1385 * Added --no-preprocessing, -P option when generating tags files to
1386 disable preprocessing of C/C++ source files.
1387 * Added default startup directory option (closes #1704988).
1388 * Use current locale as default encoding for new files.
1389 * Added simple code navigation (thanks to Dave Moore).
1390 * Re-maximize the main window on startup when closed in maximized state
1392 * Added auto focus (to auto focus widgets below mouse cursor).
1393 * Complete rewrite of auto completion to make it user-definable and
1394 much more flexible (please read documentation).
1395 * Added option to set a default encoding when opening files and disable
1396 auto detection of the file encoding.
1397 * Improved comment toggling by adding an additional character to mark.
1398 * Changed the background colour of the search bar in the toolbar
1399 according to the search result.
1400 * Use intltool to make geany.desktop translatable
1401 * Replace Geany's icon by a new one by Sebastian Kraft (thanks).
1402 (Thanks also to Christoph Berg for updating the icon code).
1405 * Changed documentation generation tools from DocBook to reST
1406 (thanks to John Gabriele for his great work on this).
1407 * Added Plugins section.
1408 * Added 'Inserting unicode characters' Editing section (thanks to
1410 * Added 'Hidden preferences' appendix.
1411 * Added 'Switching documents' keybindings section.
1414 * Added notes on adding a filetype.
1416 Internationalisation:
1417 * New translations: en_GB.
1418 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, it, pl, pt_BR, zh_CN.
1421 Geany 0.11 (May 21, 2007)
1423 Notes for existing users:
1424 * Tab is now used for construct completion (for, if, etc.), but it
1425 is configurable with the new 'Complete construct' keybinding.
1426 * Template files are now stored in ~/.geany/templates/ and the
1427 'template.' filename prefix is no longer used. You will need to
1428 move any custom template files you have.
1429 * Inserting a file header is now optional for filetype templates.
1430 Use the string '{fileheader}' to mark where the file header should
1432 * Drag'n'Drop of text inside the editor widget will now move the
1433 text instead of copying it.
1436 * Fix segfault when pressing Ctrl-Enter when there are no workspace
1438 * Remove error indicators in all documents when linking (#1705374).
1439 * Sort symbol list tags also by line number (#1703575).
1440 * Fix #1717418, Hang on SQL file load.
1441 * Fix #1718532 - Crash when opening a special HTML file.
1442 * Add workaround for PHP closing brace de-indenting.
1443 * Fix reloading of read-only documents.
1446 * Add keybinding to show project properties dialog.
1447 * Add project Run command support.
1448 * Run Make All and Make Custom from the project base directory.
1451 * Update C global tags for GTK+ 2.10 and it's dependencies.
1452 * Add option --generate-tags (-g) to generate a global tags file
1453 from a list of source files (see docs).
1454 * Load global tag files stored in ~/.geany/tags at startup #.
1455 * Add Load Tags command in the File menu #.
1456 # This is not supported for Pascal, PHP or LaTeX files yet.
1458 Calltips (for C-like files):
1459 * Show up and down arrows when there are multiple calltip matches.
1460 * Show classname in calltips.
1461 * Parse pointers in function return type.
1462 * Add calltip support for D constructors.
1465 * Parse 'Entering directory' Make messages so opening files from
1466 error messages works for subdirectories (thanks to Josef Whiter).
1467 * Make Go to Tag Definition/Declaration work for all tags.
1468 * Support filetype templates for all filetypes (see docs).
1469 * Make file header optional for filetype templates.
1470 * Add 'Find Selected' and 'Find Prev Selected' search commands and
1471 keybindings (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
1472 * Add Mark button to the Find dialog, and a Remove Markers item to
1474 * Add 'Recurse in subfolders' and 'Extra options' checkboxes to the
1475 Find in Files dialog.
1476 * Add 'Switch to last used document' keybinding (Ctrl-Tab).
1477 * Add Goto Previous/Next Marker keybindings (Ctrl-, and Ctrl-.).
1478 * Add Toggle Marker keybinding (Ctrl-M).
1479 * Add keybinding for construct completion, and set the default to
1481 * Add MimeType associatiations for: C++ header, Pascal, Perl,
1482 Python, httpd-PHP and XML files (thanks to Iñaki Rodriguez).
1483 * Add brace indenting support for Perl and Tcl.
1484 * Make backspace unindent when using spaces for indentation.
1485 * Wrap notebook pages when switching tabs.
1486 * Speed up loading multiple C-like files slightly.
1487 * New filetypes: JavaScript, Lua and Haskell.
1488 * Set several widget names to allow users to define custom styles
1490 * Add context actions to run custom commands on current selection
1491 or the current word below cursor.
1492 * Add different auto indention modes.
1493 * Improve replacing in rectangle selections.
1494 * Add custom commands to send selected text through some definable
1495 commands and replace the selection with the output.
1496 * Add command line option --column to allow setting the initial
1497 column for the first opened file on command line.
1498 * Improve the auto scrolling of documents.
1499 * Improve loading of the VTE library.
1500 * Add an option for using spaces or tabulators when inserting some
1502 * Add an option to disable Drag'n'Drop in the editor widget.
1505 * Add Project Management, Global Tags, Construct Completion
1507 * Add Bookmarks section (thanks to John Gabriele).
1508 * Update Filetype Templates, Search sections.
1510 Internationalisation:
1511 * New translations: bg.
1512 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fr, zh_CN.
1515 Geany 0.10.2 (February 25, 2007)
1518 * Fixed serious crash of complete X session when using the Stop
1519 command when Geany is run from the program menu (closes #1668017).
1522 Geany 0.10.1 (February 23, 2007)
1525 * Wrong tab foreground colour for unmodified documents.
1526 * Fixed crashes when closing dialogs by clicking X on some systems.
1527 * Fixed missing global tags for C files when a C++ source file was
1529 * Fixed autocompletion missing tag matches.
1530 * Fixed a wrong PASCAL autocompletion.
1531 * Set single undo action when toggling multiple lines or stripping
1533 * Prevent some possible invalid memory reads.
1534 * Convert config, application and documentation dir paths to locale
1535 encoding before using it.
1536 * Fixed errors when changing directories containing special
1537 characters within the VTE component (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
1538 * Support newer so-names when loading the VTE library (thanks to
1540 * Fixed paste problems on Windows.
1541 * When using Save As the returned filename needs to be converted
1543 * Fixed error when parsing of compiler errors by the va_list system.
1544 * Added MimeType entry as suggested by Nick Schermer.
1545 * LaTeX parser: Allow \section*{} and other commands with *.
1546 * Change default keybinding for Close All to Ctrl-Shift-W.
1547 * Allow Make for files with no extension - prevent Build when the
1548 output filename would be the same as the source file.
1549 * Ensure the VTE visual settings are applied when switching to VTE
1550 when the Message Window is hidden.
1551 * Fixed several issues while opening files and improved code.
1552 * Improved the auto scrolling of documents and fixed a bug when
1553 opening files remotely.
1554 * Fixed wrong D function return type after a class definition.
1555 * Added several missing style types for filetype Perl (thanks to
1556 John Gabriele for reporting).
1557 * Prevent right click in Symbol list from selecting a tag.
1558 * Update the symbol list when starting a new document.
1559 * Scroll Compiler and Messages window in view when using Next Error
1561 * Auto close brackets only when auto completion of constructs is
1562 enabled (closes #1665015).
1563 * Fixed switching to the wrong tab when showing the unsaved dialog.
1565 Internationalisation:
1566 * New translations: fi (thanks to Harri Koskinen).
1567 * Updated translations: cs, de, es, fr, hu.
1570 Geany 0.10 (December 21, 2006)
1573 * Added a dialog to insert HTML special characters.
1574 * Added new command line option --line to set the initial line for
1575 the first opened file.
1576 * Implemented new, own Undo system to undo/redo encoding changes.
1577 * Added simple parser for filetype Diff to create tags for each
1578 patched file in a diff file.
1579 * Added new encoding "None" to open files without any character
1581 * Added Stop button to abort the Run command.
1582 * New filetype VHDL.
1583 * New scintilla lexer for filetype D with several improvements.
1584 * Improved auto completion of multi line comments
1585 * Added option to execute programs in the VTE instead of executing
1586 them in a terminal emulation window
1587 * Removed the limit on the number of files open.
1588 * Save the build includes and arguments when quitting.
1589 * Added Next Message search command and Next Error build command.
1590 * Make search bar automatically wraparound if necessary.
1591 * Applied patch from Bob Doan to prevent unnecessary search
1592 scrolling and add a preference to suppress some of the search
1594 * Added Find Previous, Find All in Document/Session buttons for the
1596 * Added Replace (but don't Find) button for the Replace dialog.
1597 * Added 'Hide Message Window' popup menu command.
1598 * Added Alt-[1-9] shortcuts to switch to a certain tab number.
1599 * Limit search dialog history to 30 entries.
1600 * Change python default compile command to create a compiled
1601 python .pyc file (thanks to Bajusz Tamás).
1604 * Fix #1611530 'file has changed' message on Windows after saving.
1605 * Fixed wrong paste behaviour under Windows with some applications.
1608 * Fixed crash when using "Make object" on new files.
1609 * Fixed incompatible use of read command in the created shell
1610 script to execute programs.
1611 * Fixed wrong insert position when the cursor was moved by keyboard
1612 and comments, includes or a date was inserted.
1613 * Fixed some segfaults when inserting comments, dates and
1614 includes at a position prior to some deleted text.
1615 * Fix message window horizontal scrollbar being too tall on some
1616 systems (thanks to Rob van der Linde).
1618 Internationalisation:
1619 * New translations: fr, hu, it, zh_CN, zh_TW.
1620 * Updated translations: be, ca, cs, de, es, vi.
1623 Geany 0.9 (September 29, 2006)
1626 * Added function calltips for files open in the current workspace
1627 for C-like languages.
1628 * Open a second instance by default when starting Geany with no
1629 filenames specified on the command-line.
1630 * Added better error message support for D, for both DMD and GDC;
1631 also GCC-style linker error messages are now parsed.
1632 * Text selections now use syntax highlighting foreground colours
1633 (but can still be overridden in filetypes.common).
1634 * Find in Files improvements: fixed string and whole word only
1635 matching options; a directory selector dialog; filenames passed
1636 to Grep are now sorted alphabetically.
1637 * Remember the VTE current directory at startup.
1638 * Show the messages window on build failure or for Find Usage.
1639 * Added -s command-line option to not load session files (-i is now
1640 used to force a new instance).
1641 * Added comment toggle functionality to easily comment and
1642 uncomment a line with one shortcut.
1643 * Separated filetypes PHP and HTML for better usage.
1644 * New filetypes: Diff, Fortran 77 and Ferite.
1645 * Added auto completion tags for PASCAL.
1646 * Improved VTE usage by adding options for selecting the used shell
1647 and ignoring menu bar accelerator (default F10).
1648 * Added menu items to insert configurable date/time strings.
1649 * Removed the whole FIFO code and replaced it with support for
1650 (Unix Domain) Sockets(including Windows support).
1653 * Implemented Run command (from the build menu) under Windows.
1654 * Enabled socket code on Windows to detect a running instance.
1655 * Enabled notification if file on disk has changed under Windows.
1658 * Fixed a segfault at startup if terminal follow path setting is
1660 * Fixed clicking on error messages being dependent on the current
1662 * Fixed a bug when clicking on a recent file got the wrong
1664 * Fixed a crash when a compiler output reports an error in a blank
1665 line(can happen in LaTeX)
1666 * Fixed a crash when switching between several filetypes.
1667 * Fixed segfault when replacing tabs by spaces.
1669 Internationalisation:
1670 * New translations: cs, nl, vi.
1671 * Updated translations: de, es.
1674 Geany 0.8 (August 09, 2006)
1677 * Find in files feature added which uses the Grep tool.
1678 * Added Make object command to compile using the Make tool.
1679 * Editor notebook tabs can now be reordered by drag and drop.
1680 * Added support for back references when using regex replace.
1681 * Added a Find button to the Replace dialog to skip matches.
1682 * Greatly improved the speed of Replace all/in selection.
1683 * Scroll to 1/4 of the view when jumping to a line number.
1684 * Show messages on the status bar and in the Status window.
1685 * Preferences options for Auto-indentation and Line wrapping.
1686 * Use the mouse click position for Go to tag.
1687 * Added separate filetype_extensions.conf system file.
1688 * Added makefiles for building on Windows.
1689 * Added keyboard shortcuts for increase/decrease of line
1691 * Added functionality to uncomment code.
1693 * Added support for Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
1694 * Redesigned preferences dialog.
1695 * Added Undo and Redo toolbar buttons.
1697 * Added simple printing support.
1698 * Mark errors while compiling source code within Geany with
1699 indicators(small squiggly underlines)
1702 * Use the full path for files opened from the command-line.
1703 * Fixed saving a file from the unsaved file dialog.
1704 * Fixed replacing with regexes the correct matched text length.
1705 * Fixed applying virtual terminal widget settings at startup.
1706 * Fixed prepending items to the Recent files menu.
1707 * Fixed clipboard commands used in the find entry and Scribble.
1708 * Fixed wrong interpretation of syntax highlighting colours
1712 * Don't add .c extension when saving with the All files filter.
1713 * Fixed a tool chooser dialog crash when path doesn't exist.
1714 * Fixed locale problems with Windows message dialogs.
1716 Internationalisation:
1717 * New translations: be, es, pt_BR, ru.
1718 * Updated translations: ca, de, pl.
1721 * Added Scintilla keyboard commands for editing appendix.
1722 * Improved search section; added all find and go to commands.
1723 * Added section about character sets.
1726 Geany 0.7 (June 04, 2006)
1728 * user-definable keyboard shortcuts
1729 * filetype definition files can be overridden in Geany's
1730 configuration directory (please see documentation)
1731 * added filetypes Ruby and Tcl/Tk
1732 * improved build system (for Perl, Python, Ruby and others)
1733 * loading of Virtual Terminal Emulation can be disabled in the
1735 * new menu item "Search" with Find items from Edit menu and new
1736 item "Find Previous"
1737 * fixed the bug which let Geany crash with newer GTK versions
1738 * improved documentation: added documentation for keyboard
1739 shortcuts, the build system and filetype definition files
1740 * new translations: Catalan and Polish
1741 * many small improvements
1742 * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)
1745 Geany 0.6 (April 30, 2006)
1747 * added option to place new file tabs to the right or left of
1749 * improved file open dialog
1750 * improved scrolling of the compiler output window
1751 * rewrote most of the code for compiling files, now all
1752 settings are read from filetype definition files
1753 * now, you can drag files from a file manager into Geany and
1755 * improved handling of filenames which contain non-UTF8 chars
1756 * added user-definable comment characters to all filetype
1758 * implemented folding
1759 * added file properties dialog
1760 * improved search and find dialogs
1761 * Geany now creates a FIFO, to communicate between different
1762 instances for opening files in an already running instance
1763 * added filetypes SQL and (O)Caml
1764 * many small improvements
1765 * fixed lots of bugs, including #1419473, #1422135, #1421776
1767 * for more details read the ChangeLog
1770 Geany 0.5 (January 27, 2006)
1772 * set the Open File dialog directory to the same directory as
1773 the current file (thanks to Nick Treleaven for this patch)
1774 * fixed some bugs when opening files with non UTF-8 filenames
1775 * updated included Scintilla to version 1.67
1776 * improved auto indention, now "for (...) {" works, too
1777 * added popup menu to sidebar lists, to quickly hide them
1778 * symbol list support for filetypes LaTeX and DocBook
1779 * added .cc, .hh and .hxx extension for filetype C++
1780 * added new keywords for PHP5
1781 * added new option "Beep on errors" to disable beeping
1782 * eliminated compiler (gcc4) warnings
1783 * closed bug #1387828 and #1387839
1784 * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)
1787 Geany 0.4 (December 21, 2005)
1789 * new filetype: Assembler
1790 * new filetype: Conf for configuration files
1791 * added a terminal emulation widget, needs only libvte.so at
1792 runtime, but it also runs without it, see documentation
1793 * made some general improvements to increase startup speed
1794 * changed "build with make" keyboard shortcut to Shift+F9 to
1795 avoid problems with window managers key bindings
1796 * added auto-closing [ and { brackets in LaTex-Mode
1797 * improved documentation, but it is not yet complete
1798 * improved the symbol list to categorise the tags in a tree
1799 * some new options in the preferences dialog
1800 * added popup menu to the list of open files
1801 * there are lots of other small changes made since last release
1802 * some bugfixes (please see ChangeLog for details)
1805 Geany 0.3 (November 20, 2005)
1807 * Geany now has a mailing list, for details see
1808 http://geany.uvena.de
1809 * added open files list in the left treeview widget
1810 * added toolbar button to open the color chooser
1811 * heavily improved recent files menu
1812 * added shortcut for "walking" between open documents by
1813 pressing STRG+LEFT resp. STRG+RIGHT
1814 * created template files for new files with specified filetype
1815 * added highlighting support for Python (please give feedback)
1816 * extracted all hardcoded styling definitions for all filetypes
1817 so they can be easily edited
1818 * added vertical line to mark long lines
1819 * fixed a bug that caused a segfault if configuration directory
1821 * fixed a bug which prevented auto-completion from working
1822 * many minor bugfixes (see ChangeLog for details)
1825 Geany 0.2 (October 26, 2005)
1827 * improved file open dialog
1828 * improved Find dialog
1829 * powerful Replace dialog
1830 * gcc4 compilation fix
1834 Geany 0.1 (October 19, 2005)
1836 * first official release