4 * Add new command line option --list-documents to return a list
5 of currently opened documents
6 * Remove deprecated --debug flag. Please use --verbose/-v instead.
9 * Add option 'System Default' for toolbar icon style and size to use
10 the GTK default value.
11 * Allow '+<number' and '-<number>' as values for Goto Line inputs
12 to jump relative to the current line.
13 * Add preference to add new document tabs beside the current one
14 (patch by Colomban Wendling, thanks).
17 * Add new special template wildcard "{command:...}" to use the output
18 of a shell command in templates.
19 * Update Scintilla to 2.11.
20 * Add preference and support for virtual spaces.
21 * Remove editor_auto_latex() from Geany core and move it to geanyLaTeX
25 * Improvements in symbol parsing of PHP and Python files.
26 * Add R tagmanager symbol parser (patch by Jon Senior).
27 * New filetype: Txt2Tags (patch by Eric Forgeot).
28 * New filetype: Abc (patch by Eric Forgeot).
31 * Add keybindings to switch to the sidebar's Document and Symbol list as
32 well as to the Message Window's current tab (patch by Eugene Arshinov).
33 * Add 'Remove Markers' and 'Remove Error Indicators' keybindings.
36 * Classbuilder: Add support for creating PHP classes
37 (patch by Ondrej Donek).
38 * HTMLchars: Make plugin remember whether replacement of special
39 characters was activated even after restart of Geany or
43 * Support very long build commands.
44 * Add a preference for choosing between GTK and native File Open/Save
45 dialogs (only available on Windows).
48 * Add new plugin signals: "document-before-save", "document-filetype-set",
49 "geany-startup-complete".
50 * Add PLUGIN_SET_TRANSLATABLE_INFO macro to the plugin API so plugins' meta
51 information can be translated already in the plugin manager dialog
52 (patch by Colomban Wendling).
53 * Add editor_insert_text_block()
57 * Added translations: ast
58 * Updated translations: de, en_GB, es, fr, gl, ja, nl, pt, ru, sl, sv,
63 Geany 0.18.1 (February 14, 2010)
66 * Define G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT to fix build on GLib 2.8.
67 * Use AC_PATH_PROG instead of 'which' for portability (patch by Erik
71 * Remove filetypes.common invert_all option - use 'Invert syntax
72 highlighting colors' pref instead (fixes #2854525).
75 * Fix 'Open Selected File' for unsaved new documents.
76 * Fix updating main menu accelerators after changing keybindings
77 (thanks to Lex Trotman).
78 * Fix using 'Insert date' keybinding when a custom date string has
80 * Set the cursor color for the split window plugin.
81 * Remove plugin from plugin manager dialog on unloading if it no
82 longer exists or is incompatible.
83 * Fix 'Reflow block' command when at the last paragraph and there's
84 no last newline (patch by Eugene Arshinov, thanks).
85 * Fix opening filenames beginning with two dots (closes #2858487).
86 * Show Find in Files stderr output in messages window instead of
87 debug window so that invalid regex messages can be seen easily.
88 * Speed up sorting in utils_get_file_list(). This reduces the file
89 browser delay on displaying a big directory, e.g. /usr/bin.
90 * Fix a bug with not w3c compatible HTML code on export plugin
91 * Fix non-working Home and End keys on numpads.
92 * Fix loading of files on network resources on Windows.
93 * Fix wrong alignment of printed pages when page headers are disabled
97 * Extend auto_latex() function to check whether an environment has
98 been closed within the next lines to avoid auto adding double
100 * Replace some icons which could cause licensing problems by icons
101 from the Rodent icon theme.
104 * Parse contents of D extern{} and version{} blocks.
105 * Fix creating D interface tags properly.
106 * Parse D functions with contracts (fixes #1885480).
107 * Parse D alias statement like typedef.
108 * Improve parsing of LaTeX, PHP and Python files.
111 * Add 'Scope autocompletion' section.
112 * Add 'Tools menu items' section to explain configuration files
113 submenu, reload configuration item.
114 * Minor updates/fixes.
117 * Add gcc commands to build a plugin to the HowTo.
120 * Add section 'Plugin API/ABI design'.
121 * Add 'Compiler options & warnings' section.
122 * Update Style section to be clearer about code alignment and show
124 * Add 'Doc-comments' plugin API subsection.
126 Internationalisation:
127 * Added translations: gl
130 Geany 0.18 (August 16, 2009)
133 * Fix scrolling horizontally after finding a search match with the
134 search bar or Find Next/Previous which is off-screen.
135 * Remove relative/untidy path elements from filenames when opening
136 documents (#2823998).
137 * Create initial template files with proper platform-specific line
139 * Improve inserting of comment templates like File header or licence
143 * Add 'Show Paths' documents list popup item.
144 * Add filetypes.common to 'Configuration Files' menu.
145 * Implement a graphical toolbar editor.
146 * Add 'Build' toolbar button to the default layout.
147 * Add 'Replace' toolbar button (closes #2798225).
148 * Use a more Tango like icon for 'Save All' (by Jesse Mayes, thanks).
149 * Add a popup menu for the keybinding list in the preferences dialog
150 to easily expand and collapse all groups.
153 * Implement Most-Recently-Used document switching when pressing
154 'Switch to last used document' keybinding (Ctrl-Tab).
155 * Add 'Mark All' keybinding (Ctrl-Shift-M).
156 * Add 'Reflow lines/block' keybinding, (Ctrl-J; thanks to
158 * Make the Scintilla keybindings 'Delete to end of line' and
159 'Go to end of display line' configurable.
160 * Switching notebook tabs now works for the currently used notebook
161 widget instead of always using the documents notebook.
164 * Fix a redraw when documents were first drawn uncolourised.
165 * Delay highlighting matching braces by 100ms to speed up scrolling
167 * Support 'tab indents, space aligns' style when indenting (#2789109).
168 * Add 'Autocomplete all words in document' pref; also used when forcing
169 autocompletion and there's no symbol names to show.
170 * Add 'Drop rest of word on completion' pref.
171 * Update Scintilla to version 1.79.
172 * Improve displaying and reshowing of calltips.
175 * Reload color schemes via Tools menu (thanks to Eugene Arshinov).
176 * Implement named styles support for filetypes.* using a
177 filetypes.common [named_styles] section; used as
178 "style=named_style,bold". (See the manual for details).
179 * Allow style definitions with missing fields to use the
180 filetypes.common default style's fields.
181 * Make C-like filetype styles use named styles & default background
182 color. (Anyone who wants to likewise update any other filetype's
183 styles, please let us know ;-)).
184 * Allow indentation of wrapped lines (see style 'line_wrap_indent').
185 * Add new styles 'line_height' and 'marker_mark'.
188 * Add Markdown filetype (thanks to Jon Strait).
189 * Highlight D WYSIWYG backtick `strings` and r"strings" (#1895745).
190 * Minor improvements for filetypes: Fortran, Haxe, HTML, Lua,
191 Matlab, Pascal, Python, Tcl.
194 * Read custom system global tags files from $prefix/share/geany/tags
196 * Autocomplete scoped fields like struct members when typing '.' (and
197 also '->' or '::' in C/C++) if the language's tag parser supports it.
198 * Save field tags for C/C++ when generating a global tags file (you may
199 want to regenerate your tag files).
200 * Parse Python calltips.
201 * Show relative paths in Diff filename tags.
202 * Group reStructuredText symbol list items by scope level.
205 * Add geanyplugin.h single include.
206 * Add plugin_signal_connect() for connecting plugin signals at
207 runtime and also for connecting to any GObject signal.
208 * Add documents_foreach(), filetypes[], documents[], utils_strdupa()
209 and various foreach_type() macros.
210 * Make GeanyDocument::file_type always be non-NULL.
213 * Fix quoting the build command string on Windows (closes #2791769).
214 * Fix LaTeX view commands on Windows (part of #2807688).
215 * Expand system environment variables (%variableName%) on Windows when
216 running Build commands.
218 Internationalisation:
219 * Added translations: lb, sl, pt_PT
220 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, en_GB, fi, fr, ja, pt_BR, ru, tr
223 Geany 0.17 (May 02, 2009)
226 * Fix broken selection of "Document->Set Encoding" menu items.
227 * Fix broken non-incremental search with the toolbar search entry when
228 pressing Enter (closes #2638180).
229 * Fix parsing of Make output (closes #2694479, patch by Andrea Mazzoleni).
230 * Fix crashes on quitting Geany (closes #2533990).
231 * Fix disabled Go to Tag items in the editor menu when using the
233 * Prevent crashes when two or more top level items in the symbol
234 list have the same name (closes #2778246).
237 * Add an option to set an additional plugin lookup path.
238 * Add a hidden preference 'use_safe_file_saving'. This has serious side
239 effects, please read the documentation before enabling this.
242 * Add 'Send Selection to Terminal' command to the Edit->Format menu.
243 * Change the background colour of the search entries in the Find
244 and Replace dialogs according to the search results.
245 * Add 'Close Other Documents' and 'Close All' menu items to the tab bar
247 * Add an option to allow appending the toolbar to the main menu bar
248 to save some vertical space.
249 * When a project is loaded, replace the project base path with the
250 project name in the Documents sidebar for parent items (closes #2723679).
251 * Make the file open dialog more compact.
252 * Ellipsize tab labels and some status messages for very long
253 filenames (closes #2777348).
254 * Add new toolbar element: Print (patch by Roland Baudin).
255 * Remember the active sidebar page between sessions.
256 * Add "Recent Projects" menu to the Project menu (#2728630,
257 patch by Elias Pschernig).
258 * Add Tools->Configuration Files item for snippets.conf.
261 * Fix wrong Fortran 90 comment characters when inserting templates.
262 * Add filetype ActionScript (patch by Chris Macksey).
263 * Fixes for CSS, Fortran and Ruby parsers.
264 * Add a trivial symbol parser for NSIS files.
267 * On Windows, change the working directory to the Geany installation
268 path at startup to avoid unwanted directory locking(closes #2626124).
269 * Fix window positioning on startup.
270 * Make build commands on Windows run synchronously to avoid problems
271 with reading build commands' output.
274 * HTMLchars: Extend plugin by bulk replace and replace on
275 input for special characters to their HTML entities.
276 * Splitwindow: Add keybindings for the split actions.
277 * VCDiff: Remove plugin from Geany. Use GeanyVC instead.
280 * Deprecate sci_get_text(), sci_get_selected_text() and
281 sci_get_text_range().
282 * Add sci_get_contents(), sci_get_contents_range() and
283 sci_get_selection_contents() as replacement functions to provide
284 an easier and cleaner API (initial patch by Frank).
285 * Make GEANY_FILETYPES_NONE = 0, sort filetype IDs randomly (so we can
286 append new filetypes without breaking the ABI); add
287 filetypes_by_title sorted list to GeanyData.
290 * Describe how to build Geany using the Waf build system.
292 Internationalisation:
293 * Updated translations: be, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, ja, pt_BR, ru,
297 Geany 0.16 (February 15, 2009)
300 * Fix indenting for Tabs & Spaces mode when inserting snippets.
301 * Fix snippets and smart indent using too much indentation when the
302 line contains whitespace after non-whitespace characters (#2215044).
303 * Fix segfault when showing Find in Files dialog when no documents are
305 * Fix not switching to 2nd last used document when the last used
306 document has been closed (#1945162).
309 * Group child tags by their parents in the symbol list for C-like
310 filetypes, Python, Conf (thanks to Conrad Steenberg).
311 * Use a tree for the Documents sidebar, grouped by path.
312 * Add 'Tools->Configuration Files' menu with items to open
313 filetype_extensions.conf and ignore.tags. These files are also
314 reloaded automatically when saved.
315 * Change configuration directory path to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/geany
316 (most often this is ~/.config/geany).
317 * Allow to specify files on the command line and from remote instances
318 to be URIs (local and with GIO also remote URIs).
319 * Increase minimum required GTK version to 2.8.
322 * Add Project Indentation prefs, which override the Editor
323 Preferences dialog options. For new projects, these default to
324 the editor indent prefs.
325 * Add an interface pref for whether to hide additional widgets when
326 double-clicking on document notebook tabs (off by default).
327 * Add a preference to invert all colours for syntax highlighting.
328 * Add a hidden preference "allow_always_save" to make the Save buttons
329 and menu items always sensitive.
332 * Rework the toolbar: now all elements can be added/removed/reordered
333 using a simple XML file.
334 * Add new toolbar buttons for Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Preferences,
335 Close All and Build (including a submenu for Make actions).
336 * Add a progressbar widget to the statusbar to show progress for time
340 * Make Ctrl-click go to matching brace if there's no current word.
341 * Make Shift+Mouse wheel scroll the editor view horizontally.
342 * Make the 'Mark' button for Find highlight the results with rounded boxes
343 instead of marking the whole line.
344 * Add auto-closing of braces, brackets and quotes (Guillaume de Rorthais).
345 * Support multiple %cursor% wildcards in Snippets (Thomas Martitz).
348 * Add new filetypes Ada, CMake, Matlab, NSIS, Vala and YAML.
349 * Update HTML character entities (thanks to Tyler D'Agosta).
350 * Parse restructuredText sections in the order of first-used underline
351 character, which can now be any punctuation character (as per the spec).
352 * Remove GTK global tags, replace them with C (C99) tags. The GTK tags
353 file is still available for download on the website.
354 * Minor improvements for filetypes CSS, Fortran, FreeBasic, HTML, Tcl
358 * Improve tab close icon size.
359 * Changes to the Windows installer:
360 - The full installer now includes the GTK 2.14 runtime environment.
361 - Register ".geany" as Geany Project File extension.
362 - Install GTK translation files only if installation of translation
363 files were requested (saves about 22 MB otherwise).
364 - Support silent installations.
367 * Add Split Window 'Split Vertically' command (thanks to Moritz Barsnick).
368 * Make Version Diff plugin set the indent type for diffs based on the
369 current file's indent type.
370 * Minor improvements to the filebrowser plugin
373 * Generate plugin API header geanyfunctions.h containing macros to
374 avoid having to type the function pointer names manually.
375 * Deprecate pluginmacros.h in favour of geanyfunctions.h.
376 * Add "editor-notify" to the plugin API.
377 * Add new plugin symbol plugin_help() which is called by Geany when the
378 plugin should show its documentation (if any, symbol is optional).
381 * Update Scintilla regular expression info for v1.77 (character
382 classes, ASCII escaping, character sets containing square
383 brackets peculiarities). Adapted from SciTE doc.
384 * Complete 'Hello World' Plugin Howto.
386 Internationalisation:
387 * Updated translations: bg, ca, cs, de, en_GB, fr, hu, it, ja,
388 pt_BR, sv, ru, tr, vi, zh_CN
391 Geany 0.15 (October 19, 2008)
394 * Add Previous Message, Previous Error commands (thanks also to Beau
396 * Add 'Close Other Documents' File menu command (#1976724).
397 * Add Find Document Usage popup menu command & keybinding.
398 * Check that the current file is still on disk (as well as checking the
400 * Add support for custom file templates (found at startup) in the
401 ~/.geany/templates/files directory, shown underneath filetype templates
402 in the New with Template menu.
403 * Make socket open command support filename:line:column syntax.
404 * Add filetypes.* [build_settings] key 'error_regex' to support custom
405 error message parsing using a GNU-style extended regular expression.
406 * Allow loading projects from command line (#1961083).
407 * Add alternative build system: Waf.
408 * Add Tools menu item to reload configuration data without a restart.
409 * Add support to use template wildcards in snippets.
410 * Increase LSB compliance.
413 * Make disk check timeout configurable (zero disables disk checks).
414 * Add search pref: 'Use the current file's directory for Find in Files'
418 * Make keyboard shortcuts dialog non-modal (#1999384).
419 * Add a debug messages window to easily view debug messages/warnings.
422 * Update Scintilla to version 1.77 (includes many fixes).
423 * Add basic Line Breaking option in the Document menu and 'Line breaking
424 column' editor pref (for now only works when typing characters past
425 the line breaking column number).
426 * Don't colourise any documents until they need to be drawn (this
427 should make opening a session faster for filetypes that support typename
429 * Make Ctrl-click on a word perform Go to Tag Definition.
430 * Add 'Max. symbol name suggestions' autocompletion pref.
431 * Show ellipsis (...) item when there are too many symbol names for
433 * Highlight matching brace indent guides (thanks to Jason Oster;
435 * Show brace indent guides on empty lines when appropriate (thanks to
436 Jason Oster; #2105982).
437 * Add 'Tab key indents' pref, on by default.
438 * Implement soft tabs support (#1662173). There's now a 'Tabs & Spaces'
439 Indent Type, and separate Width, Hard Tab Width indent prefs. (Thanks
440 to Joerg Desch for explaining how it needed to work).
441 * Auto-update the line margin width as lines are added (thanks to Jason
443 * Add "Replace spaces by tabs".
446 * Install plugins into lib/ not into plugins/.
447 * Install Geany's message catalogs into share/locale rather than
448 lib/locale as GTK does since 2.12.2.
451 * Add Go to Start/End of Line keybindings (#1996175).
452 * Add 'Switch to Compiler' keybinding (useful when checking build
454 * Add keybindings for Line wrapping, Line breaking, Toggle fold and
455 Replace Spaces by tabs, Previous/Next word part.
458 * Add OpenGL Shader Language (GLSL) filetype (thanks to Colomban
460 * Add R language filetype (thanks to Andrew Rowland; #2121502).
461 * Split filetype Fortran into Fortran 77 and Fortran 90.
462 * Add Gettext translation filetype (#2131985).
463 * CSS improvements, thanks to Jason Oster.
466 * Fix hang when restarting the VTE (#1990323) with VTE 0.16.14.
467 (Note that with VTE 0.16.14 the reset sometimes leaves a blank
468 terminal, but pressing enter makes it then behave as normal).
471 * Add Split Window plugin (should work OK for viewing; full editing
472 support is not implemented yet).
473 * Merge InstantSave, AutoSave and BackupCopy plugins into the new
474 plugin 'Save Actions'.
477 * Add Tips and Tricks appendix.
478 * Updated Installation section.
479 * Update 'Build system' for custom error regexes.
480 * Add a section for internal plugins.
483 * Many changes; see the API documentation (make api-doc) and the
484 geany-devel list archives.
485 * Deprecated: plugin_fields, plugin_info symbols.
487 Internationalisation:
488 * New translations: ko, tr.
489 * Updated translations: be, ca, de, en_GB, fi, hu, it, ja, pl,
493 Geany 0.14 (April 19, 2008)
496 * Don't beep when using Replace All in Session unless all open files
497 have no replacements (fixes #1893796).
498 * Only use filetype detection after Save As, not on every save when the
499 filetype is None (fixes #1891778).
500 * Make Go to Tag commands look for the tag in the current document
501 before searching the workspace.
502 * Check file on disk for changes also when pressing a key.
503 * Ignore documents with no absolute path when saving session files.
504 * Fix segfault with Run command when a project is open and the current
505 file's filetype has no run command.
506 * Make Next Error and Next Message commands add positions to the
507 navigation queue, so the user can move backwards through the list items
508 and return to where they were.
509 * Make pressing escape in the sidebar focus the editor.
510 * Make navigation queue position based to restore the line and column when
511 returning to a previous position (closes #1936927).
512 * Save sorting order of the symbol list when saving a file (fixes #1917262).
513 * Improve "Send Selection To" code (fixes #1909452).
514 * Install header files and add a pkg-config file for external plugins.
515 * Use monospace font for text entry fields in search dialogs (#1907117).
516 * Don't open zero byte sized files read-only (e.g. files in /proc).
519 * Improve Makefile parser to detect targets.
520 * Update PHP tags file to latest PHP API docs (closes #1888691).
521 * Add translucency settings to filetypes.common for semi-transparency.
522 * Add HTML parser to get h1, h2, h3 symbols as well as link anchors and
523 JavaScript functions (fixes #1896068).
524 * Update Javascript, Tcl and Assembler parser.
527 * When closing a tab when using left-to-right tabs, focus the next
528 document, not the previous.
529 * Move Load Tags item from File to Tools menu.
532 * Don't scroll the editor view if it is unnecessary when using Find
533 Next/Previous, Find Selected, incremental search, Go to Marker or Go to
534 Matching Brace commands.
535 * Fix bug with showing macro list items all on one line.
536 * Fix Python auto-indentation when line endings are set to CR/LF.
537 * Unfold hidden code when the fold point modified (fixes #1923350).
538 * Update Scintilla to version 1.76.
539 * Add (basic) column mode editing (patch by "chuck").
542 * Replace untitled file header filename after Save As and add to recent
543 files on Windows too.
544 * Resolve Windows shortcuts when opening files.
545 * Fix modal dialog problems on Windows by not setting taskbar hint
547 * Add new process spawning implementation. This makes the VCdiff plugin
548 to work on Windows (patch by Pierre Joye, thanks).
549 * Fix crash on Windows when a project could not be opened.
552 * Add configurable plugin keybindings support.
553 * Add a HTML Characters keybinding to show the dialog.
554 * Add File Browser keybindings to focus the Path Entry and File List
555 * Rename VCDiff plugin Version Diff.
556 * When quitting, remember plugin filenames that couldn't be loaded at
557 startup as well as active plugins.
560 * Add PLUGIN_KEY_GROUP and keybindings_set_item() to setup a keybinding
562 * keybindings_send_command() arguments have changed because of
563 keybinding groups - this breaks the API for plugins already using it.
564 * Make VERSION_CHECK deprecated in favour of PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK.
567 * Add descriptions for several options in the preferences dialog
568 (patch from Robert McGinley).
570 Internationalisation:
571 * New translations: ro.
572 * Updated translations: bg, de, en_GB, es, fr, hu, it, ja, pt_BR, ru.
575 Geany 0.13 (February 05, 2008)
578 * Improve configure script and fix some compatibility issues.
579 * Add support for project session files.
580 * Add native GTK printing support (only with GTK 2.10+).
581 * Prevent execution of commands by Geany if the VTE may contain any
582 text on the prompt (thanks to "Jeff Pohlmeyer for reporting).
583 * Store more document-related settings when saving session in the
584 configuration file (including the file encoding).
585 * Detect in-file specified file encoding by scanning the file using
587 * Add binary relocation support.
590 * Add configurable default file extension setting for filetype
592 * Fix reST autocompletion.
595 * Show arrays and modifiers like const in calltip return types for
597 * Update C global tags file for GTK+ 2.12.
598 * Fix parsing the correct D class name when inheriting, D constructor
599 tags and ignore D import statements.
600 * Remove unnecessary tagmanager status file.
601 * Improve PHP, Ruby and FreeBasic parsers.
604 * Add 'Indent Type' option in the Document menu.
605 * Add 'Detect from file' Editor indentation pref.
606 * Show TAB or SP for current document's indent type.
607 * Add a 'Newline strips trailing spaces' pref (thanks to Catalin
609 * Add 'Strip Trailing Spaces' document menu item.
610 * Add combo box input history for 'Make Custom Target' dialog.
611 * Make Open, Save As dialogs start in project base path (or default
612 path pref) when the current file has no filename.
613 * Add 'Make in base path' project file preference.
614 * Make 'Open Selected File' first try the current file's directory,
615 falling back to the project base path if no file was found.
616 * Fix broken window maximization.
617 * Improve appearance of used treeviews and use rules hints to respect
618 user colour settings.
621 * Fix hidden lines after deleting a line that is a collapsed fold
623 * Make Fold All/Unfold All attempt to scroll the current line in view.
624 * Show line wrap symbol at start of line for wrapped lines.
625 * Allow scrolling past end of document, so the user can append text
626 with the last lines drawn at the top of the view.
627 * Rename "Construct autocompletion" to "Snippets".
628 * Improve usage of "Unfold all children" option.
629 * Update Scintilla to version 1.75.
632 * Add configurable keybindings for Cut, Copy and Paste.
633 * Ask the user whether to override an existing keybinding when setting
634 a combination that is already in use.
635 * Add 'Override Geany keybindings' VTE prefs dialog option (replaces
636 hidden pref), which makes the VTE interpret all keyboard shortcuts
637 except focus group keybindings.
640 * Add File Browser sidebar plugin.
641 * Add Version Control Diff plugin (VC Diff), which supports SVN, CVS and
642 GIT (thanks to Yura Siamashka).
643 * Add plugin manager dialog to select plugins to load at startup and to
644 call a plugin configure dialog.
645 * Add new signals: project_open, project_save, project_close.
646 * Add Auto Save plugin.
649 * Add keybindings_send_command() and some other functions.
650 * Add pluginmacros.h to define common macros for app, p_utils, etc.
651 * Add more documentation/comments to demoplugin.c.
652 * Add configure symbol for plugins which is called by Geany when a
653 configure dialog for the plugin is requested, optionally.
654 * Add author field to plugin info struct.
657 * Enable build support.
658 * Prevent prefs dialog being hidden after using the prefs file dialog.
659 * Create Geany's configuration directory in user's appdata path
660 instead of the default home directory.
663 * Show default shortcuts in Keybindings section.
664 * Update Project section for project-based session support.
665 * Add Indentation subsection under Editor section.
666 * HACKING: Update 'Adding a filetype' section.
668 Internationalisation:
669 * New translations: ja, uk, el.
670 * Updated translations: ca, de, en_GB, fr, it, pt_BR, hu, sv, vi.
673 Geany 0.12 (October 10, 2007)
676 * Fixed opening the same file twice from the message window/command-line.
677 * Fixed Ctrl-Shift keybindings not working when caps lock is on.
678 * Fixed saving the wrong document when using Save All with unnamed
680 * Fixed replacing with '^' or '$' regex chars.
681 * Fixed hang with Find All/Find Usage with '^' or '$' regex chars.
682 * Fixed hang when replacing all '[ ]*' regex matches (closes #1757748).
683 * Fixed displaying error indicators with Make after entering a
685 * Fixed a possible segfault when parsing tags (a vString bug).
686 * Fixed clipboard problems with some applications.
687 * Fixed crash when trying to open the Save As dialog on Windows.
688 * Fixed crash when saving a file after setting encoding "None".
689 * Fixed scrolling bugs when searching text and the cursor is outside of
690 the current visible area.
693 * Added reStructuredText filetype and parser.
694 * Added Haskell tags support (thanks to Peter Strand).
695 * Added decorator styling for Python.
696 * Parse Python global variables and class variables.
697 * Added support for Java Apache Ant compiler error messages (thanks to
699 * Added new filetypes CSharp and FreeBasic.
700 * Added filetype Haxe (patch by blackdog, thank you).
703 * Added basic plugin support (developers: see the HACKING file).
704 * Added 'Enable plugin support' preference and -p, --no-plugins options.
705 * Added Class Builder plugin (thanks to Alexander Rodin).
706 * Added Export plugin to export current file as HTML or LaTeX.
709 * Common bash Ctrl-[a-z] keyboard shortcuts now work when the VTE is
710 focused, and there is an 'enable_bash_keys' hidden preference.
711 * Added 'Move document left' and 'Move document right' keybindings.
712 * Added Find keybinding.
713 * Made fixed keybindings overridable.
714 * Added fixed keybindings for switching to leftmost/rightmost document,
715 Ctrl-Shift-{PageUp,PageDown}.
716 * Change Previous/Next Paragraph fixed commands to Ctrl-{Up,Down};
717 adding Shift extends selection by paragraph. (Scroll by line is now
719 * Made pressing escape focus the editor when using incremental search
720 or Goto Line toolbar fields.
721 * Added keybinding for select current paragraph.
722 * Added keybindings for smart indent and indent/deindent by one space.
723 * Removed convert to lower-/upper-case keybindings.
724 * Added toggle case keybinding and change shortcut to Ctrl-Alt-U.
727 * Added preference for 'smart' home key behaviour (thanks to Jeff
729 * Added symbol list icons (thanks to Jean-François Wauthy, and KDevelop
731 * Added 'Current chars' indentation mode (closes #1726880).
732 * Save and restore the current notebook page when quitting.
733 * Added support for %e, %f in project run command.
734 * Ignore punctuation chars when moving by word, and use word end
735 boundaries when moving by word to the right (like most GTK+ widgets).
736 * Added hidden editor preference 'use_gtk_word_boundaries'.
737 * Added auto_complete_whilst_editing hidden preference.
738 * Speed up Save All for C-like files.
739 * Don't show file opened/saved/closed messages on the status bar.
740 * Added --no-preprocessing, -P option when generating tags files to
741 disable preprocessing of C/C++ source files.
742 * Added default startup directory option (closes #1704988).
743 * Use current locale as default encoding for new files.
744 * Added simple code navigation (thanks to Dave Moore).
745 * Re-maximize the main window on startup when closed in maximized state
747 * Added auto focus (to auto focus widgets below mouse cursor).
748 * Complete rewrite of auto completion to make it user-definable and
749 much more flexible (please read documentation).
750 * Added option to set a default encoding when opening files and disable
751 auto detection of the file encoding.
752 * Improved comment toggling by adding an additional character to mark.
753 * Changed the background colour of the search bar in the toolbar
754 according to the search result.
755 * Use intltool to make geany.desktop translatable
756 * Replace Geany's icon by a new one by Sebastian Kraft (thanks).
757 (Thanks also to Christoph Berg for updating the icon code).
760 * Changed documentation generation tools from DocBook to reST
761 (thanks to John Gabriele for his great work on this).
762 * Added Plugins section.
763 * Added 'Inserting unicode characters' Editing section (thanks to
765 * Added 'Hidden preferences' appendix.
766 * Added 'Switching documents' keybindings section.
769 * Added notes on adding a filetype.
771 Internationalisation:
772 * New translations: en_GB.
773 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, it, pl, pt_BR, zh_CN.
776 Geany 0.11 (May 21, 2007)
778 Notes for existing users:
779 * Tab is now used for construct completion (for, if, etc.), but it
780 is configurable with the new 'Complete construct' keybinding.
781 * Template files are now stored in ~/.geany/templates/ and the
782 'template.' filename prefix is no longer used. You will need to
783 move any custom template files you have.
784 * Inserting a file header is now optional for filetype templates.
785 Use the string '{fileheader}' to mark where the file header should
787 * Drag'n'Drop of text inside the editor widget will now move the
788 text instead of copying it.
791 * Fix segfault when pressing Ctrl-Enter when there are no workspace
793 * Remove error indicators in all documents when linking (#1705374).
794 * Sort symbol list tags also by line number (#1703575).
795 * Fix #1717418, Hang on SQL file load.
796 * Fix #1718532 - Crash when opening a special HTML file.
797 * Add workaround for PHP closing brace de-indenting.
798 * Fix reloading of read-only documents.
801 * Add keybinding to show project properties dialog.
802 * Add project Run command support.
803 * Run Make All and Make Custom from the project base directory.
806 * Update C global tags for GTK+ 2.10 and it's dependencies.
807 * Add option --generate-tags (-g) to generate a global tags file
808 from a list of source files (see docs).
809 * Load global tag files stored in ~/.geany/tags at startup #.
810 * Add Load Tags command in the File menu #.
811 # This is not supported for Pascal, PHP or LaTeX files yet.
813 Calltips (for C-like files):
814 * Show up and down arrows when there are multiple calltip matches.
815 * Show classname in calltips.
816 * Parse pointers in function return type.
817 * Add calltip support for D constructors.
820 * Parse 'Entering directory' Make messages so opening files from
821 error messages works for subdirectories (thanks to Josef Whiter).
822 * Make Go to Tag Definition/Declaration work for all tags.
823 * Support filetype templates for all filetypes (see docs).
824 * Make file header optional for filetype templates.
825 * Add 'Find Selected' and 'Find Prev Selected' search commands and
826 keybindings (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
827 * Add Mark button to the Find dialog, and a Remove Markers item to
829 * Add 'Recurse in subfolders' and 'Extra options' checkboxes to the
830 Find in Files dialog.
831 * Add 'Switch to last used document' keybinding (Ctrl-Tab).
832 * Add Goto Previous/Next Marker keybindings (Ctrl-, and Ctrl-.).
833 * Add Toggle Marker keybinding (Ctrl-M).
834 * Add keybinding for construct completion, and set the default to
836 * Add MimeType associatiations for: C++ header, Pascal, Perl,
837 Python, httpd-PHP and XML files (thanks to Iñaki Rodriguez).
838 * Add brace indenting support for Perl and Tcl.
839 * Make backspace unindent when using spaces for indentation.
840 * Wrap notebook pages when switching tabs.
841 * Speed up loading multiple C-like files slightly.
842 * New filetypes: JavaScript, Lua and Haskell.
843 * Set several widget names to allow users to define custom styles
845 * Add context actions to run custom commands on current selection
846 or the current word below cursor.
847 * Add different auto indention modes.
848 * Improve replacing in rectangle selections.
849 * Add custom commands to send selected text through some definable
850 commands and replace the selection with the output.
851 * Add command line option --column to allow setting the initial
852 column for the first opened file on command line.
853 * Improve the auto scrolling of documents.
854 * Improve loading of the VTE library.
855 * Add an option for using spaces or tabulators when inserting some
857 * Add an option to disable Drag'n'Drop in the editor widget.
860 * Add Project Management, Global Tags, Construct Completion
862 * Add Bookmarks section (thanks to John Gabriele).
863 * Update Filetype Templates, Search sections.
865 Internationalisation:
866 * New translations: bg.
867 * Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fr, zh_CN.
870 Geany 0.10.2 (February 25, 2007)
873 * Fixed serious crash of complete X session when using the Stop
874 command when Geany is run from the program menu (closes #1668017).
877 Geany 0.10.1 (February 23, 2007)
880 * Wrong tab foreground colour for unmodified documents.
881 * Fixed crashes when closing dialogs by clicking X on some systems.
882 * Fixed missing global tags for C files when a C++ source file was
884 * Fixed autocompletion missing tag matches.
885 * Fixed a wrong PASCAL autocompletion.
886 * Set single undo action when toggling multiple lines or stripping
888 * Prevent some possible invalid memory reads.
889 * Convert config, application and documentation dir paths to locale
890 encoding before using it.
891 * Fixed errors when changing directories containing special
892 characters within the VTE component (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
893 * Support newer so-names when loading the VTE library (thanks to
895 * Fixed paste problems on Windows.
896 * When using Save As the returned filename needs to be converted
898 * Fixed error when parsing of compiler errors by the va_list system.
899 * Added MimeType entry as suggested by Nick Schermer.
900 * LaTeX parser: Allow \section*{} and other commands with *.
901 * Change default keybinding for Close All to Ctrl-Shift-W.
902 * Allow Make for files with no extension - prevent Build when the
903 output filename would be the same as the source file.
904 * Ensure the VTE visual settings are applied when switching to VTE
905 when the Message Window is hidden.
906 * Fixed several issues while opening files and improved code.
907 * Improved the auto scrolling of documents and fixed a bug when
908 opening files remotely.
909 * Fixed wrong D function return type after a class definition.
910 * Added several missing style types for filetype Perl (thanks to
911 John Gabriele for reporting).
912 * Prevent right click in Symbol list from selecting a tag.
913 * Update the symbol list when starting a new document.
914 * Scroll Compiler and Messages window in view when using Next Error
916 * Auto close brackets only when auto completion of constructs is
917 enabled (closes #1665015).
918 * Fixed switching to the wrong tab when showing the unsaved dialog.
920 Internationalisation:
921 * New translations: fi (thanks to Harri Koskinen).
922 * Updated translations: cs, de, es, fr, hu.
925 Geany 0.10 (December 21, 2006)
928 * Added a dialog to insert HTML special characters.
929 * Added new command line option --line to set the initial line for
930 the first opened file.
931 * Implemented new, own Undo system to undo/redo encoding changes.
932 * Added simple parser for filetype Diff to create tags for each
933 patched file in a diff file.
934 * Added new encoding "None" to open files without any character
936 * Added Stop button to abort the Run command.
938 * New scintilla lexer for filetype D with several improvements.
939 * Improved auto completion of multi line comments
940 * Added option to execute programs in the VTE instead of executing
941 them in a terminal emulation window
942 * Removed the limit on the number of files open.
943 * Save the build includes and arguments when quitting.
944 * Added Next Message search command and Next Error build command.
945 * Make search bar automatically wraparound if necessary.
946 * Applied patch from Bob Doan to prevent unnecessary search
947 scrolling and add a preference to suppress some of the search
949 * Added Find Previous, Find All in Document/Session buttons for the
951 * Added Replace (but don't Find) button for the Replace dialog.
952 * Added 'Hide Message Window' popup menu command.
953 * Added Alt-[1-9] shortcuts to switch to a certain tab number.
954 * Limit search dialog history to 30 entries.
955 * Change python default compile command to create a compiled
956 python .pyc file (thanks to Bajusz Tamás).
959 * Fix #1611530 'file has changed' message on Windows after saving.
960 * Fixed wrong paste behaviour under Windows with some applications.
963 * Fixed crash when using "Make object" on new files.
964 * Fixed incompatible use of read command in the created shell
965 script to execute programs.
966 * Fixed wrong insert position when the cursor was moved by keyboard
967 and comments, includes or a date was inserted.
968 * Fixed some segfaults when inserting comments, dates and
969 includes at a position prior to some deleted text.
970 * Fix message window horizontal scrollbar being too tall on some
971 systems (thanks to Rob van der Linde).
973 Internationalisation:
974 * New translations: fr, hu, it, zh_CN, zh_TW.
975 * Updated translations: be, ca, cs, de, es, vi.
978 Geany 0.9 (September 29, 2006)
981 * Added function calltips for files open in the current workspace
982 for C-like languages.
983 * Open a second instance by default when starting Geany with no
984 filenames specified on the command-line.
985 * Added better error message support for D, for both DMD and GDC;
986 also GCC-style linker error messages are now parsed.
987 * Text selections now use syntax highlighting foreground colours
988 (but can still be overridden in filetypes.common).
989 * Find in Files improvements: fixed string and whole word only
990 matching options; a directory selector dialog; filenames passed
991 to Grep are now sorted alphabetically.
992 * Remember the VTE current directory at startup.
993 * Show the messages window on build failure or for Find Usage.
994 * Added -s command-line option to not load session files (-i is now
995 used to force a new instance).
996 * Added comment toggle functionality to easily comment and
997 uncomment a line with one shortcut.
998 * Separated filetypes PHP and HTML for better usage.
999 * New filetypes: Diff, Fortran 77 and Ferite.
1000 * Added auto completion tags for PASCAL.
1001 * Improved VTE usage by adding options for selecting the used shell
1002 and ignoring menu bar accelerator (default F10).
1003 * Added menu items to insert configurable date/time strings.
1004 * Removed the whole FIFO code and replaced it with support for
1005 (Unix Domain) Sockets(including Windows support).
1008 * Implemented Run command (from the build menu) under Windows.
1009 * Enabled socket code on Windows to detect a running instance.
1010 * Enabled notification if file on disk has changed under Windows.
1013 * Fixed a segfault at startup if terminal follow path setting is
1015 * Fixed clicking on error messages being dependent on the current
1017 * Fixed a bug when clicking on a recent file got the wrong
1019 * Fixed a crash when a compiler output reports an error in a blank
1020 line(can happen in LaTeX)
1021 * Fixed a crash when switching between several filetypes.
1022 * Fixed segfault when replacing tabs by spaces.
1024 Internationalisation:
1025 * New translations: cs, nl, vi.
1026 * Updated translations: de, es.
1029 Geany 0.8 (August 09, 2006)
1032 * Find in files feature added which uses the Grep tool.
1033 * Added Make object command to compile using the Make tool.
1034 * Editor notebook tabs can now be reordered by drag and drop.
1035 * Added support for back references when using regex replace.
1036 * Added a Find button to the Replace dialog to skip matches.
1037 * Greatly improved the speed of Replace all/in selection.
1038 * Scroll to 1/4 of the view when jumping to a line number.
1039 * Show messages on the status bar and in the Status window.
1040 * Preferences options for Auto-indentation and Line wrapping.
1041 * Use the mouse click position for Go to tag.
1042 * Added separate filetype_extensions.conf system file.
1043 * Added makefiles for building on Windows.
1044 * Added keyboard shortcuts for increase/decrease of line
1046 * Added functionality to uncomment code.
1048 * Added support for Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
1049 * Redesigned preferences dialog.
1050 * Added Undo and Redo toolbar buttons.
1052 * Added simple printing support.
1053 * Mark errors while compiling source code within Geany with
1054 indicators(small squiggly underlines)
1057 * Use the full path for files opened from the command-line.
1058 * Fixed saving a file from the unsaved file dialog.
1059 * Fixed replacing with regexes the correct matched text length.
1060 * Fixed applying virtual terminal widget settings at startup.
1061 * Fixed prepending items to the Recent files menu.
1062 * Fixed clipboard commands used in the find entry and Scribble.
1063 * Fixed wrong interpretation of syntax highlighting colours
1067 * Don't add .c extension when saving with the All files filter.
1068 * Fixed a tool chooser dialog crash when path doesn't exist.
1069 * Fixed locale problems with Windows message dialogs.
1071 Internationalisation:
1072 * New translations: be, es, pt_BR, ru.
1073 * Updated translations: ca, de, pl.
1076 * Added Scintilla keyboard commands for editing appendix.
1077 * Improved search section; added all find and go to commands.
1078 * Added section about character sets.
1081 Geany 0.7 (June 04, 2006)
1083 * user-definable keyboard shortcuts
1084 * filetype definition files can be overridden in Geany's
1085 configuration directory (please see documentation)
1086 * added filetypes Ruby and Tcl/Tk
1087 * improved build system (for Perl, Python, Ruby and others)
1088 * loading of Virtual Terminal Emulation can be disabled in the
1090 * new menu item "Search" with Find items from Edit menu and new
1091 item "Find Previous"
1092 * fixed the bug which let Geany crash with newer GTK versions
1093 * improved documentation: added documentation for keyboard
1094 shortcuts, the build system and filetype definition files
1095 * new translations: Catalan and Polish
1096 * many small improvements
1097 * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)
1100 Geany 0.6 (April 30, 2006)
1102 * added option to place new file tabs to the right or left of
1104 * improved file open dialog
1105 * improved scrolling of the compiler output window
1106 * rewrote most of the code for compiling files, now all
1107 settings are read from filetype definition files
1108 * now, you can drag files from a file manager into Geany and
1110 * improved handling of filenames which contain non-UTF8 chars
1111 * added user-definable comment characters to all filetype
1113 * implemented folding
1114 * added file properties dialog
1115 * improved search and find dialogs
1116 * Geany now creates a FIFO, to communicate between different
1117 instances for opening files in an already running instance
1118 * added filetypes SQL and (O)Caml
1119 * many small improvements
1120 * fixed lots of bugs, including #1419473, #1422135, #1421776
1122 * for more details read the ChangeLog
1125 Geany 0.5 (January 27, 2006)
1127 * set the Open File dialog directory to the same directory as
1128 the current file (thanks to Nick Treleaven for this patch)
1129 * fixed some bugs when opening files with non UTF-8 filenames
1130 * updated included Scintilla to version 1.67
1131 * improved auto indention, now "for (...) {" works, too
1132 * added popup menu to sidebar lists, to quickly hide them
1133 * symbol list support for filetypes LaTeX and DocBook
1134 * added .cc, .hh and .hxx extension for filetype C++
1135 * added new keywords for PHP5
1136 * added new option "Beep on errors" to disable beeping
1137 * eliminated compiler (gcc4) warnings
1138 * closed bug #1387828 and #1387839
1139 * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)
1142 Geany 0.4 (December 21, 2005)
1144 * new filetype: Assembler
1145 * new filetype: Conf for configuration files
1146 * added a terminal emulation widget, needs only libvte.so at
1147 runtime, but it also runs without it, see documentation
1148 * made some general improvements to increase startup speed
1149 * changed "build with make" keyboard shortcut to Shift+F9 to
1150 avoid problems with window managers key bindings
1151 * added auto-closing [ and { brackets in LaTex-Mode
1152 * improved documentation, but it is not yet complete
1153 * improved the symbol list to categorise the tags in a tree
1154 * some new options in the preferences dialog
1155 * added popup menu to the list of open files
1156 * there are lots of other small changes made since last release
1157 * some bugfixes (please see ChangeLog for details)
1160 Geany 0.3 (November 20, 2005)
1162 * Geany now has a mailing list, for details see
1163 http://geany.uvena.de
1164 * added open files list in the left treeview widget
1165 * added toolbar button to open the color chooser
1166 * heavily improved recent files menu
1167 * added shortcut for "walking" between open documents by
1168 pressing STRG+LEFT resp. STRG+RIGHT
1169 * created template files for new files with specified filetype
1170 * added highlighting support for Python (please give feedback)
1171 * extracted all hardcoded styling definitions for all filetypes
1172 so they can be easily edited
1173 * added vertical line to mark long lines
1174 * fixed a bug that caused a segfault if configuration directory
1176 * fixed a bug which prevented auto-completion from working
1177 * many minor bugfixes (see ChangeLog for details)
1180 Geany 0.2 (October 26, 2005)
1182 * improved file open dialog
1183 * improved Find dialog
1184 * powerful Replace dialog
1185 * gcc4 compilation fix
1189 Geany 0.1 (October 19, 2005)
1191 * first official release