geany/NEWS

Geany 0.10.2 (February 25, 2007)

    Bugs fixed:
    * Fixed serious crash of complete X session when using the Stop
      command when Geany is run from the program menu (closes #1668017).


Geany 0.10.1 (February 23, 2007)

    Bugs fixed:
    * Wrong tab foreground colour for unmodified documents.
    * Fixed crashes when closing dialogs by clicking X on some systems.
    * Fixed missing global tags for C files when a C++ source file was
      loaded first.
    * Fixed autocompletion missing tag matches.
    * Fixed a wrong PASCAL autocompletion.
    * Set single undo action when toggling multiple lines or stripping
      trailing spaces.
    * Prevent some possible invalid memory reads.
    * Convert config, application and documentation dir paths to locale
      encoding before using it.
    * Fixed errors when changing directories containing special
      characters within the VTE component (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
    * Support newer so-names when loading the VTE library (thanks to
      Jeff Pohlmeyer).
    * Fixed paste problems on Windows.
    * When using Save As the returned filename needs to be converted
      into UTF-8.
    * Fixed error when parsing of compiler errors by the va_list system.
    * Added MimeType entry as suggested by Nick Schermer.
    * LaTeX parser: Allow \section*{} and other commands with *.
    * Change default keybinding for Close All to Ctrl-Shift-W.
    * Allow Make for files with no extension - prevent Build when the
      output filename would be the same as the source file.
    * Ensure the VTE visual settings are applied when switching to VTE
      when the Message Window is hidden.
    * Fixed several issues while opening files and improved code.
    * Improved the auto scrolling of documents and fixed a bug when
      opening files remotely.
    * Fixed wrong D function return type after a class definition.
    * Added several missing style types for filetype Perl (thanks to
      John Gabriele for reporting).
    * Prevent right click in Symbol list from selecting a tag.
    * Update the symbol list when starting a new document.
    * Scroll Compiler and Messages window in view when using Next Error
      or Next Message.
    * Auto close brackets only when auto completion of constructs is
      enabled (closes #1665015).
    * Fixed switching to the wrong tab when showing the unsaved dialog.

    Internationalisation:
    * New translations: fi (thanks to Harri Koskinen).
    * Updated translations: cs, de, es, fr, hu.


Geany 0.10 (December 21, 2006)

    Changes:
    * Added a dialog to insert HTML special characters.
    * Added new command line option --line to set the initial line for
      the first opened file.
    * Implemented new, own Undo system to undo/redo encoding changes.
    * Added simple parser for filetype Diff to create tags for each
      patched file in a diff file.
    * Added new encoding "None" to open files without any character
      conversions.
    * Added Stop button to abort the Run command.
    * New filetype VHDL.
    * New scintilla lexer for filetype D with several improvements.
    * Improved auto completion of multi line comments
    * Added option to execute programs in the VTE instead of executing
      them in a terminal emulation window
    * Removed the limit on the number of files open.
    * Save the build includes and arguments when quitting.
    * Added Next Message search command and Next Error build command.
    * Make search bar automatically wraparound if necessary.
    * Applied patch from Bob Doan to prevent unnecessary search
      scrolling and add a preference to suppress some of the search
      dialogs.
    * Added Find Previous, Find All in Document/Session buttons for the
      Find dialog.
    * Added Replace (but don't Find) button for the Replace dialog.
    * Added 'Hide Message Window' popup menu command.
    * Added Alt-[1-9] shortcuts to switch to a certain tab number.
    * Limit search dialog history to 30 entries.
    * Change python default compile command to create a compiled
      python .pyc file (thanks to Bajusz Tamás).

    Windows changes:
    * Fix #1611530 'file has changed' message on Windows after saving.
    * Fixed wrong paste behaviour under Windows with some applications.

    Bugs fixed:
    * Fixed crash when using "Make object" on new files.
    * Fixed incompatible use of read command in the created shell
      script to execute programs.
    * Fixed wrong insert position when the cursor was moved by keyboard
      and comments, includes or a date was inserted.
    * Fixed some segfaults when inserting comments, dates and
      includes at a position prior to some deleted text.
    * Fix message window horizontal scrollbar being too tall on some
      systems (thanks to Rob van der Linde).

    Internationalisation:
    * New translations: fr, hu, it, zh_CN, zh_TW.
    * Updated translations: be, ca, cs, de, es, vi.


Geany 0.9 (September 29, 2006)

    Changes:
    * Added function calltips for files open in the current workspace
      for C-like languages.
    * Open a second instance by default when starting Geany with no
      filenames specified on the command-line.
    * Added better error message support for D, for both DMD and GDC;
      also GCC-style linker error messages are now parsed.
    * Text selections now use syntax highlighting foreground colours
      (but can still be overridden in filetypes.common).
    * Find in Files improvements: fixed string and whole word only
      matching options; a directory selector dialog; filenames passed
      to Grep are now sorted alphabetically.
    * Remember the VTE current directory at startup.
    * Show the messages window on build failure or for Find Usage.
    * Added -s command-line option to not load session files (-i is now
      used to force a new instance).
    * Added comment toggle functionality to easily comment and
      uncomment a line with one shortcut.
    * Separated filetypes PHP and HTML for better usage.
    * New filetypes: Diff, Fortran 77 and Ferite.
    * Added auto completion tags for PASCAL.
    * Improved VTE usage by adding options for selecting the used shell
      and ignoring menu bar accelerator (default F10).
    * Added menu items to insert configurable date/time strings.
    * Removed the whole FIFO code and replaced it with support for
      (Unix Domain) Sockets(including Windows support).

    Windows changes:
    * Implemented Run command (from the build menu) under Windows.
    * Enabled socket code on Windows to detect a running instance.
    * Enabled notification if file on disk has changed under Windows.

    Bugs fixed:
    * Fixed a segfault at startup if terminal follow path setting is
      enabled.
    * Fixed clicking on error messages being dependent on the current
      file's directory.
    * Fixed a bug when clicking on a recent file got the wrong
      filename.
    * Fixed a crash when a compiler output reports an error in a blank
      line(can happen in LaTeX)
    * Fixed a crash when switching between several filetypes.
    * Fixed segfault when replacing tabs by spaces.

    Internationalisation:
    * New translations: cs, nl, vi.
    * Updated translations: de, es.


Geany 0.8 (August 09, 2006)

        Changes:
        * Find in files feature added which uses the Grep tool.
        * Added Make object command to compile using the Make tool.
        * Editor notebook tabs can now be reordered by drag and drop.
        * Added support for back references when using regex replace.
        * Added a Find button to the Replace dialog to skip matches.
        * Greatly improved the speed of Replace all/in selection.
        * Scroll to 1/4 of the view when jumping to a line number.
        * Show messages on the status bar and in the Status window.
        * Preferences options for Auto-indentation and Line wrapping.
        * Use the mouse click position for Go to tag.
        * Added separate filetype_extensions.conf system file.
        * Added makefiles for building on Windows.
        * Added keyboard shortcuts for increase/decrease of line
          indentation.
        * Added functionality to uncomment code.
        * Encoding support
        * Added support for Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
        * Redesigned preferences dialog.
        * Added Undo and Redo toolbar buttons.
        * New filetype: D
        * Added simple printing support.
        * Mark errors while compiling source code within Geany with
          indicators(small squiggly underlines)

        Bugs fixed:
        * Use the full path for files opened from the command-line.
        * Fixed saving a file from the unsaved file dialog.
        * Fixed replacing with regexes the correct matched text length.
        * Fixed applying virtual terminal widget settings at startup.
        * Fixed prepending items to the Recent files menu.
        * Fixed clipboard commands used in the find entry and Scribble.
        * Fixed wrong interpretation of syntax highlighting colours
        * And some more.

        Windows bugs fixed:
        * Don't add .c extension when saving with the All files filter.
        * Fixed a tool chooser dialog crash when path doesn't exist.
        * Fixed locale problems with Windows message dialogs.

        Internationalisation:
        * New translations: be, es, pt_BR, ru.
        * Updated translations: ca, de, pl.

        Documentation:
        * Added Scintilla keyboard commands for editing appendix.
        * Improved search section; added all find and go to commands.
        * Added section about character sets.


Geany 0.7 (June 04, 2006)

        * user-definable keyboard shortcuts
        * filetype definition files can be overridden in Geany's
          configuration directory (please see documentation)
        * added filetypes Ruby and Tcl/Tk
        * improved build system (for Perl, Python, Ruby and others)
        * loading of Virtual Terminal Emulation can be disabled in the
          preferences dialog
        * new menu item "Search" with Find items from Edit menu and new
          item "Find Previous"
        * fixed the bug which let Geany crash with newer GTK versions
        * improved documentation: added documentation for keyboard
          shortcuts, the build system and filetype definition files
        * new translations: Catalan and Polish
        * many small improvements
        * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)


Geany 0.6 (April 30, 2006)

        * added option to place new file tabs to the right or left of
          the tab list
        * improved file open dialog
        * improved scrolling of the compiler output window
        * rewrote most of the code for compiling files, now all
          settings are read from filetype definition files
        * now, you can drag files from a file manager into Geany and
          they will be opened
        * improved handling of filenames which contain non-UTF8 chars
        * added user-definable comment characters to all filetype
          definition files
        * implemented folding
        * added file properties dialog
        * improved search and find dialogs
        * Geany now creates a FIFO, to communicate between different
          instances for opening files in an already running instance
        * added filetypes SQL and (O)Caml
        * many small improvements
        * fixed lots of bugs, including #1419473, #1422135, #1421776
          and #1441359
        * for more details read the ChangeLog


Geany 0.5 (January 27, 2006)

        * set the Open File dialog directory to the same directory as
          the current file (thanks to Nick Treleaven for this patch)
        * fixed some bugs when opening files with non UTF-8 filenames
        * updated included Scintilla to version 1.67
        * improved auto indention, now "for (...) {" works, too
        * added popup menu to sidebar lists, to quickly hide them
        * symbol list support for filetypes LaTeX and DocBook
        * added .cc, .hh and .hxx extension for filetype C++
        * added new keywords for PHP5
        * added new option "Beep on errors" to disable beeping
        * eliminated compiler (gcc4) warnings
        * closed bug #1387828 and #1387839
        * fixed lots of bugs (please see ChangeLog for details)


Geany 0.4 (December 21, 2005)

        * new filetype: Assembler
        * new filetype: Conf for configuration files
        * added a terminal emulation widget, needs only libvte.so at
          runtime, but it also runs without it, see documentation
        * made some general improvements to increase startup speed
        * changed "build with make" keyboard shortcut to Shift+F9 to
          avoid problems with window managers key bindings
        * added auto-closing [ and { brackets in LaTex-Mode
        * improved documentation, but it is not yet complete
        * improved the symbol list to categorise the tags in a tree
        * some new options in the preferences dialog
        * added popup menu to the list of open files
        * there are lots of other small changes made since last release
        * some bugfixes (please see ChangeLog for details)


Geany 0.3 (November 20, 2005)

        * Geany now has a mailing list, for details see
          http://geany.uvena.de
        * added open files list in the left treeview widget
        * added toolbar button to open the color chooser
        * heavily improved recent files menu
        * added shortcut for "walking" between open documents by
          pressing STRG+LEFT resp. STRG+RIGHT
        * created template files for new files with specified filetype
        * added highlighting support for Python (please give feedback)
        * extracted all hardcoded styling definitions for all filetypes
          so they can be easily edited
        * added vertical line to mark long lines
        * fixed a bug that caused a segfault if configuration directory
          could not created
        * fixed a bug which prevented auto-completion from working
        * many minor bugfixes (see ChangeLog for details)


Geany 0.2 (October 26, 2005)

        * improved file open dialog
        * improved Find dialog
        * powerful Replace dialog
        * gcc4 compilation fix
        * minor bugfixes


Geany 0.1 (October 19, 2005)

        * first official release