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Geany 0.16 (TBA)
Bug fixes:
* Fix indenting for Tabs & Spaces mode when inserting snippets.
* Fix snippets and smart indent using too much indentation when the
line contains whitespace after non-whitespace characters (#2215044).
* Fix segfault when showing Find in Files dialog when no documents are
open (#2228544).
* Fix not switching to 2nd last used document when the last used
document has been closed (#1945162).
General:
* Group child tags by their parents in the symbol list for C-like
filetypes, Python, Conf (thanks to Conrad Steenberg).
* Use a tree for the Documents sidebar, grouped by path.
* Add 'Tools->Configuration Files' menu with items to open
filetype_extensions.conf and ignore.tags. These files are also
reloaded automatically when saved.
* Change configuration directory path to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/geany
(most often this is ~/.config/geany).
* Allow to specify files on the command line and from remote instances
to be URIs (local and with GIO also remote URIs).
* Increase minimum required GTK version to 2.8.
Prefs:
* Add Project Indentation prefs, which override the Editor
Preferences dialog options. For new projects, these default to
the editor indent prefs.
* Add an interface pref for whether to hide additional widgets when
double-clicking on document notebook tabs (off by default).
* Add a preference to invert all colours for syntax highlighting.
* Add a hidden preference "allow_always_save" to make the Save buttons
and menu items always sensitive.
Interface:
* Rework the toolbar: now all elements can be added/removed/reordered
using a simple XML file.
* Add new toolbar buttons for Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Preferences,
Close All and Build (including a submenu for Make actions).
* Add a progressbar widget to the statusbar to show progress for time
consuming actions.
Editor:
* Make Ctrl-click go to matching brace if there's no current word.
* Make Shift+Mouse wheel scroll the editor view horizontally.
* Make the 'Mark' button for Find highlight the results with rounded boxes
instead of marking the whole line.
* Add auto-closing of braces, brackets and quotes (Guillaume de Rorthais).
* Support multiple %cursor% wildcards in Snippets (Thomas Martitz).
Filetypes:
* Add Vala filetype (thanks to Colomban Wendling).
* Update HTML character entities (thanks to Tyler D'Agosta).
* Parse restructuredText sections in the order of first-used underline
character, which can now be any punctuation character (as per the spec).
Windows:
* Improve tab close icon size.
* Changes to the Windows installer:
- The full installer now includes the GTK 2.14 runtime environment.
- Register ".geany" as Geany Project File extension.
- Install GTK translation files only if installation of translation
files were requested (saves about 22 MB otherwise).
- Support silent installations.
Filetypes:
* Add new filetypes Ada, CMake, Matlab, NSIS and YAML.
* Remove GTK global tags, replace them with C (C99) tags. The GTK tags
file is still available for download on the website.
* Minor improvements for filetypes CSS, Fortran, FreeBasic, HTML, Tcl
and Vala.
Plugins:
* Add Split Window 'Split Vertically' command (thanks to Moritz Barsnick).
* Make Version Diff plugin set the indent type for diffs based on the
current file's indent type.
* Minor improvements to the filebrowser plugin
Plugin API:
* Generate plugin API header geanyfunctions.h containing macros to
avoid having to type the function pointer names manually.
* Deprecate pluginmacros.h in favour of geanyfunctions.h.
* Add "editor-notify" to the plugin API.
* Add new plugin symbol plugin_help() which is called by Geany when the
plugin should show its documentation (if any, symbol is optional).
Documentation:
* Update Scintilla regular expression info for v1.77 (character
classes, ASCII escaping, character sets containing square
brackets peculiarities). Adapted from SciTE doc.
Geany 0.15 (October 19, 2008)
General:
* Add Previous Message, Previous Error commands (thanks also to Beau
Barker).
* Add 'Close Other Documents' File menu command (#1976724).
* Add Find Document Usage popup menu command & keybinding.
* Check that the current file is still on disk (as well as checking the
modification time).
* Add support for custom file templates (found at startup) in the
~/.geany/templates/files directory, shown underneath filetype templates
in the New with Template menu.
* Make socket open command support filename:line:column syntax.
* Add filetypes.* [build_settings] key 'error_regex' to support custom
error message parsing using a GNU-style extended regular expression.
* Allow loading projects from command line (#1961083).
* Add alternative build system: Waf.
* Add Tools menu item to reload configuration data without a restart.
* Add support to use template wildcards in snippets.
* Increase LSB compliance.
Prefs:
* Make disk check timeout configurable (zero disables disk checks).
* Add search pref: 'Use the current file's directory for Find in Files'
(#1930435).
Interface:
* Make keyboard shortcuts dialog non-modal (#1999384).
* Add a debug messages window to easily view debug messages/warnings.
Editor:
* Update Scintilla to version 1.77 (includes many fixes).
* Add basic Line Breaking option in the Document menu and 'Line breaking
column' editor pref (for now only works when typing characters past
the line breaking column number).
* Don't colourise any documents until they need to be drawn (this
should make opening a session faster for filetypes that support typename
highlighting).
* Make Ctrl-click on a word perform Go to Tag Definition.
* Add 'Max. symbol name suggestions' autocompletion pref.
* Show ellipsis (...) item when there are too many symbol names for
autocompletion.
* Highlight matching brace indent guides (thanks to Jason Oster;
#2104099).
* Show brace indent guides on empty lines when appropriate (thanks to
Jason Oster; #2105982).
* Add 'Tab key indents' pref, on by default.
* Implement soft tabs support (#1662173). There's now a 'Tabs & Spaces'
Indent Type, and separate Width, Hard Tab Width indent prefs. (Thanks
to Joerg Desch for explaining how it needed to work).
* Auto-update the line margin width as lines are added (thanks to Jason
Oster; #2129157).
* Add "Replace spaces by tabs".
Windows:
* Install plugins into lib/ not into plugins/.
* Install Geany's message catalogs into share/locale rather than
lib/locale as GTK does since 2.12.2.
Keybindings:
* Add Go to Start/End of Line keybindings (#1996175).
* Add 'Switch to Compiler' keybinding (useful when checking build
progress).
* Add keybindings for Line wrapping, Line breaking, Toggle fold and
Replace Spaces by tabs, Previous/Next word part.
Filetypes:
* Add OpenGL Shader Language (GLSL) filetype (thanks to Colomban
Wendling; #2060961).
* Add R language filetype (thanks to Andrew Rowland; #2121502).
* Split filetype Fortran into Fortran 77 and Fortran 90.
* Add Gettext translation filetype (#2131985).
* CSS improvements, thanks to Jason Oster.
Embedded Terminal:
* Fix hang when restarting the VTE (#1990323) with VTE 0.16.14.
(Note that with VTE 0.16.14 the reset sometimes leaves a blank
terminal, but pressing enter makes it then behave as normal).
Plugins:
* Add Split Window plugin (should work OK for viewing; full editing
support is not implemented yet).
* Merge InstantSave, AutoSave and BackupCopy plugins into the new
plugin 'Save Actions'.
Documentation:
* Add Tips and Tricks appendix.
* Updated Installation section.
* Update 'Build system' for custom error regexes.
* Add a section for internal plugins.
Plugin API:
* Many changes; see the API documentation (make api-doc) and the
geany-devel list archives.
* Deprecated: plugin_fields, plugin_info symbols.
Internationalisation:
* New translations: ko, tr.
* Updated translations: be, ca, de, en_GB, fi, hu, it, ja, pl,
ro, ru, sv, zh_CN
Geany 0.14 (April 19, 2008)
General:
* Don't beep when using Replace All in Session unless all open files
have no replacements (fixes #1893796).
* Only use filetype detection after Save As, not on every save when the
filetype is None (fixes #1891778).
* Make Go to Tag commands look for the tag in the current document
before searching the workspace.
* Check file on disk for changes also when pressing a key.
* Ignore documents with no absolute path when saving session files.
* Fix segfault with Run command when a project is open and the current
file's filetype has no run command.
* Make Next Error and Next Message commands add positions to the
navigation queue, so the user can move backwards through the list items
and return to where they were.
* Make pressing escape in the sidebar focus the editor.
* Make navigation queue position based to restore the line and column when
returning to a previous position (closes #1936927).
* Save sorting order of the symbol list when saving a file (fixes #1917262).
* Improve "Send Selection To" code (fixes #1909452).
* Install header files and add a pkg-config file for external plugins.
* Use monospace font for text entry fields in search dialogs (#1907117).
* Don't open zero byte sized files read-only (e.g. files in /proc).
Filetypes:
* Improve Makefile parser to detect targets.
* Update PHP tags file to latest PHP API docs (closes #1888691).
* Add translucency settings to filetypes.common for semi-transparency.
* Add HTML parser to get h1, h2, h3 symbols as well as link anchors and
JavaScript functions (fixes #1896068).
* Update Javascript, TCL and Assembler parser.
Interface:
* When closing a tab when using left-to-right tabs, focus the next
document, not the previous.
* Move Load Tags item from File to Tools menu.
Editor:
* Don't scroll the editor view if it is unnecessary when using Find
Next/Previous, Find Selected, incremental search, Go to Marker or Go to
Matching Brace commands.
* Fix bug with showing macro list items all on one line.
* Fix Python auto-indentation when line endings are set to CR/LF.
* Unfold hidden code when the fold point modified (fixes #1923350).
* Update Scintilla to version 1.76.
* Add (basic) column mode editing (patch by "chuck").
Windows:
* Replace untitled file header filename after Save As and add to recent
files on Windows too.
* Resolve Windows shortcuts when opening files.
* Fix modal dialog problems on Windows by not setting taskbar hint
(closes #1916994).
* Add new process spawning implementation. This makes the VCdiff plugin
to work on Windows (patch by Pierre Joye, thanks).
* Fix crash on Windows when a project could not be opened.
Plugins:
* Add configurable plugin keybindings support.
* Add a HTML Characters keybinding to show the dialog.
* Add File Browser keybindings to focus the Path Entry and File List
* Rename VCDiff plugin Version Diff.
* When quitting, remember plugin filenames that couldn't be loaded at
startup as well as active plugins.
Plugin API:
* Add PLUGIN_KEY_GROUP and keybindings_set_item() to setup a keybinding
group.
* keybindings_send_command() arguments have changed because of
keybinding groups - this breaks the API for plugins already using it.
* Make VERSION_CHECK deprecated in favour of PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK.
Documentation:
* Add descriptions for several options in the preferences dialog
(patch from Robert McGinley).
Internationalisation:
* New translations: ro.
* Updated translations: bg, de, en_GB, es, fr, hu, it, ja, pt_BR, ru.
Geany 0.13 (February 05, 2008)
General:
* Improve configure script and fix some compatibility issues.
* Add support for project session files.
* Add native GTK printing support (only with GTK 2.10+).
* Prevent execution of commands by Geany if the VTE may contain any
text on the prompt (thanks to "Jeff Pohlmeyer for reporting).
* Store more document-related settings when saving session in the
configuration file (including the file encoding).
* Detect in-file specified file encoding by scanning the file using
regular expressions.
* Add binary relocation support.
Filetypes:
* Add configurable default file extension setting for filetype
definition files.
* Fix reST autocompletion.
Tags:
* Show arrays and modifiers like const in calltip return types for
C-like files.
* Update C global tags file for GTK+ 2.12.
* Fix parsing the correct D class name when inheriting, D constructor
tags and ignore D import statements.
* Remove unnecessary tagmanager status file.
* Improve PHP, Ruby and FreeBasic parsers.
Interface:
* Add 'Indent Type' option in the Document menu.
* Add 'Detect from file' Editor indentation pref.
* Show TAB or SP for current document's indent type.
* Add a 'Newline strips trailing spaces' pref (thanks to Catalin
Marinas).
* Add 'Strip Trailing Spaces' document menu item.
* Add combo box input history for 'Make Custom Target' dialog.
* Make Open, Save As dialogs start in project base path (or default
path pref) when the current file has no filename.
* Add 'Make in base path' project file preference.
* Make 'Open Selected File' first try the current file's directory,
falling back to the project base path if no file was found.
* Fix broken window maximization.
* Improve appearance of used treeviews and use rules hints to respect
user colour settings.
Editor:
* Fix hidden lines after deleting a line that is a collapsed fold
point.
* Make Fold All/Unfold All attempt to scroll the current line in view.
* Show line wrap symbol at start of line for wrapped lines.
* Allow scrolling past end of document, so the user can append text
with the last lines drawn at the top of the view.
* Rename "Construct autocompletion" to "Snippets".
* Improve usage of "Unfold all children" option.
* Update Scintilla to version 1.75.
Keybindings:
* Add configurable keybindings for Cut, Copy and Paste.
* Ask the user whether to override an existing keybinding when setting
a combination that is already in use.
* Add 'Override Geany keybindings' VTE prefs dialog option (replaces
hidden pref), which makes the VTE interpret all keyboard shortcuts
except focus group keybindings.
Plugins:
* Add File Browser sidebar plugin.
* Add Version Control Diff plugin (VC Diff), which supports SVN, CVS and
GIT (thanks to Yura Siamashka).
* Add plugin manager dialog to select plugins to load at startup and to
call a plugin configure dialog.
* Add new signals: project_open, project_save, project_close.
* Add Auto Save plugin.
Plugin API:
* Add keybindings_send_command() and some other functions.
* Add pluginmacros.h to define common macros for app, p_utils, etc.
* Add more documentation/comments to demoplugin.c.
* Add configure symbol for plugins which is called by Geany when a
configure dialog for the plugin is requested, optionally.
* Add author field to plugin info struct.
Windows:
* Enable build support.
* Prevent prefs dialog being hidden after using the prefs file dialog.
* Create Geany's configuration directory in user's appdata path
instead of the default home directory.
Documentation:
* Show default shortcuts in Keybindings section.
* Update Project section for project-based session support.
* Add Indentation subsection under Editor section.
* HACKING: Update 'Adding a filetype' section.
Internationalisation:
* New translations: ja, uk, el.
* Updated translations: ca, de, en_GB, fr, it, pt_BR, hu, sv, vi.
Geany 0.12 (October 10, 2007)
Bugs fixed:
* Fixed opening the same file twice from the message window/command-line.
* Fixed Ctrl-Shift keybindings not working when caps lock is on.
* Fixed saving the wrong document when using Save All with unnamed
documents.
* Fixed replacing with '^' or '$' regex chars.
* Fixed hang with Find All/Find Usage with '^' or '$' regex chars.
* Fixed hang when replacing all '[ ]*' regex matches (closes #1757748).
* Fixed displaying error indicators with Make after entering a
subdirectory.
* Fixed a possible segfault when parsing tags (a vString bug).
* Fixed clipboard problems with some applications.
* Fixed crash when trying to open the Save As dialog on Windows.
* Fixed crash when saving a file after setting encoding "None".
* Fixed scrolling bugs when searching text and the cursor is outside of
the current visible area.
Filetypes:
* Added reStructuredText filetype and parser.
* Added Haskell tags support (thanks to Peter Strand).
* Added decorator styling for Python.
* Parse Python global variables and class variables.
* Added support for Java Apache Ant compiler error messages (thanks to
Jon Senior).
* Added new filetypes CSharp and FreeBasic.
* Added filetype Haxe (patch by blackdog, thank you).
Plugins:
* Added basic plugin support (developers: see the HACKING file).
* Added 'Enable plugin support' preference and -p, --no-plugins options.
* Added Class Builder plugin (thanks to Alexander Rodin).
* Added Export plugin to export current file as HTML or LaTeX.
Keyboard shorcuts:
* Common bash Ctrl-[a-z] keyboard shortcuts now work when the VTE is
focused, and there is an 'enable_bash_keys' hidden preference.
* Added 'Move document left' and 'Move document right' keybindings.
* Added Find keybinding.
* Made fixed keybindings overridable.
* Added fixed keybindings for switching to leftmost/rightmost document,
Ctrl-Shift-{PageUp,PageDown}.
* Change Previous/Next Paragraph fixed commands to Ctrl-{Up,Down};
adding Shift extends selection by paragraph. (Scroll by line is now
Alt-{Up,Down}).
* Made pressing escape focus the editor when using incremental search
or Goto Line toolbar fields.
* Added keybinding for select current paragraph.
* Added keybindings for smart indent and indent/deindent by one space.
* Removed convert to lower-/upper-case keybindings.
* Added toggle case keybinding and change shortcut to Ctrl-Alt-U.
General:
* Added preference for 'smart' home key behaviour (thanks to Jeff
Pohlmeyer).
* Added symbol list icons (thanks to Jean-François Wauthy, and KDevelop
for the icons).
* Added 'Current chars' indentation mode (closes #1726880).
* Save and restore the current notebook page when quitting.
* Added support for %e, %f in project run command.
* Ignore punctuation chars when moving by word, and use word end
boundaries when moving by word to the right (like most GTK+ widgets).
* Added hidden editor preference 'use_gtk_word_boundaries'.
* Added auto_complete_whilst_editing hidden preference.
* Speed up Save All for C-like files.
* Don't show file opened/saved/closed messages on the status bar.
* Added --no-preprocessing, -P option when generating tags files to
disable preprocessing of C/C++ source files.
* Added default startup directory option (closes #1704988).
* Use current locale as default encoding for new files.
* Added simple code navigation (thanks to Dave Moore).
* Re-maximize the main window on startup when closed in maximized state
(closes #1730369).
* Added auto focus (to auto focus widgets below mouse cursor).
* Complete rewrite of auto completion to make it user-definable and
much more flexible (please read documentation).
* Added option to set a default encoding when opening files and disable
auto detection of the file encoding.
* Improved comment toggling by adding an additional character to mark.
* Changed the background colour of the search bar in the toolbar
according to the search result.
* Use intltool to make geany.desktop translatable
* Replace Geany's icon by a new one by Sebastian Kraft (thanks).
(Thanks also to Christoph Berg for updating the icon code).
Docs:
* Changed documentation generation tools from DocBook to reST
(thanks to John Gabriele for his great work on this).
* Added Plugins section.
* Added 'Inserting unicode characters' Editing section (thanks to
John Gabriele).
* Added 'Hidden preferences' appendix.
* Added 'Switching documents' keybindings section.
HACKING:
* Added notes on adding a filetype.
Internationalisation:
* New translations: en_GB.
* Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, it, pl, pt_BR, zh_CN.
Geany 0.11 (May 21, 2007)
Notes for existing users:
* Tab is now used for construct completion (for, if, etc.), but it
is configurable with the new 'Complete construct' keybinding.
* Template files are now stored in ~/.geany/templates/ and the
'template.' filename prefix is no longer used. You will need to
move any custom template files you have.
* Inserting a file header is now optional for filetype templates.
Use the string '{fileheader}' to mark where the file header should
be placed.
* Drag'n'Drop of text inside the editor widget will now move the
text instead of copying it.
Bugs fixed:
* Fix segfault when pressing Ctrl-Enter when there are no workspace
tags.
* Remove error indicators in all documents when linking (#1705374).
* Sort symbol list tags also by line number (#1703575).
* Fix #1717418, Hang on SQL file load.
* Fix #1718532 - Crash when opening a special HTML file.
* Add workaround for PHP closing brace de-indenting.
* Fix reloading of read-only documents.
Project Management:
* Add keybinding to show project properties dialog.
* Add project Run command support.
* Run Make All and Make Custom from the project base directory.
Custom Global Tags:
* Update C global tags for GTK+ 2.10 and it's dependencies.
* Add option --generate-tags (-g) to generate a global tags file
from a list of source files (see docs).
* Load global tag files stored in ~/.geany/tags at startup #.
* Add Load Tags command in the File menu #.
# This is not supported for Pascal, PHP or LaTeX files yet.
Calltips (for C-like files):
* Show up and down arrows when there are multiple calltip matches.
* Show classname in calltips.
* Parse pointers in function return type.
* Add calltip support for D constructors.
Other changes:
* Parse 'Entering directory' Make messages so opening files from
error messages works for subdirectories (thanks to Josef Whiter).
* Make Go to Tag Definition/Declaration work for all tags.
* Support filetype templates for all filetypes (see docs).
* Make file header optional for filetype templates.
* Add 'Find Selected' and 'Find Prev Selected' search commands and
keybindings (thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer).
* Add Mark button to the Find dialog, and a Remove Markers item to
the Document menu.
* Add 'Recurse in subfolders' and 'Extra options' checkboxes to the
Find in Files dialog.
* Add 'Switch to last used document' keybinding (Ctrl-Tab).
* Add Goto Previous/Next Marker keybindings (Ctrl-, and Ctrl-.).
* Add Toggle Marker keybinding (Ctrl-M).
* Add keybinding for construct completion, and set the default to
Tab.
* Add MimeType associatiations for: C++ header, Pascal, Perl,
Python, httpd-PHP and XML files (thanks to Iñaki Rodriguez).
* Add brace indenting support for Perl and TCL.
* Make backspace unindent when using spaces for indentation.
* Wrap notebook pages when switching tabs.
* Speed up loading multiple C-like files slightly.
* New filetypes: JavaScript, Lua and Haskell.
* Set several widget names to allow users to define custom styles
in .gtkrc-2.0.
* Add context actions to run custom commands on current selection
or the current word below cursor.
* Add different auto indention modes.
* Improve replacing in rectangle selections.
* Add custom commands to send selected text through some definable
commands and replace the selection with the output.
* Add command line option --column to allow setting the initial
column for the first opened file on command line.
* Improve the auto scrolling of documents.
* Improve loading of the VTE library.
* Add an option for using spaces or tabulators when inserting some
whitespace.
* Add an option to disable Drag'n'Drop in the editor widget.
Documentation:
* Add Project Management, Global Tags, Construct Completion
sections.
* Add Bookmarks section (thanks to John Gabriele).
* Update Filetype Templates, Search sections.
Internationalisation:
* New translations: bg.
* Updated translations: ca, cs, de, es, fr, zh_CN.
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