History of Scintilla and SciTE
Contributors
Thanks to all the people that have contributed patches, bug reports and suggestions.
Source code and documentation have been contributed by
- Atsuo Ishimoto
- Mark Hammond
- Francois Le Coguiec
- Dale Nagata
- Ralf Reinhardt
- Philippe Lhoste
- Andrew McKinlay
- Stephan R. A. Deibel
- Hans Eckardt
- Vassili Bourdo
- Maksim Lin
- Robin Dunn
- John Ehresman
- Steffen Goeldner
- Deepak S.
- Yann Gaillard
- Aubin Paul
- Jason Diamond
- Ahmad Baitalmal
- Paul Winwood
- Maxim Baranov
- Ragnar Hĝjland
- Christian Obrecht
- Andreas Neukoetter
- Adam Gates
- Steve Lhomme
- Ferdinand Prantl
- Jan Dries
- Markus Gritsch
- Tahir Karaca
- Ahmad Zawawi
- Laurent le Tynevez
- Walter Braeu
- Ashley Cambrell
- Garrett Serack
- Holger Schmidt
- ActiveState
- James Larcombe
- Alexey Yutkin
- Jan Hercek
- Richard Pecl
- Edward K. Ream
- Valery Kondakoff
- Smári McCarthy
- Clemens Wyss
- Simon Steele
- Serge A. Baranov
- Xavier Nodet
- Willy Devaux
- David Clain
- Brendon Yenson
- Vamsi Potluru
- Praveen Ambekar
- Alan Knowles
- Kengo Jinno
- Valentin Valchev
- Marcos E. Wurzius
- Martin Alderson
- Robert Gustavsson
- José Fonseca
- Holger Kiemes
- Francis Irving
- Scott Kirkwood
- Brian Quinlan
- Ubi
- Michael R. Duerig
- Deepak T
- Don Paul Beletsky
- Gerhard Kalab
- Olivier Dagenais
- Josh Wingstrom
- Bruce Dodson
- Sergey Koshcheyev
- Chuan-jian Shen
- Shane Caraveo
- Alexander Scripnik
- Ryan Christianson
- Martin Steffensen
- Jakub Vrána
- The Black Horus
Images used in GTK+ version
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Icons Copyright(C) 1998 by Dean S. Jones
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Released on 1 November 2002.
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Unicode supported on GTK+. To perform well, this added a font cache to GTK+
and to make that safe, a mutex is used. The mutex requires the application to link in
the threading library by evaluating `glib-config --libs gthread`. A Unicode locale
should also be set up by a call like setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8").
scintilla_release_resources function added to release mutex.
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FORTRAN and assembler lexers added along with other support for these
languages in SciTE.
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Ada lexer improved handling of based numbers, identifier validity and attributes
distinguished from character literals.
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Lua lexer handles block comments and a deep level of nesting for literal strings
and block comments.
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Errorlist lexer recognises PHP error messages.
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Variant of the C++ lexer with case insensitive keywords
called cppnocase. Whitespace in preprocessor text handled more correctly.
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Folder added for Perl.
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Compilation with GCC 3.2 supported.
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Markers can be pixmaps.
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Lines are wrapped when printing.
Bug fixed which printed line numbers in different styles.
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Text can be appended to end with AppendText method.
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ChooseCaretX method added.
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Vertical scroll bar can be turned off with SetVScrollBar method.
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SciTE Save All command saves all buffers.
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SciTE localisation compares keys case insensitively to make translations more flexible.
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SciTE detects a utf-8 coding cookie "coding: utf-8" in first two
lines and goes into Unicode mode.
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SciTE key bindings are definable.
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SciTE Find in Files dialog can display directory browser to
choose directory to search.
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SciTE enabling of undo and redo toolbar buttons improved.
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SciTE on Windows file type filters in open dialog sorted.
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Fixed crashing bug when using automatic tag closing in XML or HTML.
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Fixed bug on Windows causing very long (>64K) lines to not display.
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Fixed bug in backwards regular expression searching.
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Fixed bug in calltips where wrong argument was highlighted.
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Fixed bug in tab timmy feature when file has line feed line endings.
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Fixed bug in compiling without INCLUDE_DEPRECATED_FEATURES
defined.
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Released on 9 September 2002.
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Improved Pascal lexer with context sensitive keywords
and separate folder which handles //{ and //} folding comments and
{$region} and {$end} folding directives.
The "case" statement now folds correctly.
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C++ lexer correctly handles comments on preprocessor lines.
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New commands for moving to beginning and end of display lines when in line
wrap mode. Key bindings added for these commands.
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New marker symbols that look like ">>>" and "..." which can be used for
interactive shell prompts for Python.
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The foreground and background colours of visible whitespace can be chosen
independent of the colours chosen for the lexical class of that whitespace.
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Per line data optimised by using an exponential allocation scheme.
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SciTE API file loading optimised.
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SciTE for GTK+ subsystem 2 documented. The exit status of commands
is decoded into more understandable fields.
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SciTE find dialog remembers previous find string when there is no selection.
Find in Selection button disabled when selection is rectangular as command
did not work.
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Shift+Enter made equivalent to Enter to avoid users having to let go of
the shift key when typing. Avoids the possibility of entering single carriage
returns in a file that contains CR+LF line ends.
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Autocompletion does not immediately disappear when the length parameter
to SCI_AUTOCSHOW is 0.
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SciTE focuses on the editor pane when File | New executed and when the
output pane is closed with F8. Double clicking on a non-highlighted output
pane line selects the word under the cursor rather than seeking the next
highlighted line.
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SciTE director interface implements an "askproperty" command.
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SciTE's Export as LaTeX output improved.
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Better choice of autocompletion displaying above the caret rather then
below when that is more sensible.
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Bug fixed where context menu would not be completely visible if invoked
when cursor near bottom or left of screen.
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Crashing bug fixed when displaying long strings on GTK+ caused failure of X server
by displaying long text in segments.
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Crashing bug fixed on GTK+ when a Scintilla window was removed from its parent
but was still the selection owner.
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Bug fixed on Windows in Unicode mode where not all characters on a line
were displayed when that line contained some characters not in ASCII.
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Crashing bug fixed in SciTE on Windows with clearing output while running command.
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Bug fixed in SciTE for GTK+ with command completion not detected when
no output was produced by the command.
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Bug fixed in SciTE for Windows where menus were not shown translated.
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Bug fixed where words failed to display in line wrapping mode with visible
line ends.
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Bug fixed in SciTE where files opened from a session file were not closed.
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Cosmetic flicker fixed when using Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down with some caret policies.
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Released on 1 August 2002.
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Support for GTK+ 2 in Scintilla. International input methods not supported
on GTK+2.
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Line wrapping performance improved greatly.
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New caret policy implementation that treats horizontal and vertical
positioning equivalently and independently. Old caret policy methods
deprecated and not all options work correctly with old methods.
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Extra fold points for C, C++, Java, ... for fold comments //{ .. //} and
#if / #ifdef .. #endif and the #region .. #endregion feature of C#.
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Scintilla method to find the height in pixels of a line. Currently returns the
same result for every line as all lines are same height.
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Separate make file, scintilla_vc6.mak, for Scintilla to use Visual C++
version 6 since main makefile now assumes VS .NET.
VS .NET project files available for combined Scintilla and
SciTE in scite/boundscheck.
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SciTE automatically recognises Unicode files based
on their Byte Order Marks and switches to Unicode mode.
On Windows, where SciTE supports Unicode display, this
allows display of non European characters.
The file is saved back into the same character encoding unless
the user decides to switch using the File | Encoding menu.
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Handling of character input changed so that a fillup character, typically '('
displays a calltip when an autocompletion list was being displayed.
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Multiline strings lexed better for C++ and Lua.
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Regular expressions in JavaScript within hypertext files are lexed better.
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On Windows, Scintilla exports a function called Scintilla_DirectFunction
that can be used the same as the function returned by GetDirectFunction.
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Scintilla converts line endings of text obtained from the clipboard to
the current default line endings.
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New SciTE property ensure.final.line.end can ensure that saved files
always end with a new line as this is required by some tools.
The ensure.consistent.line.ends property ensures all line ends are the
current default when saving files.
The strip.trailing.spaces property now works on the buffer so the
buffer in memory and the file on disk are the same after a save is performed.
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The SciTE expand abbreviation command again allows '|' characters
in expansions to be quoted by using '||'.
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SciTE on Windows can send data to the find tool through standard
input rather than using a command line argument to avoid problems
with quoting command line arguments.
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The Stop Executing command in SciTE on Windows improved to send
a Ctrl+Z character to the tool. Better messages when stopping a tool.
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Autocompletion can automatically "fill up" when one of a set of characters is
type with the autocomplete.<lexer>.fillups property.
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New predefined properties in SciTE, SelectionStartColumn, SelectionStartLine,
SelectionEndColumn, SelectionEndLine can be used to integrate with other
applications.
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Environment variables are available as properties in SciTE.
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SciTE on Windows keeps status line more current.
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Abbreviations work in SciTE on Linux when first opened.
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File saving fixed in SciTE to ensure files are not closed when they can not be
saved because of file permissions. Also fixed a problem with buffers that
caused files to not be saved.
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SciTE bug fixed where monospace mode not remembered when saving files.
Some searching options now remembered when switching files.
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SciTE on Linux now waits on child termination when it shuts a child down
to avoid zombies.
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SciTE on Linux has a Print menu command that defaults to invoking a2ps.
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Fixed incorrect highlighting of indentation guides in SciTE for Python.
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Crash fixed in Scintilla when calling GetText for 0 characters.
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Exporting as LaTeX improved when processing backslashes and tabs
and setting up font.
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Crash fixed in SciTE when exporting or copying as RTF.
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SciTE session loading fixed to handle more than 10 files in session.
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Released on 10 May 2002.
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Set of lexers compiled into Scintilla can now be changed by adding and
removing lexer source files from scintilla/src and running LexGen.py.
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SCN_ZOOM notification provided by Scintilla when user changes zoom level.
Method to determine width of strings in pixels so that elements can be sized
relative to text size.
SciTE changed to keep line number column displaying a given
number of characters.
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The logical width of the document used to determine scroll bar range can be set.
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Setting to allow vertical scrolling to display last line at top rather than
bottom of window.
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Read-only mode improved to avoid changing the selection in most cases
when a modification is attempted. Drag and drop cursors display correctly
for read-only in some cases.
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Visual C++ options in make files changed to suit Visual Studio .NET.
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Scintilla.iface includes feature types for enumerations and lexers.
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Lua lexer improves handling of literal strings and copes with nested literal strings.
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Diff lexer changed to treat lines starting with "***" similarly to "---".
Symbolic names defined for lexical classes.
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nncrontab lexer improved.
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Turkish fonts (iso8859-9) supported on GTK+.
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Automatic close tag feature for XML and HTML in SciTE.
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Automatic indentation in SciTE improved.
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Maximum number of buffers available in SciTE increased. May be up to 100
although other restrictions on menu length limit the real maximum.
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Save a Copy command added to SciTE.
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Export as TeX command added to SciTE.
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Export as HTML command in SciTE respects Use Monospaced Font and
background colour settings.
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Compilation problem on Solaris fixed.
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Order of files displayed for SciTE's previous and next menu and key commands
are now consistent.
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Saving of MRU in recent file changed so files open when SciTE quit
are remembered.
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More variants of ctags tags handled by Open Selected Filename in SciTE.
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Javascript embedded in XML highlighted again.
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SciTE status bar updated after changing parameters in case they are being
displayed in status bar.
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Crash fixed when handling some multi-byte languages.
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Crash fixed when replacing end of line characters.
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Bug in SciTE fixed in multiple buffer mode where automatic loading
turned on could lead to losing file contents.
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Bug in SciTE on GTK+ fixed where dismissing dialogs with close box led to
those dialogs never being shown again.
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Bug in SciTE on Windows fixed where position.tile with default positions
led to SciTE being positioned off-screen.
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Bug fixed in read-only mode, clearing all deletes contraction state data
leading to it not being synchronized with text.
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Crash fixed in SciTE on Windows when tab bar displayed.
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Released on 15 March 2002.
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Line layout cache implemented to improve performance by maintaining
the positioning of characters on lines. Can be set to cache nothing,
the line with the caret, the visible page or the whole document.
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Support, including a new lexer, added for Matlab programs.
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Lua folder supports folding {} ranges and compact mode.
Lua lexer styles floating point numbers in number style instead of
setting the '.' in operator style.
Up to 6 sets of keywords.
Better support for [[ although only works well
when all on one line.
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Python lexer improved to handle floating point numbers that contain negative
exponents and that start with '.'.
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When performing a rectangular paste, the caret now remains at the
insertion point.
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On Windows with a wheel mouse, page-at-a-time mode is recognised.
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Read-only mode added to SciTE with a property to initialise it and another property,
$(ReadOnly) available to show this mode in the status bar.
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SciTE status bar can show the number of lines in the selection
with the $(SelHeight) property.
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SciTE's "Export as HTML" command uses the current character set to produce
correct output for non-Western-European character sets, such as Russian.
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SciTE's "Export as RTF" fixed to produce correct output when file contains '\'.
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SciTE goto command accepts a column as well as a line.
If given a column, it selects the word at that column.
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SciTE's Build, Compile and Go commands are now disabled if no
action has been assigned to them.
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The Refresh button in the status bar has been removed from SciTE on Windows.
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Bug fixed in line wrap mode where cursor up or down command did not work.
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Some styling bugs fixed that were due to a compilation problem with
gcc and inline functions with same name but different code.
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The way that lexers loop over text was changed to avoid accessing beyond the
end or setting beyond the end. May fix some bugs and make the code safer but
may also cause new bugs.
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Bug fixed in HTML lexer's handling of SGML.
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Bug fixed on GTK+/X where lines wider than 32767 pixels did not display.
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SciTE bug fixed with file name generation for standard property files.
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SciTE bug fixed with Open Selected Filename command when used with
file name and line number combination.
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In SciTE, indentation and tab settings stored with buffers so maintained correctly
as buffers selected.
The properties used to initialise these settings can now be set separately for different
file patterns.
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Thread safety improved on Windows with a critical section protecting the font
cache and initialisation of globals performed within Scintilla_RegisterClasses.
New Scintilla_ReleaseResources call provided to allow explicit freeing of resources
when statically bound into another application. Resources automatically freed
in DLL version. The window classes are now unregistered as part of resource
freeing which fixes bugs that occurred in some containers such as Internet Explorer.
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'make install' fixed on Solaris.
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Bug fixed that could lead to a file being opened twice in SciTE.
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Released on 4 February 2002.
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Crashing bug fixed in Editor::Paint.
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Lua lexer no longer treats '.' as a word character and
handles 6 keyword sets.
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WordStartPosition and WordEndPosition take an onlyWordCharacters
argument.
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SciTE option for simplified automatic indentation which repeats
the indentation of the previous line.
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Compilation fix on Alpha because of 64 bit.
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Compilation fix for static linking.
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Limited maximum line length handled to 8000 characters as previous
value of 16000 was causing stack exhaustion crashes for some.
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When whole document line selected, only the last display line gets
the extra selected rectangle at the right hand side rather than
every display line.
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Caret disappearing bug fixed for the case that the caret was not on the
first display line of a document line.
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SciTE bug fixed where untitled buffer containing text was sometimes
deleted without chance to save.
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SciTE bug fixed where use.monospaced not working with
multiple buffers.
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Released on 19 January 2002.
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Line wrapping robustness and performance improved in Scintilla.
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Line wrapping option added to SciTE for both edit and output panes.
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Static linking on Windows handles cursor resource better.
Documentation of static linking improved.
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Autocompletion has an option to delete any word characters after the caret
upon selecting an item.
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FOX version identified by PLAT_FOX in Platform.h.
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Calltips in SciTE use the calltip.<lexer>.word.characters setting to
correctly find calltips for functions that include characters like '$' which
is not normally considered a word character.
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SciTE has a command to show help on itself which gets hooked up to displaying
SciTEDoc.html.
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SciTE option calltip.<lexer>.end.definition to display help text on a
second line of calltip.
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Fixed the handling of the Buffers menu on GTK+ to ensure current buffer
indicated and no warnings occur.
Changed some menu items on GTK+ version to be same as Windows version.
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use.monospaced property for SciTE determines initial state of Use Monospaced Font
setting.
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The SciTE Complete Symbol command now works when there are no word
characters before the caret, even though it is slow to display the whole set of
symbols.
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Function names removed from SciTE's list of PHP keywords. The full list of
predefined functions is available from another web site mentioned on the
Extras page.
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Crashing bug at startup on GTK+ for some configurations fixed.
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Crashing bug on GTK+ on 64 bit platforms fixed.
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Compilation problem with some compilers fixed in GTK+.
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Japanese text entry improved on Windows 9x.
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SciTE recent files directory problem on Windows when HOME and SciTE_HOME
environment variables not set is now the directory of the executable.
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Session files no longer include untitled buffers.
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Released on 24 December 2001.
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Better localisation support including context menus and most messages.
Translations of the SciTE user interface available for Bulgarian,
French, German, Italian, Russian, and Turkish.
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Can specify a character to use to indicate control characters
rather than having them displayed as mnemonics.
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Scintilla key command for backspace that will not delete line
end characters.
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Scintilla method to find start and end of words.
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SciTE on GTK+ now supports the load.on.activate and save.on.deactivate
properties in an equivalent way to the Windows version.
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The output pane of SciTE on Windows is now interactive so command line
utilities that prompt for input or confirmation can be used.
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SciTE on Windows can choose directory for a "Find in Files"
command like the GTK+ version could.
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SciTE can now load a set of API files rather than just one file.
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ElapsedTime class added to Platform for accurate measurement of durations.
Used for debugging and for showing the user how long commands take in SciTE.
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Baan lexer added.
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In C++ lexer, document comment keywords no longer have to be at the start
of the line.
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PHP lexer changed to match keywords case insensitively.
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More shell keywords added.
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SciTE support for VoiceXML added to xml.properties.
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In SciTE the selection is not copied to the find field of the Search and Replace
dialogs if it contains end of line characters.
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SciTE on Windows has a menu item to decide whether to respond to other
instances which are performing their check.if.already.open check.
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SciTE accelerator key for Box Comment command changed to avoid problems
in non-English locales.
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SciTE context menu includes Close command for the editor pane and
Hide command for the output pane.
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output: command added to SciTE director interface to add text to the
output pane. The director interface can execute commands (such as tool
commands with subsystem set to 3) by sending a macro:run message.
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SciTE on GTK+ will defer to the Window Manager for position if position.left or
position.top not set and for size if position.width or position.height not set.
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SciTE on Windows has a position.tile property to place a second instance
to the right of the first.
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Scintilla on Windows again supports EM_GETSEL and EM_SETSEL.
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Problem fixed in Scintilla on Windows where control ID is no longer cached
as it could be changed by external code.
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Problems fixed in SciTE on Windows when finding any other open instances at
start up when check.if.already.open is true.
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Bugs fixed in SciTE where command strings were not always having
variables evaluated.
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Bugs fixed with displaying partial double-byte and Unicode characters
in rectangular selections and at the edge when edge mode is EDGE_BACKGROUND.
Column numbers reported by GetColumn treat multiple byte characters as one column
rather than counting bytes.
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Bug fixed with caret movement over folded lines.
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Another bug fixed with tracking selection in secondary views when performing
modifications.
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Horizontal scrolling and display of long lines optimised.
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Cursor setting in Scintilla on GTK+ optimised.
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Experimental changeable style attribute.
Set to false to make text read-only.
Currently only stops caret from being within not-changeable
text and does not yet stop deleting a range that contains
not-changeable text.
Can be used from SciTE by adding notchangeable to style entries.
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Experimental line wrapping.
Currently has performance and appearence problems.
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Released on 6 November 2001.
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Changed Platform.h to not include platform headers. This lessens likelihood and impact of
name clashes from system headers and also speeds up compilation.
Renamed DrawText to DrawTextNoClip to avoid name clash.
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Changed way word functions work to treat a sequence of punctuation as
a word. This is more sensible and also more compatible with other editors.
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Cursor changes over the margins and selection on GTK+ platform.
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SC_MARK_BACKGROUND is a marker that only changes the line's background colour.
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Enhanced Visual Basic lexer handles character date and octal literals,
and bracketed keywords for VB.NET. There are two VB lexers, vb and vbscript
with type indication characters like ! and $ allowed at the end of identifiers
in vb but not vbscript. Lexer states now separate from those used for C++ and
names start with SCE_B.
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Lexer added for Bullant language.
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The horizontal scroll position, xOffset, is now exposed through the API.
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The SCN_POSCHANGED notification is deprecated as it was causing confusion.
Use SCN_UPDATEUI instead.
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Compilation problems fixed for some versions of gcc.
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Support for WM_GETTEXT restored on Windows.
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Double clicking on an autocompletion list entry works on GTK+.
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Bug fixed with case insensitive sorts for autocompletion lists.
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Bug fixed with tracking selection in secondary views when performing modifications.
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SciTE's abbreviation expansion feature will now indent expansions to the current
indentation level if indent.automatic is on.
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SciTE allows setting up of parameters to commands from a dialog and can also
show this dialog automatically to prompt for arguments when running a command.
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SciTE's Language menu (formerly Options | Use Lexer) is now defined by the
menu.language property rather than being hardcoded.
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The user interface of SciTE can be localised to a particular language by editing
a locale.properties file.
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On Windows, SciTE will try to move to the front when opening a new file from
the shell and using check.if.already.open.
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SciTE can display the file name and directory in the title bar in the form
"file @ directory" when title.full.path=2.
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The SciTE time.commands property reports the time taken by a command as well
as its status when completed.
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The SciTE find.files property is now a list separated by '|' characters and this list is
added into the Files pull down of the Find in Files dialog.
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Released on 23 September 2001.
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Removal of emulation of Win32 RichEdit control in core of Scintilla.
This change may be incompatible with existing client code.
Some emulation still done in Windows platform layer.
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SGML support in the HTML/XML lexer.
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SciTE's "Stop Executing" command will terminate GUI programs on
Windows NT and Windows 2000.
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StyleContext class helps construct lexers that are simple and accurate.
Used in the C++, Eiffel, and Python lexers.
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Clipboard operations in GTK+ version convert between platform '\n' line endings and
currently chosen line endings.
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Any character in range 0..255 can be used as a marker.
This can be used to support numbered bookmarks, for example.
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The default scripting language for ASP can be set.
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New lexer and other support for crontab files used with the nncron scheduler.
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Folding of Python improved.
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The ` character is treated as a Python operator.
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Line continuations ("\" at end of line) handled inside Python strings.
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More consistent handling of line continuation ('\' at end of line) in
C++ lexer.
This fixes macro definitions that span more than one line.
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C++ lexer can understand Doxygen keywords in doc comments.
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SciTE on Windows allows choosing to open the "open" dialog on the directory
of the current file rather than in the default directory.
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SciTE on Windows handles command line arguments in "check.if.already.open"
correctly when the current directory of the new instance is different to the
already open instance of SciTE.
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"cwd" command (change working directory) defined for SciTE director interface.
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SciTE "Export As HTML" produces better, more compliant, and shorter files.
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SciTE on Windows allows several options for determining default file name
for exported files.
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Automatic indentation of Python in SciTE fixed.
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Exported HTML can support folding.
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Bug fixed in SCI_GETTEXT macro command of director interface.
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Cursor leak fixed on GTK+.
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During SciTE shutdown, "identity" messages are no longer sent over the director interface.
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Released on 22 August 2001.
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Windows version requires msvcrt.dll to be available so will not work
on original Windows 95 version 1. The msvcrt.dll file is installed
by almost everything including Internet Explorer so should be available.
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Flattened tree control style folding margin. The SciTE fold.plus option is
now fold.symbols and has more values for the new styles.
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Mouse dwell events are generated when the user holds the mouse steady
over Scintilla.
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PositionFromPointClose is like PositionFromPoint but returns
INVALID_POSITION when point outside window or after end of line.
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Input of Hungarian and Russian characters in GTK+ version works by
truncating input to 8 bits if in the range of normal characters.
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Better choices for font descriptors on GTK+ for most character sets.
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GTK+ Scintilla is destroyed upon receiving destroy signal rather than
destroy_event signal.
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Style setting that force upper or lower case text.
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Case-insensitive autocompletion lists work correctly.
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Keywords can be prefix based so ^GTK_ will treat all words that start
with GTK_ as keywords.
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Horizontal scrolling can be jumpy rather than gradual.
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GetSelText places a '\0' in the buffer if the selection is empty..
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EnsureVisible split into two methods EnsureVisible which will not scroll to show
the line and EnsureVisibleEnforcePolicy which may scroll.
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Python folder has options to fold multi-line comments and triple quoted strings.
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C++ lexer handles keywords before '.' like "this.x" in Java as keywords.
Compact folding mode option chooses whether blank lines after a structure are
folded with that structure. Second set of keywords with separate style supported.
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Ruby lexer handles multi-line comments.
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VB has folder.
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PHP lexer has an operator style, handles "<?" and "?>" inside strings
and some comments.
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TCL lexer which is just an alias for the C++ lexer so does not really
understand TCL syntax.
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Error lines lexer has styles for Lua error messages and .NET stack traces.
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Makefile lexer has a target style.
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Lua lexer handles some [[]] string literals.
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HTML and XML lexer have a SCE_H_SGML state for tags that
start with "<!".
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Fixed Scintilla bugs with folding. When modifications were performed near
folded regions sometimes no unfolding occurred when it should have. Deleting a
fold causing character sometimes failed to update fold information correctly.
-
Better support for Scintilla on GTK+ for Win32 including separate
PLAT_GTK_WIN32 definition and correct handling of rectangular selection
with clipboard operations.
-
SciTE has a Tools | Switch Pane (Ctrl+F6) command to switch focus between
edit and output panes.
-
SciTE option output.scroll allows automatic scrolling of output pane to
be turned off.
-
Commands can be typed into the SciTE output pane similar to a shell window.
-
SciTE properties magnification and output magnification set initial zoom levels.
-
Option for SciTE comment block command to place comments at start of line.
-
SciTE for Win32 has an option to minimize to the tray rather than the task bar.
-
Close button on SciTE tool bar for Win32.
-
SciTE compiles with GCC 3.0.
-
SciTE's automatic indentation of C++ handles braces without preceding keyword
correctly.
-
Bug fixed with GetLine method writing past the end of where it should.
-
Bug fixed with mouse drag automatic scrolling when some lines were folded.
-
Bug fixed because caret XEven setting was inverted.
-
Bug fixed where caret was initially visible even though window was not focussed.
-
Bug fixed where some file names could end with "\\" which caused slow
downs on Windows 9x.
-
On Win32, SciTE Replace dialog starts with focus on replacement text.
-
SciTE Go to dialog displays correct current line.
-
Fixed bug with SciTE opening multiple files at once.
-
Fixed bug with Unicode key values reported to container truncated.
-
Fixed bug with unnecessary save point notifications.
-
Fixed bugs with indenting and unindenting at start of line.
-
Monospace Font setting behaves more consistently.
-
Released on 23 May 2001.
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Loadable lexer plugins on Windows.
-
Ruby lexer and support.
-
Lisp lexer and support.
-
Eiffel lexer and support.
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Modes for better handling of Tab and BackSpace keys within
indentation. Mode to avoid autocompletion list cancelling when
there are no viable matches.
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ReplaceTarget replaced with two calls ReplaceTarget
(which is incompatible with previous ReplaceTarget) and
ReplaceTargetRE. Both of these calls have a count first
parameter which allows using strings containing nulls.
SearchInTarget and SetSearchFlags functions allow
specifying a search in several simple steps which helps
some clients which can not create structs or pointers easily.
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Asian language input through an Input Method Editor works
on Windows 2000.
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On Windows, control characters can be entered through use of
the numeric keypad in conjunction with the Alt key.
-
Document memory allocation changed to grow exponentially
which reduced time to load a 30 Megabyte file from
1000 seconds to 25. Change means more memory may be used.
-
Word part movement keys now handled in Scintilla rather than
SciTE.
-
Regular expression '^' and '$' work more often allowing insertion
of text at start or end of line with a replace command.
Backslash quoted control characters \a, \b, \f, \t, and \v
recognised within sets.
-
Session files for SciTE.
-
Export as PDF command hidden in SciTE as it often failed.
Code still present so can be turned on by those willing to cope.
-
Bug fixed in HTML lexer handling % before > as end ASP
even when no start ASP encountered.
Bug fixed when scripts ended with a quoted string and
end tag was not seen.
-
Bug fixed on Windows where context menu key caused menu to
appear in corner of screen rather than within window.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE's Replace All command not processing
whole file when replace string longer than search string.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE's MRU list repeating entries if Ctrl+Tab
used when all entries filled.
-
ConvertEOLs call documentation fixed.
-
Released on 17 April 2001.
-
Bug fixed with scroll bars being invisible on GTK+ 1.2.9.
-
Scintilla and SciTE support find and replace using simple regular
expressions with tagged expressions. SciTE supports C '\' escapes
in the Find and Replace dialogs.
Replace in Selection available in SciTE.
-
Scintilla has a 'target' feature for replacing code rapidly without
causing display updates.
-
Scintilla and SciTE on GTK+ support file dropping from file managers
such as Nautilus and gmc. Files or other URIs dropped on Scintilla
result in a URIDropped notification.
-
Lexers may have separate Lex and Fold functions.
-
Lexer infrastructure improved to allow for plug in lexers and for referring
to lexers by name rather than by ID.
-
Ada lexer and support added.
-
Option in both Scintilla and SciTE to treat both left and right margin
as equally important when repositioning visible area in response to
caret movement. Default is to prefer visible area positioning which
minimises the horizontal scroll position thus favouring the left margin.
-
Caret line highlighting.
-
Commands to delete from the caret to the end of line and
from the caret to the beginning of line.
-
SciTE has commands for inserting and removing block comments and
for inserting stream comments.
-
SciTE Director interface uses C++ '\' escapes to send control characters.
-
SciTE Director interface adds more commands including support for macros.
-
SciTE has menu options for recording and playing macros which are visible
when used with a companion program that supports these features.
-
SciTE has an Expand Abbreviation command.
Abbreviations are stored in a global abbrev.properties file.
-
SciTE has a Full Screen command to switch between a normal window
size and using the full screen. On Windows, the menu bar can be turned
off when in full screen mode.
-
SciTE has a Use monospaced font command to switch between the normal
set of fonts and one size of a particular fixed width font.
-
SciTE's use of tabs can be controlled for particular file names
as well as globally.
-
The contents of SciTE's status bar can be defined by a property and
include variables. On Windows, several status bar definitions can be active
with a click on the status bar cycling through them.
-
Copy as RTF command in SciTE on Windows to allow pasting
styled text into word processors.
-
SciTE can allow the use of non-alphabetic characters in
Complete Symbol lists and can automatically display this autocompletion
list when a trigger character such as '.' is typed.
Complete word can be set to pop up when the user is typing a word and
there is only one matching word in the document.
-
SciTE lists the imported properties files on a menu to allow rapid
access to them.
-
SciTE on GTK+ improvements to handling accelerator keys and focus
in dialogs. Message boxes respond to key presses without the Alt key as
they have no text entries to accept normal keystrokes.
-
SciTE on GTK+ sets the application icon.
-
SciTE allows setting the colours used to indicate the current
error line.
-
Variables within PHP strings have own style. Keyword list updated.
-
Keyword list for Lua updated for Lua 4.0.
-
Bug fixed in rectangular selection where rectangle still appeared
selected after using cursor keys to move caret.
-
Bug fixed in C++ lexer when deleting a '{' controlling a folded range
led to that range becoming permanently invisible.
-
Bug fixed in Batch lexer where comments were not recognised.
-
Bug fixed with undo actions coalescing into steps incorrectly.
-
Bug fixed with Scintilla on GTK+ positioning scroll bars 1 pixel
over the Scintilla window leading to their sides being chopped off.
-
Bugs fixed in SciTE when doing some actions led to the start
or end of the file being displayed rather than the current location.
-
Appearance of calltips fixed to look like document text including
any zoom factor. Positioned to be outside current line even when
multiple fonts and sizes used.
-
Bug fixed in Scintilla macro support where typing Enter caused both a newline
command and newline character insertion to be recorded.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE on GTK+ where focus was moving
between widgets incorrectly.
-
Bug fixed with fold symbols sometimes not updating when
the text changed.
-
Bugs fixed in SciTE's handling of folding commands.
-
Deprecated undo collection enumeration removed from API.
-
Released on 1 March 2001.
-
Scintilla supports GTK+ on Win32.
-
Some untested work on making Scintilla and SciTE 64 bit compatible.
For users on GTK+ this requires including Scintilla.h before
ScintillaWidget.h.
-
HTML lexer allows folding HTML.
-
New lexer for Avenue files which are used in the ESRI ArcView GIS.
-
DOS Batch file lexer has states for '@', external commands, variables and
operators.
-
C++ lexer can fold comments of /* .. */ form.
-
Better disabling of popup menu items in Scintilla when in read-only mode.
-
Starting to move to Doxygen compatible commenting.
-
Director interface on Windows enables another application to control SciTE.
-
Opening SciTE on Windows 9x sped up greatly for some cases.
-
The command.build.directory property allows SciTE to run the build
command in a different directory to the source files.
-
SciTE on Windows allows setting foreground and background colours
for printed headers and footers.
-
Bug fixed in finding calltips in SciTE which led to no calltips for some identifiers.
-
Documentation added for lexers and for the extension and director interfaces.
-
SciTE menus rearranged with new View menu taking over some of the items that
were under the Options menu. Clear All Bookmarks command added.
-
Clear Output command in SciTE.
-
SciTE on Windows gains an Always On Top command.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE with attempts to define properties recursively.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE properties where only one level of substitution was done.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE properties where extensions were not being
matched in a case insensitive manner.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE on Windows where the Go to dialog displays the correct
line number.
-
In SciTE, if fold.on.open set then switching buffers also performs fold.
-
Bug fixed in Scintilla where ensuring a line was visible in the presence of folding
operated on the document line instead of the visible line.
-
SciTE command line processing modified to operate on arguments in order and in
two phases. First any arguments before the first file name are processed, then the
UI is opened, then the remaining arguments are processed. Actions defined for the
Director interface (currently only "open") may also be used on the command line.
For example, "SciTE -open:x.txt" will start SciTE and open x.txt.
-
Numbered menu items SciTE's Buffers menu and the Most Recently Used portion
of the File menu go from 1..0 rather than 0..9.
-
The tab bar in SciTE for Windows has numbers.
The tab.hide.one option hides the tab bar until there is more than one buffer open.
-
Released on 29 January 2001.
-
Rewritten and simplified widget code for the GTK+ version to enhance
solidity and make more fully compliant with platform norms. This includes more
normal handling of keystrokes so they are forwarded to containers correctly.
-
User defined lists can be shown.
-
Many fixes to the Perl lexer.
-
Pascal lexer handles comments more correctly.
-
C/C++/Java/JavaScipt lexer has a state for line doc comments.
-
Error output lexer understands Sun CC messages.
-
Make file lexer has variable, preprocessor, and operator states.
-
Wider area given to an italics character that is at the end of a line to prevent it
being cut off.
-
Call to move the caret inside the currently visible area.
-
Paste Rectangular will space fill on the left hand side of the pasted text as
needed to ensure it is kept rectangular.
-
Cut and Paste Rectangular does nothing in read-only mode.
-
Undo batching changed so that a paste followed by typing creates two undo actions..
-
A "visibility policy" setting for Scintilla determines which range of lines are displayed
when a particular line is moved to. Also exposed as a property in SciTE.
-
SciTE command line allows property settings.
-
SciTE has a View Output command to hide or show the output pane.
-
SciTE's Edit menu has been split in two with searching commands moved to a
new Search menu. Find Previous and Previous Bookmark are in the Search menu.
-
SciTE on Windows has options for setting print margins, headers and footers.
-
SciTE on Windows has tooltips for toolbar.
-
SciTE on GTK+ has properties for setting size of file selector.
-
Visual and audio cues in SciTE on Windows enhanced.
-
Fixed performance problem in SciTE for GTK+ by dropping the extra 3D
effect on the content windows.
-
Fixed problem in SciTE where choosing a specific lexer then meant
that no lexer was chosen when files opened.
-
Default selection colour changed to be visible on low colour displays.
-
Fixed problems with automatically reloading changed documents in SciTE on
Windows.
-
Fixed problem with uppercase file extensions in SciTE.
-
Fixed some problems when using characters >= 128, some of which were being
incorrectly treated as spaces.
-
Fixed handling multiple line tags, non-inline scripts, and XML end tags /> in HTML/XML lexer.
-
Bookmarks in SciTE no longer disappear when switching between buffers.
-
Released on 28 November 2000.
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Pascal lexer.
-
Export as PDF in SciTE.
-
Support for the OpenVMS operating system in SciTE.
-
SciTE for GTK+ can check for another instance of SciTE
editing a file and switch to it rather than open a second instance
on one file.
-
Fixes to quoting and here documents in the Perl lexer.
-
SciTE on Windows can give extra visual and audio cues when a
warning is shown or find restarts from beginning of file.
-
Open Selected Filename command in SciTE. Also understands some
warning message formats.
-
Wider area for line numbers when printing.
-
Better scrolling performance on GTK+.
-
Fixed problem where rectangles with negative coordinates were
invalidated leading to trouble with platforms that use
unsigned coordinates.
-
GTK+ Scintilla uses more compliant signalling code so that keyboard
events should propagate to containers.
-
Bug fixed with opening full or partial paths.
-
Improved handling of paths in error messages in SciTE.
-
Better handling of F6 in SciTE.
-
Released on 6 November 2000.
-
XIM support for the GTK+ version of Scintilla ensures that more non-English
characters can be typed.
-
Caret may be 1, 2, or 3 pixels wide.
-
Cursor may be switched to wait image during lengthy processing.
-
Scintilla's internal focus flag is exposed for clients where focus is handled in
complex ways.
-
Error status defined for Scintilla to hold indication that an operation failed and the reason
for that failure. No detection yet implemented but clients may start using the interface
so as to be ready for when it does.
-
Context sensitive help in SciTE.
-
CurrentWord property available in SciTE holding the value of the word the
caret is within or near.
-
Apache CONF file lexer.
-
Changes to Python lexer to allow 'as' as a context sensitive keyword and the
string forms starting with u, r, and ur to be recognised.
-
SCN_POSCHANGED notification now working and SCN_PAINTED notification added.
-
Word part movement commands for cursoring between the parts of reallyLongCamelIdentifiers and
other_ways_of_making_words.
-
When text on only one line is selected, Shift+Tab moves to the previous tab stop.
-
Tab control available for Windows version of SciTE listing all the buffers
and making it easy to switch between them.
-
SciTE can be set to automatically determine the line ending type from the contents of a
file when it is opened.
-
Dialogs in GTK+ version of SciTE made more modal and have accelerator keys.
-
Find in Files command in GTK+ version of SciTE allows choice of directory.
-
On Windows, multiple files can be opened at once.
-
SciTE source broken up into more files.
-
Scintilla headers made safe for C language, not just C++.
-
New printing modes - force background to white and force default background to white.
-
Automatic unfolding not occurring when Enter pressed at end of line bug fixed.
-
Bugs fixed in line selection.
-
Bug fixed with escapes in PHP strings in the HTML lexer.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE for GTK+ opening files when given full paths.
-
Bug fixed in autocompletion where user backspaces into existing text.
-
Bugs fixed in opening files and ensuring they are saved before running.
A case bug also fixed here.
-
Released on 8 September 2000.
-
Fixes bugs in complete word and related code. Protection against a bug when
receiving a bad argument.
-
Released on 6 September 2000.
-
Scintilla is available as a COM control from the scintillactrl module in CVS.
-
Style setting to underline text. Exposed in SciTE as "underlined".
-
Style setting to make text invisible.
-
SciTE has an extensibility interface that can be used to implement features such as
a scripting language or remote control. An example use of this is the extlua module
available from CVS which allows SciTE to be scripted in Lua.
-
Many minor fixes to all of the lexers.
-
New lexer for diff and patch files.
-
Error message lexer understands Perl error messages.
-
C/C++/Java lexer now supports C#, specifically verbatim strings and
@ quoting of identifiers that are the same as keywords. SciTE has
a set of keywords for C# and a build command set up for C#.
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Scintilla property to see whether in overtype or insert state.
-
PosChanged notification fired when caret moved.
-
Comboboxes in dialogs in SciTE on Windows can be horizontally scrolled.
-
Autocompletion and calltips can treat the document as case sensitive or
case insensitive.
-
Autocompletion can be set to automatically choose the only
element in a single element list.
-
Set of characters that automatically complete an autocompletion list
can be set.
-
SciTE command to display calltip - useful when dropped because of
editing.
-
SciTE has a Revert command to go back to the last saved version.
-
SciTE has an Export as RTF command. Save as HTML is renamed
to Export as HTML and is located on the Export sub menu.
-
SciTE command "Complete Word" searches document for any
words starting with characters before caret.
-
SciTE options for changing aspects of the formatting of files exported
as HTML or RTF.
-
SciTE "character.set" option for choosing the character
set for all fonts.
-
SciTE has a "Toggle all folds" command.
-
The makefiles have changed. The makefile_vc and
makefile_bor files in scintilla/win32 and scite/win32 have been
merged into scintilla/win32/scintilla.mak and scite/win32/scite.mak.
DEBUG may be defined for all make files and this will turn on
assertions and for some make files will choose other debugging
options.
-
To make debugging easier and allow good use of BoundsChecker
there is a Visual C++ project file in scite/boundscheck that builds
all of Scintilla and SciTE into one executable.
-
The size of the SciTE output window can be set with the
output.horizontal.size and output.vertical.size settings.
-
SciTE status bar indicator for insert or overwrite mode.
-
Performance improvements to autocompletion and calltips.
-
A caret redraw problem when undoing is fixed.
-
Crash with long lines fixed.
-
Bug fixed with merging markers when lines merged.
-
Released on 26 July 2000.
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Much better support for PHP which is now an integral part of the HTML support.
-
Start replacement of Windows-specific APIs with cross platform APIs.
In 1.30, the new APIs are introduced but the old APIs are still available.
For the GTK+ version, may have to include "WinDefs.h" explicitly to
use the old APIs.
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"if" and "import" statements in SciTE properties files allows modularisation into
language-specific properties files and choices based upon platform.
This means that SciTE is delivered with 9 language-specific properties files
as well as the standard SciTEGlobal.properties file.
-
Much lower resource usage on Windows 9x.
-
"/p" option in SciTE on Windows for printing a file and then exiting.
-
Options for printing with inverted brightness (when the screen is set to use
a dark background) and to force black on white printing.
-
Option for printing magnified or miniaturised from screen settings.
-
In SciTE, Ctrl+F3 and Ctrl+Shift+F3 find the selection in the forwards and backwards
directions respectively.
-
Auto-completion lists may be set to cancel when the cursor goes before
its start position or before the start of string being completed.
-
Auto-completion lists automatically size more sensibly.
-
SCI_CLEARDOCUMENTSTYLE zeroes all style bytes, ensures all
lines are shown and deletes all folding information.
-
On Windows, auto-completion lists are visually outdented rather than indented.
-
Close all command in SciTE.
-
On Windows multiple files can be dragged into SciTE.
-
When saving a file, the SciTE option save.deletes.first deletes it before doing the save.
This allows saving with a different capitalisation on Windows.
-
When use tabs option is off pressing the tab key inserts spaces.
-
Bug in indicators leading to extra line drawn fixed.
-
Released on 27 June 2000.
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Fixes crash in indentation guides when indent size set to 0.
-
Fixes to installation on GTK+/Linux. User properties file on GTK+ has a dot at front of name:
.SciTEUser.properties. Global properties file location configurable at compile time
defaulting to $prefix/share/scite. $prefix determined from Gnome if present else its
/usr/local and can be overridden by installer. Gnome menu integration performed in
make install if Gnome present.
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Released on 23 June 2000.
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Indentation guides. View whitespace mode may be set to not display whitespace
in indentation.
-
Set methods have corresponding gets for UndoCollection, BufferedDraw,
CodePage, UsePalette, ReadOnly, CaretFore, and ModEventMask.
-
Caret is continuously on rather than blinking while typing or holding down
delete or backspace. And is now always shown if non blinking when focused on GTK+.
-
Bug fixed in SciTE with file extension comparison now done in case insensitive way.
-
Bugs fixed in SciTE's file path handling on Windows.
-
Bug fixed with preprocessor '#' last visible character causing hang.
-
Released on 13 June 2000.
-
Support for the Lua language in both Scintilla and SciTE.
-
Multiple buffers may be open in SciTE.
-
Each style may have a character set configured. This may determine
the characters that are displayed by the style.
-
In the C++ lexer, lexing of preprocessor source may either treat it all as being in
the preprocessor class or only the initial # and preprocessor command word as
being in the preprocessor class.
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Scintilla provides SCI_CREATEDOCUMENT, SCI_ADDREFDOCUMENT, and
SCI_RELEASEDOCUMENT to make it easier for a container to deal with multiple
documents.
-
GTK+ specific definitions in Scintilla.h were removed to ScintillaWidget.h. All GTK+ clients will need to
#include "ScintillaWidget.h".
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For GTK+, tools can be executed in the background by setting subsystem to 2.
-
Keys in the properties files are now case sensitive. This leads to a performance increase.
-
Menu to choose which lexer to use on a file.
-
Tab size dialog on Windows.
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File dialogs enlarged on GTK+.
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Match Brace command bound to Ctrl+E on both platforms with Ctrl+] a synonym on Windows.
Ctrl+Shift+E is select to matching brace. Brace matching tries to match to either the inside or the
outside, depending on whether the cursor is inside or outside the braces initially.
View End of Line bound to Ctrl+Shift+O.
-
The Home key may be bound to move the caret to either the start of the line or the start of the
text on the line.
-
Visual C++ project file for SciTE.
-
Bug fixed with current x location after Tab key.
-
Bug fixed with hiding fold margin by setting fold.margin.width to 0.
-
Bugs fixed with file name confusion on Windows when long and short names used, or different capitalisations,
or relative paths.
-
Released on 9 May 2000.
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Some Unicode support on Windows. Treats buffer and API as UTF-8 and displays
through UCS-2 of Windows.
-
Automatic indentation. Indentation size can be different to tab size.
-
Tool bar.
-
Status bar now on Windows as well as GTK+.
-
Input fields in Find and Replace dialogs now have history on both Windows and
GTK+.
-
Auto completion list items may be separated by a chosen character to allow spaces
in items. The selected item may be changed through the API.
-
Horizontal scrollbar can be turned off.
-
Property to remove trailing spaces when saving file.
-
On Windows, changed font size calculation to be more compatible with
other applications.
-
On GTK+, SciTE's global properties files are looked for in the directory specified in the
SCITE_HOME environment variable if it is set. This allows hiding in a dot directory.
-
Keyword lists in SciTE updated for JavaScript to include those destined to be used in
the future. IDL includes XPIDL keywords as well as MSIDL keywords.
-
Zoom level can be set and queried through API.
-
New notification sent before insertions and deletions.
-
LaTeX lexer.
-
Fixes to folding including when deletions and additions are performed.
-
Fix for crash with very long lines.
-
Fix to affect all of rectangular selections with deletion and case changing.
-
Removed non-working messages that had been included only for Richedit compatibility.
-
Released on 29 March 2000.
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Added lexing of IDL based on C++ lexer with extra UUID lexical class.
-
Functions and associated keys for Line Delete, Line Cut, Line Transpose,
Selection Lower Case and Selection Upper Case.
-
Property setting for SciTE, eol.mode, chooses initial state of line end characters.
-
Fixed bugs in undo history with small almost-contiguous changes being incorrectly coalesced.
-
Fixed bugs with incorrect expansion of ContractionState data structures causing crash.
-
Fixed bugs relating to null fonts.
-
Fixed bugs where recolourisation was not done sometimes when required.
-
Fixed compilation problems with SVector.h.
-
Fixed bad setting of fold points in Python.
-
Released on 21 March 2000.
-
Directory structure to separate on basis of product (Scintilla, SciTE, DMApp)
and environment (Cross-platform, Win32, GTK+).
-
Download packaging to allow download of the source or platform dependent executables.
-
Source code now available from CVS at SourceForge.
-
Very simple Windows-only demonstration application DMApp is available from cvs as dmapp.
-
Lexing functionality may optionally be included in Scintilla rather than be provided by
the container.
-
Set of lexers included is determined at link time by defining which of the Lex* object files
are linked in.
-
On Windows, the SciLexer.DLL extends Scintilla.DLL with the standard lexers.
-
Enhanced HTML lexer styles embedded VBScript and Python.
ASP segments are styled and ASP scripts in JavaScript, VBScript and Python are styled.
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PLSQL and PHP supported.
-
Maximum number of lexical states extended to 128.
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Lexers may store per line parse state for multiple line features such as ASP script language choice.
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Lexing API simplified.
-
Project file for Visual C++.
-
Can now cycle through all recent files with Ctrl+Tab in SciTE.
-
Bookmarks in SciTE.
-
Drag and drop copy works when dragging to the edge of the selection.
-
Fixed bug with value sizes in properties file.
-
Fixed bug with last line in properties file not being used.
-
Bug with multiple views of one document fixed.
-
Keypad now works on GTK+.
-
Released on 27 February 2000.
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wxWindows platform defined.
Implementation for wxWindows will be available separately
from main Scintilla distribution.
-
Line folding in Scintilla.
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SciTE performs syntax directed folding for C/C++/Java/JavaScript and for Python.
-
Optional macro recording support.
-
User properties file (SciTEUser.properties) allows for customisation by the user
that is not overwritten with each installation of SciTE.
-
Python lexer detects and highlights inconsistent indentation.
-
Margin API made more orthogonal. SCI_SETMARGINWIDTH and SCI_SETLINENUMBERWIDTH
are deprecated in favour of this new API.
-
Margins may be made sensitive to forward mouse click events to container.
-
SQL lexer and styles included.
-
Perl lexer handles regular expressions better.
-
Caret policy determines how closely caret is tracked by visible area.
-
New marker shapes: arrow pointing down, plus and minus.
-
Optionally display full path in title rather than just file name.
-
Container is notified when Scintilla gains or loses focus.
-
SciTE handles focus in a more standard way and applies the main
edit commands to the focused pane.
-
Container is notified when Scintilla determines that a line needs to be made visible.
-
Document watchers receive notification when document about to be deleted.
-
Document interface allows access to list of watchers.
-
Line end determined correctly for lines ending with only a '\n'.
-
Search variant that searches form current selection and sets selection.
-
SciTE understands format of diagnostic messages from WScript.
-
SciTE remembers top line of window for each file in MRU list so switching to a recent file
is more likely to show the same text as when the file was previously visible.
-
Document reference count now initialised correctly.
-
Setting a null document pointer creates an empty document.
-
WM_GETTEXT can no longer overrun buffer.
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Polygon drawing bug fixed on GTK+.
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Java and JavaScript lexers merged into C++ lexer.
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C++ lexer indicates unterminated strings by colouring the end of the line
rather than changing the rest of the file to string style. This is less
obtrusive and helps the folding.
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Released on 2 February 2000.
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Blank margins on left and right side of text.
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SCN_CHECKBRACE renamed SCN_UPDATEUI and made more efficient.
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SciTE source code refactored into platform independent and platform specific classes.
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XML and Perl subset lexers in SciTE.
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Large improvement to lexing speed.
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A new subsystem, 2, allows use of ShellExec on Windows.
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Borland compatible makefile.
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Status bar showing caret position in GTK+ version of SciTE.
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Bug fixes to selection drawing when part of selection outside window, mouse release over
scroll bars, and scroll positioning after deletion.
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Released on 21 January 2000.
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Multiple views of one document.
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Rectangular selection, cut, copy, paste, drag and drop.
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Long line indication.
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Reverse searching
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Line end conversion.
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Generic autocompletion and calltips in SciTE.
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Call tip background colour can be set.
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SCI_MARKERPREV for moving to a previous marker.
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Caret kept more within window where possible.
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Released on 15 December 1999.
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Brace highlighting and badlighting (for mismatched braces).
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Visible line ends.
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Multiple line call tips.
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Printing now works from SciTE on Windows.
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SciTE has a global "*" lexer style that is used as the basis for all the lexers' styles.
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Fixes some warnings on GTK+ 1.2.6.
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Better handling of modal dialogs on GTK+.
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Resize handle drawn on pane splitter in SciTE on GTK+ so it looks more like a regular GTK+
*paned widget.
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SciTE does not place window origin offscreen if no properties file found on GTK+.
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File open filter remembered in SciTE on Windows.
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New mechanism using style numbers 32 to 36 standardises the setting of styles for brace
highlighting, brace badlighting, line numbers, control characters and the default style.
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Old messages SCI_SETFORE .. SCI_SETFONT have been replaced by the default style 32. The old
messages are deprecated and will disappear in a future version.
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Released on 20 November 1999.
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Fixes a scrolling bug reported on GTK+.
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Released on 18 November 1999.
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Fixes compilation problems with the mingw32 GCC 2.95.2 on Windows.
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Control characters are now visible.
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Performance has improved, particularly for scrolling.
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Windows RichEdit emulation is more accurate. This may break client code that uses these
messages: EM_GETLINE, EM_GETLINECOUNT, EM_EXGETSEL, EM_EXSETSEL, EM_EXLINEFROMCHAR,
EM_LINELENGTH, EM_LINEINDEX, EM_CHARFROMPOS, EM_POSFROMCHAR, and EM_GETTEXTRANGE.
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Menus rearranged and accelerator keys set for all static items.
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Placement of space indicators in view whitespace mode is more accurate with some fonts.
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Released on 9 November 1999.
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Packaging error in 1.11 meant that the compilation error was not fixed in that release.
Linux/GTK+ should compile with GCC 2.95 this time.
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Released on 7 November 1999.
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Fixed a compilation bug in ScintillaGTK.cxx.
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Added a README file to explain how to build.
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GTK+/Linux downloads now include documentation.
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Binary only Sc1.EXE one file download for Windows.
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Released on 6 November 1999.
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Major restructuring for better modularity and platform independence.
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Inter-application drag and drop.
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Printing support in Scintilla on Windows.
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Styles can select colouring to end of line. This can be used when a file contains more than
one language to differentiate between the areas in each language. An example is the HTML +
JavaScript styling in SciTE.
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Actions can be grouped in the undo stack, so they will be undone together. This grouping is
hierarchical so higher level actions such as replace all can be undone in one go. Call to
discover whether there are any actions to redo.
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The set of characters that define words can be changed.
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Markers now have identifiers and can be found and deleted by their identifier. The empty
marker type can be used to make a marker that is invisible and which is only used to trace
where a particular line moves to.
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Double click notification.
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HTML styling in SciTE also styles embedded JavaScript.
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Additional tool commands can be added to SciTE.
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SciTE option to allow reloading if changed upon application activation and saving on
application deactivation. Not yet working on GTK+ version.
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Entry fields in search dialogs remember last 10 user entries. Not working in all cases in
Windows version.
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SciTE can save a styled copy of the current file in HTML format. As SciTE does not yet
support printing, this can be used to print a file by then using a browser to print the
HTML file.
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Released on 1 October 1999.
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GTK+ version compiles with GCC 2.95.
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Properly deleting objects when window destroyed under GTK+.
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If the selection is not empty backspace deletes the selection.
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Some X style middle mouse button handling for copying the primary selection to and from
Scintilla. Does not work in all cases.
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HTML styling in SciTE.
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Stopped dirty flag being set in SciTE when results pane modified.
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Released on 28 September 1999.
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Better DBCS support on Windows including IME.
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Wheel mouse support for scrolling and zooming on Windows. Zooming with Ctrl+KeypadPlus and
Ctrl+KeypadMinus.
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Performance improvements especially on GTK+.
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Caret blinking and settable colour on both GTK+ and Windows.
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Drag and drop within a Scintilla window. On Windows, files can be dragged into SciTE.
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Released on 17 May 1999.
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Changed name of "Tide" to "SciTE" to avoid clash with a TCL based IDE. "SciTE" is a
SCIntilla based Text Editor and is Latin meaning something like "understanding in a neat
way" and is also an Old English version of the word "shit".
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There is a SCI_AUTOCSTOPS message for defining a string of characters that will stop
autocompletion mode. Autocompletion mode is cancelled when any cursor movement occurs apart
from backspace.
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GTK+ version now splits horizontally as well as vertically and all dialogs cancel when the
escape key is pressed.
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Released on 12 May 1999.
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A bit more robust than 0.92 and supports SCI_MARKERNEXT message.
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Released on 11 May 1999.
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GTK+ version now contains all features of Windows version with some very small differences.
Executing programs works much better now.
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New palette code to allow more colours to be displayed in 256 colour screen modes. A line
number column can be displayed to the left of the selection margin.
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The code that maps from line numbers to text positions and back has been completely
rewritten to be faster, and to allow markers to move with the text.
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Released on 30 April 1999, containing fixes to text measuring to make Scintilla work better
with bitmap fonts. Also some small fixes to make compiling work with Visual C++.
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Released on 29 April 1999, containing working GTK+/Linux version.
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The Java, C++ and Python lexers recognise operators as distinct from default allowing them
to be highlighted.
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Released on 1 April 1999, to fix a problem with handling the Enter key in PythonWin. Also
fixes some problems with cmd key mapping.
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Released on 30th March 1999, containing bug fixes and a few more features.
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Static linking supported and Tidy.EXE, a statically linked version of Tide.EXE. Changes to
compiler flags in the makefiles to optimise for size.
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Scintilla supports a 'savepoint' in the undo stack which can be set by the container when
the document is saved. Notifications are sent to the container when the savepoint is
entered or left, allowing the container to to display a dirty indicator and change its
menus.
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When Scintilla is set to read-only mode, a notification is sent to the container should the
user try to edit the document. This can be used to check the document out of a version
control system.
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There is an API for setting the appearance of indicators.
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The keyboard mapping can be redefined or removed so it can be implemented completely by the
container. All of the keyboard commands are now commands which can be sent by the
container.
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A home command like Visual C++ with one hit going to the start of the text on the line and
the next going to the left margin is available. I do not personally like this but my
fingers have become trained to it by much repetition.
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SCI_MARKERDELETEALL has an argument in wParam which is the number of the type marker to
delete with -1 performing the old action of removing all marker types.
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Tide now understands both the file name and line numbers in error messages in most cases.
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Tide remembers the current lines of files in the recently used list.
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Tide has a Find in Files command.
Beta release 0.80
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This was the first public release on 14th March 1999, containing a mostly working Win32
Scintilla DLL and Tide EXE.
Beta releases of SciTE were called Tide