Software Update: CudaText 1.148.5

Version 1.148.5.0 of CudaText has been released. This open source and cross platform text editor is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, BDS and Solaris. It has extensive options which is of particular interest to software developers. It is developed in Object Pascal, starts quickly and the functionality can be further expanded by means of Python add-ons. The program is actively being developed; Below is the changelog for the past month:

Changes in version 1.148.5:

Added:

• Commands “extend carets: up/down” did not handle going over shorter lines (“caret_after_end”:false); now caret column is restored when going long line-> short line-> long line
• Detect that history-configs are filled with null-bytes, eg because of PC reset
• Menu dialogs show button “x” to cancel (when system dialog border is off); Command Palette has the caption now
• Dialog “View / Lexers” has initially selected item
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Fixed:

• MacOS: repainting of UI controls on UI-theme selection
• Pasting of wide _column_ blocks into short lines, with “caret_after_end”:false
• Option “caret_proximity_vert” worked bad with commands “scroll line up/down”
• Regression in 1.107: option “carets_primitive_column_sel”:true caused the regression, column blocks were not copied/pasted as column
• Regression in 1.148.0.2: wrong tail-of-file saving if file size was decreased
• Regression in 1.147: crash on BSD-systems on app exiting
• Windows: NTFS file streams were not preserved on file saving
• Windows: file-change-notification marked NTFS stream as modified
• Lexer CSS: fix highlight or @property blocks
• Lexer JSON: default extension must be ‘json’
• Lexer Markdown: ‘YAML front-matter’ rule
• Lexer C++: tokenizing of some operators

Changes in version 1.148.0:

changes

• renamed command “ui: toggle find dialog” to “dialog: find: toggle dialog”, also changed logic of this command a little

Added:

• added command “dialog: replace: toggle dialog”
• improved option “mouse_rt_click_moves_caret”, so that right-click over selection never resets that selection
• show Console error message when required icon filename is missed (in toolbar-theme, in sidebar-theme etc.)
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Fixed:

• command “unindent selection” shrinked selection if it was ended on a non-empty line end

Changes in version 1.147.5:

Added:

• support Python 3.10
• option “caret_proximity_vert”, which allows to keep caret on the distance from top/bottom edge
• option “renderer_tweaks”, which allows to set width of the ‘ellipsis’ char

Changes in version 1.147.2:

• click on empty tab-group area opens a new tab there

changes

• removed option “ui_cmdpalette_hide_simple”; all Palette items are visible now; hiding of Palette items is not much needed and give problems with customizing hotkeys

Fixed:

• regression: “Save as” must change lexer according to the new name
• huge memory consumption (by code-tree) on HTML/CSS files with huge lines, ie on ‘minified’ files
• regression: double-click on UI tabs empty area didn’t work
• micromap on scrollbar: click on folded position did not unfold it
• micromap on scrollbar: bad vertical shift, when vertical “scrollbar_arrows” is ‘normal’ or ‘both above’

Changes in version 1.147.0:

Added:

• before saving history/session file, check that disk free space is >1M, and give a Retry/Cancel messagebox if less
• option “paste_multiline_at_line_start”, to mimic Sublime and VSCode, default is ‘false’ to not give a regression
• option “ui_cmdpalette_hide_simple”
• option “micromap_line_states”
• command “expand selection to line, up”; before we had only “expand selection to line” which moves down
• UI tabs drag-drop now works also when dropping on “+” pseudo-tab or on the right empty area
• macOS version now detects Python 3.10
• lexer HTML: show block staples
• lexer CSS: highlight std CSS functions

Fixed:

• error ‘wrong time specification’ when file from session was deleted
• regression: drag-drop of text: wrong selection after drop of whole lines
• regression: drag-drop of text: missing red drop marker

Changes in version 1.146.2:

changes

• command “macros: start recording” was renamed and now it starts+stops the recording; 2 commands “macros: stop recording” and “macros: cancel recording” are deprecated and removed from Command Palette

Added:

• show red (default color of “markers”) editor border when macro is recording

Fixed:

• blurry UI tabs in Qt5 versions
• if caret is “non blinking” and “full sized”, it’s opaque
• reaction to touchpad scrolling was too slow/ too fast
• regression: command “focus filter” didn’t work
• crash on pressing Esc in _floating_ side/bottom panel

Changes in version 1.146.0:

Added:

• Command “add next occurrence of selected word” now wraps at the document end, like in Sublime
• New command “skip (don’t select) next occurrence of selected word”
• Lexer JS: “auto_fold_comments” works also for JS ‘template strings’

Changes:

• Option “auto_fold_comments”: now several comments separated with a blank line, make several fold-ranges
• Micromap min-mark-height changed from 2px to 4px
• ‘ellipsis’ Unicode char now has the full-width

Fixed:

• Splitted view: caret in view-2 hides if it’s in folded range in view-1
• Project Manager: cannot show dot-files in ‘Go to file’
• Option “ui_one_instance”: opening of 2nd app instance with session-file parameter didn’t save previous session
• Picture viewer: redundant mouse-wheel scrolling
• Lexer YAML: escaping into single-quoted strings