Software Update: CudaText 1.162.0

Version 1.162.0 of CudaText has been released. This open source and cross platform text editor is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD and Solaris. It has extensive options that are of particular interest to software developers. It is developed in Object Pascal, starts quickly and the functionality can be expanded further by means of Python add-ons. The program is under active development and new versions appear regularly. The changelog since version 1.162.0 looks like this:

CudaText 1.162.0

Added:

• Project Manager: the work is done to support auto-saving of the last project (even untitled), and auto-loading of last active project on app start. So if user eg drag-drops a folder on CudaText, this makes the new project “temporary”, and after app restart, “temporary” project will be restored. Also app option “ui_auto_save_session” defaults to ‘true’ now, to be like Sublime Text / VSCode.
• Detection of XML codepage must handle standard codepage names like “windows-1252”
• ‘Paste and indent’ must overwrite the selection
• Viewer allows to activate UTF-8 encoding, and also ISO-8859-9 encoding
• Code-tree remembers ‘Sorted’ state per each file-tab
• Commands “fold/unfold/toggle block at current line” support multi-carets
• Lexer XML: more highlighting when folding is auto-disabled by “lexer_folding_max_lines”
• Lexer XML: highlight numbers tool

Changed

• Paste with middle-click (option “mouse_middle_click”:2): place caret to clicked position, like VSCode/Kate
• Rename menu item “Addons Manager / Install from GitHub” to “Install from Git”
• For folded blocks, horizontal line has different style, dash/dash

Fixed

• Regression in 1.160.2: flickering on editing in file ending, if file was edited in the beginning
• Project Manager: bug with the prompt “files not belonging to the project”
• Problem with saving modified files that were reloaded by “ui_auto_save_session”:true

CudaText 1.161.0

Added:

• Show information-panel on the top, when option “ui_max_size_lexer” disables the normal lexer
• Detect encoding in XML files by signature like
• Command Palette and API menus ‘fuzzy search’ improved: first show items with plain matches, then show items with fuzzy-only matches; similar to Sublime Text
• Addon Manager: enabled ‘fuzzy search’ in menus

CudaText 1.160.2

Added:

• Dialog Find/Replace now shows inside the floating-groups too, when activated from there
• Command-line parameter -c=cuda_module_name,method_name
• Faster filling of the code-tree (on 3Mb XML file: 2 seconds instead of 14 seconds)

Fixed

• Regression in syntax highlight after “Comment stream block”
• Windows: painting of themed menu, when “ui_menu_themed_font_size” value is big

CudaText 1.160.0

Added:

• Mouse buttons Extra1/Extra2 are supported in the hotkey input dialog; note that you must press buttons while mouse pointer is over editor control; these mouse buttons work as equivalent to keyboard buttons BrowserBack/BrowserForward
• Improved keyboard ‘accelerators’ in the menu ‘File / Open recent’
• Improved API to open a file-pair: app now suggests to install new lexer also for the 2nd file
• Improved API to show ‘decorations on gutter’
• More stability of the multi-threaded parser (before, file ~/cudatext.error could appear, please report if that file appears again with new info)
• The minimal size of “unprinted spaces/ line ends” dots changed from 2 px to 1 px
• Lexer PHP: folding of ‘case’ blocks

Changed

• Lexer PHP: simpler highlight HereDoc blocks

Fixed

• “Open URL” in context menu was disabled if menu is called by ContextMenu key