Software Update: Sublime Text 3.0 Build 3065 Beta

Sublime Text is a comprehensive text editor that will especially appeal to programmers. Among the long list of features we find include a minimap, the ability to select different sections in a text for editing at the same time, syntax highlighting with support for over 40 languages, and the ability to switch from macros and on Python based plugins to use. Sublime Text is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. A license costs $70 and is per user, not per machine. Version 3.0 is currently in development and we have now reached build 3065. The release notes for Sublime Text 3.0 look like this:

Changes in build 3065

• Added sidebar icons
• Added sidebar loading indicators
• Sidebar remembers which folders are expanded
• Tweaked window closing behavior when pressing ctrl+w / cmd+w
• Improved quote auto pairing logic
• Selected group is now stored in the session
• Added remember_full_screen setting
• Fixed a lockup when transitioning from a blinking to a solid caret
• Fixed a crash in plugin_host
• Fixed a crash triggered by Goto Anything cloning views
• Windows: Added command line helper, subl.exe
• OSX: Added ‘New Window’ entry to dock menu
• Posix: Using correct permissions for newly created files and folders
• API: Updated to Python 3.3.3

Changes in build 3059

• Added tab scrolling, controlled by the enable_tab_scrolling setting
• Added image preview when opening images
• Encoding and line endings can be displayed in the status bar with the show_encoding and show_line_endings settings
• Added settings caret_extra_top, caret_extra_bottom and caret_extra_width to control the caret size
• Added index_exclude_patterns setting to control which files get indexed
• Automatically closing windows when the last tab is dragged out
• Changed tab close behavior: the neighboring tab is now always selected
• When the last file is closed, a new transient file is created automatically
• Ctrl+Tab ordering is stored in the session
• Added minimap_scroll_to_clicked_text setting
• Improved error messages when unable to save files
• Auto complete now works as expected in macros
• Minor improvements to Python syntax highlighting
• Vintage: A block caret is now used
• Vintage: Improved behavior of visual line mode with word wrapped lines
• Find in Files will no longer block when FIFOs are encountered
• Linux: Added menu hiding
• Linux: Fixed incorrect handling or double clicks in the Find panel
• Linux: Fixed incorrect underscore display in some menus
• Posix: Fixed new files being created with unexpected permissions
• Windows: SSE support is no longer required for 32 bit builds
• API: Window.open_file now accepts an optional group parameter
• API: Plugins may now call Settings.clear_on_change() within a callback from Settings.add_on_change()
• API: Calling Settings.add_on_change() from within a settings change callback won’t cause the added callback to be run

Changes in build 3047

• Beta is now open to non-registered users
• Windows and Linux: Added High DPI support
• Improved file change detection
• Improved rendering performance
• HTML tag auto completion is better behaved in script tags
• Fixed a crash on exit that could occur when hot_exit is disabled
• Linux and OSX: atomic_save is adaptively disabled when it’s not possible to preserve file permissions
• OSX: Fixed context menus not working when the application is in the background
• Windows: Auto updater supports updating from unicode paths
• API: Plugins in zip files are able to be overridden via files on disk
• API: Added support for the termios module on Linux and OS X
• API: Fixed Selection.contains
• API: Fixed settings objects getting invalidated too early with cloned views

Changes in build 3033

• New auto update system for Windows and OS X
• Previewing a file from the side bar will no longer add an entry to the OPEN FILES section of the side bar
• Added Paste from History
• Added setting ‘auto_find_in_selection’, for S2 style Find in Selection logic
• Find panel has a drop down arrow to select previous items
• Pressing right in the Goto Anything overlay will open the selected file without closing the overlay
• Fixed several crash bugs
• Further startup time improvements
• Improved HTML completions when typing outside of tags
• Fixed Close Tag not respecting self closing tags
• PHP: Improved auto indenting for the alternative control syntax
• Added setting always_prompt_for_file_reload
• Improved handling of deleted files when restoring sessions
• Deleting a file via the side bar will first close the corresponding view, if any
• “Remove all Folders from Project” now prompts to confirm
• Added telemetry. Telemetry is disabled by default, but can be turned on with the enable_telemetry setting
• Using Google Breakpad to automatically report crashes
• Updated syntax highlighting for PHP, Haskell and Pascal
• Symlinks are followed by default in folders added to the side bar
• Windows: Fixed erroneous entries in system menu
• Windows: New style Open Folder dialogs are used on Vista and later
• API: Significantly improved communication speed with plugin_host
• API: Added view.close()
• API: Added view.show_popup_menu()
• API: Added is_valid() method to view and window, to determine if the handle has been invalidated
• API: Added on_post_text_command and on_post_window_command
• API: on_text_command and on_window command are now called when the menu is used
• API: Added sublime.get_macro()
• API: view.substr(point) now has the same semantics as S2 for out of bounds addresses
• API: view.command_history(0, True) now returns the last modifying command, as expected

Changes in build 3021

• Linux: Fixed atomic_save working incorrectly with symlinks
• Windows: Fixed a crash under Windows 7 x64
• Fixed a crash that could occur on file open

Changes in build 3019

• Added Jump Back and Jump Forward commands, available from the Goto menu
• HTML: Improved completions and auto indent
• HTML: Tags are closed when
• Smarter word navigation
• File saves are atomic. This can be disabled with the atomic_save setting
• Find and Replace panels automatically resize when multi line strings are entered
• Faster loading of large, plain text files
• Improved console scrolling performance on high resolution displays
• Improved handling of files with extremely long lines
• Minimap view rectangle auto hides (controlled by the always_show_minimap_viewport setting)
• Indexing: Added detection of stuck workers
• Updated C# package
• Added invert_selection command
• CSS: Completions will not be offered when typing in selectors
• Fixed Reveal in Side Bar
• Fixed C++ syntax highlighting for nested class forward declarations
• Exec panel scrolls again
• OSX: Added support for line numbers sent via apple events
• Windows: ok_cancel_dialog uses new visual styles
• Linux: Using the correct version number for the deb files
• API: Added on_text_command() and on_window_command()
• API: Added load_resource(), load_binary_resource() and find_resources()
• API: Added encode_value() and decode_value()
• API: view.sel() supports negative indices
• API: Implemented settings.add_on_change() and settings.clear_on_change()
• API: view.add_regions() will accept package relative paths for the icon
• API: view.add_regions() can show underlines
• API: Added on_pre_close() callback
• API: view.window() will now work even if the view isn’t frontmost

Changes in build 3012

• Improved protection against degenerate syntax definitions
• Linux: Fixed version incompatibilities with libffi
• OSX: Fixed exec command on 10.7
• OSX: Fixed incompatibility between Dictionary lookup and gpu_window_buffer
• Objective-C: Improved symbol indexing
• API: Plugins may import modules from plugin_loaded()
• API: sublime.version(), sublime.platform(), sublime.architecture(), and sublime.channel() may now be used before plugin_loaded() is called
• API: Added view.command_history()