dexed/CHANGELOG.md

v3.9.27-devel

Enhancements

• Added the Git Blame widget.
• Search & Replace, add visual feedback in the editor.

Bugs fixed

• Mini-explorer, clearing the filter had for effect to scan the root folder instead of the selected one. (#129)
• Mini-explorer, on startup selected folder becomes the root, instead of the previous root. (#130)
• With dark themes warning message on exit was barely legible.
• Editor, completions, better behavior with .. and when "auto-dot" is enabled (autoDotDelay > 0).

v3.9.26

Enhancements

• Editor, added the Undo All action.
• GDB Commander, custom executables selected for debugging are now stored in a persistent MRU list.

Bugx fixed

• Fixed windows release (#116). From now ldc2 >= 1.31.0 is a minimal requirement.
• The context lines of the diff viewer were not legible whith dark themes.
• Font size of reloaded document not always correct.

v3.9.25

Enhancements

• Added support for the new DUB package naming scheme. However older DUB versions (or package installed with) are still supported. (#118)
• Add highlighter preset "Arc Dark".

Bugs fixed

• Completion did not work properly for dependencies specified with a path property.
• Word completions (non-semantics ones) did not include identifiers containing digits. (#121)
• Messages, "select all" could hang the IDE for a while (#120)
• Custom tools editor, when focused and typing, a useless input box appeared.
• Symbol List, spurious errors when the code used most recently added languages constructs.

v3.9.24

Enhancements

• Editor, added the Redo All action.
• Editor, added the ecScrollCenteredDown and ecScrollCenteredUp actions. Only available using shortcuts and binded by default to UP/DOWN+CTRL+ALT, they allow to maintain the caret at the center of the text view while scrolling.

Bugs fixed

• dexed did not, or was slow, to start on Plasma. (7398bf9609)
• make projects, DUB was wrongly mentioned when trying to compile while previous build not finished.
• possible access violation related to project groups (390ec7777e)

v3.9.23

Enhancements

• GDB Commander, center editor view after double click on the call stack.

Fixes

• fix, dub projects, "sourcePath" not tried in the "subPackages".
• fix, dub projects, completion not working well if project is organized as sub packages. (#65)

v3.9.22

Enhancements

• Make projects, added the excludedSourceExtensions options. It allows to filter out files that are in the sourceDirectories from the project inspector or from the list of files used to perform project wide searches.

Regressions fixed

• Editor, line clicked when adding a breakpoint unexpectedly vertically centered.
• Window menu, "Reset default layout", did not work anymore. (#50)

v3.9.21

Bugs fixed

• Windows version did not compile anymore

v3.9.20

Enhancements

• GDB Commander, the p custom command has now the same effect as the toolbar action evaluate.
• GDB Commander, it's possible to get completions when using the p command in the field at the bottom and with the CTRL + SPACE shortcut or the . key.
• GDB Commander, added the useCustomCommandsHistory option. If checked the history is used to auto-complete the field at the bottom. This is the previous default but it's now deactivated for a better experience with the GDB completions.
• Editor, always center the view on current line after actions that have for effect to change the line number (find next, message click, goto line, goto next changed area, etc.)

Bugs fixed

• Project groups, dexed projects (.dprj) wrongly seen as makefile projects.

Other

• Dropped support for Lazarus 2.0, 2.2 or newer required.

v3.9.19

Enhancements

• Completion, changed defaults so that . does not validate but instead close, leaving typed text as-is. To apply the changes on on exisint installation, set editor option closeCompletionCharsWithSpace to *+-/^=~><%. and closeCompletionChars to ,;)}]!.
• Completion, while menu opened, Backspace had for effect to also delete next char. This was an old workaround that has no reason to be maintained anymore.
• Editor status bar, added a context menu with casually useful actions related to the editor filename (open containing folder, copy file name, cd in terminal, etc.)

Bugs fixed

• Completion, option autoCallCompletion did not work when using textCompletion in non-D sources.
• Completion, does not allow autoCallCompletion when key modifiers are used, e.g CTRL+Z.
• C/C++ highlighter was not set for *.cxx files

v3.9.18

Enhancements

• It's possible to open ".mak" or "makefile" files as projects. The project inspector displays the rules as configurations and the content of the "src/", "include/", or "import/" sub directories as source files.
• Search and Replace: after a failed search give the editor the focus back.
• Added new symbolic strings CLN (CaretLineNumber) and CCN (CaretColumnNumber).

Bugs fixed

• Crash to desktop for certain invalid or incomplete D constructs. (#107)
• Project configuration index not handled with option "reloadLastDocuments".
• Project groups widget, adding new items was broken.
• Project groups, workspace reloading, the config index was not properly saved and restore.

Other

• libdexed-d does not rely on the old "iz" library anymore.
• last version that can be build with Lazarus 2.0.z

v3.9.17

Enhancements

• completion: sort the completions obtained by word splitting

v3.9.16

Enhancements

• DUB projects, options, removed dependencyCheck and replaced with a new skipRegistry option that maps 1:1 to the official documentation.
• GDB commander: add debugee option queryInput in addition to the existing system. That has for effect to query the input, pass it to the inferior stdin and close the stream. (#101)
• GDB commander: allow to close the input stream using > in the widget field at the bottom.

Bugs fixed

• editor, option textCompletionMinLength min length off-by-one.
• libdexed-d could not be build with latest LDC2.

v3.9.15

Bugs fixed

• DUB projects, access violation for subpackages entries described using JSON objects.
• DUB projects, source files of subpackage described in JSON objects not visible in the project inspector. (#98)

v3.9.14

Bugs fixed

• binary files for windows available again. (#95)

v3.9.13

Enhancements

• messages, search results: exclude backticks if the option backTicksHighlight is enabled.
• GDB commander: double click on the call stack to select a frame and refresh the different views. This is especially useful to go back to the frame where a D Exception is thrown. (#52)
• completion: partial support for dependencies of type package:subpackage.

Bugs fixed

• diff dialog: the content reloaded matched to the state when the dialog was shown, not when closed. (#97)
• editor, debugging: during a debugging session, wrong icon displayed when a breakpoint is removed.
• DUB project inspector: the tree was empty if the project is moslty organized in subpackages.
• DUB projects: version number without the patch component were not accepted.

v3.9.12

Enhancements

• editor: a new option, textCompletion, sets if the completion menu includes the identifiers obtained by word-splitting the whole document. (#85)
• editor: prevent completion menu to show on fast enough (< to the autoDotDelay setting) ...
• Halstead metrics: show full function signatures.
• projects: added the Check semantics to the menu. (#83)
• DUB projects: added support for the syntax build type. (#83)
• GDB commander: arguments of the Debugee Options can be temporarily deactivated by prepending //.
• GDB commander: add an option allowing to set the path to the gdb binary. (#73)
• GDB commander: the context menu of the ASM view allows to resume execution until the selected instruction. (#71)
• Search results: use GNU style messages. (#84)

Regressions fixed

• editor, closeCompletionCharsWithSpace broken by git b65bb860.

Bugs fixed

• D2 highlighter: for Call(), Call wont be considered anymore as a type. (#69)
• GDB commander: 5 empty arguments were passed to the main function called by libc. (#86)
• Symlist: errors were not visible enough since moved to the top. (#92)

Other

• can be build with Lazarus 2.2 but backward compatible 2.0.z.
• provided binaries are build with Lazarus 2.0.12 due to 2.2 not being released.

v3.9.11

Regressions fixed

• critical, linux, gtk2: random crashes when save and open dialogs are displayed. (#79)

Bugs fixed

• editor, gutter: cases where warnings icons were not always updated. (#80)
• editor, gutter: prevent overlap of icons. first column is used for D-Scanner, second and third for debugging.

Other

• D2 highlighter: remove the keywords body (deprecated), typedef (deprecated), macro (unused).

v3.9.10

Bugs fixed

• Editor tabs: caption not updated when split page is closed using the File menu or the shortcut.
• Editor shortcuts: no applied to current editor until restart or file close/reopen.
• Editor: fix possible freeze when closed using a shortcut.

v3.9.9

Enhancements

• GDB commander: The widget is now activated on Windows systems. Note that it might only works if the project is compiled with LDC >= 1.23.0 and if debug info are generated and if the -gdwarf switch is also part of the config. See LDC announcement. GDB for windows can be found here for example.

Bugs fixed

• About box, ddemangle was listed as a required tool but it is not anymore. (#74)
• Messages, when selected, the recently added Search Results category could not be emptied.
• Highlighter, q"()", q"[]", q"<>", q"{}>" strings highlighting was broken.
• HTML export, the dialog proposed to open a file, not to save one.
• Setup, the deb package had problem on newest Ubuntu. (#72)

v3.9.8

Enhancements

• Messages, searches: results of Find All with for scope a whole project go in their own category, preventing to repeat the operation in certain circumstances. (#60)
• Project inspector: moved the list of configuration to a combo box located over the file tree.

Bugs fixed

• GDB commander, editor: bad expression returned when using mouse motion to get value of an expression located within square brackets.

Other

• Release links error 404. This is due to an old problem of Gitlab but that unfortunately got worse by the end of August...

v3.9.7

Enhancements

• Project menu, git: add the first line of last commit message as additional information, between square brackets, to the items of the list of branches. (#53)
• Symbol list: keep errors and warnings at the top of the tree and never sort these two categories, to respect the lexicographic order. (#58)

Regressions fixed

• Messages, the messages matching to the call stack printed on assert failure were not clickable anymore. The regression was introduced when the support for GNU-style messages was added.
• Segfault on exit since built with FPC 3.2.0. (#54)

Bugs fixed

• Editor: module name not displayed in the tab caption if the module has the shebang line.
• Project menu, git: no label in the list of branches when in "detached HEAD" after a checkout.

Other

• compilation: FPC 3.2.0 now required to compile dexed.
• It is recommended to deactivate the automatic update of the Todo List widget, due to a crasher

v3.9.6

Enhancements

• D highlighter: added option to highlights function calls and function definition. Use options window: Editor/HighlighterDlang/calls to test it as by default the same properties as identifiers are used.
• GDB commander: added the maxCallStackDepth option. It prevents slowdowns, especially after an automatic break on SEGFAULT caused by a stack overflow.

Bugs fixed

• Editor: wrong position indicated in the call tips when starting to type an array literal, a slice or any other expression involving the square brackets. (#51)
• Project Menu, Git: active branch was not updated after an external checkout.

v3.9.5

Enhancements

• GDB commander: added a 3rd choice in the menu associated to first toolbar button. It allows to debug a custom executable, i.e not tied to a project or a runnable script.

Regressions

• DUB project: when compiling a DUB project with LDC, LDC was translated to LDMD. (#47, caused by the fix for #43)
• Options, shortcut editor: The view was empty until something got typed and then deleted in the filter. (#49)

Bugs fixed

• Terminal: Scrollbar out of range exception, optionally freezing the IDE, when interactive program launched (e.g vi). (#46)

v3.9.4

Enhancements

• D highlighter: highlight @() just like @Identifier ans skipping the enclosed content. Nested @() are not handled.

Bugs fixed

• GDB commander: automatic break on exception did not work if the program was compiled with LDC2. (#41)
• GDB commander: expressions obtained by mouse motion were not correct when the source used tabulations to indent. (#42)
• Messages: force auto scrolling to bottom once and if the messages context is modified.
• Runnables: ldc2 was not translated to ldmd when the "global compiler" was set to compile the runnables. (#43)
• Terminal: after launching dexed, the current directory was not constrained even when the settings to follow the current project or document path were activated. (#5)
• Terminal: problem with the min position of the scrollbar. Visible for example when a program output more lines then the scrollbackLines setting.
• Windows: fixed broken compilation that was caused by libdexed-d.

v3.9.3

Enhancements

• Messages: only auto scroll on new message if the bottom-most message is in view, like in terminal emulators. (#39)
• Messages: enhanced detection patterns to open a file from a message. The new detections are for messages containing a filename of the project, relative to src or src instead of the project root directory.

Bugs fixed

• libdexed-d: reduce memory usage caused by D allocations. (#38)

v3.9.2

Regressions

• Symbol list: performance regression, async behavior is now emulated with threads. (#35)
• Todolist: performance regression, async behavior is now emulated with threads. (#35)
• Todolist: small non growing leak introduced in v3.9.0

Bugs fixed

• Editor, Diff: the button used to "reload from disk and reset the history" didn't work.

v3.9.1

Bugs fixed

• Other: Sigsegv upon starting dexed. (#33)
• Other: the setting files could be corrupted when values contained mutli-bytes UTF-8 characters. (#19)
• installers: fix the rpm package since it required a dependency specific to the gitlab runner used to release.

Other

• installers: adjusted the .deb package to make it compatible with both Debian and Ubuntu. (#33)

v3.9.0

Enhancements

• D highlighter: added suport for HEREDOC string literald of type q"()" q"[]", q"<>" and q"{}". Support for HEREDOC based on a custom delimiter wont be added as they might be removed as per DIP 1026.
• Docking: added a dialog to remind that docking is locked in certain scenarios. (#30)
• Editor: the option to detect the indentation is activated by default, to prevent mixed indentation style.
• Editor: a fourth button in the diff dialog allows to reload but without preserving the undo history, which is better when using go to next changed area and go to prev changed area to navigate in the editor.
• Search Replace: the result of FindAll when the string to search is not a trivial regular expression are also highlighted. (#14)
• TODO list: a new option, disableIfMoreFilesThan, allows to disable auto refreshing of the list could be slow when the current project is huge.

Bugs fixed

• DUB projects: dependencies specified with path and with their sources located in "src" or "source" were not passed correctly to DCD. (#29)
• DUB projects: dependencies specified with path are recognized when their sources are in a sub folder taking as name the package name. (#29)
• DUB runnables: document specific messages were not cleared between two calls to "Run DUB single file package". (#27)
• Editor: case where brace auto close is triggered while in comment. (#31)
• Editor: prevent unexpected validation of properties in certain cases, such as a.map giving a.mangleof! after !.

Other

• Toolchain: removed the background tool dastworx and replaced it with a statically linked shared library called libdexed-d.
• Toolchain: ddemangle is not required anymore, demangling of D names now happens in libdexed-d.

v3.8.4

Bugs fixed

• Editor, calltips: problem when the function parameter included type constructors. (#26)

Other

• Project CI: extraction of the changelog didn't work properly.

v3.8.3

Enhancements

• Compiler paths: when selecting the ldc2 compiler file the matching library path is added if it's "../import". (#20)
• Compiler paths: better messages when trying to use a compiler that's not defined. (#18)

Bugs fixed

• Widgets, option: problem with the option "floating widgets on top". (#3)
• Misc: update checker was not updated to work with gitlab. (#21)

v3.8.2

Enhancements

• Custom tools: A new property allows to set the background color of the item. (#16)
• Custom tools: A new Toolbar button has for effect to terminate the process associated to a tool. (#15)
• Messages, added an option, enabled by default, allowing to highlight the blocks enclosed by backticks. This works for the "find all" action, the compiler output, the custom tools output, etc. (#13)

Bugs fixed

• Editor, Calltips: the position of the window was incorrect when the arguments stood on several lines. (#10)
• Terminal, UI: the scrollbar lacked of accuracy. (#11)

Other

• project CI: the release process is now fully automated, allowing painless and more frequent releases.

v3.8.1

• dummy release

v3.8.0

Enhancements

• Compiler paths: added the "global" compiler. It allows to quickly set the compiler used whatever is the context.
• Compiler paths: the editors for LDC and GDC are less confusing now, since only one path is needed to specify the std/core paths, unlike for DMD.
• Editor, Calltips: in the call tips window, the parameter being edited is highlighted. Note that stacking of calltips in nested function calls is for now removed.
• GDB commander, editor, linux: it is now possible to inspect the variables in a tooltip window displayed when moving the mouse in the code editor.
• Messages: added support for GNU type messages. Note that the detection of the type (GNU or legacy DMD) is dynamic.
• MRUs: added an option preventing to remove non existing items, which used to be problematic when using git branches.
• Terminal, UI: added scrollbar.

Bugs fixed

• Application, energy consumption: damped a small but constant CPU load, even on idle, caused by several timers.
• DUB project editor: it was possible to add a property twice.
• Editor: possible range violation when trying to rename an editor past the EOL.
• GDB Commander: no scrollbar in the variable inspector.
• Main menu: shortcuts for the tools not updated after editing the options.
• Terminal: clearing a temporary line because of automatic check dir caused a reset, clearing the backbuffer.

Other

• the documentation is updated to be rendered by Gitlab CI or locally, with pandoc.
• windows binaries are not provided anymore.