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Changelog for Alpha 0.4 releases
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Had planned to wait till 0.5 was ready before doing another release but there
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have been too many good enhancements added due to all the great patches submitted
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during this cycle to wait for the last push to 0.5 to complete before releasing.
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Some of the main new features include buffer synchronization with the codebrowser
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plugin, completely re-worked vi emulation support, position history, and
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clipboard ring. See below for more detailed list of changes.
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+Clipboard history feature, can now cycle through recent clipboard entries when
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pasting text into the document.
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+Add automatic file backup option to periodically backup buffer contents.
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+Add Search/Replace in selection option to find dialog.
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+Remembers recent caret positions between jumps and allows for quick navigation
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+Patch from (Hasan Aljudy) to show cwd and add e! command to commandbar
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+Automatically show path completion list when doing an e or cd command.
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+Display the documents EOL mode in the status bar.
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+Add support for XText (patch from Igor Dejanovic).
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+Support XText in Codebrowser (patch from Igor Dejanovic).
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+Complete re-write of vi emulation support (patch from Hasan Aljudy)
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+Add option to start in Normal mode by default when using vi emulation (patch from Hasan Aljudy).
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+Codebrowser synchronizes with caret position. (patch from Igor Dejanovic)
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+Find dialog remembers last position throughout session.
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+Add support for the Cobra programming language.
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+Support opening files by a uri.
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+Add Croatian translation, updated (Brazilian, French, and Russian).
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+Fix python autocomp from failing when word was next to a boundary character.
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+Don't do a replace when there is no selection.
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+Fix number of minor bugs related to finding accented characters.
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+Fix bug in batch file comment command, ensure a space is between 'rem' and the comment text.
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+Fix bug on Windows that could cause an unhandled exception error when closing the
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preferences dialog after closing the last main window.
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+Fix regression in html autocomp where cursor position would be incorrectly
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placed after the inserted tag.
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+Fix Launch not updating after a Save As on Linux.
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+Fix Unicode handling error in session file saving.
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+Fix Editra Style Sheet output from Style Editor to be in sorted order.
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+Fix improper highlighting in django and mako templates due to improper handling
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of Windows eol characters.
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Changes since last release:
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Quick bug fix release for settings not being able to be saved on a new install.
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+Fix major issue with profile not being properly initialized on a new install
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that would cause settings to not be saved.
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+Fix attribute error that could occur with extended autocomp (patch from cowo)
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+Properly escape text in body of Error Reporter message so that it is a proper
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link for webbrower to open.
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This release includes some important bug fixes and performance improvements
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for when loading large files (10MB+). In addition to this there are some new
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and improved vi commands as well as some alternate default key binding profiles.
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Hopefully this will be the last release of the 0.4 series as things are shaping
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up for the 0.5 development cycle. For further details on this release please
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review the following release notes.
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Please also note that if you are using the Projects plugin that you wil also
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need to update it to the newly released 1.0 version due to some api changes that
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make 0.9 incompatible with 1.0.
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+Greatly improved performance of loading large files.
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+Add Count feature to find dialog for counting number of matches in a buffer.
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+Add Vim find char motions (patch from hasan.aljudy).
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+Add Vim bookmarks and navigation (patch from hasan.aljudy).
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+Add support for the Groovy programming language (patch from omar.gomez).
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+Add new syntax style sheet Guepardo (patch from omar.gomez).
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+Add support for loading installation provided key profiles.
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+Add VisualStudio keybindings option (from Vivian).
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+Updater is only available if user account running program has access
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permissions to the install directory.
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+New version of FileBrowser plugin. (adds search in directory option).
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+Add option for extended autocompletion to include results from the simple
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completer in with results.
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+Add support for showing images in the autocompletion popup list.
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+Fix Launch config not properly being initialized when config panel accessed
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from plugin dialog for first time.
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+Fix command entry listing of paths (patch from hasan.aljudy).
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+Fix autocompletion for when accented characters are in the command string
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(modified patch from roman.chyla).
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+Fix some unicode handling issues in search/replace. (patch from roman.chyla)
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+Fix number of printout rendering issues.
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+Update readonly status when permissions change on disk.
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+Fix error in moving a tab from one window to another when the tab was the only
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tab left in the window it was moved from. (filebrowser bug).
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+Fix condition where saving the session file could potentially potentially be
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passed the incorrect type.
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+Fix error in loading files that have an improper magic encoding comment.
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This release fixes a handful of important bugs and new features. The Plugin
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Manager dialog has been completely reworked. Configuration options for plugins
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that provide them are now available in the dialog as well as better error
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reporting for plugins that could not properly be loaded.
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File session support has also been improved to allow for saving and loading of
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multiple custom sessions. Due to format changes the upgrade will require any
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session from previous installations to be overwritten.
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NEW: [features/enhancements]
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+New Plugin Manager Dialog.
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+Improved configuration options for plugins.
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+Incompatible plugins are now displayed in PluginManager with message explaining why.
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+Some basic auto-completion support for CSS.
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+Improved support for sessions. Multiple custom sessions can not be saved and
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reloaded (modified code from Erik Tollerud).
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+Add shortcut for LineDelete to delete line without modifying clipboard.
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+Add option for automatically reloading files when they have changed on disk.
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+Remember last save location when opening save as dialog.
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+Fix incorrect page count shown in print previews.
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+Remember print settings throughout session and for every frame.
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+Fix error when doing Copy Path from tab right click menu.
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+Fix incorrectly showing auto-completion options under some cases in php files.
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+Fix condition where window could be placed at (0, 0) on OSX which causes the
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frame to be placed behind the menubar.
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+Fix improper detection of when to auto-unindent in Python files.
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+Fix Python auto-indent from incorrectly inserting space when the cursor is
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in the indentation space of a line.
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+Fix Close All option in tab context menu not working on GTK.
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+Fix Codebrowser not refreshing when files are opened from the file dialog
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+Fix error that could occur while trying to save filehistory on exit.
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+Fix toolbar not resizing properly when changing icon size on osx.
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+Fix error in highlighting of DTD.
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+Fix titlebar showing incorrect text for untitled files.
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This release contains a large number of bug fixes and improvements. Most notably
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there has been a fair amount of work done on the auto-completions support. All
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file types now have support for some basic word completion help. HTML and XML
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now have support for smart input assistance and completion tips.
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+Add autocompletion support for HTML/XML documents.
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+Instantly start searching for selected text (Win/Lin Ctrl+F3, OSX Cmd+3)
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+Launch adds support for OCaml (patch from quode),
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Batch scripts (patch from GaÎl), and LaTex.
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+Shortcut for maximizing/minimizing the editor pane (patch from Rudi Pettazzi)
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+Add menu entry for Fold All action (patch from Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli)
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+Codebrowser adds support for XML/HTML (patch from Rudi Pettazzi)
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+Codebrowser adds support for Vala, VBScript
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+Some minor changes to the default hightlighting style. The old default is now
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+Add simple generic autocompleter that provides completions based off of words
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in the current buffer (Ctrl+Space). (patch from Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli)
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+Add Move Tab to New Window option on tab context menu.
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+Keyword helper functionality moved into the simple completer.
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+Update window being shown at same time as splash window causing lockups.
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+Fix trim trailing whitespace from getting the wrong text position when certain
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unicode characters are present.
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+Add some missing JavaScript keywords (patch from Rudi Pettazzi)
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+Fix groups not being expanded on a regex replace action.
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+Fix Cmd+Shift+Left/Right not selecting line on osx.
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+Fix Comment command not working on Latex documents
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+Fix some unicode errors in the log system.
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+Fix platform detection for some components when running on Vista.
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+Fix indentation guides preference not properly being applied on restart.
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+Fix transparency settings not being set on Linux.
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+Add some missing PHP keywords (patch from Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli)
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+Fix Display Font preference not being applied.
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+Fix error in handling modification event callbacks for mutiple file views.
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+Fix text being shown behind busy indicator in status bar while it is busy.
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+Fix application crashes that could happen on Linux when compiz is being used.
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+Fix autocomp window not being hidden when switching tabs.
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This is the first release of 2009. It was mostly focused on internal cleanup and
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api refactoring. Through this a number of bugs have been fixed and a number of
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existing features have recieved some refinements. The most noteable changes
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+Some improvements to the Python autocompletion.
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+Comment/Uncomment are now combined into a single toggle action
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(modified patch from Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli).
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+When mixed eol characters are detected a dialog warning of it is now shown,
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that offers to convert them instead of toggling on eol visibility as it
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previously did, since this was found to be confusing to many.
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+Add option to enable/disable checking of eol characters.
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+Add menu shortcut for toggle fold.
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+Add a verbose debug mode for view stack tracebacks in editra log messages.
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+Updated (Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish) Translations.
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+Reuse existing find results screens more effectively.
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+New version of Launch with support for R.
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+Fix find options not properly being synchronized between dialog and find bar.
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+Fix event handlers not properly getting connected when going from 2 -> 1 open windows.
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+Fix eol mode settings in preferences.
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+Fix search bar text not being colored properly on msw/gtk.
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+Fix window not being raised from taskbar when opening file with 'Open with...'
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+Fix drag and drop error for instlling plugins through plugin manager.
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This is yet another quick turnaround bug fix release. The previous build had
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an issue with some missing files. This release also adds the new pane navigator
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feature to make it easy to move from panel to panel with the keyboard.
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+Keyboard navigation of MainWindow panes (OSX: Alt+Tab, Others:Alt+1).
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(modified patch from Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli).
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+Fix search string not getting set from buffer selection in search bar.
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+Fix error when clicking Regular Expression in Search Bar
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+Add some missing sql keywords.
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This is another quick turnaround release to fix some fairly critical bugs in the
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+Some autocompletion behavior improvements
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+Some minor ui changes to the command bar
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+Fix find in files where if the filter was empty no files were searched.
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+Fix error in Find All where incorrect search flag parameters were set.
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+Fix Find/Replace not working.
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+Buffer context menu now works correctly on gtk version.
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+Fix column mode keybinding on windows.
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This release fixes a number of of bugs and general stability issues introduced
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from the last few rounds of feature enhancements. In addition to these bug
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fixes a few new features such as a column edit mode and more improvements to
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the text searching features have been added.
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+Add shortcut for Find Previous
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+New version of Launch plugin (Run last executed program)
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+Read Only indicators on tabs
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+Add support for Progress 4GL
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+Middle click can close tabs in Shelf
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+Add custom highlighting for Issue Lists (from Torsten Mohr)
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+Report number of files searched when doing a Find in Files
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+Improve performance of Find All.
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+Add ability to filter file type to Find in Files.
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+Add commandline option to run Editra in the hotshot profiler.
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+Numerous minor performance improvements.
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+Add Swedish translation (by Peter Magnusson)
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+Middle click closes the tab that was clicked on and not the active tab.
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+Fix Find dialog not preserving order of lookin choices.
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+Fix searching in folded text not being exposed during search.
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+Fix random jumping to top/bottom of file during incremental search.
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+Fix text Drag n Drop not working on Windows.
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+Don't show Python auto-comp choices after numbers.
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+Fix file modified indicator not being hidden after saving file.
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+Fix number of bugs with opening files from filebrowser on gtk versions.
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+Fix statusbar line column number not being updated when clicking on.
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+Fix drag and drop of text not scrolling window as the mouse is moved towards
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top or bottom of buffer.
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+Fix some python2.4 compatibility issues.
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Quick Bug fix release to fix some configuration related bugs.
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+Language settings not being loaded
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+Running Editra from command line on Mac/Linux would not load some config
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On Macintosh and Windows the user configuration files have moved to more
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platform specific locations. This transition should should happen automatically
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but if there are any problems follow the onscreen instructions to manually
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transition your preference settings to the new location. See the changelog
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below for the details of other major changes.
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NEW: [features/improvements]
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+User configuration files are now kept at standard platform locations
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+Support for multiple views of the same file
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+Improved Python auto-indenter (patch from Ofer Schwarz)
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+Show auto-completion choices with Ctrl+Space (patch from Ofer Schwarz)
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+Add Paste After command (patch from Dario Ghilardi)
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+Report number of matches that were replaced in a Replace All action
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+Expand groups when doing a regular expression search and replace
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+Add (Polish, Slovenian, Latvian) translations
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+New version of PyShell. Supports custom styles.
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+Middle click closes tabs (patch from craig.ds)
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+Double click empty tab area opens new tab (patch from craig.ds)
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+Add support for VBScript
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+Improved text drag and drop
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+Fix encoding errors when loading plugins on some systems
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+Fix not being able to cut and copy from Shelf windows
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+Fix bug in selecting Cancel when prompted to save modifications that would
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cause the editor to block paint events and appear frozen.
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+Ctrl+W properly closes the active window instead of always defaulting to the
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tab of the top MainWindow.
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+Fix not being able to search for strings with '.' in them in non-regex mode
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+Fix bug in Launch output sometimes missing output data
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+Fix inaccurate highlighting of words when doing incremental whole word search
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+Fix regex not working with '^' (patch from craig.ds)
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+Fix bug in populating quick finds search history menu
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+Fix bug where selecting cancel when closing a tab would not cancel the action
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