Better colors, better performance, new Diff Viewer, SDL3 port and a seasoned dosage of new features, fixes and enhancements!

Many of the new features and fixes on this release are possible thanks to all the help, suggestions and testing provided by Amer.

Diff Viewer​

One of the most exciting features on this release is the new file and strings differences viewer that was suggested by bananakid, who also provided testing and useful feedback, Thank You!

Here is a preview of the viewer and configuration settings:

Many Enhancements, Fixes, and New Features!

This release includes so many changes that it's a bit hard to summarize — but here we go, so lock your seat belts and enjoy the ride!

🎨 A Fresh Look​

First of all, this is the first release to ship with a new default color scheme, moving away from the one used by our ancestors to further distinguish our identity:

Some fixes, build system corrections, and some new features!

This release consists mostly of fixes with some minor new additions. One of the relevant changes is proper handling of BOM on opened documents with a new status bar indicator, which lets you know if the current document has a BOM as shown on the screenshot:

A patch release that includes some nice fixes and additions!

In the past, the code responsible for file system monitoring automatically unwatched/watched files when an event was received. This behavior was disabled because it caused indefinite signaling of events, which increased CPU usage in the autoreload plugin that needs to monitor files independently. However, this behavior is actually necessary for backends like inotify, where a file would get automatically unwatched if it was removed, only to be re-added later. One example of this occurs when performing a git checkout <branch>, which removes and re-adds files that contain changes, causing a file to be unwatched by inotify. This release restores the previous behavior and fixes the endless signaling of file system events, resulting in a better functioning autoreload plugin.

A new week and a new release with fixes and performance improvements!

Over the past few days, various people have helped by reporting issues on the GitHub issue tracker, and this release tackles some of them. One prominent change is the improvement in the way that coroutines are scheduled, resulting in overall better responsiveness and performance of the editor, an improvement that would not have been possible without the testing of AmerM137.

This is a SCALE bug fix release! Release explanation slightly adapted from #152

Since new renwindow api (that allows initializing windows directly in Lua) the main window creation was moved to core.init but, the scale detection code was still been performed before. This meant that loading the default system style was using the incorrect scale causing issues that would only be resolved by manually re-scaling the interface.

This release fixes various issues reported on GitHub, and introduces some new features and enhacements. The big ticket for this release is overall better scaling behaviour. macOS builds now default to the plain software renderer which is faster. This is possible because various releases ago (almost a year?) we introduced functionality to detect the display scale at runtime, meaning that scaling should be properly performed Lua side instead of relying on the renderer. The SDL Renderer (aka "hardware renderer") is still available but since the glyph loading optimizations, it needs some adjustments to better handle the positions and sizes of fonts when the scale is >= 2.

This release includes the accumulated dose of fixes, some performance improvements and enhacements as listed on the changes log.

This quick minor release introduces some more enhancements and fixes for annoyances found while testing other stuff, most of them are triggered in some edge cases but still, they were causing an itch 😄

Some nice additions are: better restoration of window size on startup which was causing me headaches on wayland, support for autocompletion of preprocessor symbols on C/C++ and fallback detection of UTF-16/32 when no encoding was detected.

After two months finally a release with the accumulated sum of new features, fixes and enhancements!

One notable change is the DocView cache for better performance on files with really long lines, which previously caused the editor to hang when plugins like drawwhitespace, colorpreview or selectionhighlight were enabled.