Lite XL Changelog

What's new in Lite XL 2.1.4

Apr 16, 2024

Features:
Add .pyi extension to language_python (#1728)
Improve autocomplete suggestions box behavior with long text (#1734)
Improve CommandView and autocomplete scroll behavior (#1732)
Add from symbol to support ESM (#1754)
Add Arduino syntax highlighting support in language_cpp (#1767)
Skip patterns matching nothing in tokenizer (#1743)
Fixes:
Fix uninitialized variables in src/api/process.c (#1719)
Fix language_js regex/comment distinction (#1731)
Fix compilation on non-MINGW64 platforms (#1739)
Limit language_js regex avoidance to numbers, and fix starting /* comments (#1744)
Fix buffer_size in g_read for Windows (#1722)
Other Changes:
Rectify LICENSE dates and owners (#1748)
Fix some typos in core.init (#1755)

New in Lite XL 2.1.4 RC 1 (Apr 15, 2024)

New in Lite XL 2.1.3 (Jan 29, 2024)

New in Lite XL 2.1.3 RC 2 (Jan 21, 2024)

New in Lite XL 2.1.2 (Jan 3, 2024)

NEW FEATURES:
The context menu in TreeView is now navigable with a keyboard.(#1338)
A universal build of Lite XL is now available for macOS.
This build runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon macs. (#1458)
Most Unicode characters should be displayed properly if your fonts support them.
(#1524)
LogView will no longer scroll automatically if the user had scrolled.
The LogView will only scroll automatically when the user scrolls up to the last entry.
(#1546)
When using different fonts (especially fonts that render different scripts), the letters will be aligned vertically.(#1560)
Unsaved named files are now saved in the workspace.(#1597)
macOS builds are now signed with a developer certificate.
This allows the user to right click the application in Finder and execute it directly.(#1656)
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
Allow command buffer to be expanded.(#1297)
Use table.move to implement common.splice.(#1324)
Create renderer only when it doesn't exist.(#1315)
Avoid drawing hidden text in DocView:draw_line_text.(#1298)
Don't calculate widths per-uft8-char when not needed.(#1409)
Allow tokenizer to pause and resume in the middle of a line.(#1444)
Optimize CI build times on MSYS2.(#1435)
Significant memory usage improvements when using huge fonts on Windows.(#1555)
The program should be much more responsive when running background tasks.(#1601)
BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
The native plugin API is now usable on multiple source files,
without causing any duplicated symbol errors during compilation.
Plugins using the new plugin API header must define LITE_XL_PLUGIN_ENTRYPOINT
before importing the header, in one of their source files.(#1335)
The native plugin API header now follows the Lua 5.4 API.
Previously, the plugin API header followed the Lua 5.2 API.(#1436)
On Linux, process.start() will now throw an error if execv() fails.(#1363)
Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display
scale detection. This may be fixed in a later version of Lite XL.
Set the LITE_SCALE environment variable to override this value.
FIXES AND OTHER CHANGES:
Fixes:
Fix minor typos in user module(#1289)
Do not allow users to create an empty font group(#1303)
Fix a memory leak(#1305)
Make dirwatch sorting compatible with what file_bisect expects(#1300)
Handle readlink errors(#1292)
Disable horizontal scrolling when linewrapping is enabled(#1309)
Update widgets install location
Add missing luaL_typeerror symbol to plugin API(#1313)
Defer lua error until after cleanup(#1310)
Make empty groups in regex.gmatch return their offset(#1325)
Add missing header declaration
Fix msys build now requiring ca-certificates(#1348)
Fix path to macOS arm64 cross file in GitHub workflows
Fix Doc contextmenu not registering commands if scale plugin is not found(#1338)
Fix TreeView contextmenu commands not working if the mouse hovers DocView(#1338)
Fix incorrect contextmenu predicate(#1338)
Properly rescale NagView on scale change(#1379)
Scale plugin also rescales style.expanded_scrollbar_size(#1380)
Improve DocView:get_visible_line_range precision(#1382)
Fix up some post 5.1/JIT Symbols(#1385)
Fix incorrect x_offset if opened docs have different tab sizes(#1383)
Use correct view for scrolling to find-replace:repeat-find results(#1400)
Improve text width calculation precision(#1408)
Add asynchronous process reaping(#1412)
Fix cursors positions when deleting multiple selections(#1393,#1463)
Fix invalid EXEFILE and EXEDIR on Windows(#1396)
Fix os.getenv() not supporting UTF-8 output(#1397)
Fix differing stacktrace on stdout and file(#1404)
Update api_require to expose more symbols(#1437)
Make system.path_compare more case-aware(#1457)
Fix for api_require wrong macro && conditions(#1465)
Merge carets after doc:move-to-{previous,next}-char(#1462)
Process API improvements (again)(#1370)
Make system.path_compare more digit-aware(#1474)
Check for HANDLE_INVALID in Process API(#1475)
Fix linewrapping bug to do with wordwrapping
Fix compiler warning for printing size_t in rencache.c
Return error string from C searcher
Restore horizontal scroll position after scale change(#494)
Fix memory leak in renderer.c when freeing glyphsets
Move lineguide below blinking cursor(#1511)
Close lua state when exiting on a runtime error(#1487)
Mark linewrapping open_files table as weak
Don't use core.status_view if not yet initialized when logging
Revert "core syntax: strip the path from filename on syntax.get (#1168)"(#1322)
Make Doc:sanitize_position return a more appropriate col(#1469)
Skip checking files if no filename was provided to syntax.get
Normalize stroke before adding keybind(#1334)
Make DocView aware of scrollbars sizes(#1177)
Normalize strokes in fixed order(#1572)
Defer core:open-log until everything is loaded(#1585)
Fix returned percent when clicking the Scrollbar track
Fix C++14 digit separators(#1593)
Make linewrapping consider the expanded Scrollbar size
Fix dimmed text when antialiasing is turned off(#1641)
Mark unsaved named files as dirty(#1598)
Make common.serialize() locale-independent and nan/inf compatible(#1640)
Ignore keypresses during IME composition(#1573)
Fix deadlock if error handler jumps somewhere else(#1647)
Avoid considering single spaces in detectindent(#1595)
Fix deleting indentation with multiple cursors(#1670)
Fix set_target_size passing the wrong value to plugins(#1657)
Limit system.{sleep,wait_event} to timeouts >= 0(#1666)
Fix running core.step when receiving an event while not waiting(#1667)
Fix dirmonitor sorting issues(#1599)
Scale mouse coordinates by window scale(#1630)
Made coroutines make more sense, and fixed a bug(#1381)
Fix selecting newlines with find-replace:select-add-{next,all}(#1608)
Fix editing after undo not clearing the change id(#1574)
Fix language_js regex constant detection(#1581)
Fix patterns starting with ^ in tokenizer(#1645)
Use x offset to define render command rect in rencache_draw_text(#1618)
Improve font/color change detection in language_md(#1614)
Allow long commands and envs on process_start(#1477)
Fix typo in drawwhitespace.lua
Fix NagBar save failed message(#1678)
Fix typo in drawwhitespace.lua
Add autocompletion to multicursor(#1394)
OTHER CHANGES:
Make api_require's nodes const(#1296)
Don't set a value twice(#1306)
Center title and version in emptyview(#1311)
Use master branch for packaging plugins for addons release
Reorganize resources folder and add wasm target(#1244)
Replace uses of SDL_Window with RenWindow(#1319)
Update dummy dirmonitor method signature to match prototypes
Remove static libgcc from meson(#1290)
Pass RenWindow by argument(#1321)
Get rid of annoying forward slash on windows(#1345)
Improve plugins config table handling(#1356)
Add manifest on Windows(#1405)
Split Command struct into different structs for each command type(#1407)
Move SetProcessDPIAware to manifests(#1413)
Use clipping functions provided by SDL(#1426)
Aggregate SDL_Surfaces and their scale in RenSurface(#1429)
Disable trimwhitespace and drawwhitespace via their configs(#1446)
Bump dependency versions(#1434)
Improvements to cross-compilation(#1458)
Move native plugin API header into include/(#1440)
Build releases with Ubuntu 18.04 container(#1460)
Update GitHub Actions dependencies
Make all parameters for set_window_hit_test optional in documentation
Attach command buffer to Renderer Window(#1472)
Fix comment typo in object.lua(#1541)
Allow setting custom glyphset size(#1542)
Use FreeType header names in renderer.c(#1554)
Add documentation for core.common(#1510)
Document missing parameter for system.path_compare(#1566)
Add documentation for core.command(#1564)
Update the Installing prebuild section in README.md(#1548)
Update README.md to remove previously installed files
prior to installing a new version
Use lite-xl Build Box to build releases(#1571)
Use Lua wrap by default(#1481)
Add documentation for contextmenu(#1567)
Use dmgbuild to create DMGs(#1664)
Un-hardcode lua subproject detection and update dependencies(#1676)
Make license time-independent(#1655)

New in Lite XL 2.1.2 RC 4 (Jan 3, 2024)

NEW FEATURES:
The context menu in TreeView is now navigable with a keyboard.(#1338)
A universal build of Lite XL is now available for macOS.
This build runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon macs. (#1458)
Most Unicode characters should be displayed properly if your fonts support them.
(#1524)
LogView will no longer scroll automatically if the user had scrolled.
The LogView will only scroll automatically when the user scrolls up to the last entry.
(#1546)
When using different fonts (especially fonts that render different scripts), the letters will be aligned vertically.(#1560)
Unsaved named files are now saved in the workspace.(#1597)
macOS builds are now signed with a developer certificate.
This allows the user to right click the application in Finder and execute it directly.(#1656)
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
Allow command buffer to be expanded.(#1297)
Use table.move to implement common.splice.(#1324)
Create renderer only when it doesn't exist.(#1315)
Avoid drawing hidden text in DocView:draw_line_text.(#1298)
Don't calculate widths per-uft8-char when not needed.(#1409)
Allow tokenizer to pause and resume in the middle of a line.(#1444)
Optimize CI build times on MSYS2.(#1435)
Significant memory usage improvements when using huge fonts on Windows.(#1555)
The program should be much more responsive when running background tasks.(#1601)
BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
The native plugin API is now usable on multiple source files,
without causing any duplicated symbol errors during compilation.
Plugins using the new plugin API header must define LITE_XL_PLUGIN_ENTRYPOINT
before importing the header, in one of their source files.(#1335)
The native plugin API header now follows the Lua 5.4 API.
Previously, the plugin API header followed the Lua 5.2 API.(#1436)
On Linux, process.start() will now throw an error if execv() fails.(#1363)
Lite XL will use the default SCALE of 1 due to unreliable display
scale detection. This may be fixed in a later version of Lite XL.
Set the LITE_SCALE environment variable to override this value.
FIXES AND OTHER CHANGES:
Fixes:
Fix minor typos in user module(#1289)
Do not allow users to create an empty font group(#1303)
Fix a memory leak(#1305)
Make dirwatch sorting compatible with what file_bisect expects(#1300)
Handle readlink errors(#1292)
Disable horizontal scrolling when linewrapping is enabled(#1309)
Update widgets install location
Add missing luaL_typeerror symbol to plugin API(#1313)
Defer lua error until after cleanup(#1310)
Make empty groups in regex.gmatch return their offset(#1325)
Add missing header declaration
Fix msys build now requiring ca-certificates(#1348)
Fix path to macOS arm64 cross file in GitHub workflows
Fix Doc contextmenu not registering commands if scale plugin is not found(#1338)
Fix TreeView contextmenu commands not working if the mouse hovers DocView(#1338)
Fix incorrect contextmenu predicate(#1338)
Properly rescale NagView on scale change(#1379)
Scale plugin also rescales style.expanded_scrollbar_size(#1380)
Improve DocView:get_visible_line_range precision(#1382)
Fix up some post 5.1/JIT Symbols(#1385)
Fix incorrect x_offset if opened docs have different tab sizes(#1383)
Use correct view for scrolling to find-replace:repeat-find results(#1400)
Improve text width calculation precision(#1408)
Add asynchronous process reaping(#1412)
Fix cursors positions when deleting multiple selections(#1393,#1463)
Fix invalid EXEFILE and EXEDIR on Windows(#1396)
Fix os.getenv() not supporting UTF-8 output(#1397)
Fix differing stacktrace on stdout and file(#1404)
Update api_require to expose more symbols(#1437)
Make system.path_compare more case-aware(#1457)
Fix for api_require wrong macro && conditions(#1465)
Merge carets after doc:move-to-{previous,next}-char(#1462)
Process API improvements (again)(#1370)
Make system.path_compare more digit-aware(#1474)
Check for HANDLE_INVALID in Process API(#1475)
Fix linewrapping bug to do with wordwrapping
Fix compiler warning for printing size_t in rencache.c
Return error string from C searcher
Restore horizontal scroll position after scale change(#494)
Fix memory leak in renderer.c when freeing glyphsets
Move lineguide below blinking cursor(#1511)
Close lua state when exiting on a runtime error(#1487)
Mark linewrapping open_files table as weak
Don't use core.status_view if not yet initialized when logging
Revert "core syntax: strip the path from filename on syntax.get (#1168)"(#1322)
Make Doc:sanitize_position return a more appropriate col(#1469)
Skip checking files if no filename was provided to syntax.get
Normalize stroke before adding keybind(#1334)
Make DocView aware of scrollbars sizes(#1177)
Normalize strokes in fixed order(#1572)
Defer core:open-log until everything is loaded(#1585)
Fix returned percent when clicking the Scrollbar track
Fix C++14 digit separators(#1593)
Make linewrapping consider the expanded Scrollbar size
Fix dimmed text when antialiasing is turned off(#1641)
Mark unsaved named files as dirty(#1598)
Make common.serialize() locale-independent and nan/inf compatible(#1640)
Ignore keypresses during IME composition(#1573)
Fix deadlock if error handler jumps somewhere else(#1647)
Avoid considering single spaces in detectindent(#1595)
Fix deleting indentation with multiple cursors(#1670)
Fix set_target_size passing the wrong value to plugins(#1657)
Limit system.{sleep,wait_event} to timeouts >= 0(#1666)
Fix running core.step when receiving an event while not waiting(#1667)
Fix dirmonitor sorting issues(#1599)
Scale mouse coordinates by window scale(#1630)
Made coroutines make more sense, and fixed a bug(#1381)
Fix selecting newlines with find-replace:select-add-{next,all}(#1608)
Fix editing after undo not clearing the change id(#1574)
Fix language_js regex constant detection(#1581)
Fix patterns starting with ^ in tokenizer(#1645)
Use x offset to define render command rect in rencache_draw_text(#1618)
Improve font/color change detection in language_md(#1614)
Allow long commands and envs on process_start(#1477)
Fix typo in drawwhitespace.lua
Fix NagBar save failed message(#1678)
Fix typo in drawwhitespace.lua
Add autocompletion to multicursor(#1394)
OTHER CHANGES:
Make api_require's nodes const(#1296)
Don't set a value twice(#1306)
Center title and version in emptyview(#1311)
Use master branch for packaging plugins for addons release
Reorganize resources folder and add wasm target(#1244)
Replace uses of SDL_Window with RenWindow(#1319)
Update dummy dirmonitor method signature to match prototypes
Remove static libgcc from meson(#1290)
Pass RenWindow by argument(#1321)
Get rid of annoying forward slash on windows(#1345)
Improve plugins config table handling(#1356)
Add manifest on Windows(#1405)
Split Command struct into different structs for each command type(#1407)
Move SetProcessDPIAware to manifests(#1413)
Use clipping functions provided by SDL(#1426)
Aggregate SDL_Surfaces and their scale in RenSurface(#1429)
Disable trimwhitespace and drawwhitespace via their configs(#1446)
Bump dependency versions(#1434)
Improvements to cross-compilation(#1458)
Move native plugin API header into include/(#1440)
Build releases with Ubuntu 18.04 container(#1460)
Update GitHub Actions dependencies
Make all parameters for set_window_hit_test optional in documentation
Attach command buffer to Renderer Window(#1472)
Fix comment typo in object.lua(#1541)
Allow setting custom glyphset size(#1542)
Use FreeType header names in renderer.c(#1554)
Add documentation for core.common(#1510)
Document missing parameter for system.path_compare(#1566)
Add documentation for core.command(#1564)
Update the Installing prebuild section in README.md(#1548)
Update README.md to remove previously installed files
prior to installing a new version
Use lite-xl Build Box to build releases(#1571)
Use Lua wrap by default(#1481)
Add documentation for contextmenu(#1567)
Use dmgbuild to create DMGs(#1664)
Un-hardcode lua subproject detection and update dependencies(#1676)
Make license time-independent(#1655)

New in Lite XL 2.1.2 RC 3 (Dec 4, 2023)

New in Lite XL 2.1.1 (Jan 2, 2023)

NOTES:
When installing on MacOS from the .dmg file (since Lite XL is not signed anymore) you will need to clear the App attributes in order to be able to launch it. To do so open the terminal and run xattr -cr /Applications/Lite XL.app, afterwards you should be able to launch Lite XL normally.
Addons vs non-addons packages:
The addon packages besides including the Lite XL binary also include additional plugins to make the initial experience more accesible. The extra features the addon packages include are:
All language plugins.
All color scheme plugins.
Widgets + settings gui plugin for easier configuration.
Open externally plugin, which detects if a file been open is valid utf-8 and offers to open it externally if not.
NEW FEATURES:
Add config.keep_newline_whitespace option (#1184)
Add regex.find_offsets, regex.find, improve regex.match (#1232)
Added regex.gmatch (#1233)
add touch events (#1245)
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
highlighter: autostop co-routine when not needed (#881)
core: ported regex.gsub to faster native version (#1233)
BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
For correctness, the behaviour of regex.match was changed to more closely behave like string.match.
regex.find_offsets now provides the previous functionality of regex.match with a more appropriate function name.
regex.gsub doesn't provides the indexes of matches and replacements anymore, now it behaves more similar to string.gsub (the only known affected plugin was regexreplacepreview which has already been adapted)
UI ENHANCEMENTS:
statusview: respect right padding of item tooltip (0373d29f)
feat: encode home in statusview file path (#1224)
autocomplete: wrap the autocomplete results around (#1223)
feat: alert user via nagview if file cannot be saved (#1230)
contextmenu: make divider less aggressive (#1228)
Improve IME location updates (#1170)
fix: move tab scroll buttons to remove spacing before 1st tab (#1231)
Allow TreeView file operation commands when focused (#1256)
contextmenu: adjust y positioning if less than zero (#1268)
FIXES:
Don't sort in Doc:get_selection_idx with an invalid index (b029f599)
tokenizer: remove the limit of 3 subsyntaxes depth (#1186)
dirmonitor: give kevent a timeout so it doesn't lock forever (#1180)
dirmonitor: fix win32 implementation name length to prevent ub (5ab8dc0)
Make linewrapping plugin recompute breaks before scrolling (#1190)
Add missing get_exe_filename() implementation for FreeBSD (#1198)
(Windows) Load fonts with UTF-8 filenames (#1201)
Use subsyntax info to toggle comments (#1202)
Pass the currently selected item to CommandView validation (#1203)
Windows font loading hotfix (#1205)
better error messages for checkcolor (#1211)
Fix native plugins not reloading upon core:restart (#1219)
Converted from bytes to characters, as this is what windows is expecting (5ab8dc02)
Fix some syntax errors (#1243)
toolbarview: Remove tooltip when hidden (#1251)
detectindent: Limit subsyntax depth (#1253)
Use Lua string length instead of relying on strlen (#1262) (#1262)
dirmonitor: fix high cpu usage (#1271), (#1274)
Fix popping subsyntaxes that end consecutively (#1246)
Fix userdata APIs for Lua 5.4 in native plugin interface (#1188)
Fix horizontal scroll with touchpad on MacOS (74349f8e)
OTHER CHANGES:
(Windows) MSVC Support (#1199)
meson: updated all subproject wraps (#1214)
set arch tuple in meson (#1254)
update documentation for system (#1210)
docs api: added dirmonitor (7bb86e16)
trimwhitespace: expose functionality and extra features (#1238)
plugins projectsearch: expose its functionality (#1235)
Simplify SDL message boxes (#1249)
Add example settings to overwrite an existing key binding (#1270)
Fix to typos in data/init.lua (#1272)
Updated meson wraps to latest (SDL v2.26, PCRE2 v10.42)
NEW CONTRIBUTORS:
@ColonelPhantom made their first contribution in #1190
@vkedwardli made their first contribution in #1192
@Delta-official made their first contribution in #1219
@TorchedSammy made their first contribution in #1224
@techie-guy made their first contribution in #1223
@MFAshby made their first contribution in #1270
@simonkrauter made their first contribution in #1272

New in Lite XL 2.1.0 Pre-release (Sep 27, 2022)

KNOWN ISSUES:
On MacOS the new dirmonitor code that replaces dmon is using older kqueue backend instead of fsevents, this causes lite-xl to run out of file descriptors and crash. To workaround this issue reduce the amount of config.max_project_files to 50 or less. Another workaround is to recompile lite-xl using the dirmonitor dummy backend (check the meson options for more details). The issue is been addressed by @adamharrison who is repairing a mac system to do the testing and implementation of additional fsevents backend.
Plugins compatible with this pre-release can be found on https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugins/tree/2.1
NEW FEATURES:
Make distinction between line and block comments, and added all appropriate functionality to the commenting/uncommenting lines.
Added in line paste mode, if you copy without a selection.
Many improvements to treeview, including keyboard navigation of treeview, and ability to specify single vs. double-click behavior.
Added in soft line wrapping as core plugin, under linewrapping.lua, use F10 to activate.
Revamped StatusView API with new features that include:
Support for predicates, click actions, tooltips on item hover and custom drawing of added items.
Hide items that are too huge by rendering with clip_rect.
Ability to drag or scroll the left or right if too many items to display.
New status bar commands accessible from the command palette that include: toggling status bar visibility, toggling specific item visibility, enable/disable status messages, etc...
Added renderer.font.group interface to set up font fallback groups in the font renderer, if a token doesn't have a corresponding glyph.
Releases will now include all language plugins and the settings gui plugin.
New core.warn was introduced.
Added suggestions warping for CommandView.
Allow regexes in tokenizer to split tokens with group.
Added settings gui support to core plugins.
Support for stricter predicates by appending a !, eg: "core.docview!".
UTF8 support in tokenizer and new utf8 counter parts of string functions, eg: string.ulen, string.ulower, etc...
Added utf8 support on doc lower and upper commands.
Allow syntax patterns to match with the beginning of the line.
Implemented new function to retrieve current process id of lite-xl system.get_process_id().
Allow functions in keymap.
Add type ahead to CommandView.
Add syntax symbols to auto-complete.
Add animation categories to enable finer transitions control.
Added in a native plugin interface that allows for C-level interfacing with a statically-linked lite-xl. The implementation of this may change in future.
Config: added new development option to prevent plugin version checking at startup named skip_plugins_version
Added a smoothing and strikethrough option to font loading (#1087)
Allow command predicates to manage parameters, allow overwriting commands (#1098)
Added in simple directory search to treeview. (#1110)
Added in native modules suffixes. (#1111)
plugin scale: added option to set default scale (#1115)
Added in ability to have init.so as a require for cpath. (#1126)
Performance Improvements:
Load space metrics only when creating font
Performance improvement of detect indent plugin.
Improve performance of ren_draw_rect.
Improved tokenizer performance.
drawwhitespace: Cache whitespace location
CommandView: improve performance by only drawing visible
Backward Incompatible Changes:
Upgraded Lua to 5.4, which should improve performance, and provide useful extra functionality. It should also be more available out of the box with most modern linux/unix-based package managers.
Bumped plugin mod-version number as various interfaces like: DocView, StatusView and CommandView have changed which should require a revision from plugin developers to make sure their plugins work with this new release.
Changed interface for key handling; now, all components should return true if they've handled the event.
For plugin developers, declaring config options by directly assigning to the plugin table (eg: config.plugins.plugin_name.myvalue = 10) was deprecated in favor of using common.merge.
Removed cp_replace, and replaced this with a core plugin, drawwhitespace.lua.
Deprecated Features:
For plugins the usage of the --lite-xl version tag was dropped in favor of --mod-version.
Overriding StatusView:get_items() has been deprecated in favor of the new dedicated interface to insert status bar items:
OTHER CHANGES:
Removed dmon, and implemented independent backends for dirmonitoring. Also more cleanly split out dirmonitoring into its own class in lua, from core.init. We should now support FreeBSD; and any other system that uses kqueue as their dir monitoring library. We also have a dummy-backend, which reverts transparently to scanning if there is some issue with applying OS-level watches (such as system limits).
Removed libagg and the font renderer; compacted all font rendering into a single renderer.c file which uses libfreetype directly. Now allows for ad-hoc bolding, italics, and underlining of fonts.
Removed reproc and replaced this with a simple POSIX/Windows implementation in process.c. This allows for greater tweakability (i.e. we can now break for debugging purposes), performance (startup time of subprocesses is noticeably shorter), and simplicity (we no longer have to link reproc, or winsock, on windows).
Split out Node and EmptyView into their own lua files, for plugin extensibility reasons.
Improved fuzzy_matching to probably give you something closer to what you're looking for.
Improved handling of alternate keyboard layouts.
Added in a default keymap for core:restart, ctrl+shift+r.
Improvements to the C and C++ syntax files.
Improvements to markdown syntax file.
Improvements to borderless mode on Windows.
Fixed a bunch of problems relating to multi-cursor.
NagView: support vscroll when message is too long.
Meson improvements which include:
Added in meson wraps for freetype, pcre2, and SDL2 which target public, rather than lite-xl maintained repos.
Seperate dirmonitor logic, add build time detection of features.
Add fallbacks to all common dependencies.
Update SDL to 2.0.20.
install docs/api to datadir for lsp support.
Always check if the beginning of the text needs to be clipped.
Added git commit on development builds.
Update autocomplete with changes needed for latest LSP plugin.
Use SDL to manage color format mapping in ren_draw_rect.
Various code clean ups.
Autoreload Nagview.
Enhancements to scrollbar.
Set the correct working directory for the AppImage version.
Core: fixes and changes to temp file functions.
Added plugin load-time log.
TreeView improvements for multi-project.
Open LogView on user/project module reload error.
Check if "open" pattern is escaped
Support UTF-8 on Windows (Lua)
Make system.* functions support UTF8 filenames on windows
Fix memory leak and wrong check in font_retrieve
Many, many, many more changes that are too numerous to list.
CommandView: do not change caret size with config.line_height (#1080)
New Contributors:
@Not-a-web-Developer made their first contribution in #551
@kivutar made their first contribution in #553
@xcb-xwii made their first contribution in #565
@piotrek94692 made their first contribution in #648
@obtusedev made their first contribution in #651
@jminor made their first contribution in #680
@Nightwing13 made their first contribution in #712
@Jipok made their first contribution in #728
@lorsatti made their first contribution in #764
@eli-schwartz made their first contribution in #778
@AlexSol made their first contribution in #822
@buffet made their first contribution in #900
@zesterer made their first contribution in #1002
@DMClVG made their first contribution in #1048
@KatrinaKitten made their first contribution in #1043
@ChrisDill made their first contribution in #1056
@0x42656E made their first contribution in #1066
@ncarrezdev made their first contribution in #1073
@cisoun made their first contribution in #1074
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New in Lite XL 2.0.5 (May 6, 2022)

Improved project's module:
Now any modification to the project's module is immediately applied when the file is saved.
This is very useful to configure a config.ignore_filesand have an immediate feedback.
As an additional improvement, now when reloading the project's module, we check again if the project fits within the maximum number of files and the application acts accordingly.
This means that if a project exceeds the max project files limit and we act by ignoring some large directories we immediately get back the usual behavior with all the project files indexed and easily reachable.
To be also more beginner friendly now, when creating a new project's module, we propose a template with some useful instructions.
Ignore files on path:
Until now the ìgnore_files`mechanism was limited to the name of the file or directory and it was not possible to look at its path within the project folder.
We solved the problem by implementing two new mechanisms inspired by gitignore.
Essentially there are two new rules:
if a '/' or a '/$' appear at the end of the pattern it will match only directories
if a '/' appears anywhere in the pattern except at the end the pattern will be
applied to the path
In the first case, when the pattern corresponds to a directory, a '/' will be
appended to the name of the directory before checking the pattern.
In the second case, when the pattern corresponds to a path, the complete path of
the file or directory will be used with an initial '/' for the project's root.
The new mechanisms are backward compatible so existing project's module should work as before.
Directory Monitoring Fixes:
Fix several problems with the directory monitoring library.
Now the application should no longer assert when some related system call fails and we fallback to rescan when an error happens.
On linux we no longer use the recursive monitoring which was a source of problem.
Directory monitoring is now aware of symlinks and treat them appropriately.
Fix problem when encountering special files type on linux.
Improve directory monitoring so that the related thread actually waits without using
any CPU time when there are no events.
Project Change Improvements:
Improve the suggestion when changing project folder or opening a new one.
Now the previously used directory are suggested but if the path is changed the actual existing directories that match the pattern are suggested.
In addition always use the text entered in the command view even if a suggested entry is highlighted.
With the new implementation it is to switch to a recently used project but you can also navigate the filesystem to easily find any directory.
NagView Improvements:
The NagView warning window now no longer moves the documents' content.
The message is now completely drawn over the existing content to be less intrusive.