Download CudaText 1.151.2

Version 1.151.2 of CudaText has been released. This open source and cross platform text editor is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, BDS and Solaris. It has extensive options which is of particular interest to software developers. It is developed in Object Pascal, starts quickly and by means of Python add-ons the functionality can be further expanded. The program is actively being developed; Below is the changelog for the past month:

Changes in version 1.151.2:

Added:

• commands Delete/Backspace now handle the caret near emoji
• drag-drop of text can be started even in the read-only editor, you can drop to another (writable) editor
• drag-drop of text: toggle the mouse cursor ‘simple drag’‘multi-drag’ on pressing/depressing Ctrl
• option “ui_session_save_interval” allows negative values ​​too, see new description

Fixed:

• crash on very long line length=120K, with wrap=off
• Tab-key in the code-tree must not jump to bottom panel, and vice versa
• command “codetree: focus filter” didn’t work in Linux version

Changes in version 1.151.0:

Added:

• support for ‘fenced code-blocks’ in Markdown lexer
• lexer reST: rework highlight of ‘code-blocks’
• lexer PHP: ‘HereDoc’ blocks with id ‘HTML’/’CSS’ are syntax-highlighted with HTML/CSS lexer

Fixed:

• option “caret_proximity_vert” has bad side effect (‘ghost caret’ when we type text at file end)

Changes in version 1.150.1:

Added:

• Replace dialog shows toggle-button “$0” for the new option “RegEx substitute”; added sub-option ‘E’ to “find_hidden_buttons”
• Wiki topic
• published version for macOS ARM 64-bit

Fixed:

• regression in 1.150: wrong restoring of option “RegEx substitute” on start
• plugin Macros exposed the bug: deleting of a macro broke hotkeys of other macros
• macOS: better mouse-wheel handling (Lazarus fix by Zoe Peterson)
• lexer YAML: fix ‘string’ rule, add ‘backslash-escaped char’ rule

Changes in version 1.150.0:

Added:

• Project Manager: context menu for files gives new items “Open in default application” and “Focus in file manager”
• dialog Replace has new option, visible only in the “…” menu: “RegEx substitute for ‘Replace with'”; it’s described in the Wiki topic about Find/Replace dialog
• option “renderer_tweaks” has new sub-option “c”

Fixed:

• macro with two commands “scroll line down”+”down” did move caret _2_ lines down

Changes in version 1.149.3:

Added:

• option “renderer_tweaks” has the sub-options “w” and “o”
• option “ui_session_save_interval”:30, which allows to disable auto-saving of session to disk every 30 seconds
• published version for Linux ARM Qt5

Change:

• option “renderer_tweaks” has the OS suffix
• option “renderer_offsets” is deleted and now it is the sub-option of “renderer_tweaks”
• binary hex viewer: replacement for control-chars is changed from ‘?’ to ‘.’
• removed old method of bookmarks saving/loading to/from history. Changelog of 1.141 told: duplicate bookmarks history to another key inside “history files.json”; later only this new key will be used and old bookmarks-history in session files will be ignored.

Changes in version 1.149.0:

Added:

• show in hex-form 2 more ‘Unicode attack’ chars: U+01C3, U+3164, like for ‘Unicode attack BiDi chars’
• when option “ui_reopen_session”:true, also auto-save the session each 30 seconds, to make it safe if PC crashes
• don’t allow to reassign hotkeys Tab/Enter/Space/BkSpace w/o modifiers

Fixed:

• major fix for macOS text rendering – incorrect width of text fragments (visible with “renderer_offsets__mac”:false)
• width of Georgian letters should be 100%