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CodeLite 16.0.0

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Bug fixes

  • Fixed: externally modified files are not reloaded
  • Remove redundant file system scan
  • Fixed: always pass RootURI when sending Initialize request to the LSP server, even if the user did not provide one
  • Fixed: JSON encoding issue
  • Fixed: codelite-terminal does not apply environment variables when generating compile_flags.txt file required by clangd
  • Fixed: Linux: Move tab right / left with the keyboard does not work
  • Fixed: file system workspace: in some cases, system scan is not working as intended and only scans the top level
  • Fixed: code formatter regression which caused CodeLite to override the user's settings
  • Fixed: GTK: right click on tab causes a weird behavior of selecting random file
  • Fixed: Implement All Un-Implemented Functions not working when header and source are not placed in the same directory
  • Fixed: wxCrafter: "Insert into new Sizer" should not be visible for wxAuiManager (by rlbxku1r)
  • Fixed: CodeLite Makefile Generator - UNIX: Windows resource files are not compiled
  • Fixed: "Closed other tabs" -> send "close event" for every closed tab
  • fixed: PHP workspace: allow user to include the workspace or project folder when selecting Find In Folder from the context menu
  • fixed: PHP workspace: make it multiple selection
  • Fixed: make sure that the editor folder exists before writing
  • Fixed: C++ workspace: post/pre build events: ignore empty commands
  • Fixed: Feature request: include file extensions for Drupal projects
  • Fixed: Fix Output View multi-byte text handling (rlbxku1r)
  • Fixed: PHP settings: post parse-workspace event only when a PHP workspace is opened
  • Fixed: spell checker: when calling "Check" on a file, do not uncheck the option of the 'continuous checking'
  • Fixed: keyboard shortcuts are now working once again in wxCrafter
  • Fixed: word completion is broken if a word contains letters with diacritics
  • Fixed: avoid restarting any non C++ Language Server when the build process ends
  • Fixed: crash when clicking on the "Link Editor" and no active editor is opened
  • Fixed: colours and fonts dialog: changing the global theme now enables the apply button
  • Fixed: Syntax highlight Dialog: when importing a theme, print its name in the completion dialog
  • Fixed: use custom GTK code to get the parent bg colour
  • Fixed: GTK assertions
  • wxCrafter: Fix inconsistent style of option array strings. These strings are now properly wrapped according to the 'Generate Translatable Strings' setting (rlbxku1r)
  • wxCrafter: Fix invalid string literal in auto-generated wxHtmlWindow code (rlbxku1r)
  • wxCrafter: Add missing translations (rlbxku1r)
  • Fixed: codelite-terminal should now start on macOS
  • Fixed: Quick Add Next now ensures that if the match is in a hidden line (aka folded), it unfold it. fixes: https://github.com/eranif/codelite/issues/2748
  • Git plugin: operations on the tree view now uses the correct repository path
  • Fixed: https://github.com/eranif/codelite/issues/2763 - Goto Declaration/Implementation doesn't work (well) with tabs
  • fixed: on linux, on certain window managers, the tooltip size calculation is smaller than the size required for actually drawing it
  • MSW: don't allow dark mode for text controls
  • Removed the non maintained Notebook style: TRAPEZOID
  • Fixed: [Wrap with brackets option not working][fixes: https://github.com/eranif/codelite/issues/2822]
  • Find Replace Bar: fixed issue with no Latin charcters
  • Fixed: code completion tooltip generated by the CTags code completion engine are not compatible with markdown syntax
  • Fixed: function hover tip should not be rejected by the file system workspace (rlbxku1r)
  • Fixed: changing the zoom in one editor, applies it to other editors as well
  • CodeLiteDiff fixes
  • Code Formatter: various fixes to clang-format
  • Fixed: Close other tabs context menu entry, does not attempt the modified this tab
  • Fixed navigation bar persistency issue (rlbxku1r)
  • Fixed: Remoty: when Remoty is enabled, typing in the Remote path field manually, causes CodeLite to crash
  • Fixed: Create New C++ Project: do not prompt the user to switch to CodeLite Makefile Generator - UNIX when using GCC from the MinGW MSYS repository
  • Fixed: navigation bar commit message does not update with when changing lines
  • Fixed: Syntax Highlight: clicking on the Restore Defaults button, will now restore the previous font + selected theme
  • Fixed: GNU make & bash builder: Fix error with parent directory name containing spaces (rlbxku1r)
  • Fixed: CodeFormatter: Export .clang-format file points to the workspace directory by default
  • Fixed: Debugger: Fix a regression that the setting Use CTRL key to evaluate expressions under the cursor doesn't remember its value
  • Fixed: Project Settings: Don't try to save or clone an unnamed compiler
  • Fix Search & Replace for UTF-8 string
  • Fixed: GTK: at times, right clicking inside an editor might trigger the tab control context menu this could happen when right clicking near the top edge of the editor.
  • Fixed: GTK: output view/workspace view: choosing "hide" or "detach" from the tab context menu for a non active tab, would perform the selected action on the active tab
  • Fixed: File System Workspace: Reload Workspace does not restore session
  • Fixed: Regression: Find Bar: unable to navigate using the TAB button
  • Fixed: Regression: Language Server Plugin: Find Symbol does not highlight the match

Improvements

  • Fixed: be more tolerant for language server implementations that do not implement the protocol as is (e.g. rust)
  • Added Rust syntax highlight
  • LSP: support completion item's doc implemented inside MarkupContent
  • Added new Rust plugin:
    • Debugger support via rust-gdb
    • Project management
    • Code completion via the Language Server Plugin using the rls server or the rust-analyzer LSP
    • Build output is clickable and allows user to quickly open problematic source files
  • Git Commit List dialog: layout changes. Make the diff window occupy half of the dialog
  • Windows / macOS: visual updates to the notebook control
  • clToolBar: honour the wxTB_NODIVIDER style flag
  • use a more sensible colours for highligthing text in the various tree / list controls
  • Implemented a custom Menu Bar
  • Better dark mode support on windows
  • General performance & stability fixes
  • Added new Remote plugin which allows user to load a remote "File System Workspace" over SSH
  • Task view removed. It is now part of the Find In Files dialog
  • Colours and fonts dialog: updating the text selection colours is now done for all the languages supported for the currently active theme
  • Windows: use codelite-exec to launch program when the 'pause when execution ends' flag is checked in the project settings. This also prints the program exit code
  • Remoty plugin: use the newly added codelite-remote interface which allows using various plugin on a remote machines:
    • Git
    • find in files
    • Language Server Plugin over SSH
    • Diff plugin
  • UI updates
  • Added new tab control style: FIREFOX (screenshot below)

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  • Build tab output rewritten: it now honours the terminal colours

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  • Git plugin log view re-written and it now uses the same control as the build output, which honours the terminal colours
  • Project Settings: Improve dirty settings detection (rlbxku1r)
  • Project Settings: Use append by default for PCH flags option (rlbxku1r)
  • Various fixes for building CodeLite using MinGW + CMake (Tim Stahlhut)
  • Windows and macOS are now built against latest wxWidgets 3.1.6
  • clangd + clang-format that comes with CodeLite for macOS and Windows are now using version 12.0.0
  • File System Workspace: support multi-line commands in the build pages
  • When using the file system workspace, export a special enviroment variable CXX_INCLUDE_PATHS this variable contains a list of compiler search paths for header files, separated by ; is useful when using CMake + MinGW + file system workspace under windows, where the CMAKE_EXPORTS_COMPILE_COMMANDS does not include the compiler search paths, which breaks clangd code completion
  • GDB-MI output parser re-written to support custom file paths with unusual characters
  • VIM:Add some new commands (~, o, O) (mx)
  • When importing themes with true black colour as their background colour, soften the it a bit
  • git plugin: better support for remote repository where the workspace is not set in the root folder of the workspace
  • change the location of CodeLite temp folder into /tmp/codelite/PID. This should reduce the spam under the /tmp folder
  • Support drawing multiline text in the clTreeCtrl
  • Code completion entry tooltip: CodeLite now supports Markdown rendering
  • New project wizard: more fixes to avoid problems when using MSYS2 compiler on Windows (rlbxku1r)
  • wxCrafter: Fix wrong tree order on the first sibling widget duplication (rlbxku1r)
  • LSP Find Symbol: Make text selection UTF-8 aware
  • Multiple tooltip Markdown renderer fixes (rlbxku1r)

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  • Colouring of semantic tokens is now done by the Language Server plugin
  • Updated the default themes that comes with CodeLite
  • C++ context menu: Find Declaration & Find Implementation entries are now replaced withe single, intelligent Find Symbol entry
  • Use native checbox drawings on Windows for clTreeCtrl/clDataListCtrl
  • Implemented: Feature request: "Open resource" dialog should support optional [:line[:column]] "coordinates"
  • New: added an option to highlight the current line number (in the line number margin)
  • C++ workspace dialog updated
  • MINIMAL and DEFAULT tab design refreshed
  • Build tab: added Copy all context menu entry
  • Find bar: the search logic re-written from scratch. With the old search, replacing 1000+ string instances using Replace All on a file with size of 6MB took roughly 45 seconds (On Windows machine, 32GB memory and 24 cores) With the new code (which performs in-buffer replacement where it can) this takes roughly 300ms!
  • CodeLite logo updated
  • C++ new class wizard: use C++11 features (rlbxku1r)
  • C++ parser: fix parsing class with final (rlbxku1r)
  • C++ parser: accept C++17 nested namespaces (rlbxku1r)
  • Improve compiler detection code (rlbxku1r)
  • Semantic highlight should now work on files opens via Remoty
  • Identify files starting with shebang #!/usr/bin/env python3 as python files
  • Various codelite_indexer fixes: (rlbxku1r)
    • accept C++11 type alias
    • accept C++11 final keyword
    • accept C++11 alignas keyword
    • accept C++11 noexcept keyword
    • Accept C++17 nested namespace notation
    • Properly collect using aliases (e.g. using std::shared_ptr;)
  • Script language keywords updated to include: local, function, exit and return
  • Remoty: support for auto detection of: pylsp language server
  • SFTP: attempt to compare checksums before re-downloading file from remote server
  • Recognize .ts files types (TypeScript)
  • Code cleanup: removed all tern code completion code, use typescript-language-server instead
  • Added new language server tab to log LSP messages of type logMessage, telemetry and showMessage
  • Improved Visual Studio compiler detection (rlbxku1r)
  • File types: patch and diff are now properly identified by CodeLite
  • Better dark theme support for Linux built with -DWITH_NATIVEBOOK=0
  • Language Server Plugin: implement semantic highlight (textDocument/semanticTokens/full) using the textDocument/documentSymbol message
  • Updated the colour themes
  • Source code formatter: added an option to disable the formatting engines
  • Lexer: separate JSON from the JavaScript file
  • CodeFormatter: added basic JSON formatter
  • Handle various workspace files (NodeJS, Docker, FSW, Rust, Remoty) as JSON files
  • The 'best project settings' for certain builders can be obtained from the builder object. (rlbxku1r)
  • Auto-detect and set the output file extension (exe, lib, dll, a, so, dylib) for given project type. (rlbxku1r)
  • MSVC project templates: Use /MT(d) compiler option by default. (rlbxku1r)
  • Colour .toml files as INI files ("properties")
  • Remoty: re-wrote the "Open workspace" dialog
  • SFTP browser dialog: if the path in the "Browse" entry is a file path, remove the file name and just open the folder
  • Fix Visual Studio 2022 detection (rlbxku1r)
  • Add option to enable spell checking on wxTextCtrl from within wxCrafter (iwbnwif)
  • Allow the user the change the active project from the menu (Workspace -> Set active project) or from the "Goto Anything" dialog (Ctrl-Shift-P)
  • Language Server Protcol: implemented Hover request message
  • Language Server Protocol: implemented Find references. This feature will only be shown for Language Servers that support it like
    • clangd
    • python-lsp
    • typescript-language-server
    • rust-analyzer
  • The old code completion was removed from CodeLite (codelite_indexer), instead, we now provide our own C++ language server named ctagsd which a re-written from scratch code completion engine with excellent C++11/14 features
  • Line margin: highlight the current line, in addition this feature performance is now in O(1) and is not depend on the size of the opened file
  • Editor track changes: re-designed. Modified lines / saved lines are now marked using dedicated line number colour
  • Colours: CodeLite now offers to ability to import VSCode themes (in the JSON format)
  • We now provide wxCrafter standalone builds for Windows / GTK (experimental)
  • wxCrafter: allow to keep sizers are members
  • wxCrafter: fixed: crash when clicking on Select virtual directory while in standalone mode
  • wxCrafter: event handlers are now using the wx3.0 syntax of Bind()/Unbind() instead of Connect()/Disconnect()
  • wxCrafter: by default, generate .hpp files instead of .h
  • Remoty plugin: the way it launches language servers on the remote machine has changed. See the docs for more details
  • Improved file syntax using the shebang
  • Make the Preferences dialog more native to the host OS
  • Added an option to enable/disable the newly added feature of highligting the current line number. This should allow CodeLite running on older machines with bad graphics cards to run smoother
  • Improved type info tooltips (ctagsd)
  • Better CYGWIN integration
  • Find Bar: use the same text control as the main editor instead of wxTextCtrl
  • Added cancel button to the Build & Execute dialog
  • Simplified Rust formatter to
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