Converted via https://domchristie.github.io/turndown

Dev Channel Changelog

Build 4077

11 July 2020

Fixed a crash in 4075 that could occur when closing the preferences window

Build 4076

10 July 2020

Fixed a crash regression in 4075 with missing embeds

Build 4075

10 July 2020

Added out of the box support for TypeScript and JSX
Undo information is preserved in the session
Renamed File/New View into File into File/Split View
Goto Anything can multi-select files by selecting a file while holding down Ctrl (Command on Mac)
Find in Files: Added Find/Cancel Find in Files menu item
Find in Files: Improved performance with large numbers of matches
Added various performance improvements with large files and graceful find degradation
Popup windows now use virtual windows for improved performance
Added setting scroll_context_lines
Added preview_on_click setting to support only previewing files on left click
Added selection_description_column_type setting to control how the column in the status bar is calculated
Added close_deleted_files setting to control behavior of session restoration when files have been deleted on disk
Added show_tab_close_buttons_on_left setting
Added Central European (Mac) encoding support
Macros now record Find commands
Added support for stippled_underline and squiggly_underline in color schemes
Fixed several OpenGL related rendering issues
Fixed white flashes in text views
Fixed over/underscroll not providing any context
Fixed annotations being oversized without overlay scrollbars
Fixed phantoms sometimes leaking
A cold exit will now update the recently opened files list
Improve file deletion when there is no trash folder
Session is now saved when application is notified of system shutdown
Syntax Definitions: "extends" keyword in .sublime-syntax
Syntax Definitions: "version: 2" in .sublime-syntax to fix edge cases while retaining backwards compatibility
Syntax Definitions: lazy loading of external "embed" actions
Syntax Definitions: reduced cache size on disk
Syntax Definitions: prevent infinite include loops via with_prototype
Syntax Definitions: improved matching performance and memory usage
Syntax Definitions: "hidden_extensions" in .sublime-syntax
Syntax Definitions: allow combining "pop" with "push"/"set"/"embed"/"branch"
Syntax Definitions: fixed a number of scope related bugs
Syntax Definitions: fixed some regex capture related bugs
Windows: Added drop shadows to popup windows. These can be disabled via the popup_shadows setting
Windows: Added support for color emoji
Windows: Various IME improvements
Windows: Safe Mode is now activated via shift+alt
Mac: Improved key translation fallback for non-pure-ascii keyboards
Mac: Fix single instance id not taking into account the current user
minihtml: Improved support for HTML entities
minihtml: Added support for self-closed tags
API: Updated Python to 3.8.3, and OpenSSL to 1.1.1g
API: TextChange objects now include the number of UTF16 and UTF8 code units
API: Window.open_file now accepts sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION_SEMI_TRANSIENT in addition to sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION as flags
API: View.show() now takes keep_to_left and animate parameters
API: Added sublime.open_dialog, sublime.save_dialog and sublime.select_folder_dialog
API: Settings objects can now be iterated over (3.8 only)
API: View.text_point() and related functions now accept a clamp_column parameter
API: Ensure on_text_changed() is called before on_query_completions() when sublime.DYNAMIC_COMPLETIONS has been specified
API: Region.__hash__ and Phantom.__hash__ have been replaced with to_tuple
API: repr now works as expected

Build 4074

28 April 2020

Auto Complete: Ranking quality improvements
Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_use_history setting to control if previous choices are automatically selected
Added additional settings to control the status bar: show_sidebar_button, show_indentation and show_syntax
Added relative line numbers, controlled by the relative_line_numbers setting
Color Schemes: Added support for the underline font style
Color Schemes: Added new property, inactive_selection_border
Added setting hide_pointer_while_typing
Console now uses Python syntax highlighting by default
Windows, Linux: Added Shift+F10 key binding to open the context menu
Fixed folder dragging in the sidebar
Further improvements in layout preservation when programmatically editing preferences
API: View.add_regions() calls that add an underline now have that underline applied to whitespace characters
API: Added sublime.INHIBIT_REORDER
API: Window.new_html_sheet() now accepts the sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION flag
API: Window.new_html_sheet() no longer accepts cmd and args parameters
API: Fixed a regression in View.split_by_newlines()

Build 4073

8 April 2020

Reworked Auto Complete UI
Fixed a Find in Files crash regression in 4072
Improved layout preservation when programmatically editing preferences
.sublime-completion files can now specify annotation, kind and details
API: CompletionItem now accepts a details parameter, which can include basic HTML
API: minihtml now processes subl: links, running them as commands

Build 4072

8 April 2020

Find in Files can now filter by .gitignore
Fixed a path wildcard matching regression in 4070
Auto Complete: auto_complete_selector now applies to the position before the just-typed in character, matching auto_complete_triggers
Linux: Added Ctrl+Space to trigger Auto Complete
Linux, Windows: Added Alt+Shift+Left Mouse Button as an alternative column selection binding
Fixed a file encoding regression
Fixed a syntax highlighting backtracking edge case
API: Fixed on_selection_modified() being called with the wrong view when using cloned views

Build 4070

1 April 2020

Spell Checking: Updated dictionaries
Spell Checking: Added support for non-utf8 dictionaries
Spell Checking: System dictionaries are now available on Linux
Spell Checking: Dictionaries in ~/Library/Spelling are now available on Mac
Fixed ignored_packages setting causing sub-directories to be ignored
Fixed inline diffs not rendering an expected when draw centered is enabled
Linux: Fixed a regression in key bindings for the space bar
Windows: Fixed IME crash
API: Fixed View.text_point_utf8() and View.text_point_utf16() not working as expected

Build 4069

27 March 2020

Comments and layout are preserved when programmatically editing preferences
Holding down Shift on Windows, or Option on macOS, will start Sublime Text in Safe Mode
Auto Complete: Typing the full tab trigger of a snippet will move it to the top of the results
Auto Complete: Fixed some scenarios when auto complete would incorrectly trigger
Linux: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts
Mac: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts
Windows: Improved IME support
Syntax tests can now assert that reindent is working as expected
Fixed popups not scrolling
Fixed incorrect scrolling in Find Results after startup
Windows: Fixed some Safe Mode inconsistencies
minihtml: Fix HSL color blending
minihtml: Fix handling of CSS comments
API: Updated Python to 3.8.2
API: Added View.rowcol_utf8(), View.rowcol_utf16(), View.text_point_utf8() and View.text_point_utf16()
API: sublime.HistoricPosition now supplies utf8 and utf16 offsets
API: More detailed output when using sublime.log_control_tree()

Build 4068

28 February 2020

Fixed Auto Complete unexpectedly showing after the first edit on a newly opened file
Fixed a crash that could occur with syntax definition branch points
Fixed the Console not scrolling to the end at startup
Fixed syntax definitions not reloading
Windows: Fixed subl not making Sublime Text the foreground window
Windows: Fixed a crash that could occur on startup

Build 4067

14 February 2020

Auto Hide: Text now never jumps around when hiding tabs, even for short files
Find in Files: Binary file patterns are applied when an explicit folder is given
Find in Files: Using "Find in Folder…" from the sidebar context menu will apply project file filters
folder_exclude_patterns and folder_include_patterns now support project-relative paths, by starting the path with //
Improved performance when adding directories with extreme amounts of files to the side bar
Fixed a race condition when using Build, with Save All on Build enabled and async file saving
Improved menu auto hide behavior on Linux and Windows
Fixed a case where Jump Back didn't behave as expected
Linux: Removed dependency on glibc 2.18
Linux: Better support for copy+paste with other applications that don't support utf8 text
API: Added Window.bring_to_front()

Build 4065

29 January 2020

API: Added HTML sheets, which can be created via window.new_html_sheet()
Command Line: Fixed subl only working intermittently on Windows
Scrolling: Actually fixed newly opened files on Mac not scrolling to the expected position

Build 4064

28 January 2020

Command Line: Fixed regressions in 4063
API: Added sublime.log_control_tree(bool). When enabled, clicking with ctrl+alt will log the control tree under the mouse to the console

Build 4063

27 January 2020

Command Line: subl - can now be used to read from stdin on all platforms
Fixed a regression in 4062 that could cause syntax definitions to not load correctly
Fixed Wrap Selection With Tag not working
Scrolling: Fixed newly opened files on Mac not scrolling to the expected position
Scrolling: Fixed scroll position not being restored at start for non-selected tabs
Scrolling: Fixed revert on non-selected tabs not keeping the scroll position
Auto Complete: AC won't be triggered when replacing selected text
Fixed revert_hunk not showing in the context menu within inline diffs
Linux: Fixed text drag and drop not working correctly with unicode text
Mac: Fixed tooltip rendering issue on external low DPI monitors
Mac: Fixed Undo always being enabled, even if there's nothing to undo
API: Added "glow" to view.style_for_scope()
API: Fixed newly created views not having a valid viewport before being returned to the API

Build 4062

14 January 2020

Improved syntax definition load time
Fixed a crash that could occur with syntax definition branch points
Auto Complete: Several small fixes
minihtml: Fixed incorrect layout when using a non-default ui_scale

Build 4061

11 December 2019

Auto Complete: Fixed cancelCompletions being ignored
Auto Complete: Fixed inserting a newline character not hiding the AC dialog

Build 4060

6 December 2019

Mac: Fixed New Window not working
Auto Complete: Fixed a regression causing auto complete to be case sensitive
OpenGL: Added support for repeated textures
Fixed a 4059 regression in Jump Back

Build 4059

5 December 2019

Reworked Jump Back and Jump Forward commands
Auto Complete: Added Sublime Text 3 style selection history
Auto Complete: Fixed a scenario where auto complete could insert nothing after selecting a completion already present at the insert location
Fixed Join Lines not working as expected with multiple selections
Fixed transient files not being created at startup when Hot Exit is disabled
OpenGL: Fixed a rendering regression in 4058

Build 4058

4 December 2019

Auto Complete: Rework how punctuation triggers are handled
Auto Complete: Pressing tab when there are no available completions will insert a tab
OpenGL: Improve minimap rendering quality
OpenGL: Improve performance with many spelling errors

Build 4057

1 December 2019

Fixed incorrect minimap rendering when using OpenGL
Auto Complete: Completions are not as dependent on the syntax tokenisation rules
Auto Complete: Various changes to how completions with punctuation are handled
API: Added sublime.DYNAMIC_COMPLETIONS. on_query_completions() can return this flag to indicate that completion results should be re-queried as the user types
API: Added sublime.KEEP_ON_SELECTION_MODIFIED, which can be passed to View.show_popup()

Build 4056

26 November 2019

Fixed a crash in 4055

Build 4055

25 November 2019

Fixed a rendering regression in 4053
Fixed saving files with hexadecimal encoding not working correctly when using non-canonical formatting
Auto Complete: Improved behavior of completions starting with non-word characters
Auto Complete: Running the auto_complete command when auto complete is already showing will re-query plugins for results
Auto Complete: Manually typing in the only available completion will hide the auto complete popup
Improved minihtml rendering performance
Linux: Fixed a wayland compatibility regression in 4054
Windows: Fixed file deletion
API: Fixed plugin profiling
API: Fixed several edge cases related to plugin loading and reloading
API: Auto Complete can be used in input panels again

Build 4054

20 November 2019

Improved Switch File behavior in conjunction with multiple tabs selected
Fixed a 4053 regression where draw_centered wasn't rendering correctly
Fixed a 4053 regression where up and down arrows weren't working as expected in Goto Anything
Fixed empty buffers not displaying Phantoms
Fixed using the Command Palette to automatically prompt for missing command arguments not working correctly
Linux: Fixed tearing in full screen when using OpenGL

Build 4053

19 November 2019

Added Revert Diff Hunk
Improved rendering performance on very long lines
Expanded draw_unicode_white_space setting
Fixed selection matching sometimes acting as if the find panel was open when it wasn't
Fixed open_project_or_workspace opening blank windows when the workspace is already open
Auto Complete: Fixed Auto Complete incorrectly showing in widget controls
Auto Complete: Re-added support for t characters in .sublime-completion triggers
Auto Complete: Added fallback theme rules for older themes
Auto Complete: Several minor behavior enhancements
Windows: Fixed subl --safe-mode not working as expected
Mac: Fixed an issue creating new windows when using the Adaptive theme in full screen mode
Mac: Fixed two cases where ctrl+click wasn't showing the context menu on MacOS
API: Added error reporting for invalid .python-version files
API: Fixed a backwards compatibility issue with window.get_view_index()
API: Packages shipped with Sublime Text, such as HTML, can now be imported by both 3.3 and 3.8 plugins

Build 4052

15 November 2019

Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_preserve_order setting
Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_include_snippets_when_typing setting
Auto Complete: Added auto_complete_use_index setting
Auto Complete: Fixed trailing punctuation being incorrectly added to API suggestions
Added back Expand Selection to Scope
OpenGL: Added support for selection_corner_style
OpenGL: Performance improvements
OpenGL: Fixed a crash related to missing textures
Fixed trim_only_modified_white_space not working as expected when using Save As
Fixed a crash with syntax highlighting back tracking
Fixed selecting past the last line in the Command Palette
API: Fixed compatibility with decorated EventListener methods
API: Simplified CompletionItem interface

Build 4051

14 November 2019

Fixed annotation close buttons not showing on custom themes
Fixed navigation to unsaved files via Find in Files not working correctly
Mac: Fixed slow Goto Anything in conjunction with OpenGL rendering in some circumstances
Mac: Fixed a touch bar related memory leak
Linux: Fixed menu drawing on old versions of GTK3
Various minor crash fixes

Build 4050

13 November 2019

GPU Rendering

New hardware_acceleration setting will composite the UI on the GPU
By default, GPU rendering is enabled on Mac, and disabled on Windows and Linux
Details about the active GPU will be displayed in the Console

Context-aware Auto Complete

The auto complete engine now suggests completions based on patterns in existing code
Uses the entire project as a source, instead of just the current view
Plugins may specify symbol kind info to be displayed in suggestions list

Tab Multi Select

When multiple tabs are selected, their contents will be shown side-by-side
Side-by-side view is also used when selecting multiple files in sidebar
Goto Definition popup allows opening the definition using side-by-side view

Python 3.8 API

Added a Python 3.8 API environment for plugins
Plugins can choose Python version via .python-version file in plugin folder
Existing plugins are fully supported via legacy Python 3.3 API
Many API improvements and additions - see API section for more details

Editor Control

Build systems now use new annotations functionality instead of phantoms, reducing re-flow
Caret blinking is disabled by default. Set caret_style setting to smooth for previous behavior.
Find results are highlighted on the scroll bar
Improved automatic indentation detection
trim_trailing_white_space_on_save now trims only newly inserted trailing whitespace by default. Controlled via trim_only_modified_white_space setting.
Expanded draw_white_space setting, supporting leading and trailing white space
Unicode white space characters, such as the zero width no-break space, are now drawn as hex values. Controlled via draw_unicode_white_space setting.
Fixed spelling correction to support languages with upper case characters after start of word
Linux: Text drag and drop is now supported
Linux: Added support for alternate font weight names
Linux: Selection is no longer cleared when another application makes a selection

Text Commands

Improved behavior of Wrap Paragraph
Improved behavior of Swap Lines
Added Selection/Expand Selection as a general mechanism to expand the selection
Selection/Split into Lines will now split a selection into words if the selection doesn't contain any newlines
Show a sum in the status bar when there are multiple selections and all of them are numbers
Fixed swap_line_down not being able to swap an empty line onto the last line of a file
Fixed sort_lines replacing unicode newlines with regular ones

Snippets

Added auto_complete_include_snippets setting, for disabling auto complete integration
Added ignored_snippets setting, for disabling default snippets

Goto Symbol

Goto Symbol in Project is now significantly faster on huge projects
Icons are now shown next to symbols, indicating the symbol kind
Symbols with 3 characters or less are now indexed

Indexing (Goto Definition)

Files ignored by .gitignore are not indexed by default. Controlled via index_exclude_gitignore setting.
Files without known extensions are no longer indexed by default. Controlled via index_skip_unknown_extensions setting.
Improved behavior with constantly changing files

Input Handling

Modifier key taps can now be used as part of a key binding. For example, ["ctrl", "ctrl"] will trigger when Ctrl is pressed twice without pressing any other keys in between.
Linux: AltGr can now be used in key bindings via altgr
Linux: Added a workaround for a touchscreen driver bug, which would cause right click and mouse scrolling to stop working
Linux: When the menu is hidden, pressing alt will show it
Mac: Fix Pinyin input
Mac: Keypad keys can now be bound to as expected
Mac: Added key bindings for macOS application tabs
Windows, Linux: Hide mouse cursor when typing. Controlled via hide_pointer_while_typing setting.
Windows, Linux: Fixed being unable to bind Ctrl+Break

Files and Folders

Saving files is now asynchronous
When save_on_focus_lost is enabled, closing an unsaved file will save and close it, instead of prompting to save
Improved behavior of save_on_focus_lost in conjunction with administrator owned files
Added reload_file_on_change setting to control if files are automatically reloaded or not
Windows: Fixed Open Containing Folder for UNC paths
Windows: Fixed Save dialog not showing for new files with control characters on the first line
Windows: Fixed Ctrl+Backspace inserting a DEL character when a dialog is open in the background
Linux: Fix recreated directories not working correctly with file change monitoring

UI

Added highlight_gutter and highlight_line_number settings
Added the ability to auto hide the menu, tabs, and status bar when typing. See auto_hide_menu and related settings.
Window title bar can be controlled by show_rel_path and show_project_first settings
Tab context menu now includes Close Unmodified Files and Close Deleted Files entries
Themes now have a style property for title_bar element, for better integration with OS "dark modes"
Added glow font option to color schemes
Linux: Show sequential key bindings in the menu
Linux: Fixed context menu position being slightly offset

Rendering

Windows, Linux: Added support for per-display subpixel ordering
Mac: Improved window resize performance
Windows: Fixed rendering bug where other applications could cause persistent artifacts via window animations

Application Behavior

Added Safe Mode, to simulate a clean install. Enabled by passing --safe-mode on the command line.
Added options to hot_exit setting to control behavior when the last window is closed
Fixed a possible case where an update loses the current session
Settings containing a UTF-8 BOM will no longer fail to load

Syntax Definitions

Added ability to "branch" within syntax definitions, for non-deterministic or multi-line constructs
Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
- Erlang, with thanks to deathaxe
Fixed a performance issue with bounded repeats in regular expressions

API

minihtml now handles list-style-type CSS property - circle, square and disc
Improved coverage of plugin profiling
The cProfile module is now included on Linux
EventListener has many new features and bug fixes
- on_query_completions() can now
  - return suggestions asynchronously
  - return command completions
  - include symbol kind information
- New: on_init() is called once with list of views opened before plugin was loaded
- New: on_exit() is called immediately before plugin_host exits, after API is shut down
- New: on_text_changed() and on_text_changed_async() provide detailed modification info
- New methods:
  - on_reload()
  - on_revert()
  - on_new_window()
  - on_new_window_async()
  - on_pre_close_window()
  - on_pre_move()
  - on_post_move()
  - on_post_move_async()
  - on_new_project()
  - on_new_project_async()
  - on_load_project()
  - on_load_project_async()
  - on_pre_save_project()
  - on_post_save_project()
  - on_post_save_project_async()
  - on_pre_close_project()
- Fixed on_selection_modified() to not be called twice when left clicking
View.add_regions() now has an annotations parameter, to allow adding a per-region annotation to the buffer. The exec command now uses this API for build errors.
View.element() returns a string describing widget views (find input, quick panel input, etc)
Image filenames can be retrieved via Sheet.file_name()
Syntax definitions can be queried via sublime.list_syntaxes() and sublime.find_syntax()
View.assign_syntax() now fully supports scope names, e.g. "scope:source.c++"
Assigning a syntax no longer removes widget settings files from a widget view
Added Window.workspace_file_name()
Added open_project_or_workspace command
append command has new, optional disable_tab_translation argument
Improvements to the API, applied to the new Python 3.8 environment only:
- bool(sublime.Selection()) will return False when len() == 0
- sublime.load_binary_resource() now returns bytes instead of bytearray
- Added Selection.__iter__()
- Added Region.__iter__()
- Added Region.__contains__()
- Settings can now be treated like a dict
- Plugins starting with _ will be ignored, __all__ global will be respected
- Events won't be reported until plugin_loaded() has been called
- .pyc files can now be imported when contained within .sublime-package files, although they will not be scanned for plugins
The certifi Python package is preinstalled
Significant performance improvements when rapidly printing to the Console

OS Compatibility

The following operating systems are no longer supported as a result of adding Python 3.8:
- OS X 10.7
- OS X 10.8
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista

dungsaga/st4-changelog.md