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Redcar Changelog

What's new in Redcar 0.14.0 Dev

Jun 13, 2012
  • Add a basic, context menu-based bundle and snippet editor to Snippet Browser (Delisa Mason)
  • Fix a bug in the Lucene plugin that was causing Redcar to hold files open (Dan Lucraft)
  • OSX platform application bundle (Dan Lucraft)
  • The line number gutter is coloured like the current theme (Delisa Mason)

New in Redcar 0.11 (Apr 18, 2011)

  • Enhancements:
  • Project search backed by Lucene (Dan Lucraft)
  • Fuzzy file finder now recognizes directories "a/c/repocontr" (Tim Felgentreff)
  • Recent project fuzzy finder (Benedikt Müller)
  • Improved DocumentSearch, with UI refinements, added Replace All commands (Tom Murray)
  • Raise/lower region behaves better when you select multiple lines (Benedikt Müller)
  • Which files are hidden in a project is now configurable (Konstantin Haase)
  • Added logger at Redcar.log, goes to ~/.redcar/user.log (Dan Lucraft)
  • Can hide files and directories from the project context menu (Benedikt Müller)
  • Notification if Redcar doesn't have permission to save files (Benedikt Müller & Bill Siggelkow)
  • Tweaked the load order to make the window appear faster during startup (Dan Lucraft)
  • All the plugins use a single preference value to ignore files (Benedikt Müller & Daniel Lucraft)
  • Can ignore directories (Benedikt Müller)
  • User definable keybindings (Chris Nelson)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed Unicode problems in DocumentSearch (Tom Murray)
  • You can now symlink bin/redcar (Konstantin Haase)
  • Runnables are now terminated correctly when the tab is closed (Dan Lucraft)
  • You are once again prompted when you close a window with running Runnables in (Dan Lucraft)
  • Fix encoding issue that broke highlighting when there are multi-byte characters in a line (Dan Lucraft)
  • Fixed project-dependent trees remaining open when project is closed (Delisa Mason)

New in Redcar 0.9 (Nov 26, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Vertical tree tabs now have a close button like edit view tabs (Tim Felgentreff)
  • Strip Trailing Spaces is now _much_ faster (Tim Felgentreff)
  • "Online Help" and "Submit a Bug" open the default system browser (Johannes Wollert)
  • -l command line switch to jump to a file number (Johannes Wollert)
  • Font and Theme dialogs now update the setting on selection change for instant feedback (Tim Felgentreff)
  • Tabs now display an alert icon if the underlying file is unwritable (Delisa Mason)
  • Browser bar URL field now supports project-relative paths (Delisa Mason)
  • URLs can be opened in the internal browser or the OS-default based on preferences (Delisa Mason)
  • Syntax checking for Groovy (Delisa Mason)
  • Jump to declaration for Groovy (Delisa Mason)
  • Margin is drawn with a line or a shaded area (Tim Felgentreff)
  • Syntax checking for JavaScript (Delisa Mason)
  • Word wrap wraps at the margin column (Daniel Lucraft)
  • Improvements and optimizations to replace-all function (Tim Felgentreff)
  • .redcar plugins dir is created on startup to help people know they can put plugins there (Philip Arndt)
  • Add jruby jar to JVM bootclasspath to speedup startup marginally (Tim Felgentreff)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Declarations plugin is able to deal with similarly named ruby methods
  • Declarations plugin lets Ruby methods have trailing spaces (Johannes Wollert)
  • Fix Application::Dialog#tool_tip to set the location correctly on Windows (Patrik Sundberg)
  • 64bit Soylatte JDK7 can now be used to run Redcar on Mac OS X
  • Run Tab now checks for underlying file (Delisa Mason)
  • Hovering on annotations only displays the tooltip(s) under the cursor, not all of them (Delisa Mason)
  • Fix for installing on Ruby 1.8.6 (Dan Lucraft)
  • Connection manager should not try and read directories and unreadable files when looking for private keys (Antono Vasiljev)
  • Required cucumber version is specified in the Gemfile (Tianyi Cui)
  • Pair highlighter works on first and last character in the document (Kirill Nikitin)
  • Internal changes:
  • Code coverage is above 70% (up from 60%) (everyone)
  • Code cleanup and refactoring in various plugins (everyone)
  • Speedbar can now contain sliders (Tim Felgentreff)

New in Redcar 0.7 (Nov 1, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Vertical tabs for the tree book on the left. (Tim Felgentreff)
  • Runnables are grouped by type in the tree (Delisa Mason)
  • Improved styling of the keyboard shortcuts help and todo list (Delisa Mason)
  • Tidier Edit menu! (Delisa Mason)
  • Record and run macros (Dan Lucraft)
  • Name and save macros (Dan Lucraft)
  • Macro manager to save, rename and delete macros (Dan Lucraft)
  • Predictive macros that know what you want to do! (Dan Lucraft)
  • Experimental Subversion integration (Delisa Mason)
  • New internal APIs:
  • DocumentHistory stream of changes to text (Dan Lucraft)
  • Menus can have lazy text that is generated when you look at them (Dan Lucraft)
  • Tab icons can change. (Dan Lucraft)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Open in file browser and command line now works on Windows (Jeremy Wentworth, Delisa Mason)

New in Redcar 0.5 (Sep 22, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Indenting a block of text is now a single undo operation (Johannes Wollert)
  • SCM trees are only loaded when you need them - speeds up project opening a lot (Matthew Scharley)
  • Checkbox menu items for tab view togglables (Alex Lourie)
  • Checkbox menu item for strip trailing spaces (Steven Hancock)
  • Runnables work on Windows (Mat Schaffer)
  • Open directory in command line / os directory viewer (Matthew Scharley, Delisa Mason)
  • Can press enter really fast in the FindFileDialog and it will open the correct file (Tim Felgentreff)
  • Use spoon for forking on Linux, OSX (Matthew Scharley)
  • Find-in-project streams as it finds results (Kieran Pilkington)
  • Installer doesn't need to be run as root anymore. (Dan Lucraft)
  • Splash screen (Dan Lucraft)
  • Installer loads Redcar, therefore putting all the Redcar files in the OS disk cache (Dan Lucraft)
  • Read installed JVM options and use 32bit client vm if available (Dan Lucraft & Alex Lourie)
  • Edit views now have right-click menu, with hooks for plugins (Delisa Mason)
  • New internal APIs:
  • FileParser for reading over all files in a project (Kieran Pilkington)
  • Checkbox menu items (Alex Lourie)
  • Fixes:
  • Fix for autocomplete, which was randomly broken due to a load order error (Anko painting)
  • [Bug 300] Remove duplicate snippets (requires deleting your Textmate cache file)(Dan Lucraft)
  • [Bug 297] New files can be immediately opened from the directory tree again (Dan Lucraft)
  • [Bug 302] Search/replace won't infinitely recurse when the search string is a prefixed substring of the replace text. (Dan Lucraft)
  • [Bug 293] Select Word works correctly on such un-American words as: "können" (Dan Lucraft)
  • [Bug 286] The paste command no longer inserts in the wrong location when the autoindenter tries to run during the command (Dan Lucraft)
  • [Bug 270] The "Go to declaration" fuzzy finder chooses the right file when you have refined the list (Dan Lucraft)
  • Precaching textmate bundles is now more robust (Dan Lucraft)
  • [Bug 209] Gives visual feedback during startup (Dan Lucraft)

New in Redcar 0.3.4.1 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Auto-pairer inserts matching characters ( -> ), " -> ", etc
  • Snippets
  • Recent directories menu
  • Uses Gecko for HTMLTabs on Windows.
  • Internal changes:
  • New API for creating text Marks, to tag a position in a Document.
  • new PersistentCache class for plugins to simply cache stuff.
  • Textmate plugin for dealing with Textmate bundles.
  • Application focus in/out events.
  • Fixes:
  • Respects Windows style line delimiters
  • New contributors:
  • Aaron McLeod