6.3

Scintillua 6.3 (29 Apr 2024)

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• Scintillua 6.3

Bugfixes:

• Fixed Julia lexer incorrectly highlighting some multi-byte characters as operators.
• Fixed legacy support for lexer.fold_consecutive_lines().
• Fixed Bash lexer highlighting related to '${}' variables and '#' in variables and escape sequences.
• Fixed some instances of proxy lexers not having an initial rule.
• Avoid accidental changes to legacy lexer.styles table.
• Fixed Perl lexer errors for some operators that occur at the end of input.

Changes:

• Updated Hare lexer with various improvements.
• Updated Markdown lexer to recognize ~~~ code blocks.
• Migrated fstab, Matlab, and Meson lexers.
• Disabled conditional and arithmetic operator highlighting in Bash, improving performance.
• Updated the Perl lexer highlight the y operator like tr.
• Updated the AutoHotkey lexer with more keywords and fold points.
• Updated the Rust lexer to simplify number highlighting.

6.2

Scintillua 6.2 (27 Jul 2023)

Download:

• Scintillua 6.2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed user-specified first line pattern detection.

Changes:

• Updated Bash lexer to no highlight escaped quote characters as strings.
• Added "scintillua.word.chars" property for use with Scintilla-based editors.
• Added lexer.names() for determining known lexer names if LuaFileSystem is available.
• Improvements to allow using Scintillua as a Lua library in a Scintilla environment.
• Updated Pascal keywords.
• Added Objeck lexer.
• Replaced Man lexer with Troff lexer.
• Define _G.lpeg for lexers if it does not already exist.
• Updated Python lexer to support soft keywords, but not highlight them by default.
• Only highlight stand-alone numbers in YAML.
• Updated to LPeg 1.1.0.

6.1

Scintillua 6.1 (22 Dec 2022)

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• Scintillua 6.1

Bugfixes:

• Fixed compile issues with MSVC.
• Fixed detection of filenames with extensions like "CMakeLists.txt".
• Do not highlight C struct members as builtin constants if names match.

Changes:

• Added AutoHotkey lexer.
• Updated Perl, Ada, Rust, AutoIt, and CMake lexers.

6.0

Scintillua 6.0 (27 Sep 2022)

Download:

• Scintillua 6.0

Bugfixes:

• Updated Ruby, C++, D, Gleam, Nim, and Verilog lexers to fix binary number parsing.
• Fixed lexer.line_from_position() for start positions after 1.
• Fixed inability for standalone Lua library to use lexers that call lexer.line_from_position(),
  index lexer.indent_amount, or index lexer.line_state.
• Updated Bash lexer to improve heredoc handling.

Changes:

• Removed support for old legacy lexers.
• Rewrote Scintillua lexer to behave like a typical Scintilla lexer.

• Renamed to Scintillua from LexLPeg.
• Renamed lpeg.home library property to scintillua.lexers.
• Removed lpeg.color.theme library property
• CreateLexer() is the only way to load lexers now; no more private call API.
• Removed all styling capability. Applications are responsible for setting styles.
• Implemented ILexer5's NamedStyles() and NameOfStyles() so editors can construct style map.
• Replaced Lua theme files with SciTE properties files in themes/ for demonstration.
• Renamed fold.* properties to fold.scintillua.*.
• Added GetCreateLexerError() function for fetching CreateLexer() errors.

• Replaced "token" concept with "tags".
• Deprecated lexer.token() in favor of lexer.tag() and made it an instance method.
• Dropped 32-bit Windows DLL support.
• Removed lexer.property_expanded.
• Compile a very minimal subset of Lua into Scintillua (no bit32, coroutine, debug, io, package,
  or os libraries).
• Applications can use their own keyword lists for lexers that support it.
• More restricted sandbox environment for lexers.
• All lexers created with lexer.new() have a default whitespace rule; deprecated
  lexer.WHITESPACE.
• Child lexers can extend their parent's keyword lists.
• Added more builtin tag/token names.
• Updated Perl lexer to recognize more numbers.
• Updated Fennel lexer.
• Updated Python lexer to highlight class definitions.
• Updated Makefile, R, Fortran, and Go lexers.
• Added Hare and RPM spec lexers.
• Updated a number of lexers to use the new lexer format.
• Added allow_indent option to lexer.starts_line().
• Deprecated lexer.last_char_includes() in favor of lexer.after_set().
• Removed lexer.NOTHING tag/token in favor of the existing lexer.DEFAULT.
• Removed start_pos argument to lexer.fold().
• lexer.word_match() can be used as an instance method for enabling users to set, replace, or
  extend word lists.
• Added lexer.number_() and friends for creating patterns that match numbers separated
  by arbitrary characters.
• Allow prefix to be optional in lexer.to_eol().
• Added "output" lexer for recognizing tool errors and warnings, similar to Lexilla's errorlist
  lexer.
• Added Gemini, git-rebase, and strace lexers.
• Added "scintillua.comment" property for lexers with comments so applications can use them.
• Updated lexer template.
• Refreshed light and dark color themes.
• Added lexer detection via SCI_PRIVATELEXERCALL or lexer.detect() to help clients
  determine which lexers are associated with which filenames and content line patterns.
• Updated AWK and Django lexers with updated keywords and functions/filters.
• Removed fold.line.groups property and lexer.fold_consecutive_lines().

5.3

Scintillua 5.3 (03 Nov 2021)

Download:

• Scintillua 5.3

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug looking up custom styles introduced in 5.1.

Changes:

• None.

5.2

Scintillua 5.2 (18 Sep 2021)

Download:

• Scintillua 5.2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed crashing/lack of styling in some 64-bit drop-in installations (e.g. SciTE).

Changes:

• None.

5.1

Scintillua 5.1 (31 Aug 2021)

Download:

• Scintillua 5.1

Bugfixes:

• Support complex keywords and improved case-insensitivity in lex:add_fold_point().

Changes:

• Updated VB lexer to support folding.
• Updated Makefile lexer to support multiple targets.
• Require Lexilla 5.1.0 minimum version due to its internal API changes.
• SciTE 5.1.0 is the minimum supported version with drop-in installation.

5.0

Scintillua 5.0 (26 Jun 2021)

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• Scintillua 5.0

Bugfixes:

• Fixed incorrect LaTeX highlighting of '' manual breaks.
• Do not return "lexer" in the list of known lexer names.

Changes:

• Updated Lisp lexer to match character strings.
• Updated Markdown lexer to highlight <https://foo.bar>-style links.
• Updated JavaScript lexer with types, functions, and constants.
• Added TypeScript and Gleam lexers.
• Prefer table of words in lexer.word_match().
• Renamed SCI_SETLEXERLANGUAGE to SCI_SETILEXER due to removal of the former in Scintilla.
• Renamed SCI_LOADLEXERLIBRARY to SCI_CREATELOADER due to removal of the former in Scintilla.
• Renamed SCI_GETLEXERLANGUAGE to SCI_GETLEXER for more consistency.
• Renamed SCI_PROPERTYNAMES to SCI_GETLEXERLANGUAGE because it sounds a bit better.
• Updated to Scintilla 5.0.1.
• Support Lexilla 5.0.3's GetNamespace() API.
• Support SciTE 5.0.3.

4.4.5-2

Scintillua 4.4.5-2 (29 Jan 2021)

Download:

• Scintillua 4.4.5-2

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug in ReST lexer with badly-formatted adornment.
• Fixed StandardML lexer code to make global function local.
• Fixed jq lexer to not use deprecated function.
• Fixed lack of handling nested braces in bash '${}' variables.
• Fixed minor extension mapping issues.
• Fixed C lexer string highlighting with 'L' prefix.

Changes:

• Updated Perl, Ruby, TOML, C, and Scheme lexers.
• Updated ASM lexer with new instructions.
• Updated rc lexer with 'case' keyword.
• Updated Python lexer with new Python 3 keywords.
• Updated JavaScript lexer with new ECMAScript 2017 keywords.
• Updated text lexer to style whitespace separately.
• Updated PHP lexer with keywords, types, and constants.
• Refactored legacy D, SML, SNOBOL4, Taskpaper, and YAML lexers.
• Removed vbscript lexer in favor of using the vb lexer as vbscript.
• Added Clojure, Elm, Fantom, fstab, Julia, Meson, Pony, Reason, RouterOS, Spin,
  systemd, systemd-networkd, Xs, and Zig lexers.
• Updated Nim lexer to support block comments.
• Updated Lua lexer with Lua 5.4 additions.

4.4.5-1

Scintillua 4.4.5-1 (20 Sep 2020)

Download:

• Scintillua 4.4.5-1

Bugfixes:

• Fixed potential crashes if the lexer has not yet been fully initialized.

Changes:

• Scintillua supports the Lexilla interface.
• Deprecated lexer.fold_line_comments() in favor of
  lexer.fold_consecutive_lines().
• Added fold.line.groups property and lexer.fold_line_groups alias.
• Added 64-bit and 32-bit Windows DLLs.
• Added jq lexer.
• Updated to Scintilla/SciTE 4.4.5.