Beta release for Text Trix 0.9.5
I was shocked to see that a year has flown by since our last Text Trix 0.9.5 pre-release. Alpha 1 popped out of the barn last November, and since then I've been wrestling to come up with a solution for restoring the indented word-wrap feature that was lost in the migration to a new syntax highlighter. The clean, clear look of word wrapping lines all the way to the indented point has been a key feature of this editor, and I couldn't bear to part with it.
The workaround in this release is to restore the old syntax highlighter for HTML/XML/CSS files. This highlighter does have the downside of less-than-spiffy performance and the occasional bug, but I figured that these types of files tend to be shorter than programming files and therefore wouldn't suffer the same performance impact. There's also now a separate project ("osterttx") within the repository for modifying the venerable Ostermiller highlighter.
Line Dance, the little bookmarking tool for remembering line numbers in each file, also continues to accrue a few tweaks. In the last pre-release, the tool now updates its line positions dynamically. I've cleaned up the tool a bit for this pre-release so that double-clicking anywhere in a row will bring you to the saved line, and you can still rename bookmarks by clicking on the Rename button.
The pre-release (Text Trix 0.9.5b1) can be found here. Note that it contains a bug preventing dynamic updating of syntax highlighting in web files, which has been fixed for the next pre-release. As usual, let me know if you have any comments/suggestions!
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| "I'm back!" The old highlighter found its place beside the new for web files to restore the indented word wrap feature where it will likely be needed most. |
The workaround in this release is to restore the old syntax highlighter for HTML/XML/CSS files. This highlighter does have the downside of less-than-spiffy performance and the occasional bug, but I figured that these types of files tend to be shorter than programming files and therefore wouldn't suffer the same performance impact. There's also now a separate project ("osterttx") within the repository for modifying the venerable Ostermiller highlighter.
Line Dance, the little bookmarking tool for remembering line numbers in each file, also continues to accrue a few tweaks. In the last pre-release, the tool now updates its line positions dynamically. I've cleaned up the tool a bit for this pre-release so that double-clicking anywhere in a row will bring you to the saved line, and you can still rename bookmarks by clicking on the Rename button.
The pre-release (Text Trix 0.9.5b1) can be found here. Note that it contains a bug preventing dynamic updating of syntax highlighting in web files, which has been fixed for the next pre-release. As usual, let me know if you have any comments/suggestions!
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