Eddie Release Notes

 Mac OS X

The current release 1.1 runs on MacOSX 10.3.9 through Leopard. Please see "Release Notes OSX" in the archive for detailed list of changes

Release 1.1
  • Added "Tab inserts spaces" preference
  • Python function popup and commenter support
  • Ruby syntax coloring and commenter support
  • Added support for piping selected text in and out of shell commands
  • Added "Auto save Worksheet Path" preference
  • Many other improvements and bug fixes

Release 1.0.1
  • Number of bug fixes

Release 1.0
  • Anti-aliased font support.
  • New color themes.
  • Support for user-created color themes.
  • Preference to disable search flash highlighting.
  • Preference to keep Find window open.
  • Preference to control saving Creator codes.
  • tellEddie now allows optionally creating a file on open.
  • tellEddie -- when opening from stdin allow marking document as temporary using a new --noSave flag.
  • Many more fixes and improvements.
  • Linux development version now available.

Beta 0.9
  • ObjC support in function popup.
  • Perl function popup.
  • Lua syntax coloring and function popup (WoW plugin development).
  • Optional Symbol auto-completion.
  • General preferences pane.
  • Added "Replace all in selection".
  • Sheet alerts.
  • Improvements to swap edit commands (pull selection/line up/down, smart swap).
  • Added some new syntax coloring color themes.
  • Many more fixes and improvements.

Beta 0.8
  • Application preferences.
  • Documentation (Help->Eddie Help).
  • Prototyper whitespace configuration.
  • Many Symbol lookup plugin (was Declaration in previous beta) improvements.
  • Fixed a host of bugs in Multi-file find.
  • New keyboard primitives (scrolling, reopening current document in preferred application).
  • Grab hand scrolling.
  • Performance improvements opening large documents.
  • Many more fixes and improvements.

Beta 0.7
  • Declaration lookup and completion plugin, based on Exuberant Ctags
  • Read/Write Unicode and UTF-8 files (limited support, Roman codepage characters only for now).
  • Number of Prototyper fixes. Template function support.
  • Document settings UI.
  • Small tweak to tab completion to make it work smarter when text past cursor adds to the completion.

Beta 0.6
  • Many worksets enhancements.
  • Save/Open panel tweaks.
  • Better html, javascript file syntax coloring.
  • pane splitting.
  • Recent Files menu switches to sorted if Option held down.
  • Command-Control-E now works in Find dialog.
  • Added the GoBack feature (Enter or Option-Return)
  • Fixed attaching a directory to a workset group.
  • Added a "Version" worksheet command.
  • Multi-file find/replace (directories, worksets).
  • Horizontal scrolling with mouse wheel.
  • Support system find scrap (share find pattern with other apps).

 Gnome Linux Beta

Currently runs/tested on Gnome 2.16 Ubuntu/x86.

1.0.1 (v7)
  • Tab completion windows

1.0.1 (v6)
  • Font name/size settings are read from the font file (no UI yet)
  • Proper mapping of Alt and Win modifiers
  • Find window edit items support multiple lines, Tabs, draw properly
  • Document settings
  • Fixed many keyboard shortcuts (Alt-Mod-W to close all windows, Alt-Mod-B to balance #ifdefs, etc.)
  • Fixed problems with space and other characters sometimes being entered on key up.

1.0dev
Initial Development release. Use at your own risk.
What works:
  • General editing
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Prototyper
  • Syntax coloring
  • Function popup
  • Commenter
  • Ifdef balancer
  • Find dialog
  • Command-D
  • Cursor obscuring
  • Wheel mouse
  • Quick Find dialog
  • GoTo Line
  • Worksheet