Eddie Release Notes

 Mac OS X

The current release 2.1 runs on MacOSX 10.5 through Lion.

Release 2.1
  • Added support for showing line numbers
  • Added more Find shortcuts as menu items
  • Fixed a crash when SizeWell is installed
  • Fixed a crash when closing Quick Find on Leopard
  • Fixed bugs in handling execution of multi-line shell commands/lists
  • Don't scroll when you delete text at the end of the document
  • Fix a bug in the UpArrowSingleLineScroll primitive
  • Multiple folders added to a workset through the Open Panel were not sorted correctly
  • Fixed a bug where reverse multi-file search wasn't searching from the end of a document
  • Fixed a bug where reverse multi-file search wasn't wrapping correctly
  • Maed workset iterator properly iterate groups with no folder association
  • Fixed Multi-file reverse iterator and workset forward and reverse iterator
  • Fixed a bug in the Find window "Leave windows open" setting
  • Faster loading of Worksets
  • Fixed a leak in Worksets
  • Fixed bug reading Windows (CRLF) documents.

Release 2.0
  • Carbon-free: Obj-C++/Cocoa rewrite
  • Text drag & drop
  • Many symbol/autocompletion fixes
  • Many improvements and bug fixes in window pane splitting
  • More robust multi-line shell execution and password prompt handling
  • Many improvements to Symbol lookup/completion indexer
  • More light-weight background document change handling
  • Find Window Option to auto-close windows opened by multi-file search
  • Find Window Option to filter folders to exclude from multi-file search
  • Find Window Fixed crashes, lock-ups and other misc. bugs
  • Worksets: SVN integration
  • Worksets: better drag&drop
  • Worksets: improved multi-level folder hierarchy support
  • Worksets: many bug fixes
  • Improved support of exotic fonts
  • Mac OSX Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion support (Intel 64 bit, Intel 32 bit, PPC)
  • Many other bug fixes

Release 1.2
  • Fix a crash when quitting with a read-only Worksheet
  • Make man work in the Worksheet.
  • Small tweaks in symbol/autocompletion parser
  • Fix a problem where the Keypad period wasn't working.

Release 1.1.2
  • Symbol lookup:
  • Obj-C support for lookup and auto-completion
  • Improved C++ auto-completion
  • Fixed redraw glitch when clicking the window zoom button.
  • Fix some clipboard incompatibilities.
  • Tab and Shift-Tab support for indenting.
  • Added a new TabOrIndentRight primitive (Cmd-Tab), Shift-Tab to IndentLeft.
  • Separate keyboard maps for editor windows and shell windows.
  • Better handling of quotes when using path Tab-completion
  • Some enhancements to the smart swap function
  • Made $_TS pipe handling more robust

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.

 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