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Build 4169

24 November 2023

• Fixed a stack overflow when closing large amounts of files
• API: Fixed backwards compatibility breakage with Sheet.is_transient()
• API: Fixed a crash with Window.set_view_index
• Linux: Fixed a rare crash with the save dialog
• Windows: Fixed a rare crash related to cursor hiding

Build 4166

20 November 2023

• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Index collation is now done incrementally
• Fixed an issue where animations were causing excessive redraws
• Find in files now truncates long lines according to the "find_in_files_context_characters" setting
• Fixed auto-complete not suggesting tokens from the current line
• Added Mouse Bindings to the Preferences menu
• Added Preferences > Font > Choose… for an easy way to select a font
• Added Copy Path to Sidebar context menu
• Fixed minimap border not rendering
• Fixed color emoji blending with transparency
• Fixed line-number alignment when using a variable-width font
• Fixed double clicking a find in file result sometimes scrolling to the wrong line in the file
• Fixed case where opening a file from Sublime Merge wouldn't jump to the right line
• Improved bookmark toggling
• Improved performance of "Definitions" popup
• Improved Join Lines behavior
• Improved behavior of Indent command on empty lines
• Added "ruler_width" setting
• Added current_result command
• Fixed case conversions not taking all-caps into account
• Fixed an auto-indent issue
• Fixed an issue with find_under_expand when the find panel is focused
• Fixed disabling "highlight_gutter" resulting in "highlight_line" begin disabled
• Fixed some incorrect behavior when converting a multi-line selection to Title Case
• Fixed a memory corruption bug related to block carets
• Fixed Quick Switch Project… from the settings window closing the window
• Fixed "move_to_limit_on_up_down" setting not working
• Shift+Enter now also hides the incremental find panel
• Fixed macro recording in Vintage package not working
• Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1v
• Fixed run_syntax_tests command not running symbol tests
• API: Added sublime.choose_font_dialog
• API: Allow case insensitive comments using TM_COMMENT_CASE_INSENSITIVE
• API: Fixed instability related to overlapping API calls
• API: Fixed crash when an edit token is passed to the wrong view
• API: Fixed some issues related to plugin initialization
• API: ListInputHandler now supports initial_selection
• API: Fixed ListInputHandler not selecting the first result when initial_text is provided
• API: Added update_text option to sublime.encode_value
• API: Fixed expand_to_paragraph in paragraph.py incorrectly unpacking tuple
• Linux: Improved tracking of fullscreen state
• Linux: Fixed some memory leaks related to fonts
• Linux: Fixed "ui_scale" setting not being applied to fonts correctly in some cases
• Windows: Added CRLF handling for text drag an drop
• Windows: Fixed wrong font extents causing glyphs to be cut off at the top
• Windows: Fixed caret movement across phantoms when using fractional scaling
• Mac: Improved animation frame timing
• Mac: Implemented window cascading
• Mac: Recent files are now cleared when "update_system_recent_files" is disabled
• Mac: Fixed Copy as HTML not working
• Mac: Fixed subl not always finding the correct application bundle
• Mac: Fixed "regex_auto_escape" not working

Build 4152

2 August 2023

• Mac: Fixed compatibility with macOS 10.14 and earlier

Build 4151

2 August 2023

• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Added "fold_style" setting for controlling syntax-based code folding
• Last tab in a group can now be selected with alt+9 (Windows/Linux) and cmd+9 (Mac)
• Split View retains the original view's viewport position
• Added WebP support
• Improved minimap viewport contrast with large amounts of visible text
• The window title now indicates whether Sublime Text is running with administrator privileges
• Improved indentation detection for files with many single space indents
• Improved caret positioning when using text wrapping
• Fixed files in side-bar not properly reflecting their git status
• Find in Files: Tab multi-select modifier keys are now supported
• Find in Files: Fixed search results not being ordered
• Find in Files: Paths can now be quoted
• Find in Files: Added "find_in_files_suppress_errors" settings
• Find in Files: Added "find_in_files_context_lines" settings
• Find in Files: Added "find_in_files_side_by_side" setting
• Find in Files: Ongoing searches are no longer canceled on renamed buffer
• Find in Files: Fixed ./ not working in the "Where" field
• Find: Added "regex_auto_escape" setting
• Find: Fixed find settings confusion when run immediately after find_under_expand
• Find: Fixed find in selection skipping empty selections
• Fixed word wrap being too early in some cases
• Fixed scrolling by page not always including a full line of context
• Fixed first character beyond ASCII range not being decoded/encoded for short code pages
• Improved performance when drag selecting columns
• Fixed annotations displaying incorrectly when "ui_scale" is set to something other than 1
• Fixed recent file list not being updated when quitting with hot exit disabled
• Fixed high memory usage edge case in minihtml parsing
• Fixed case where open file/folder dialogs didn't respect "default_dir" setting
• Reopen Closed File now uses the window's file history by default rather than global history
• Fixed tabs of deleted files incorrectly showing as modified in some cases
• Fixed "draw_centered" setting causing incorrect gutter rendering in some cases
• Fixed extra commands being included for macros in some situations
• Fixed goto-symbol not showing inside empty groups
• Fixed column number in the status bar not updating upon changing tab width
• Fixed issue where the command palette could consume key presses while not having input focus
• Syntax Highlighting: Improved scope selector performance
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed syntax-based folding not working correctly with some indented code
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed syntax definition negative symbol tests
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed edge case that could break syntax highlighting
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed backtracking bug where tokens were being dropped
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed some hangs caused by syntax backtracking
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed a syntax highlighting performance issue due to backtracking
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed a crash when a lazy loaded syntax doesn't exist
• API: Updated to Python 3.8.12 and OpenSSL 1.1.1s
• API: The Python 3.3 plugin environment now uses the same OpenSSL as 3.8
• API: Added support for the "context" key in mousemaps
• API: Fixed inconsistent focus after Window.open_file()
• API: The open_file command now supports "transient", "force_group", "clear_to_right" and "force_clone" arguments
• API: Added Window.num_views_in_group()
• API: Added sublime.project_history()
• API: Added sublime.folder_history()
• Windows: Added alt+shift+p as default keybinding for Quick Switch Project
• Windows: Fixed a packaging error with the installers
• Windows: Fixed tooltips sometimes not being removed
• Windows: Fixed select folder dialog not respecting the initial directory
• Windows: Fixed lockup that could occur when menus and popups interfere
• Linux: Files for printing are saved in ~/Downloads if possible to work around snap/flatpak limitations
• Linux: User config and cache paths are now created at startup if not present
• Linux: Fixed incorrect mouse behavior at window edges
• Linux, Mac: Attempt to find the license key for the user when using sudo
• Mac: Better support for running as root
• Mac: Fixed extra window being created when ST is launched by opening a file from finder
• Mac: System setting "click in the scroll bar to" is now respected
• Mac: Added workaround for Monterey bug causing scrolling to misbehave
• Mac: Added security entitlements allowing plugins & build systems to request the camera and microphone

Build 4143

11 November 2022

• Fixed a performance regression in 4142 on color schemes with very complex selectors
• Folded regions no longer include the trailing newline by default
• Fixed selection jumping when clicking on a fold marker

Build 4142

10 November 2022

• Added syntax-based code folding
• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Newly rewritten Haskell syntax highlighting thanks to deathaxe
• The recent file list is now global instead of per window
• Files opened in Sublime Text are now added to the system recent file list (See the "update_system_recent_files" setting)
• Added commands for converting between common identifier cases (See Edit > Convert Case)
• Added "hot_exit_projects" setting to control what data gets saved in workspace files
• Added "minimap_horizontal_scrolling" setting
• Added "open_tabs_after_current" setting for controlling where tabs are opened
• Added "show_spelling_errors" and "show_line_column" settings
• Added "goto_anything_exclude_gitignore" setting
• Added "ruler_style" setting
• Reworked comment toggling to better handle embedded languages
• Sub-word separators are now configurable using the "sub_word_separators" setting
• Added support for Nordic (Windows 865) encoding
• Reopening a file now asks for confirmation when there are unsaved changes
• Improved filesystem symbolic link detection
• Improved performance while open folders are scanned for the side-bar
• Improved regex performance for syntax highlighting
• Find: Patterns taken from an open file are now escaped for regex searches
• Find in Files: Improved binary file detection for find-in-files
• Find in Files: Find-in-files now supports project-relative patterns starting with //
• Find in Files: Added the "find_in_files_max_file_size" setting
• Syntax Highlighting: Context backtraces now link to their origin in sublime-syntax files
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed crash caused by starting a branch point at the end of a line
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed various syntax highlighting bugs related to backtracking
• Rendering: Improved performance with large folded regions
• Rendering: Fixed OpenGL issue related to the wrong context being active
• Rendering: Fixed shadow related OpenGL rendering bug
• Rendering: Fixed region rendering edge case
• Rendering: Improved performance in files with large diffs
• Rendering: Fixed various issues with faded labels in the sidebar
• Rendering: Fixed text annotation underlines not drawing when combined with other font styles
• Sort Lines no longer includes the newline at EOF when nothing is selected
• Fixed very large unsaved files being lost on hot exit; a prompt is now shown to save them
• Fixed extraneous window getting created at startup with hot exit disabled
• Fixed case where multiple reload prompts could show simultaneously
• Drag operations are no longer interrupted when reloading a file
• Fixed case where text in command palette was incorrectly colored
• Fixed side bar button theming issue in the Default theme
• Fixed sometimes not being able to type a space after completing a snippet
• Fixed wrong default extension being used in open file dialog
• Fixed centered views jumping in some cases when whole content is replaced
• Fixed scroll jumping when folding
• Fixed Reveal in Side Bar not working in some cases
• Fixed scroll bar sometimes showing when text is wrapped
• Fixed sheets not being added to the current selection in some cases
• Added missing theming attributes to update dialog
• Linux: System scroll bar overlay settings are now followed
• Linux: Fixed various issues caused by the C locale
• Linux: Added safeguard around nested GTK main loops possibly causing data loss
• Linux: Fixed case where dragging a tab to a window wasn't working
• Linux: Fixed crash on startup for some desktop environments
• Linux: Fixed not being able to grab the scrollbar in a maximized window when at the right edge of the screen
• Windows: Adjusted for the new Windows 11 window border
• Windows: Open Containing Folder and similar now respect file explorer replacements
• Windows: Fixed GDI font glow glyph positioning
• Mac: Fixed license being removed due to network MAC address changing
• Mac: Fixed cursor getting stuck as a resize handle on Ventura
• Mac: Recent files are now available without having a window open
• Mac: Fixed various issues with the quick switch project dialog
• Mac: Fixed issue where dialogs could be triggered during dialogs
• Mac: Fixed case when opening an already open file would jump to the start
• Mac: Added work around for broken modal loops
• Mac: Fixed case where settings window couldn't be closed
• Mac: Fixed open file dialog crash with some syntaxes
• Mac: Fixed scrolling when command modifier key is pressed
• Mac: Fixed Window/New Tab not working with the Adaptive theme
• API: Added buffer variable to the console
• API: A noop command can now be used for keybindings to block default behavior
• API: "encoded_position": true may be passed to open_file command for the same behavior as sublime.ENCODED_POSITION
• API: View.context_backtrace can be used to get a stack trace from syntax highlighting
• API: View.expand_to_scope now returns None when the text point doesn't match the selector
• API: Added View.expand_to_scope
• API: Added Window.promote_sheet
• API: Fixed crash when running hide_panel command from EventListener.on_deactivated
• API: The toggle_comment command can now take a variant argument for languages with multiple comment variants

Build 4126

21 December 2021

• Improved OpenGL rendering performance by automatically batching together controls
• Added support for Chinese standard GB18030 file encoding
• Added support for CP862 file encoding
• Resolved various issues tracking symlinks in the side-bar
• Avoid session data corruption if a crash happens while saving the session
• subl -n will reuse an existing empty window if the application isn't running
• Binary files now show as "Binary" syntax instead of "Plain Text" in the status bar
• Fixed wildcards incorrectly matching subpaths (For settings like "folder_exclude_patterns")
• Made "find_in_files_max_result_size" not apply when replacing
• Fixed crash when loading invalid grid layout from session
• Fixed spell checker incorrectly marking some words as correct if they can't be encoded
• Fixed rendering order of successive popups
• Fixed package subfolders sometimes not being loaded when matching the "ignored_packages" setting
• Fixed layout instability in side bar causing things to occasionally be rendered 1 pixel off
• Added some missing glyphs to "draw_unicode_white_space": "all"
• Added "draw_unicode_bidi" setting for drawing unicode bidi characters
• Added "select_across_groups" setting for opting into the old side bar selection behavior when selecting a single file
• Fixed "close_windows_when_empty" setting not working
• Fixed goto-definition preview not closing on escape
• Fixed quick panel closing on enter when there are no matching entries
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed backtracking breaking when creating phantoms or doing a context backtrace
• Syntax Highlighting: Fixed regression with some syntax definitions introduced in 4115
• Linux: Added missing libcurl dependency for package managers
• Linux: Fixed GTK overriding LC_NUMERIC environment variable breaking serialization
• Windows: Fixed command line not taking focus after closing a waited on file
• Windows: Fixed crash when OpenGL initialization fails
• Mac: Aliases are now resolved when using drag and drop
• Mac: Fixed window sometimes being restored on startup when "create_window_at_startup" is disabled
• Mac: Fixed native tabs restoration resulting in odd behavior
• Mac: Fixed subl -b not working
• Mac: Fixed terminal not being focused after waiting on file
• Mac: Fixed Window > Merge All Windows merging minimized windows
• Mac: Fixed various inconsistencies when opening files from finder
• API: The show_panel command for the find and find in files panels can now take "pattern" and "replace_pattern" arguments
• API: ListInputHandler.preview is now called with None when no items match the current filter
• API: Fixed case where Window.project_data() could return an invalid value
• API: Opening a new pane moves currently selected sheets
• API: Added Window.move_sheets_to_group
• API: The commands move_to and move_to_neighbouring now move currently selected sheets

Build 4121

26 October 2021

• New update dialog that shows versions, license status and links to the changelog
• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• Use goto-symbol to jump to specific files in find results
• Improved color scheme/theme selection UI
• Layout is no longer remembered when "hot_exit" is disabled. You can change this using "remember_layout"
• Right-delete now respects "use_tab_stops" setting
• Various improvements to behavior of moving sheets during window layout changes
• Improved mini-diff and white space rendering performance under OpenGL
• Improved performance when reading large files from stdin
• Fixed regex replace not working on last occurrence when using look-behind
• Fixed "save_on_focus_lost" not working as expected with the reload dialog
• Fixed open files not being added to recent file list when "hot_exit" is disabled
• Fixed snippet completions not respecting word boundaries
• Fixed extra blank window being opened at startup in some cases
• Fixed not properly exiting after a prompt when "hot_exit" is disabled
• Fixed window unexpectedly closing when project has no added folders and "close_windows_when_empty" is enabled
• Fixed tab selection stack not being updated as expected in some cases
• Fixed transient sheets persisting when exiting goto-anything
• Fixed squiggle underline width not scaling properly
• Fixed line highlighting not working when gutter is disabled
• Fixed case where folders were being added to existing windows instead of opening in a new window
• Fixed performance regression under Windows with non-integer DPI scaling
• Fixed syntax highlighting backtracking-related performance problem
• Undo stack is now cleared when reading from stdin
• Added Selection > Expand Selection to Block which has the same behavior as Expand Selection to Paragraph had previously
• "open_files_in_new_window" is now respected when reading from stdin
• Added "find_scroll_highlights_limit", "find_highlight_matches_max_size" and "find_regex_highlight_matches_max_size" settings to allow configuring find limits
• Added newline detection and normalization when changing settings programmatically
• Sublime Merge menu items are hidden when "sublime_merge_path" is set to null
• Fixed wrong path sometimes being used when viewing file history in Sublime Merge
• Fixed focus lost when selected group is closed whilst reducing the number of groups
• File-specific indentation settings are now persisted across restarts
• Fixed some edge cases related to "find_in_files_max_result_size"
• Fixed completions in input panel not utilizing available window space
• Fixed expand selection to tag not working in XML
• Fixed current transient sheet unexpectedly closing when using goto-anything
• Fixed crash related to syntax backtracking and phantoms
• Fixed being unable to open more than one new empty window
• Linux: Make selection after middle-click paste consistent with other applications
• Linux: Fixed race condition with multiple simultaneous command line invocations
• Linux: Fixed custom title bar label color for some GTK themes
• Windows: Fixed a case where session could be lost when upgrading
• Windows: Fixed NTFS alternate data streams being deleted on save
• Windows: Fixed slow window creation when using OpenGL
• Windows: Fixed incorrect case being used when opening files from find-in-files with gitignore enabled
• Windows: Fixed stdout/stderr output data race when building
• Windows: Fixed hang on modal dialogs when context menu is open
• Mac: Tweaked text drag-drop behavior to respect NSDragAndDropTextDelay
• Mac: The setting "use_find_clipboard" can be used to disable global find clipboard integration
• Mac: Fixed double click not working at the top of a window when in full screen with a custom title bar
• Mac: Fixed incorrectly reporting successful key event when no command was found
• Mac: Fixed windows not restoring properly with multi-monitor setups
• Mac: Fixed window layout issue with native tabs when exiting full screen
• Mac: Fixed title bar text not fading when out of focus
• Mac: Fixed reading stdin not working when no windows are open
• API: Fixed plugin popups sometimes having the wrong placement
• API: Fixed plugins not loading when a .python-version file is in the User package
• API: Added Buffer.clear_undo_stack()
• API: Fixed View.show and View.show_at_center not working from on_load callback

Build 4113

14 July 2021

• Improved performance when editing large files
• Improved OpenGL rendering performance
• Improved handling of deleted files
• Various syntax highlighting improvements
• subl can now be used to edit stdin, eg: echo test | subl | cat
• Syntax and indentation detection is now done when editing stdin
• Added syntax_detection_size_limit setting for controlling when syntax detection is skipped
• Theme: Improved scroll puck visibility
• Theme: Fixed adaptive theme not respecting themed_title_bar setting with light color schemes
• Middle clicking in the Open Files section of then sidebar will close the clicked on file
• Preserve Case now works with unicode characters
• Added reveal_menu setting for disabling revealing the menu when alt is pressed on Linux and Windows
• Safe Mode key binding can be disabled by creating a file named .Disable Safe Mode Shortcut in the data directory
• Fixed Ruby syntax highlighting in the Monokai color scheme
• Fixed a scenario where folders weren't being watched for changes
• Fixed underlines being drawn behind line highlight
• Fixed an infinite loop that could occur during syntax highlighting
• Fixed the append command's scroll_to_end parameter sometimes not working
• Fixed Goto Symbol sometimes being scrolled incorrectly
• Fixed multi-select file limit applying to sidebar
• Fixed auto-complete related hang in some large files
• Linux: Fixed print sometimes not working
• Linux: Fixed wrong order of yes/no buttons in GTK dialogs
• Linux: Fixed letters sometimes being cut off
• Windows: Always make a new window when launching main executable on Windows
• Windows: Fixed window icon not scaling properly on Windows
• Windows: Fixed globs not being expanded in some cases on Windows
• Mac: Fixed auto theme not changing with OS auto theme on macOS

4 (Build 4107)

20 May 2021

Release Highlights

• Multi-select tabs to view them side-by-side
• Context-aware auto complete by finding similar code elsewhere in the current project
• Symbols have kind information that is shown for completions and navigation
• Theme can follow system dark mode preference and title bars can be themed on all platforms
• Syntax highlighting now supports back-tracking and inheritance
• Many syntax highlighting improvements as well as builtin TypeScript, JSX and TSX support
• GPU rendering for improved performance. Enabled by default on macOS
• ARM64 support for Linux and macOS (Apple Silicon)
• Many plugin API additions particularly to better support plugins like LSP
• Python 3.8 support for plugins

GPU Rendering

• New hardware_acceleration setting will composite the UI on the GPU
• By default, GPU rendering is enabled on Mac, and disabled on Windows and Linux
• Details about the active GPU will be displayed in the Console

Context-aware Auto Complete

• The auto complete engine now suggests completions based on patterns in existing code
• Uses the entire project as a source, instead of just the current view
• Plugins may specify symbol kind info to be displayed in suggestions list

Tab Multi-Select

• Multiple tabs can be selected using ctrl/cmd, their contents will be shown side-by-side
• Selecting multiple files from the sidebar will also preview them simultaneously
• Included themes have a tab connector joining the active sheet and tab when using sheet multi-select
• The sidebar can now select multiple files using alt
• Goto Anything allows opening tabs side-by-side using ctrl/cmd
• The Definition popup has a dedicated button for opening files side-by-side
• Multiple tabs can also be selected from the tab dropdown
• The menu Selection/Tab Selection contains various options for manipulating tab multi-select
• File/New View into File has been replaced by File/Split View using multi-select

Python 3.8 API

• Added a Python 3.8 API environment for plugins
• Plugins can choose Python version via .python-version file in plugin folder
• Existing plugins are fully supported via legacy Python 3.3 API
• Many API improvements and additions - see API section for more details

Goto Symbol

• Goto Symbol in Project is now significantly faster on huge projects
• Icons are now shown next to symbols, indicating the symbol kind
• Symbols with 3 characters or less are now indexed

Syntax Definitions

• Added out of the box support for TypeScript, JSX and TSX - thanks to Thomas Smith
• Added ability to "branch" within syntax definitions, for non-deterministic or multi-line constructs
• Many syntax highlighting improvements, including significant improvements to:
  • Erlang, with thanks to deathaxe
• Significantly improved load times, match times and reduced cache size on disk
• embed is now lazy loaded, resulting in much higher performance for syntaxes like markdown
• Added branch and fail for non-deterministic parsing
• Added version: 2 to fix edge cases while retaining backwards compatibility
• Added extends to inherit from another syntax definition. Multiple inheritance is supported, provided all parents have the same base syntax
• Added hidden_extensions
• Allow using pop alongside push/set/embed/branch
• Fixed a performance issue with bounded repeats in regular expressions
• Syntax tests can now assert that reindent is working as expected
• Syntax tests can now assert that symbols are indexed
• Prevent infinite include loops via with_prototype
• Fixed a number of scope related bugs
• Fixed some regex capture related bugs
• Added more information to the Show Scope Name popup

OS Compatibility

• The following operating systems are no longer supported as a result of adding Python 3.8:
  • OS X 10.7
  • OS X 10.8
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista

Platform Integration

• Added automatic dark/light theme and color scheme switching, based on OS theme changes
• subl - can now be used to read from stdin on all platforms
• Windows will remember their Virtual Desktop/Space/Workspace, controlled by the remember_workspace setting
• Scroll bars now follow platform conventions when clicking on them. Configurable using Scroll Bar.sublime-mousemap
• Mac: Releases use universal binaries with Apple Silicon support
• Mac: Updated icon to follow macOS 11 style
• Mac: Windows will now stay maximized when using Mac window tabs
• Mac: Fix various issues with the wrong cursor being used
• Linux: ARM64 builds are now available
• Linux: Text drag and drop is now supported
• Linux: Added proper support for Wayland
• Linux: Touch screen events are now handled
• Linux: Better support for copy+paste with other applications that don't support utf8 text
• Linux: Native file dialogs like those for KDE will be used when configured
• Windows: IME preview and multi-select support
• Windows, Linux: Added support for custom title bars
• Windows, Linux: Use vsync for animations instead of a fixed 60hz
• Mac, Linux: Improved compatibility with some keyboard layouts

Application Behavior

• Added Safe Mode, to simulate a clean install. Enabled by passing --safe-mode on the command line or holding shift+alt/option at startup on Windows/macOS respectively
• Added Help/Report a Bug to link to our public issue tracker
• Added options to hot_exit setting to control behavior when the last window is closed
• Fixed a possible case where an update loses the current session
• Settings containing a UTF-8 BOM will no longer fail to load
• Added support for previewing TGA and PSD images
• Added close_deleted_files setting to control behavior of session restoration when files have been deleted on disk
• Popup windows now use virtual windows for improved performance
• Improved performance when loading files with very long lines
• Improved rendering performance on very long lines
• Improved performance with large session files
• Data directories have dropped the "3", though if a "3" directory still exists it will be used
• Mac: Quick Switch Project now works without any windows open
• Mac, Linux: The cache and index are now located in the proper location (~/.cache and ~/Library/Caches respectively)

Auto Complete

• Typing the full tab trigger of a snippet will move it to the top of the results
• Manually typing in the only available completion will hide the auto complete popup
• .sublime-completion files can now specify annotation, kind and details
• Ranking quality improvements
• Improved behavior of completions starting with non-word characters
• auto_complete_trailing_symbols is now disabled by default
• cancelCompletion will no longer prevent manual invocation
• Added the auto_complete_when_likely setting
• Added auto_complete_preserve_order setting
• Added auto_complete_include_snippets_when_typing setting
• Added auto_complete_use_index setting
• Added auto_complete_use_history setting to control if previous choices are automatically selected
• Running the auto_complete command when auto complete is already showing will re-query plugins for results
• auto_complete_selector now applies to the position before the just-typed in character, matching auto_complete_triggers

Input Handling

• Modifier key taps can now be used as part of a key binding. For example, ["ctrl", "ctrl"] will trigger when Ctrl is pressed twice without pressing any other keys in between
• Linux: AltGr can now be used in key bindings via altgr
• Linux: Added a workaround for a touchscreen driver bug, which would cause right click and mouse scrolling to stop working
• Linux: When the menu is hidden, pressing alt will show it
• Mac: Fix Pinyin input
• Mac: Keypad keys can now be bound to as expected
• Mac: Added key bindings for macOS application tabs
• Windows, Linux: Hide mouse cursor when typing. Controlled via hide_pointer_while_typing setting
• Windows, Linux: Fixed being unable to bind Ctrl+Break

Editor Control

• Added File/Print, which prints via a browser
• Added Edit/Copy as HTML
• Build systems now use new annotations functionality instead of phantoms, reducing re-flow
• Undo history is preserved in the session
• Comments and layout are preserved when programmatically editing preferences
• Caret blinking is disabled by default. Set caret_style setting to smooth for previous behavior
• Improved automatic indentation detection
• Added relative line numbers, controlled by the relative_line_numbers setting
• Added setting scroll_context_lines
• Added setting hide_pointer_while_typing
• Added setting control_character_style
• Added Project/Recent/Remove Deleted
• Added chain command to run multiple commands in series
• switch_file command now handles filenames with compound extensions
• The scroll_past_end setting now supports customizing the scroll distance using numbers from 0.0 to 1.0
• Double-clicking a semi-transient sheet's tab will now fully open the sheet
• trim_trailing_white_space_on_save can now be set to "not_on_caret"
• trim_trailing_white_space_on_save now trims only newly inserted trailing whitespace by default. Controlled via trim_only_modified_white_space setting
• Expanded draw_white_space setting, supporting leading and trailing white space
• Unicode white space characters, such as the zero width no-break space, are now drawn as hex values. Controlled via draw_unicode_white_space setting
• Fixed spelling correction to support languages with upper case characters after start of word
• Added commands to simplify customizing the active theme or color scheme
• Quick Switch Project will open the selected project in a new window if Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) is held down
• Added wrap_width_style preference
• Added console_max_history_lines
• Added additional settings to control the status bar: show_sidebar_button, show_indentation and show_syntax
• Console now uses Python syntax highlighting by default
• Added Central European (Mac) encoding support
• Key Bindings: Join Lines is now on Ctrl+Shift+J / Cmd+Shift+J
• Key Bindings: Expand Selection to Indentation is no longer bound by default
• Key Bindings: Ctrl+J / Cmd+J is now used as a prefix for sequential key bindings, similar to Ctrl+K / Cmd+K
• Code Folding: fixed some edge-case incorrect behaviors
• Linux: Added support for alternate font weight names
• Linux: Selection is no longer cleared when another application makes a selection
• Linux: Added Ctrl+Space to trigger Auto Complete
• Linux, Windows: Added Alt+Shift+Left Mouse Button as an alternative column selection binding
• Linux, Windows: Added Shift+F10 key binding to open the context menu

Text Commands

• Macros now record Find commands
• Reworked Jump Back and Jump Forward commands
• Improved behavior of Wrap Paragraph
• Improved behavior of Swap Lines
• Added Revert Diff Hunk
• Added Selection/Expand Selection as a general mechanism to expand the selection
• Selection/Split into Lines will now split a selection into words if the selection doesn't contain any newlines
• Show a sum in the status bar when there are multiple selections and all of them are numbers
• set_file_type command now accepts "scope:" prefixed syntax names
• Fixed sort_lines replacing unicode newlines with regular ones

Snippets

• Added auto_complete_include_snippets setting, for disabling auto complete integration
• Added ignored_snippets setting, for disabling default snippets

Indexing (Goto Definition)

• Files ignored by .gitignore are not indexed by default. Controlled via index_exclude_gitignore setting
• Files without known extensions are no longer indexed by default. Controlled via index_skip_unknown_extensions setting
• Improved behavior with constantly changing files
• Significantly improved load times

Files and Folders

• Saving files is now asynchronous
• Improved performance when adding directories with extreme amounts of files
• When save_on_focus_lost is enabled, closing an unsaved file will save and close it, instead of prompting to save
• Improved behavior of save_on_focus_lost in conjunction with administrator owned files
• Added reload_file_on_change setting to control if files are automatically reloaded or not
• folder_exclude_patterns and folder_include_patterns now support project-relative paths, by starting the path with //
• Folders in the sidebar can be recursively expanded via alt+arrow key
• Added preview_on_click setting to support only previewing files on left click
• Windows: Fixed Open Containing Folder for UNC paths
• Windows: Fixed Save dialog not showing for new files with control characters on the first line
• Windows: Fixed Ctrl+Backspace inserting a DEL character when a dialog is open in the background
• Linux: Fix recreated directories not working correctly with file change monitoring
• Linux: Recursively expanding and collapsing sidebar folders now works with alt or super

Find

• Find results are highlighted on the scroll bar, controlled by highlight_find_results_in_scrollbar
• Find in Selection now highlights the area that will be searched
• Commands can now be run without the find panel having input focus
• Fix keypad enter not working in find panel
• Improved find history behavior
• Find: Various performance improvements with large files using graceful degradation
• Find: Fixed adjacent matches being skipped when find in selection is in use
• Find: Fixed find in selection option not being cleared when changing tabs
• Find: Selection will no longer be reset after Find All is used when finding in selection
• Find: Results are now properly highlighted on Find All when close_find_after_find_all is turned off
• Find in Files: Improved performance with large numbers of matches
• Find in Files: Can now filter by .gitignore
• Find in Files: Added Preserve Case option for replacements
• Find in Files: Fix not recursing into directories on networked file systems
• Find in Files: Hide rulers by default in find results
• Find in Files: Added Find/Cancel Find in Files menu item
• Find in Files: Binary file patterns are applied when an explicit folder is given
• Find in Files: Using "Find in Folder…" from the sidebar context menu will apply project file filters
• Find in Files: Added close_find_after_find_all preference
• Find in Files: Added close_find_after_replace_all preference

UI

• Changed default color scheme to Mariana
• Added Default Dark theme
• Added themed_title_bar setting
• Changed file tab style, adding file_tab_style setting
• Goto Symbol shows more information about symbols
• Definitions hover popup shows more information about symbols
• Sheets without input focus are now dimmed when using included themes
• Added a New Tab button in the tab bar, and hide_new_tab_button setting
• Added show_tab_close_buttons_on_left setting
• Added highlight_gutter and highlight_line_number settings
• Added the ability to auto hide the menu, tabs, and status bar when typing. See auto_hide_menu and related settings
• Window title bar can be controlled by show_rel_path and show_project_first settings
• Tab context menu now includes Close Unmodified Files and Close Deleted Files entries
• Side bar row highlights now properly reflect the selected tabs
• Color Schemes: Added glow font option
• Color Schemes: Added support for the underline font style
• Color Schemes: Added new property, inactive_selection_border
• Color Schemes: Slightly darkened the background of Mariana
• Color Schemes: Added support for stippled_underline and squiggly_underline
• Color Schemes: .hidden-tmTheme files are now supported by the .sublime-color-scheme convertor
• Themes: Included themes use variables extensively, making customization simpler
• Themes: Added style property for title_bar element, for better integration with OS "dark modes"
• Themes: The tree_row for the file with input focus now gets the attribute highlighted
• Themes: The settings key now supports objects, with keys being settings and values being a boolean, string or array of strings
• Themes: Added sheet_contents class to text, image and HTML sheets
• Themes: Added the background_modifier property for sheet_contents
• Themes: Added a number of new attributes to tab_control for richer tab theming
• Themes: The highlighted attribute is only applied to the most recently active sheet, rather that the most recently active sheet in each group
• Themes: tab_control and sheet_contents classes now synchronize their highlighted and hover attributes
• Themes: tooltip controls now support animations to their opacity
• Linux: Show sequential key bindings in the menu
• Linux: Fixed context menu position being slightly offset

Spell Checking

• Updated dictionaries
• Added support for non-utf8 dictionaries
• Updated Hunspell for improved suggestions
• System dictionaries are now available on Linux
• Dictionaries in ~/Library/Spelling are now available on Mac

Rendering

• Properly query glyph extents in order to avoid cutting off large glyphs
• Windows, Linux: Added support for per-display subpixel ordering
• Mac: Improved window resize performance
• Windows: Fixed rendering bug where other applications could cause persistent artifacts via window animations
• Windows: Add support for color emoji

API

• Improved coverage of plugin profiling
• The cProfile module is now included on Linux
• Added HTML sheets, which can be created via window.new_html_sheet()
• repr now works as expected
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1j
• .sublime-commands files now support filtering commands via the "platform" key
• Minihtml now handles list-style-type CSS property - circle, square and disc
• Minihtml now processes subl: links, running them as commands
• Minihtml now supports white-space: nowrap
• Improved minihtml rendering performance
• EventListener has many new features and bug fixes
  • on_query_completions() can now
    • Return suggestions asynchronously
    • Return command completions
    • Include symbol kind information
  • New: on_init() is called once with list of views opened before plugin was loaded
  • New: on_exit() is called immediately before plugin_host exits, after API is shut down
  • New: on_text_changed() and on_text_changed_async() provide detailed modification info
  • New methods:
    • on_reload()
    • on_revert()
    • on_new_window()
    • on_new_window_async()
    • on_pre_close_window()
    • on_pre_move()
    • on_post_move()
    • on_post_move_async()
    • on_new_project()
    • on_new_project_async()
    • on_load_project()
    • on_load_project_async()
    • on_pre_save_project()
    • on_post_save_project()
    • on_post_save_project_async()
    • on_pre_close_project()
    • on_associate_buffer()
  • Fixed on_selection_modified() to not be called twice when left clicking
  • Fixed on_selection_modified() begin called on non-selection state changes
• New TextChangeListener for getting callbacks when a text buffer is changed
  • Can be dynamically bound to a Buffer using TextChangeListener.attach and TextChangeListener.detach
  • Methods:
    • on_text_changed()
    • on_text_changed_async()
    • on_revert()
    • on_revert_async()
    • on_reload()
    • on_reload_async()
• Sheet has some new methods:
  • file_name()
  • group()
  • close()
  • is_semi_transient()
  • Sheet.is_transient
• View has a number of changes and improvements
  • Fixed newly created views not having a valid viewport before being returned to the API
  • add_regions() now has an annotations parameter, to allow adding a per-region annotation to the buffer. The exec command uses this API for build errors
  • add_regions() calls that add an underline now have that underline applied to whitespace characters
  • show() now takes keep_to_left and animate parameters
  • text_point() and related functions now accept a clamp_column parameter
  • Added "glow" to style_for_scope()
  • Added View.rowcol_utf8(), View.rowcol_utf16(), View.text_point_utf8() and View.text_point_utf16()
  • Added sublime.KEEP_ON_SELECTION_MODIFIED, which can be passed to show_popup()
  • New: element() returns a string describing widget views (find input, quick panel input, etc)
  • New: assign_syntax() sets the syntax used in a view, supports Syntax objects, paths and scope selectors
  • New: syntax() returns the currently set Syntax
  • New: clones()
  • New: sheet() and sheet_id()
  • New: export_to_html()
• Window has some changes and improvements:
  • show_quick_panel now accepts placeholder text, via the placeholder argument
  • Added sublime.CLEAR_TO_RIGHT and sublime.SEMI_TRANSIENT for use with open_file()
  • Added the flag sublime.REPLACE_MRU for use with open_file(). When multiple sheets are selected, this flag will cause the opened file to replace the most recently used sheet with the file being opened
  • Added the flag sublime.WANT_EVENT for use with show_quick_panel(). This will pass an event dict to the on_select callback. The dict will contain the key modifier_keys, which will be a dict that may contain zero or more of the keys: primary, ctrl, super, alt, altgr
  • open_file now accepts sublime.ADD_TO_SELECTION as a flag
  • New: selected_sheets(), selected_sheets_in_group() and select_sheets()
  • New: workspace_file_name()
  • New: bring_to_front()
• sublime.ok_cancel_dialog() and sublime.yes_no_cancel_dialog() now accept an optional title parameter
• Added sublime.open_dialog, sublime.save_dialog and sublime.select_folder_dialog
• Syntax definitions can be queried via sublime.list_syntaxes(), sublime.find_syntax(), sublime.syntax_from_path(), sublime.find_syntax_by_name(), sublime.find_syntax_by_scope(), and sublime.find_syntax_for_file(). They return Syntax objects
• Improved sys.stdout to extend io.TextIOBase
• sublime.executable_path(), sublime.packages_path(), sublime.installed_packages_path() and sublime.cache_path() may now be called at import time
• Added sublime.SymbolRegion and sublime.SymbolLocation with corresponding methods on View and Window
• Fix a bug with popup being stuck open when a popup is shown in the hide event handler of another popup
• Added open_project_or_workspace command
• append command has new, optional disable_tab_translation argument
• Added modifier_keys to event dicts when commands are invoked via a menu
• Added sublime.DYNAMIC_COMPLETIONS. on_query_completions() can return this flag to indicate that completion results should be re-queried as the user types
• Added sublime.INHIBIT_REORDER. Returned by on_query_competions()
• CompletionItem now accepts a details parameter, which can include basic HTML
• CommandInputHandler now has an initial_selection() method
• Added Region.to_tuple and Phantom.to_tuple
• Fixed ViewEventListener.on_load_async() sometimes not being called
• Added sublime.QuickPanelItem() with support for kind info, annotations and basic minihtml
• Plugins may now add selections to the Jump Back history list via the add_jump_record command
• Plugins may suppress selections from the Jump Back history list via the jump_ignore_selection region
• Plugins may now disable the default HTML and CSS completions
• Added Buffer.id() and Buffer.file_name()
• The TextInputHandler and ListInputHandler classes may define a method want_event() that returns True to receive an extra parameter, an event dict, when the validate() and confirm() methods are called. The dict will contain the key modifier_keys, which will be a dict that may contain zero or more of the keys: primary, ctrl, super, alt, altgr
• Add sublime.ui_info() for high-level information about the UI
• Popups will be properly positioned when displayed near the right-hand side of the editor
• Popups near the right-hand side of the editor with wrapped lines will now be properly sized
• Added ListInputItem so that ListInputHandler objects can provide kind info, annotations and details
• Improvements to the API, applied to the new Python 3.8 environment only:
  • bool(sublime.Selection()) will return False when len() == 0
  • sublime.load_binary_resource() now returns bytes instead of bytearray
  • Added Selection.__iter__()
  • Added Region.__iter__()
  • Added Region.__contains__()
  • Added Settings.to_dict()
  • Settings can now be treated like a dict
  • Plugins starting with _ will be ignored, __all__ global will be respected
  • Events won't be reported until plugin_loaded() has been called
  • .pyc files can now be imported when contained within .sublime-package files, although they will not be scanned for plugins
• The certifi Python package is preinstalled
• Significant performance improvements when rapidly printing to the Console
• Added sublime.log_control_tree(). When enabled, clicking with ctrl+alt will log the control tree under the mouse to the console
• Added sublime.log_fps(). When enabled, the render times are tracked and logged
• Added logging status functions:
  • sublime.get_log_commands()
  • sublime.get_log_input()
  • sublime.get_log_build_systems()
  • sublime.get_log_result_regex()
  • sublime.get_log_indexing()
  • sublime.get_log_fps()
  • sublime.get_log_control_tree()
• Logging functions are now toggle when no argument is passed:
  • sublime.log_commands()
  • sublime.log_input()
  • sublime.log_build_systems()
  • sublime.log_result_regex()
  • sublime.log_indexing()
  • sublime.log_fps()
  • sublime.log_control_tree()
• Backwards Compatibility Break: The event parameter passed to commands when a minihtml link is clicked changed from a two-element list to a dict with the keys x and y