v2022.08.27

The main feature in this release is Porcupine's new syntax highlighter. It is faster and less buggy than the old syntax highlighter. The old and new highlighters are also known as "pygments highlighter" (old) and "tree-sitter highlighter" (new), named after the libraries they are based on.

The tree-sitter highlighter is currently used for C, JSON, Markdown, Python, Rust and TOML files. Other filetypes still use the pygments highlighter. As with any other problem with Porcupine, please let me know by creating an issue if the pygments highlighter isn't working with a filetype you use.

Thank you rdbende for working on the new highlighter with me, and for your work on Porcupine in general :)

Mac fixes:

• "Save As" no longer crashes Porcupine on some Macs. Thank you Moosems for reporting this and helping me figure out what the problem was.
• By default, the Alt key is no longer used for key bindings on Mac. For example, the binding for setting an anchor on Mac is now Control+Shift+a instead of Alt+Shift+A. Many key bindings that used Alt didn't work because of how Alt is also used for entering special characters. Thank you Moosems for fixing this.

Filetypes fixes:

• The Filetypes menu is now in alphabetical order. Thank you sokratisvas for fixing this.
• Settings from filetypes.toml and default_filetypes.toml are now merged recursively. This is useful for giving custom langserver options without copy/pasting the default configuration from default_filetypes.toml.

Other fixes and improvements:

• The line numbers now work in files that are more than 9999 lines long. Thank you Moosems for fixing this.
• Porcupine no longer displays errors on the terminal when right-clicking (empty) items in the directory tree. Thank you Tuomas and nicolafan for fixing this.
• Renaming a currently opened file in the directory tree now works as expected. Previously you would often get an error saying that the file isn't found, and then you would have to close and reopen the file.