Leo 6.8.4 released

[Edward K. Ream]

Leo https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ 6.8.4 is now available on GitHub and pypi.

Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this release!

Leo is an IDE, outliner and PIM.

The highlights of Leo 6.8.4

• Improve the Rust importer.
• Allow rest comments to be colored differently from @language rest.
• Support @language typst.
• Several other improvements to syntax coloring.
• Add the show-buttons-and-at-commands command.
• Add the find-source-for-command command.
• Add the beautify-script command.
• The execute-script command beautifies c.p's tree if
  @bool beautify-python-code-on-write = True.
• Remove the join-leo-irc command.
• Scripts (including @command and @button scripts) may now return a value.
• Replace c.scanAllDirectives with 7 seven new Commands getters.
• Deprecate c.scanAllDirectives and 17 other directives-related functions.
• Call g.deprecated in all deprecated functions to issue a deprecation warning.
• Several significant code cleanups.
• The usual minor bug fixes.

Breaking change

• Syntax coloring for @language rest may require a new setting in myLeoSettings.leo.
  See the What's new in Leo 6.8.4 for details.

Links

• Install Leo
• 6.8.4 Issues
• 6.8.4 Pull Requests
• Documentation
• Tutorials
• Video tutorials
• Forum
• Leo on GitHub
• LeoVue
• What people are saying about Leo
• More links

Edward

[Félix]

Hurray! :)

I'll make sure I didn't miss any of those improvements that could be applicable to LeoJS, and will release a new version very soon.

Félix

[Edward K. Ream]

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM Félix <felix...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hurray! :)

I'll make sure I didn't miss any of those improvements that could be applicable to LeoJS, and will release a new version very soon.

Thanks for your ongoing work!

Edward