Upcoming 5.5.1 release

[Neil Hodgson]

New versions of Lexilla (5.3.3), Scintilla (5.5.1), and SciTE (5.5.1) will be released soon on the 22nd.

This release contains fixes and features for Lexilla, Scintilla, and SciTE.

Lexilla sees changes to HTML, JavaScript, Lua, PHP, and XML.

Changes:

• SciTE

• Lexilla 5.3.3
• ASP: Control whether ASP is enabled for XML and HTML with lexer.xml.allow.asp and lexer.html.allow.asp. Issue #252.
• JavaScript: Recognize regular expressions at start or after '>' in JavaScript when lexer is cpp, hypertext, or xml. Issue #250, Bug #918.
• JavaScript: Recognize initial #! 'shebang' line as a comment in standalone files. Issue #253.
• Lua: Fix non-ASCII identifiers joined with '.' or ':'. Issue #242.
• Lua: Fix folding for multi-line SCE_LUA_LITERALSTRING and SCE_LUA_COMMENT when performed incrementally. Issue #247.
• PHP: Control whether PHP is enabled for XML and HTML with lexer.xml.allow.php and lexer.html.allow.php. Issue #252.

• Scintilla 5.5.1
• SCI_CUTALLOWLINE added which is similar to SCI_COPYALLOWLINE but also deletes the copied text. Feature #1518.
• Can set font used for autocompletion lists with SCI_AUTOCSETSTYLE. Feature #1523.
• Increase maximum zoom set interactively to +60 points. Feature #1517.
• Fix flickering cursor after some mouse action sequences. Bug #2443.

The committed changes can be examined either in the repositories

git clone https://github.com/ScintillaOrg/lexilla
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/code scintilla
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/scintilla/scite

or from

https://www.scintilla.org/scite.zip Source
https://www.scintilla.org/wscite.zip Windows executable (64-bit)

Neil