BBEdit 13.5

What's new in this version:

Fixes:
- Rewrote the git-ignore checking to use git directly, thus ensuring that its results will be consistent with the command line. (There is some additional overhead to do it this way, but it should be negligible in routine use.)
- The "Hide Palettes" and "Show Palettes" commands now include the Colors panel, and the application will reopen the Colors panel at startup if it was left open when quitting previously.
- Fixed bug in which palettes were reopened and made visible when quitting with "Hide Palettes" in effect.
- Extended file name validation in the file info panel, to prevent crashes which would occur when trying to rename a file to something which had nulls, other illegal characters, or an empty name.
- Fixed performance bug which would make drawing large numbers of tick marks in the scrollbar take a particularly long time in Differences windows.
- Made changes to minimize the amount of time spent drawing tick marks in text view scrollbars (for live search results and other purposes) in cases where the scrollbar area would have been completely saturated.
- Made a change to improve the performance of folder comparisons which involve the filtering of identical files.
- Made changes to reduce the amount of time required for single-file comparisons, particularly when very large files are being compared (and/or they have a lot of differences).
- Improved performance when canonicalizing lines containing RCS identifiers for comparison (when RCS identifiers are ignored, which is the default behavior).
- Made a change so that Apple Events sent from the command-line tools allow the OS to add sandbox-extension information to the request. This will prevent the OS from adding quarantine information to executable files that are opened in BBEdit, which in turn made it inconvenient to run those files outside of BBEdit at a later point.
- Made significant performance improvements in areas involving non-selection highlighting ranges (such as differences, live search results, and other related areas).
- The application will remember which windows were minimized when quitting, and when relaunching will restore those windows to the minimized state.
- When printing duplex, BBEdit will alternate left and right gutters when "One-inch gutter" is turned on, so that you can punch holes in the gutter and it'll work on both sides.
- Fixed a bug in the Swift language module in which it did not generate correct syntax-coloring information following a single slash (/); this would result in unexpected behavior elsewhere, such as a hang during "balance while typing".
- Made a change to improve the performance of certain calculations with large files. Among other things, this will speed up restoration of autosave state for large unsaved files, as well as Process Lines Containing.
- Fixed bug in which changes to the "Print color syntax" setting in the print panel did not affect the printed output.
- BBEdit will no longer wait forever for spell checking when populating the contextual menu; this resolves an application stall when right-clicking in very large (hundreds of megabyte) files.
- Made a change to improve the performance of live searches (used in various contexts) when very large (hundreds of megabytes) documents and very large (tens of thousands) of matches occur.
- Fixed memory leak in trailing-whitespace stripping while saving.
- Fixed crash which could occur when changing from a light system appearance to a dark system appearance with certain color schemes in effect.
- Made a change to improve performance when switching color schemes and/or appearances.
- Made a change so that permissions errors that occur while saving a file to a remote volume will now get reported directly, rather than triggering a privilege escalation (which the OS seems to dislike for servers).
- Added some code to guard against a nonreproducible crash in which the application was trying to drag-scroll a nonexistent text view.
- Implemented significant performance improvements in ctags file interpretation, which should reduce lag when using the contextual menu and completion panel and large tags files are involved.
- Fixed bug in the Unix Shell Script parser in which a backslash inside of a brace block would cause confusion in certain contexts.
- When saving a change into a Zip archive, don't set the file's permissions to include u+x unless it begins with a "#!". (The default permissions are now 0644 rather than 0700.)
- Made a change to improve performance in "Merge Windows" and "Move (documents) to New Window" when abusively large quantities of windows and/or documents are involved.
- Made changes to improve performance when closing a window with a very large number of documents in the sidebar.
- Made a change so that PHP line comments are treated as opaque; therefore a "?>" in a commented-out line of PHP will no longer prematurely end coloring of a PHP section embedded in an HTML document.
- Fixed bug in which the application would exit with an uncaught exception when "Paste Using Filter" was invoked to run a text factory with one or more unconfigured actions.
- The Zoom In/Zoom Out/Actual Size commands on View -> Text Display are now functional for "Preview in BBEdit" windows.
- When quitting the application, BBEdit will make a backup copy of its preferences. (This currently resides in the Setup folder.)
- Made a change so that doing a Shift Right on an empty (no characters, not even a line break) line at the end of a file will perform the appropriate operation, rather than doing nothing. (Note that since there is no line break at the end to select, the selection will include the tab/spaces just inserted.)
- Limit the length of the generated title for windows resulting from an "Extract" operation.
- Set "--[[" and "]]" as default block-comment delimiters for Lua, so that when using "Comment Block", those are used in preference to batch-comment/uncommenting using the "--" delimiter.
- The Tidy "Reflow" command now correctly loads the "Input is XML" setting.
- Fixed bug in which moving a Differences window to a smaller screen would hide the list of differences, if the smaller screen required significant reshaping of the window.
- Fixed cosmetic bug in which the Live Search bar would report "Searching..." in cases where there were no search results.
- Fixed bug in which running a recorded AppleScript of a multi-file search with filter terms would not ingest the filter terms correctly, due to a misbehavior of AppleScript recording.
- Made a change so that "Update Images" will only rewrite an image tag's height and width if they are different from those derived from the image file, so as to avoid unnecessary changes.
- Fixed a couple of bugs in which windows were incorrectly placed or sized when using one of the Arrange commands from the Window menu.
- Fixed cosmetic bug in the display of local file URLs when asked to open a local file using the remote file transfer client interface (such as when using "Open with BBEdit" on a file in Transmit's local file list).
- Made a change to reduce file system load when matching a document being opened or selected against the list of items in a project.
- Added "@function" and "@return" to the SCSS keyword list.
- Fixed regression in which SCSS variable names in the document weren't included in the completion panel.
- Fixed bug in which the "PreferredFilenameExtension" preference did not apply when saving a new document whose language was "(none)".
- Made a change to improve performance when using Option-left-arrow ("word backward") navigation in very large HTML/XML documents.
- Fixed bug in which anonymous "INTERFACE" blocks would confuse the Fortran function scanner.
- The Fortran function menu will now show distinct badges for modules, interface blocks, programs, and subroutines.
- Revised the behavior of the HTML/XML fold generator so that it will no longer generate automatic folds for paired elements that begin and end on the same line. This in turn resolves a confusing behavior in which "Collapse All Folds" would collapse all of the automatic fold ranges; but same-line elements subsequently could not be expanded using the fold gutter.
- Reduced the intensity of the highlight color for selected list items; it's more in line with the rest of the system.
- Fixed bug in which folder comparison would consider two files disjoint if they differed only in the case of the file name.
- Fixed bug in which the sidebar layout would be wrong when reopening an instaproject (or some other project windows) during application state restoration.
- Corrected the appearance of the completion panel when running on macOS 11.0.
- Made changes to significantly improve performance when using the "Next Occurrence of" and "Previous Occurrences of" commands to navigate instances of selected text. This significantly improves usability with giant files (hundreds of megabytes and up).
- Made a change to improve the startup performance of background search operations (instances of selected text, Live Search, and live-matching in the Find window) in very large documents.
- Fixed bug in which the language module entry points for managing document-specific parse data weren't called at the correct points.
- Fixed bug in which entering diacritic characters by holding down a letter key and then selecting from the OS popover would create a unwanted Undo state and confuse the existing one, in situations where typing was already in progress.
- Made a change to speed document state saving and restoration for very large text files.
- Corrected the vertical positioning of the "refresh" button in results windows when running on macOS 11.0.
- Fixed hang which would occur when the Open File by Name window would try to update its search results from the list of open documents, while at the same time a -documentWillSave attachment script was running as the result of autosaving a project document.
- Made a change to guard against a logged ctags-related crash.
- Made the DisableScriptAttachments expert preference work correctly. (It's not documented for a reason, but should at least not break the application when turned on.)
- Fixed a crash which could occur in the ctags support internals when quitting the application quickly after startup.
- When rewrapping text with quoted lines (or with lines that look like they might be quoted, like Markdown headings), the wrapper will no longer put quote markers on blank lines if the preceding line has quote markers. Thus, blank lines will stay blank.
- When using a project with a local preview server configured, and live previewing a document in the configured site, BBEdit will refer asset requests for the previewed page to the preview server, in the event that it's not able to resolve those requests relative to the project's configured site root. (This allows such asset requests to succeed where they would previously have failed.)
- Corrected the color space used for converting color representations from external forms (such as the value strings in color schemes).
- Fixed a bug in which page-relative links (to other pages) were not constructed correctly when a preview server was in use for Preview in BBEdit. This in turn meant that the browser would show a 404 when clicking on such a link in a live preview window.
- Added code to work around a WebKit exception which would occur when using "Preview in BBEdit" with a local preview server (rather than previewing directly from the document file).