Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Leo 6.8.0 is here!

Leo https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ 6.8.0 is now available on GitHub and pypi.

Leo is an IDE, outliner and PIM.

The highlights of Leo 6.8.0

This release contains several breaking changes to Leo's API.
See the What's new in Leo 6.8.0 section for details.

Significant changes

  • PR #3828: Leo now requires PyQt6.
  • PR #3911: Leo's core no longer uses the free_layout or nested_splitter plugins.
  • PR #3872: Improve how Leo searches for definitions. Add @bool prefer-nav-pane.
  • PR #3922: Improved the restart-leo command.

New and improved

  • PR #3870: Leo's beautifier works faster.
  • PR #3841: Add g.traceUnique and g.traceUniqueClass functions.
  • PR #3893: Add vr-fully-expand, vr-toggle-visibility and vr-keep-open commands.
  • PR #3902: Add the toggle-unl-view command.
  • PR #3921: Add the show-qt-widgets command.
  • The usual minor improvements and bug fixes.

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Friday, March 22, 2024

Leo 6.7.8 released

Leo https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ 6.7.8 is now available on GitHub and pypi.

Leo is an IDE, outliner and PIM.

The highlights of Leo 6.7.8

This release simplifies Leo's install process.
See https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/getting-started.html

  • PR #3757: (leoTokens.py) Make Leo's beautifier 3x faster.
  • PR #3771: Revert colorizing of f-strings.
  • PR #3786: Support Nim.
  • PR #3790: Add "get-unl" command to Leo's server.
  • PR #3805: Fix problems with auto-completion and calltips.
  • PR #3806: Fix problems with Leo's go-back and go-forward commands.
  • PR #3807: Improve Leo's Python importer.
  • PR #3817: Allow relative paths in gnx-based UNLs.
  • The usual minor improvements and bug fixes.

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Sunday, December 24, 2023

Leo 6.7.6 released

Leo https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ 6.7.6 is now available on GitHub and pypi.

Leo is an IDE, outliner and PIM.

The highlights of Leo 6.7.6

Support for Python 3.12:

  • PR #3693: update leoAst.py for Python 3.12.
  • PR #3701: Colorize PEP 701 f-strings.

Other significant improvements:

  • PR #3645: Allow mixed external files on the command line.
    Retire the --load-type command-line option.
  • PR #3575: Add the indented_languages plugin.
  • PR #3642: Add the clean-all-lines command.
  • PR #3659: Add python-to-rust command.
  • PR #3673: Add summarize command.
  • scripts.leo contains @button scripts by Thomas Passin.

The usual assortment of minor bug fixes and code-level improvements.

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Monday, November 20, 2023

Leo 6.7.5 released

Leo https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ 6.7.5 is now available on GitHub and pypi.

Leo is an IDE, outliner and PIM.

The highlights of Leo 6.7.5

  • PR #3568: Improve word-oriented finds and improve Leo's spell checker.
  • PRs #3515 and #3517: Significantly improve python importer.
  • PRs #3509 and #3511: Improve rust importer.

Other improvements

  • PR #3560: Retire the g.SherlockTracer class.
  • PR #3552: Clear dirty bits when writing sqLite DBs.
  • PR #3541: Use c.doCommandByName instead of c.k.simulateCommand.
  • PR #3538: Make file-diff-files undoable.
  • PR #3533: Reload outlines rather than restarting Leo.
  • PR #3531: Add move-outline-to-first-child & move-outline-to-last-child commands.
  • PR #3528: Improve copy-gnx command.
  • PR #3525: Add promote-section-references command.
  • PR #3521: Improve what-line command.
  • PR #3519: Make the mark-node-and-parents and unmark-node-and-parents commands undoable.
  • PR #3503: Fix bug involving back slashes in search patterns.
  • PR #3499: Retire the read-outline-only command.
  • PR #3607: Add scheme importer
  • Fix several other minor bugs.

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Leo 6.7.4 released

Leo https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ 6.7.4 is now available on GitHub and pypi.

Leo is an IDE, outliner and PIM.

The highlights of Leo 6.7.4

Warning: breaking changes to Leo's api

p.get_UNL returns gnx-based unls. Previously it returned path-based gnxs.
See the first comment of PR #3424 for full details.

gnx-based unls

  • PR #3215 and #3424: gnx-based unls (clickable links).
    These links will break only if the original node is deleted.

New settings

  • @string unl-status-kind = gnx
  • @bool full-unl-paths = True
  • @data unl-path-prefixes

Other improvements

  • PR #3330: Improve importers for C, C++, and cython.
  • PR #3345: Improve importer architecture.
  • PR #3363 & #3379: Improve c.recursiveImport.
  • PR #3376: Improve python importer.

Large code changes

  • PR #3365: Simplify mypy annotations (128 files).
  • PR #3367: Import Callable from collections.abc instead of typing (50 files).

Retire three plugins

  • PR #3215: Retire the settings_finder, backlink, and quickMove plugins.

50+ issues and 70+ pull requests.

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