jEdit 5.6 version history
       (changes since jEdit 5.5.0)
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{{{ Version 5.6.0

Thanks to Björn "Vampire" Kautler, Matthieu Casanova, Hrotkó Gábor,
Alan Ezust, Makarius, and Dale Anson for contributing to this release.

{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fix MiscUtilities.isBackup() method when there is no suffix and prefix set
  (patch #4088 - Makarius)

- Do not loose the screen line count of lines that were not modified
  when inserting multiple lines (minor optimization)
  (#4091 - Matthieu Casanova)

- Fixed a NPE when trying to choose a non existing icon when adding a
  toolbar item (#3770 - Matthieu Casanova)

- When launching jEdit if a file named like the untitled buffer from
  perspective exists, then load it (#4087 - Matthieu Casanova)

- Do not only highlight the first match in hypersearch results
  (#4083 - Matthieu Casanova)

- Re-add missing help viewer back and forward icons (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Fix wrong behavior of input method framework support that returned wrong
  locations for offsets and wrong offsets for locations
  (#4082 - Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Upgrade OS X launcher stub to be compatible with newer Java versions
  (#4077 - Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Fix Untitled Issue with -background command line option
  (Patch #617 - Hrotkó Gábor)

- Handle case where user has not set either a backup prefix or suffix
  (#4069 - Dale Anson)

- Fix odd default colors for style editor (#4055 - Dale Anson)

- Fix NullPointerException in Preview Javadoc macro (#2412 - Dale Anson)

- Fix dockable buttons not wrapping correctly (#2626 - Dale Anson)

- Fix electric scroll not working with page up/down (#2719 - Dale Anson)

- Correct location of context menu popup (#4073 - Dale Anson)

- Fix file browser splitter buttons not working (#4081 - Dale Anson)

}}}
{{{ Miscellaneous

- Important improvement to Font substitution for documents that contains
  characters that are not supported by the default font (Matthieu Casanova)

- Major performance improvement at displaying big files by changing the
  call to Font.layoutGlyphVector()  (Matthieu Casanova)

- Made a larger plugin download dialog, patch submitted in bug #4050
  (Kalle Helminen)

- Store rules in an array instead of a Map avoiding computations
  (Matthieu Casanova)

- Store the glyph width in the GlyphCache to make token marking faster
  (Matthieu Casanova)

- New EditPaneManager, with convenient methods to get and iterate over
  EditPanes, get it by calling jEdit.getEditPaneManager() (Matthieu Casanova)

- New BufferManager, all you need to get loaded buffers from jEdit
  get it by calling jEdit.getBufferManager() (Matthieu Casanova)

- New ViewManager, all you need to get loaded existing views
  get it by calling jEdit.getViewManager() (Matthieu Casanova)

- Added new method JEditBuffer.hasProperty() (Matthieu Casanova)

- Apply UI language changes immediately without the need to restart.
  (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- The tray icon on Linux systems now by default tries to detect the proper
  background color and also lets the user either select a fixed color for
  the background or select some arbitrary rectangle as background for the
  tray icon, making the icon much less ugly on dark themes.
  (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- The Windows EXE launcher now considers JAVA_HOME environment variable if no
  matching Java is found in the registry (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- The Windows installer now uses modern and resizable style and allows
  installation without administrator privileges (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

- Chinese Taiwan localization from David Day (Patch #620 - Dale Anson)

- Fix all deprecation warnings produced when compiling with Java 9 (Dale Anson)

- Adjust Appearance option pane to allow setting "primary" and "secondary" fonts
  for all look and feels (Dale Anson)

- Improve Regular Expressions documentation (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- StringList.join() method is now deprecated as String.join()
  is now provided since Java 8 (Matthieu Casanova)

- TextUtilities.join() method is now deprecated as String.join()
  is now provided since Java 8 (Matthieu Casanova)

- Change BoyerMooreSearchMatcher to make it thread safe (Matthieu Casanova)

- New methods IOUtilities.toString(InputStream) (Matthieu Casanova)

- New method IOUtilities.toByteArray(InputStream) (Matthieu Casanova)

- New UniqueActionDocumentListener class, a DocumentListener that does the same
  action for every event (Matthieu Casanova)

- New AbstractWidget class (Matthieu Casanova)

- GUIUtilities.showVFSFileDialog() methods now never returns null
  (Matthieu Casanova)

- New Method VFSManager.canReadFile(path) (Matthieu Casanova)

- New method IntegerArray.isEmpty() (Matthieu Casanova)

}}}
{{{ Editing

- Add SIPp edit mode (Matthieu Casanova)

- Add Well Known Text (WKT) edit mode (Matthieu Casanova)

- Update RPM Spec mode (bug #3880 Matthieu Casanova)

- Added openSIPS mode (Matthieu Casanova)

- Update Java mode to support Java 10 "var" type. (Dale Anson)

- Add PlantUML mode (Andreas Studer / Dale Anson)

- Add HL7 mode (Thiemo Kellner / Dale Anson)

- Update drawj2d mode (patch #622 A. Vontobel / Matthieu Casanova)

}}}

}}}

jEdit buffer local properties:
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:folding=explicit:collapseFolds=2: