Release Notes: Sprint 24

This is a draft!

This document will not be finalized until the end of Sprint 24 -- approximately April 26.

What's New in Sprint 24

• Visual Editing
  • Quick View for CSS colors, gradients, images: Hover over CSS code to see a popup preview
  • Quick Docs for CSS: Press Ctrl+K/⌘K on a CSS property to see inline documentation from WebPlatform.org.
• Code Editing
  • Supercharged JavaScript code hints: Greatly improved code hints based on Tern type inferencing. Increased code hinting accuracy, camelCase support and built-in intelligence for RequireJS and jQuery. Code hints even for items declared in other files!
  • Jump to Definition: Locate a function or property definition anywhere in your project, instantly.
  • Function argument / signature hints: Press Ctrl+Space inside a function call's ()s to see information on its arguments and their types.
• Overall UI
  • New project panel visual design

Full change logs: brackets and brackets-shell

UI Changes

Go to Definition renamed to Quick Find Definition - This helps to distinguish it more clearly from the new "Jump to Definition" command:

• Jump to Definition - searches across all files based on the identifier at the cursor position.
• Quick Find Definition - searches within the current file for the identifier you type in the quick search bar.

Project panel / folder tree - TODO!

• Removed "Project Settings..." option from recent project drop-down menu

Install Extension shortcuts - New toolbar icon provides quicker access to the Install Extension command, and the Install Extension dialog box contains a link to the extensions listing page.

API Changes

New/Improved Extensibility APIs

Quick Docs - To register an additional inline docs provider, use EditorManager.registerInlineDocsProvider(). Similar to inline editors (Quick Edit), Quick Docs providers are "winner take all": if two providers are both willing to respond for a given cursor position, the first one registered is shown and the other is completely ignored. To be a good citizen, your provider should be as narrowly tailored as is reasonably possible.

Known Issues

• #3207: If you use a Sprint 21 or earlier build after using this build at least once, a few preferences such as Recent Projects may get reset. (You can back up your cache folder if you're concerned about this).
• Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) by default will not allow Brackets to run since it's not digitally signed yet. To work around this, right click the Brackets app and choose Open. You only need to do that once -- afterward, launching Brackets the normal way will work also.
• #2272: Windows Vista may not allow the Brackets installer to run (you may not see any error message). To work around this, right-click the installer file, choose Properties, and click the Unblock button.
• Debug > Run Tests is disabled in the installer/DMG distributions of Brackets, because the unit test code is not included. To run unit tests, pull Brackets from GitHub instead.

Community contributions to Brackets

Contributions from the Brackets community

Contributions to CodeMirror:

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Bugs fixed in Sprint 24

For details on the bugs addressed, please refer to closed sprint 24 bugs. A few of the fixed bugs might not be caught by this search query, however.