MX 17/18 Repository: The Featherpad Thread

[Stevo]

Thanks, Old Giza.

A backport of fontconfig 2.3.1 from Buster got rid of that Arial font problem for me, so I'm sending that to the test repo.

[MX-16_fan]

OK, the dev gave me the fix, so I patched it (...).
(...)
https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad/issues/241

Installed the DE version and tested it over a couple of weeks. The "Ctrl+f" issue is now resolved. Everything else works fine also.

Thanks so much, Stevo!


Have a great week, Joe

[Stevo]

We have 0.9.4 in the test repo--is that what you are testing? If so, we should move it to main since it fixes the bug.

[MX-16_fan]

@Stevo:

We have 0.9.4 in the test repo--is that what you are testing? If so, we should move it to main since it fixes the bug.

Sorry, I was mistaken here. Thought I had tested 0.9.4, but actually I hadn't. Instead, I had manually repaired the 0.9.2 as advised by you here: viewtopic.php?p=480475#p480475, and tested only this repaired 0.9.2 version.

Now replaced it by 0.9.4. At first glance, everything works like a charm.

Will keep testing.


Greetings, Joe

[Stevo]

Featherpad 0.10.0, backported from Debian Experimental, is now in the test repo. I also built a git pull of pre-0.11.0, which supports spellcheck, for our experimental repo, and discovered a bug in the code for Stretch, which has been reported and fixed upstream.

Changes for 0.10.0 include:

● Added support for searching/replacing regular expressions.
● Added cmake support.
● Replace triple periods and double hyphens with ellipses and em dashes respectively on typing (can be disabled in Preferences).
● The Preferences dialog has a better layout and its size is always remembered.
● Workaround for a Qt bug that gives non-plain text to clipboard on copying/cutting/selecting text.
● Fixed a crash under Wayland.
● Fixed a small issue in determining whether files should be opened in tabs or separate windows.
● Added lots of cmake patterns for syntax highlighting.
● Disabled tab DND without X11, mainly because Wayland still has a serious problem with QDrag.

There will probably be an 0.11.0 version soon, but the developer is still perfecting the spellcheck dialog. One thing it will not do is automatically highlight unknown words (no red squiggle underline).

[Stevo]

We now have Featherpad 0.11.1 in the test repository, which adds spell checking via the F2 key or a right-click.
Other improvements include:

● A new font dialog that distinguishes programming fonts from others.
● Shift+Enter is made smarter, especially with numbered lists.
● Better handling of typed custom shortcuts (including a workaround for a new Qt bug related to Meta key).
● False warnings are prevented on startup.
● Recent changes to settings won't be lost if the app is running on logout.
● Native file dialogs are used by default.
● The insert mode is also toggled by the keypad insert key.
● Many fixes are made to Perl's syntax highlighting.
● Deprecated Qt methods are replaced.

Note that it will pull in a newer libhunspell from the test repo also, since Stretch's was too old for it.

Please let us know how it installs and performs if you give it a try. Thanks!

[wulf]

Featherpad installed without problems and seems to run perfectly. The right-click spell-check is a welcome addition. Thank you Stevo.

[towwire]

It installed ok but how do you get the spell checker to stick? I have to redo it each time.

[Stevo]

It installed ok but how do you get the spell checker to stick? I have to redo it each time.

I'm not not sure I understand what you mean by that. Do you mean that you have to enable it and set the path to the dictionary in its Preferences/Text settings every time? Those are staying on for me. Did it also pull in the newer hunspell 1.7 that it needs?

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apt policy libhunspell-1.7-0

[towwire]

I just open FeatherPad and start typing. Go back to the beginning and F2 and I am told to add a dictionary. So I added /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic. It will then spell check but if I close and then reopen FeatherPad, spell check is not there, I have to add it again.

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libhunspell-1.7-0:
  Installed: 1.7.0-2~mx17+1
  Candidate: 1.7.0-2~mx17+1
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.0-2~mx17+1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status