Welcome to Komodo, ActiveState's Integrated Development
Environment (IDE). This document accompanies Komodo
4.2.1. See the Revision History for
more detailed change information.
4.2:
- Includes all features and improvements introduced in
the 4.2 Beta series.
- Additional bug fixes.
- Autocomplete: Added a JavaScript API catalog for jQuery development.
4.2 Beta 7:
4.2 Beta 6:
- Removed "Fast Characters" autocompletion because of
complications using semicolons in
for
loops.
- Code Browser's filter now supports regular
expressions (Python syntax).
4.2 Beta 5:
- Test release for Auto-update system.
4.2 Beta 4:
- Test release for Auto-update system.
4.2 Beta 3:
- Soft
Characters and Fast Characters:
Autocompletion features that add context-specific closing
characters while you type.
- Auto-update: Komodo can now check for available
software updates ("Help|Check for Updates..."). You no
longer have to completely re-install Komodo to get the
latest version.
4.2 Beta 2:
- A new spell checker!
- Upgraded Scintilla to version
1.74.
- Komodo now uses Scintilla's indicator bits for
showing linter errors and warnings
- Cursor shape is now configurable.
4.2 Beta 1:
- Upgraded Scintilla (Komodo's
editor component) to the latest version.
- Add CSS autocomplete in HTML
style="..."
attributes. (Bug 66124)
- Komodo's documentation is now under a Creative
Commons license to support translations contributed
by users. (Note: we are also working towards localization
of the Komodo UI.)
- Many small documentation improvements.
- Add ability to change cursor shape to block mode.
(Bug 68407)
4.1:
- Includes all features and improvements introduced in
the 4.1 Beta series.
4.1 Beta 3:
- New Ruby on Rails project template that makes getting
started and working with a Rails project much
easier.
- Autocomplete for the Komodo JavaScript API (i.e. the
"ko" namespace) when editing JavaScript macros in an
editor tab. Also documentation for the "ko"
namespace in the Reference section of the Komodo
docs.
- Komodo installations now include a "Komodo SDK" with
Komodo's core IDL and the 'xpidl' utility necessary for
building PyXPCOM components for user extensions.
- Ruby completion: Added support for space-based
calltips (common in RHTML template code).
- Add info for PHP 5.2 stdlib changes for
autocomplete/calltips.
4.1 Beta 2:
- All enhancements included in Komodo 4.0.3.
- MXML/ActionScript support: Added schema-based XML
autocompletion for MXML files and syntax highlighting for
embedded ActionScript.
- Re-written Ruby debugger engine: Based on ruby_debug,
the new engine is 50-60 times faster. See
Rails Revisited for details.
- Many Ruby on Rails completion improvements.
- A new Ruby on Rails project template that includes
integration for many rails project commands.
- Significant refactoring of the Komodo JavaScript API
under the "ko" namespace (e.g. "ko.dialogs.alert(...)"
instead of "dialog_alert(...)"). Old APIs remain for
backward compatibility for JavaScript macros -- but they
will eventually be removed. This is an ongoing process:
documentation and autocomplete (when authoring macros)
will be added in subsequent releases.
- Rx integration (IDE-only) and regular expression help
in the Find/Replace and Find in Files dialogs.
- Add commands to fold/expand blocks of code
recursively (View|Fold|Expand Recursively & Collapse
Recursively). (Bug 27264)
- Added a JavaScript
tutorial to introduce some of Komodo's JavaScript
features.
- Support editing macros in a full editor tab (via
"right-click|Edit" on a macro).
- JavaScript completion: Added support for JSDoc
autocomplete and calltips and autocomplete on string
literals (Bug 50587).
- Autocomplete: "fill-up" characters no longer enabled
by default (Bug 68726).
- Find/Replace: Default (pre-populated) search pattern
is now the previous search rather than the word under the
cursor.
- Statusbar: Added selection info ("Sel:") statusbar
panel.
- Add more icons from famfamfam
that can be used for custom commands, macros, etc. in the
Toolbox and Projects.
4.1 Beta 1:
- Vi registers: Added numbered and named registers
similar to those in Vim.
- Tab
Stops: Special markers for use in snippets and
templates.
Bug fixes in source code control, debugging, interactive
shells, Code Browser and DOM Viewer apply to Komodo IDE
only.
4.2.1
- Code Intelligence:
- PHP: support for constants and defines. (Bug 41700)
- PHP: completions and calltips for magic methods. (Bug 69758)
- PHP: fixed bug with static variables not autocompleting
correctly. (Bug 72527)
- JavaScript: API catalog improvements. (Bug 72562)
- Editor:
- Sped up lexing synchronization for UDL-based languages (PHP,
HTML, XML, and template languages). (Bug 72707)
- Go to Definition now opens folded sections to display the target.
(Bug 65172)
- Entering text in non-ASCII character sets now works correctly.
(Bug 71664)
- Fixed unicode characters being lost on paragraph reflow. (Bug
73123)
- Vi emulation: Fixed bug causing crashes when using "%s". (Bug
72411)
- Emacs emulation: Numerous enhancements and fixes to the Emacs
keybinding scheme. (Bug 3321, 72903, 72897, 70468, )
- Extensions now work with micro releases (e.g. 4.2.0 to 4.2.1).
(Bug 73251)
- Linux: Fixed GTK bug causing segfaults under certain conditions.
(Bug 73165)
- Fixed problem with path separator in Find in Files dialog. (Bug
73261)
- Running a Rails project on a machine without Rails installed no
longer fails silently. (Bug 73107)
- Fixed scrolling in large files. (Bug 72976)
- Automatically expand folded blocks when they are being edited. (Bug
70846)
- Tcl linter and debugger updated to use new basekits which work on
Ubuntu 7.10.
- Support for the '//' operator for testing definedness in Perl
5.9.5/5.10.
- Fixed traceback on loading PHP files when PHP not installed. (Bug
72972)
- Better error message for 'Alternate Help on Selection' when nothing
is selected. (Bug 72879)
- Minor documentation fixes (Bug 72086, 72269, 72269, 70139)
4.2
- Debugger:
- Debugger proxy now makes sure both connections close so that
clients get all input. (Bug 70776)
- Breakpoints in a mapped URI no longer ignored. (Bug 69715,
71991)
- Perl: Refer to IO::File, not DB::IO::File (Bug 71828)
- PHP: xdebug updated
- Autocomplete:
- CSS: Pseudo-classes handled correctly. (Bug 71073)
- Python: Improved code-completion for function return values.
(Bug 71987, 71989)
- Python: Handle builtins. (Bug 71972)
- XML: Fixed completion at start of HTML/XML files. (Bug
69607)
- JavaScript: Handle return values when calling functions via a
variable as opposed to calling a named function. (Bug 72159)
- Editor:
- Stopped preference changes on a single buffer from propagating
to all loaded buffers. (Bug 72092)
- Removed '%' soft character in RHTML. (Bug 72150)
- Remote files:
- Fixed empty error dialog bug.
- Correctly read files from FileZilla FTPS servers. (Bug 72068)
- Workaround for SuSE 10.2 editing
bug. (Bug 70812)
- Auto-update now correctly handles symbolic links to Komodo
executable. (Bug 72119)
- Fixed Windows shutdown bug.
- Rails: Normal status messages written to the command output window
instead of an alert window. (Bug 69804)
- Drag/drop of macro buffers fixed. (Bug 71770)
- Fixed bug causing removal of project/toolbox parts if dragged onto
self or children. (Bug 70823)
- Set Komodo's process affinity to run on CPU #1. (Bug 53927)
- Ignore internal exceptions on buffer-close. (Bug 71955)
- Added menu items for JavaScript and XSLT tutorials. (Bug 72086)
- Fixed Web & Browser proxy preferences. (Bug 71816)
- Projects now marked "dirty" when a project preference changes. (Bug 70514)
- Added full path for current file to the title bar.
- Fixed colorizing problems with Tcl and single-line comments inside braces (bug 53847)
4.2 Beta 7
- Ruby debugger:
- Ruby 1.8.4 or later requirement. (Bug 71075, 71947, 71948)
- No stopping in rubygems.rb or ubygems.rb unless there's a breakpoint there. (Bug 69721)
- Now shows 'self' in list of locals. (Bug 71477)
- Source code control:
- Problems adding new files to SCC fixed. (Bug 67692)
- Update menu when new files are added to SCC-controlled folders. (Bug 67949)
- Commit message garbled for non-ascii characters. (Bug 71464)
- Editor:
- Fixed tab ordering after drag drop operations on tabs. (Bug 43528)
- Fixed guessing of indentation first time ruby, xml, and html files are opened. (Bug 69726)
- Fixed single-character selection at start of line. (Bug 71966)
- Color '/' as start of regex in all allowed contexts. (Bug 71734)
- Vi emulation: Ensure vi cursor is set to block char at komodo startup. (Bug 71293)
- Autocomplete:
- JavaScript: Add cix info for "__defineGetter__" methods.
- JavaScript: Handle class variables defined in class functions. (Bug 71343)
- JavaScript: Support completion on vars with same name as classes. (Bug 71666)
- Python: Infer function return-type info. (Bug 55687)
- Python: Find all base-class members. (Bug 71789)
- Ruby: Don't do complete-names completion for block parameter names. (Bug 68454)
- Ruby: Terminate Ruby calltips on newline when the trigger's a space. (Bug 69559)
- Ruby: Terminate Ruby/RHTML calltips on "%>". (Bug 69527)
- XML: Fixed end-tag completion. (Bug 71945)
- Mapped URIs: Add menu item for mapping current editor URI. (Bug 69681)
- Macros: Move from the "komodo" namespace to the "ko" namespace. (Bug 71624)
- Projects:
- Automatically close open macros when the macro's project is closed. (Bug 71839).
- Fixed pasting multiple items into a project or the toolbox. (Bug 69533)
- Fixed open/close decorator "flakiness". (Bug 71942)
- Fixed context menu mixup between toolboxes and projects. (Bug 71882)
- Fixed project-based debugging preferences. (Bug 70514)
- Fixed Help links on 'Check configuration' page. (Bug 71949)
- Correct handling of unicode/high bit chars in environment. (Bug 70700)
- Make sure window controls work when komodo opened via apple events. (Bug 71862)
4.2 Beta 6
- Debugger: Ruby error messages and PHP stacktraces now
clickable. (Bug 71238)
- Debugger: Updated JavaScript debugger config
instructions. (Bug 71311)
- Rx Toolkit: Soft characters disabled in Rx
Toolkit.
- Autocomplete fixes:
-
- JavaScript: Fixed scope for class functions. (Bug
71345)
- Ruby: Show calltips on builtin Kernel methods.
(Bug 69499)
- Ruby: Removed exceptions thrown looking for
non-existent Ruby class calltips. (Bug 69614)
- Python: Code browser filter now supports Python
Rx (Bug 71275).
- HTML/XML: Test failures fixed (Bug 71239).
- PHP and JavaScript: Buffer pre-scanning to
improve performance (Bug 68851).
- Python: Handle '
import * ' semantics.
(Bug 70014)
- Vi emulation: Fixed cursor changing to a block cursor
after viewing keybinding prefs. (Bug 71293)
- Vi emulation: Paste after 'p' command now pasting
correctly. (Bug 71057)
- Fast characters removed. (Bug 71279)
- Soft characters: Forward-slashes fixed in Perl. (Bug
71211)
- Find in file "Search in" combo list was broken,
clipped paths. (Bug 71420)
- Tcl lexer: Preserve back-slashes through multi-char
newline sequences. (Bug 71409)
- Added yaml file assocation. (Bug 71308)
- Editor: "<" at start of XML buffer triggered
exception. (Bug 69742)
- Auto-indent no longer checks for too much
indentation. (Bug 71165)
- Toolbox: Make sure newly added items appear in the
toolbox. (Bug 71423)
- Project/Toolbox: Fixed sorting and saving sort order.
(Bug 71331, 56677)
- Snippets: Closing a modified snippet dialog now
prompts to save changes. (Bug 63577)
- Mapped URIs: Avoid opening two instances of the same
file. (Bug 69757)
- Live folders: Fixed disappearing entries (Bug
69045)
- Interpolation shortcuts: Fixed
%(ask:QUESTION:%d/%f) . (Bug 71297)
- Projects: Serializer now sorts items. (Bug
68906)
- Projects: onFileOpen macros now trigger when a macro
calls '
ko.open.URI . (Bug 69684)
- Fixed '
ko.open.URI failure. (Bug
69787)
- Help: Link to support.activestate.com fixed. (Bug
71140)
- Install: Default Linux install directory changed to
"~/Komodo-{IDE|Edit}-<maj>.<min>. (Bug
71090)
4.2 Beta 3
- Python: Codeintel: Fixed bug causing a failure in
python CILE. (Bug 70774)
- Rails: Sockets now interpolated correctly on Linux in
the Ruby on Rails project template. (Bug 71081)
4.2 Beta 3
- New mapped URIs now stored in global preferences by
default when dragging URIs into Komodo. (Bug 69728)
- Fixed bugs exposed by TODO extension. (Bug 70730,
70708)
- Fixed bug causing breakpoints in mapped URIs to be
ignored (Bug 69715)
- Fixed crash caused by unexpected output from
p4
submit . (Bug 70791)
- Tcl instrument_set now handled correctly. (Bug
39102)
- Fixed crash bug on Linux triggered by enabling and
disabling word wrap. (Bug 70780, 52798)
- Removed initial double quote in XML attribute
autocomplete. A better shortcut is now available using
soft characters. (Bug 70830)
- Optional closing elements now correctly offered in
HTML by autocomplete. (Bug 67273)
- Fixed indentation and cursor placement bugs in Vi
mode. (Bug 66336)
- File tab and icon now correctly display 'svn add'
status. (Bug 70778)
- Fixed URL escaping problem in 'Open URL in Browser'.
(Bug 70819)
- Fixed problem with 'Back' button in the MSI
installer. (Bug 10918)
- Files and directories now sorted correctly in toolbox
and projects on Linux. (Bug 70920)
- Workspace and recent file information now correctly
saved on Windows system restart. (Bug 67126)
- Using dialogs instead of sheets on dialogs opened
from other dialogs on OS X. (Bug 70982)
4.2 Beta 2
- Auto indent: Komodo now does utf-8-safe manipulation
of buffers to avoid corrupting multi-byte data. (Bug
69731)
- Debugger: Changes to Environment preferences now
correctly appear in the debugger options environment.
(Bug 46233)
- Debugger: Break-button enabled only when language
supports it. (Bug 35000)
- Debugger: Correct Intel OS X remote debugging
packages now available on website. (Bug 70674)
- Editor: Safer use of scintilla getTextRange() with
unicode. (Bug 70693)
- Extensions: Installation of XPI from drag'n'drop URL.
(Bug 68865)
- JavaScript fixes:
- Codeintel: 'Go to definition' no longer fails for
complex javascript. (Bug 70438)
- Codeintel: Last object variable is now being
ciled correctly. (Bug 69979)
- Codeintel: Fixed exception thrown whilst scanning
source files . (Bug 69725)
- Codeintel: Better handling of jsdoc comments.
(Bug 68727)
- Codeintel: Update the included YUI API to version
2.2.2. (Bug 66019)
- Debugger: Fixed problem of incorrectly showing
startup page as Firefox starts up.
- Key bindings: Keybindings upgrade correctly. (Bug
68489)
- Macros: Added project name to macro URI so it's
easier to tell which project the current macro being
edited belongs to. (Bug 69028)
- Mapped URIs: Now go through the full preference chain
properly. (Bug 69686)
- Perl: Debugger: Perl module LWP socket timing
problem. (Bug 69900)
- Perl: Codeintel: Allow high-bit characters in
variable names. (Bug 70166)
- PHP: Codeintel: Autocomplete now respects class
access levels. (Bug 70423)
- PHP: Codeintel: Re-trigger calltips after completing
a variable as a function argument. (Bug 70470)
- PHP: Codeintel: Function completions not working
correctly when matches to a keyword. (Bug 70718)
- PHP: UDL: Single-line comments now end at "?>".
(Bug 70630)
- Prefs: The selected tab/language in the
fonts-and-colors tab is now remembered. (Bug 56937)
- Python fixes:
- Fixed lexing in presence of decorators. (Bug
70645)
- Style decorators in their own color. (Bug
70648)
- Debugger: pydbgp now working with unknown
locales. (Bug 70101)
- Django: Added additional keywords. (Bug
69852)
- Rails: Debugger: Works with version 1.8.6 on Windows.
(Bug 70418)
- Rails: Debugger: Nicer alert provided for Edit users.
(Bug 70069)
- Rails: UDL: Handle YAML templates with the
&<<* syntax. (Bug 70664)
- Remote files: Upgrade of servers works from 4.1 to
4.2. (Bug 70187)
- Remote files: Dialog now shows file/folder icons on
MacOS. (Bug 69776)
- SCC: Perforce: Better handling when saving file that
encounters a SCC edit error.
- Tcl: Tcl instrument_set handled correctly. (Bug
39102)
- Templates: New projects always end with a .kpz
extension. (Bug 68996)
- UDL: Template-toolkit: Improved handling of comments
inside [% ... %] tags. (Bug 70508)
- Vi emulation fixes:
- Fixed check box becoming unchecked when setting up
vi. (Bug 69623)
- Fixed Increase Line Indent in visual mode. (Bug
66778)
- Change/delete now working with find char "f"
command. (Bug 70012)
- Added ":split" command support (bug 70083)
4.2 Beta 1
- Fixes and improvements to the Rails project template.
(Bug 68407)
- Fixed bug causing a double warning icon in Editor tab
for SVN file conflicts. (Bug 68534)
- Fixed bug causing two HTTP Inspector windows to be
displayed. (Bug 70176)
- Fixed Vi emulation bug for commands with a number
modifier. (Bug 66085)
4.1.1
- Fixed XML completion bug. (Bug 70342)
- Added '--dest-dir' option to Linux install script to
facilitate building a Komodo RPM. (Bug 70311)
- Fix PHP completion bug preventing completions if
prefix happened to be a keyword. (Bug 69626)
- Fixes and improvements to the Rails project template.
(Bug 69737)
- Fixed possible install failure related to a partly
installed SELinux. (Bug 69969)
- Corrected the JavaScript tutorial's YUI library
installation. (Bug 70129)
- Fixed bug with "Add to Current Project" adding file
to the Toolbox instead. (Bug 68158)
- Fixed problem with '?' breaking Ruby syntax folding
and coloring. (Bug 70326)
- Updated "New File" dialog to remember user's "Add to
Current Project" preference. (Bug 66627)
- Updated PHP completion to support autocomplete in
short tags -- i.e. "<? ...". (Bug 70212)
- Fixed Run Command system bugs:
- Redraw problems on Linux for Command Output
parsing. (Bug 66860)
- Scrollbar doesn't show up in parsed command
output. (Bug 67794)
- Fixed license problem in Tcl syntax checker that
could prevent it from working. (Bug 70054)
- Fixed JavaScript class completion to work even if a
parent class is not found. (Bug 65447)
- Many minor fixes for HTML completion in simple cases.
(Bug 69973)
- Fixes for tabstops with non-word characters in the
default value. (Bug 69949)
4.1
- HTML and RHTML autocompletion fixes. (Bug 69609,
69668, 65377, 69609, 69607, 65537, 65778)
- Various fixes to the Ruby on Rails project template.
(Bug 69628, 69633, 69571, 69577, 69353)
- Ruby debugger now echos output from interactive shell
sessions when in remote debugging mode. (Bug 69401)
4.1 Beta 3
- Various Ruby debugger fixes. (Bug 69405, etc.)
- Syntax highlighting fixes for Template Toolkit. (Bug
69363, 69157)
- Fixed bug with suggested upper-case HTML tag
completions. (Bug 69523)
- Improved autocomplete in HTML fragments to be able to
get autocomplete even in documents with multiple
top-level elements. (Bug 69521)
- Fixed problem with snippets inserting incorrect EOL
characters. (Bug 69535)
- Fixed a bug with display of custom toolbar entries.
(Bug 69424)
- Fixed inconsistencies in Live Folder behaviour. (Bug
69045)
- Changed the Find dialog box's default search term
behavior. (Bug 68431)
- Fixed syntax checking of Tcl 8.5 code.
- Several bug fixes for remote files:
- 'Enter' not opening selected file in the remote
file dialog. (Bug 67072).
- FTP not working on Windows IIS server. (Bug
69434)
- Prompt for password when not supplied in server
prefs. (Bug 69344)
- paramiko (used for remote file support) missing
from builds (Bug 69367).
- Fixed recursion overflow with long sequences of Perl
comments. (Bug 69144)
4.1 Beta 2
- All bug fixes included in Komodo 4.0.3.
- Python completion: Catch potential recursion
resulting in crash. (Bug 67739)
- JavaScript completion fixes. (Bug 67123, 60347,
68295, 60267, 60347)
- PHP syntax highlighting fixes. (Bug 67678,
68140)
- Perl syntax highlighting now supports "/=". (Bug
67729)
- Find/Replace: Fixed problem using ctrl-tab to change
to "replace" tab breaking Find/Replace. (Bug 67079)
- Fixed some PHP/JavaScript syntax coloring issues.
(Bug 67674)
- Fixed problem with Cancel being ignored when shutting
down with dirty buffers. (Bug 67974)
- Help: Find locally installed ActivePerl documentation
when it's the current preferred Perl installation. (Bug
67622)
- Statusbar: Fixed width handling to show all data
without clipping. (Bug 66209, 67181)
- Fix line and column numbers not updating immediately.
(Bug 65606)
- Template Toolkit syntax highlighting fixes. (Bug
69157)
- HTML/XML auto-indent: Check styles to avoid
auto-indenting in plain text when a line ends with
double-quotes. (Bug 66157)
- Auto-indent fixes. (Bug 63497, 66189)
- Fixed a crash possible with UTF16 conversion on Mac
OS X. (Bug 67194)
- HTML syntax highlighting: Color style tag content as
CSS. (Bug 66124)
- Support use of IE-only "comment-conditional" (Bug
46243)
- Vi emulation fixes:
- Delete not working at end of line. (Bug
62438)
- Support for find/replace in visual mode. (Bug
66776)
- Fix find/replace using invalid lines. (Bug 68241,
65619)
- Support "set" command. (Bug 66452)
- Support 'c' and 'C' case-sensitivity flags for
searching.
- Add general toggle fold command. (Bug 66384)
- Autocomplete/calltips: Fixed "easy to outpace
completion" problem by ensuring more timely scanning of
current file. (Bug 57938)
- Code Browser: Minor improvements in the hover tip for
interface and namespace elements. JavaScript "namespace"
objects are shown with a different icon than a normal
variable. (Bug 68633)
- Fixed problem causing broken Open Shortcuts. (Bug
68666)
- Fixed problem causing uppercasing/lowercasing with
rectangular selection. (Bug 68547)
- Dragging a folder onto a project now creates a new
live folder. (Bug 68867)
- Projects: Creating a project template from a project
with unsaved changes now prompts user to save before
continuing. (Bug 66958).
- Fixed crashes in libexpat on RedHat Linux RHEL3 U6.
(Bug 68801)
- Interactive shell now properly handles pasted
multi-line blocks. (Bug 51947)
- Project pane now correctly keeps collapse/expand
state. (Bug 28603)
4.1 Beta 1
- Fixed scrolling selection to top or middle of screen
so it takes folded lines into account. (Bug 35063)
- Perl: color scalar and array variables inside
interpolating strings. (Bug 34374)
- Fixed confusing exit dialog when prompted to save
files on shutdown. (Bug 35770)
- Preserve selection when converting EOLs. (Bug
34776)
- Fixed Lua syntax highlighting. (Bug 66107)
- Fixed a group of Emacs emulation issues. (Bug
33211)
- Added here-documents to PHP. (Bug 54667)
- Added ability to define here-document syntax in
UDL-based languages. (Bug 66712)
- Fixed Ctrl+F1 and Shift+F1 in the interactive shell.
(Bug 37203)
- Added content to "Samples/Python" sample template.
(Bug 32715)
- Added '.lsp' extension for Lisp files. (Bug
32681)
- Greater-than chars are allowed in SGML/XML quoted
attribute strings. (Bug 67019)
- Offer to save macro when the contents are modified.
(Bug 63577)
- vi emulation: add "tT;," find-character-in-line (Bug
67045)
- vi emulation: fix bug with '.' (repeat) (Bug
65945)
- vi emulation: fix bug of repeat last change/insert
text not recording tab key press (Bug 65963)
- vi emulation: fix some delete/change with direction
commands. (Bug 65841, 65842)
- vi emulation: search history includes history from UI
as well. (Bug 65639)
- vi emulation: support for Alt/Ctrl Tab
window-switching while in visual mode. (Bug 67058)
- Removed 'url' attribute from project elements that
don't have one. For snippets, macros, and commands Komodo
was raising a "file_added" notification that contained
"None" as part of the string. (Bug 67574)
- Fixed SCC exceptions occurring due to SCC trying to
check status of virtual files. (Bug 67583)
- Hover tips containing high-bit data while debugging
now show up with Unicode characters, not raw utf-8, or
high-bit characters in the wrong encoding (such as
programs that manipulate Cyrillic text with a global
cp1251 encoding). (Bug 40317)
- Diff windows now read-only. (Bug 27910)
To view the status of outstanding Komodo issues,
including those that have been fixed in this release, or to
add comments or additional issues, please visit the
Komodo Bug
Database.
- The Object Browser is currently
being re-implemented using Komodo's new Code Intelligence
backend and is not available in this release.
- The auto-update from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 will incorrectly
indicate that the "Perl Dev Kit" and "Komodo DOM Viewer"
extensions will not work and will be disabled. This is a false
alarm. These extensions will continue to work after the
update. (Bug 73060)
- When upgrading to a version of Komodo with a new
application
data directory (i.e. 4.0.1 to 4.0.3 or 4.0.3 to 4.1),
the usernames and passwords for Remote Accounts are
not imported. These must be re-entered for each Server in
the Server Preferences panel after the upgrade.
- Windows Vista will prompt you to either 'Allow' or
'Deny' the installation. Click on 'Allow' and Komodo will
install normally.
- Windows NT users may need to manually move their
license file from
\WINNT\Profiles\[username]\ActiveState to
\WINNT\Profiles\[username]\Application
Data\ActiveState
(Bug 20203)
- If you upgraded your system from Win9x/WinME to
WinNT/2K, ensure that your
ComSpec
environment variable is configured to
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe (for example,
C:\system32\cmd.exe ). There was a bug in the
Microsoft Windows installer that did not update the
variable from its original value of
command.com
(Bug 9135)
- The Komodo installer requires up to 230 MB in your
TMP directory (as indicated by the value of your 'TMP'
environment variable) during installation, even if you
plan to install Komodo to another drive. If you do not
have the required space on this drive, manually set the
'TMP' environment variable to another directory with
sufficient space. Ensure that you have enough space,
temporarily, for installation. (Bug 7057)
- If you try to install Komodo on Windows and the MSI
install fails with error 2355, your MSI file is corrupt.
Please download Komodo again and re-run the MSI install.
(Bug 7405)
- There are known issues regarding the installation of
PHP on Windows Millennium systems; please refer to the
PHP site for
installation information.
- The first time Komodo is run after installation, it
must register a number of components with the operating
system. This causes the first launch to be considerably
slower than subsequent launches.
- Projects and toolboxes created in Alpha releases of
Komodo 4.0 may display components in incorrect locations.
Komodo 4.0 Beta fixes this bug and prevents this from
happening in new projects. To fix a corrupted project or
toolbox, move the components to their correct location
and re-save. (Bug 53167)
- Linux users may need to install the SCIM platform packages for non-ASCII text
entry. See "Linux Software
Prerequisites" in the Installation Guide for details. (Bug
70812)
- Autocompletion on the following Python Win32 modules
is not yet available: dbc, perfmon, pywintypes, win2kras,
dde, pythoncom, and the binary sub-modules of
win32com.
- The line and column cursor coordinates in the status
bar are not updated while the cursor is moving.
- The macro recorder will record events that it cannot
handle, such as the opening of dialogs. The only dialog
that can be opened via a macro is the Find dialog; other
dialogs will cause the macro to stop.
- Languages that are read right to left and Asian
languages are not supported. All Latin and Cyrillic
languages are fully supported. (Bug 29702)
- eTrust Antivirus Realtime Monitor and Komodo on
Windows 9x: When RealMon is set to monitor outgoing files
(or both incoming and outgoing files), Komodo's syntax
checking doesn't function. (Bug 7741)
- On slow networks, users may notice performance
degradation when editing files on network machines.
Performance can be improved by disabling the Komodo
function that checks if files on disk have changed. Use
the Editor
Preferences to disable this feature. (Bug 18297)
- Interpolation shortcuts in snippets are not executed
when the snippet is inserted in the Editor Pane via
dragging and dropping.
- On Linux, GTK2 hard codes 'Ctrl'+'Shift' to use
international input. Therefore, all key bindings
involving 'Ctrl'+'Shift'+ (any valid hexadecimal
character} do not work in Komodo. A workaround is to
start Komodo with the command:
export
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim; ./komodo' . Otherwise, key
bindings of this kind must be changed. (Bug 38205)
- When copying text that does not have Windows line
endings into another application, which expects Windows
line endings, the text may not retain the desired
formatting. The text is often pasted as a single line.
(Bug 36791)
- Code snippets that are 8-bit-encoded and contain
high-bit characters may have the wrong encoding (or no
encoding) when inserted from the Toolbox into a UTF-8
encoded file in the Editor Pane. (Bug 36769)
- When editing a code comment in Komodo you may use
<Shift+Enter> to start a new line within
the comment -- the comment prefix is added automatically.
Komodo may fail to properly add the comment prefix if
many new lines are added quickly with repeated
<Shift+Enter> presses. (Bug 38658)
- Tcl 8.5: Tcl Beta releases contain
only version-specific executables (e.g.
tclsh85.exe and wish85.exe ).
Komodo does not automatically find these in the path. To
use them, specify the executables manually in
Edit|Preferences...|Languages|Tcl|Interpreters,
or create non-versioned symlinks/shortcuts to the
versioned executables.
- The Perl debugger uses
alarm()
internally. This can conflict with some Perl frameworks
and modules (such as POE) which use
alarm() as well. To work around this
problem, add alarm=0 to the
PERLDB_OPTS environment variable (in the
Environment tab of the Debugger Options) which stops the
debugger from using alarm() . With this
work-around in place, the Break Now button and menu item
will not work in debugging sessions.
- Using the JavaScript debugger on files with mapped
URIs can yield confusing results. Komodo will open the
mapped source file rather than querying Firefox for the
runtime JavaScript.
- Python debugging with IronPython does not currently
work as there is no support for Python debugging hooks in
IronPython.
- In PerlApp executables, it is now possible to step
into loaded modules, but not to set breakpoints in
them.
- The Komodo JavaScript Debugger is incompatible with
the FireBug
Firefox extension. FireBug must be manually disabled
(Tools|Firebug|Disable Firebug) for the JavaScript
debugger to work. (Bug 47208)
- PHP 5.0.0, 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 do not work with the
debugger extension. Use PHP versions 4.3.10 or greater,
or 5.0.3 or greater, including 5.1.
- If the debug listener (Debug|Listen for
Debugger Connections) is off, multithreaded
applications may not run or debug as expected. Only the
main thread operates through the debugger. To debug
multithreaded applications, turn on debug listening prior
to debugging. (Debug listening is turned on by default.)
(Bug 32776)
- PHP configurations that use Zend Extensions (such as
PHP Accelerator) are not compatible with the Komodo PHP
debugger. (Bug 21890)
- Due to the way the core Perl interpreter works, it is
not possible to step over "require" statements. (Bug
18776)
- You cannot debug 'freestanding' executables created
with the PDK in Komodo. Instead, build a 'dependant'
executable, which requires a local install of
ActivePerl.
- The variable watcher does not work when debugging
\\machine\d$\path\to\perl_script.pl .
It does work when opening the same file via a UNC path
that does not include a '$' character. (Bug 19558)
- When debugging remote applications, Komodo fails if
the remote process does not have valid stdout and stderr
handles. GUI applications, such as those started with
"wperl.exe" or "pythonw.exe", or those using the
Pythonwin or wxPython frameworks, or those with certain
embedded applications, can have invalid stdout and stderr
handles. Until we resolve this issue, try to run and
debug your remote program under perl.exe or
python.exe.
- Python, XSLT and PHP debugging require TCP/IP to be
installed and properly configured, even if you are
debugging scripts locally. While TCP/IP is configured by
default on most systems, early versions of Windows may
require manual TCP/IP configuration.
- When debugging a GUI script in Komodo, adding a
"watched variable" when not stopped at a
breakpoint can cause Komodo to hang. You must manually
terminate the script being debugged to stop Komodo from
hanging. The problem occurs because the GUI script, while
in its message loop, does not respond to Komodo's request
for the variable value. (Bug 23516)
- If the Komodo debugger is configured to use a
specific port, when Komodo is shut down, the port is
sometimes not immediately released. If Komodo is
restarted before the port is released by the operating
system, a message is displayed advising that the system
is unable to bind that port. As a workaround, we suggest
configuring port 0 as the Komodo debugging port and using
the debugger proxy for remote debugging. (Bug 32821)
- Breaking into a running Perl script can only occur
while crossing sub boundaries in the Perl code, as that's
currently the only chance the Perl debugger has to check
to see if the IDE has sent the break command. (Bug
35611)
- When debugging Perl, if you set a breakpoint on the
while statement, the debugger stops on the
breakpoint only once, namely before the first pass
through the loop. This is a limitation in the Perl
interpreter. (Bug 34866)
- Komodo debugger uses TCP/IP networking for
communications. On systems with firewalls installed, the
debugger may fail if the firewall is not configured to
allow Komodo to listen for connections. On Windows, you
may see a "Windows Security Alert" dialog asking if you
want to allow Komodo to listen for connections, you will
need to unblock Komodo. (Bug 21684)
- The Perl debugger cannot trap fatal runtime errors.
Users can accomplish this in their code by wrapping
problematic code in an
eval block, and then
testing for an exception. (Bug 33855)
- Komodo does not provide proper source debugging in
Python
exec and eval
statements. This is a limitation of Python's interpreter.
(Bug 40336)
- When debugging PHP on a remote Linux machine from a
local Windows machine, the debugging option "Try to find
files on the local system when remote debugging" has no
effect. This is due to differences in Unix and Win32 file
paths. (Bug 39137)
- When debugging Python, Komodo does not permit you to
set local variables in the interactive shell. However,
you can edit those values from the program's variable
viewers, such as the Watch and
Locals panes on the
Debug tab. (Bug 36794)
- When debugging PHP scripts on Komodo with CGI
emulation, you may need to change the setting for
cgi.force_redirect in the php.ini
file. You may also need to set an environment variable in
the Debugger Options dialog box: "REDIRECT_STATUS=200
OK". These settings vary depending on your system and the
configuration of PHP. (Bug 35021)
- When Debugging PHP, the HTML pane of
the Output tab does not refresh
automatically. To refresh the contents of this pane,
click the "Reload HTML view" button on the
Output tab. (Bug 36999)
- Komodo supports full Unicode debugging with Perl 5.8.
Although Perl 5.6 can be used for debugging programs with
single-byte encodings (e.g. cp1251), it is recommended
that programmers with multi-byte character sets upgrade
to Perl 5.8.5 or better. (Bug 36760)
- When debugging Python, if you launch the debugger
from a directory containing a module with the same name
as one of the modules used by the debugger, the wrong
file is used. For example, if you have a file named
logging.py in the directory where the debugger
is launched, the debugger will fail. (Bug 36783)
- When stepping through Perl files, the Komodo debugger
displays the wrong print results in the
Locals window of the
Debug tab. This is because Perl provides
only one iterator for each collection variable. The
Komodo debugger must iterate through a hash or an array
in order to display the values in Komodo. A workaround is
to display the Watch pane instead of the
Locals pane, and type the names of the
expressions that you want to view. (Bug 33668)
- Perl: Only pattern variables $1 .. $9 are preserved
across each query. (Bug 34528)
- Python: The getpass package requires the use of a tty
on unix systems. Komodo does not provide a tty in it's
interactive shell so getpass will fail with an exception.
(Bug 34259)
- A bug in CVS will cause WinCVS and TortoiseCVS to
detect file changes when a Komodo project has merely been
opened. The problem is likely a bug in the cvshome.org
executable or in the cvsnt.org executable, which are used
by both WinCVS and TortoiseCVS. (Bug 21085)
- Komodo's integration with the Perforce commit/submit
command cannot commit files that are not in the default
changelist. These files must be submitted via an external
interface (e.g. p4, P4Win). Note that any files checked
out inside Komodo are in the default changelist, so this
limitation should only apply to users who already use an
external interface to their Perforce repository. (Bug
27070)
- If the Perforce connection cannot be established,
checking the status of files in a Perforce repository
will hang Komodo. (Bug 35058)
- If you are using CVS Source Code Control, note that
the very first time you log in to a repository, cvs.exe
fails to create the .cvspass file correctly and will
return an error. Repeat the command to login a second
time and correctly generate the file. This is a CVS bug.
(Bug 20353)
- If you are using CVS Source Code Control on Windows
98 or Me, the environment variables
HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH must be
configured on your system. Typically,
HOMEDRIVE is set to "c:", and
HOMEPATH is set to "\".
-
GUI Builder is no longer included with Komodo. The
code has been returned to the open source project that
it came from, SpecTcl. You can find more information
about SpecTcl at: http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/
Binaries for GUI Builder that support Komodo 3.x UI
projects can be found
here.
- If you have two drives with the same name, and you
use the file open dialog in a mozilla application, the
directory menu (top middle of dialog) may crash when
clicked. To avoid this, rename one of the hard
drives.
- New Custom Menus created in a Project or in the
Toolbox will not appear until Komodo has been
restared.
- Throughout the Komodo documentation there are
references to key bindings that use the 'Meta' key. This
key may be better known to OS X users as the 'Command'
key. (Bug 41959)
- Komodo will shut down and restart itself the first
time it is run after installation. (Bug 40143)
- Display of text during editing ("painting") may
sometimes be slow or pause momentarily.
- Certain UI elements stop working after changing key
bindings. Restarting Komodo fixes this. (Bug 38683)
- When saving a file, Komodo does not set file
information (type and creator) for the OS X Finder to
know that Komodo created the file. (Bug 38745)
- Breakpoints cannot be removed when debugging XSLT
scripts. (Bug 40072)
- PHP debugging will not work with the PHP build
distributed with OS X because it does not load external
modules. To use PHP debugging on OS X, build PHP from
source or download a binary from http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php
(Bug 39901)
- Komodo is sometimes recognized as a web browser by
some applications on OS X (e.g. Safari's "Default Web
Browser" setting). Using Komodo as the default web
browser is not recommended.
- Application menu items that have multi-key key
bindings will not show their key bindings in a pop-up
tool tip on OS X. This is a limitation in OS X.
- Context menus may not display unless you hold down
the mouse button for a period of time. This is because
the Komodo editor is implemented in Mozilla as a plugin,
and it does not access the apropriate context menu event
to handle this behaviour properly without interfering
with other mouse events (for example, drag and drop).
(Bug 41216)
- Due to a limitation in the Mozilla code base, key
bindings for the Next File and
Previous File options on the
Window menu are not displayed next to
the menu items. The key bindings are 'Meta'+'PageDown' to
view the next file and 'Meta'+'PageUp' to view the
previous file. (Bug 40716)
- A limitation in the parser used by the DOM Viewer
causes HTML elements embedded in JavaScript strings to
appear as element nodes of the current document. Placing
the JavaScript in a CDATA section or a comment avoids
this problem.
- Komodo inherits a Mozilla bug whereby certain video
drivers on Windows cause Komodo to crash. If you
experience this behavior, upgrade your video driver to
the latest version. If the problem persists, reduce the
color definition assigned to the driver (Control
Panel|Display|Settings). (Bug 32746)
- Komodo inherits a Mozilla
bug regarding display on dual-monitor systems where
the secondary monitor is to the left of the primary
monitor (causing negative coordinate results). The Komodo
display occasionally fails to refresh; Komodo must be
stopped and restarted to fix the display (Bug 26852)
- When using Komodo's Preview in Browser feature, users
running Mozilla on Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000 Pro and
Windows 98 may find that they cannot exit Komodo if
Mozilla is still open. If this should occur, close all
open browser windows before exiting Komodo. (Bug
26431)
- The Palm Desktop for Windows software makes exclusive
use of the 'Ctrl'+'Shift'+'T' key combination, thus
making this combination unavailable in Komodo. (Bug
27851)
- When using the PDK Build Standalone
Application feature in Komodo with Perl 5.8.0 on
a Linux installation where the environment is set to use
UTF-8, you must add a module 'utf8' on the modules tab.
This is the equivalent of 'perlapp --add utf8'. This does
not affect Perl 5.6.x or future versions of Perl 5.8.1 or
higher. (Bug 26898)
- On Windows NT, some interactive commands may not work
properly when run from the Command
Output tab of the Output Pane. You must run
these commands in a separate shell. (Bug 23176)
- Running interactive commands (especially
"command.com") on Win98/ME through Komodo's "Run Command"
feature can cause Komodo to hang. It is recommended that
Win98/ME Komodo users run only simple commands using the
Run Command feature (Bug 25699)
- In file picker dialogs that display a list of files,
when "All files" is specified, files that begin with a
period are not displayed (Bug 18712)
- Perforce client version 2001.1 and previous for
Windows is known to hang when used for Komodo's Perforce
integration. Upgrading to the most recent version of
Perforce is known to fix the problem. (Bug 19959)
- The Output tab cuts off lines at 250 characters. (Bug
20711)
- Macros will not record certain commands, including
(but possibly not limited to)
'Ctrl'+'Shift'+'B'|'R'|'E'|'D' (toggle toolbars or button
text), 'Ctrl'+'Shift'+'N' (new default file), and View as
Language menu items.
- If you are using the Pop-Up Stopper ad-blocking
program (Pop-Up Zapper on OS X), it will close the Rx
Toolkit window immediately after it is opened. (Bug
21768)
- When you schedule a new file to be added using CVS,
CVS will not permit you to remove the file from the
repository using the "revert changes" command. (Bug
27192)
- Users of the Japanese version of Windows XP may
experience difficulties in starting Komodo.
- The Open field in the Open/Find
Toolbar does not automatically display a drop-down list
of directories when an UNC path is typed. Currently, the
list is only displayed when a the path includes a
subdirectory. (Bug 29011)
- When creating a "diff" in Komodo
(Tools|Compare Files), the line endings
of the files are normalized to Unix style line endings.
Lines in files that have different line endings are not
displayed differently in the diff (unless other
differences are present), but a warning is provided to
the user in the 'diff' window, or the 'no difference'
dialog. (Bug 32932)
- In Komodo's Rx Toolkit, the match offsets for unicode
or high-bit data are incorrect. When matching, the
program does not account for UTF-8 multibyte characters.
(Bug 33287)
- When adding new key bindings via the Preferences
dialog box, Komodo displays a message indicating that the
key bindings will not take effect until Komodo is
restarted. However, some changes do take effect
immediately.(Bug 36710)
- "Find" macros do not work because incorrect code is
recorded. (Bug 36332)
- If you rename a folder that was added to a custom
menu, the name is changed in Komodo's Toolbox but not on
the menu itself. A workaround is to move the renamed
folder out and then back into the associated custom menu
icon in the Toolbox. (Bug 36679)
- The Mozilla code base currently does not support the
Windows Unicode binary. As a result, Komodo for Windows
is unable to open files or paths that contain character
sets that are not in the systems locale. (Bug 33304)
- A newly created custom menu is added to the Toolbox
but is not immediately displayed alongside existing
toolbars. Restarting Komodo causes the new toolbar to
display. (Bug 40078)
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