Over the past weeks I’ve made several bug fixes to Grep Console and Tail Console. In the case of Clippets, I’ve added new few features.
Grep Console’s popup notification implementation is now also used by Clippets and therefore has been moved to its own plug-in. Eclipse will automatically install the new plug-in when installing or updating to the latest versions.
As always, feedback is welcome.
Grep Console 3.6.1
This is a bugfix release, containing the following fixes:
- Disablement of items not stored – Disabled items were enabled again after reloading the configuration. Folderes were unaffected. Thanks to Thomas Widmaier for reporting this bug.
- Wrong style ranges for overlapping highlighting styles – Overlapping styles ended one character too early, leaving the last matched character unstyled. Thanks to 赛文思 for reporting this bug.
- File link path and base dir not handled correctly – Absolute file paths were not recognised correctly and would always be prefixed with the base directory. Some Eclipse variables return file: URIs. These are now automatically converted to regular file paths. Thanks to 赛文思 for reporting this bug.
For installation instructions, please see here.
Clippets 1.1.0
This is a feature release, containing the following improvements:
- Styles – Clippets can now be assigned styles to change the foreground and background colours shown in clippet lists.
- Clippet collection memory – The clippet selection popup by default now opens with the last clippet collection that was selected. Changing the collection also updates the Clippet View. Both features can be deactivated in the preferences.
- Popup notifications – To provide feedback with some of the “blind” actions (e.g. recalling clippets via keyboard shorcuts), certain actions now trigger notification popup notifications. These popups can be disabled in the preferences.
- Inserting clippets – A new action (triggered e.g. by double clicking a clippet) directly inserts the selected clippet into the current editor without changing the clipboard content. Thanks to Robert Mark Bram for suggesting this feature.
- Store to selection in popup – Pressing Shift+Enter in the clippet storing popup dialogue now stores the clipboard content into the selected clippet. Thanks to Robert Mark Bram for suggesting this feature.
For installation instructions, please see here.
Tail Console 1.0.1:
This is a bugfix release, containing the following fix:
- Launch configuration icon – The launch configuration was missing an icon.
For installation instructions, please see here.
Popup Notifications 1.0:
This is a helper plug-in. It doesn’t offer any active end user features on its own. Instead, it provides an API to display popup notifications that automatically disappear after a short moment. The plug-in is used by both Grep Console and Clippets and may be used in other projects under the terms of the Eclipse Public Licence.
For more info, please see here.
