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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Unreleased

Added

  • Add exclude and compile: false support for metadata block so, a file can be exluded from the automatic compiled script [#36]

Fixes

  • A bug that did not parse all nested indcluded files in compilation [#38]
  • Fixed failing tests on Windows envirnoment

0.1.1 - pre-release 1

Unstable warning

The pre-release versions are highly unstable at this moment, and for testing purposes only. Use the latest stable version (0.0.55). Some settings might not be backward compatile at this point.

Added

  • Add exclude and compile: false support for metadata block so, a file can be exluded from the automatic compiled script [#36]
  • Upgrade minimum supported version to 1.72
  • Support for file nesting. Adds {"*.md": "${capture}.md.txt, ${capture}.md.yml"} pattern to explorer.fileNesting.patterns in configuration defaults.

Fixes

  • A bug that did not parse all nested indcluded files in compilation [#38]
  • Some speed issues and loading times with the indexer
  • Fixed failing tests on Windows envirnoment
  • Fixed Linux/Windows Glob match pattern, on file indexer and metadata indexer

Changed

  • Changed the build tool from webpack to esbuild
  • Changed extension display name from Markdown Fiction Writer to Fiction Writer to accomodate future language support

  • Changed settings prefix from markdowon-fiction-writer. to fiction-writer [#28]

  • Settings

    • Changed: fictionWriter.statusBar.items to be of type object with checkboxes
    • Changed settings from application scope to window scope so it can be configured per workspace as well:
      • fictionWriter.editDialogue.marker
      • fictionWriter.export.outputTemplate.file
      • fictionWriter.export.outputTemplate.enabled
      • fictionWriter.export.tocFilename
      • fictionWriter.export.smartDeshes
      • fictionWriter.export.skipCodeComments
      • fictionWriter.textFormatting.*
      • fictionWriter.metadata.keywords.colors
      • fictionWriter.metadata.keywords.colorsCategory
      • fictionWriter.metadata.keywords.badgesCategory
      • fictionWriter.metadata.keywords.badges
      • fictionWriter.metadata.categories.icons
      • fictionWriter.metadata.categories.default
      • fictionWriter.notes.defaultText

0.0.55 - alpha 5.5

Added

Fixes - Focus Mode now can highlight paragraph, or line (set up in settings)

0.0.53 - alpha 5.3

  • Status Bar: now has the possibility to show/hide specific buttons
  • Writing Mode: Select Writing Mode theme command now previews the theme on changing selection with Up/Down arrow keys.
  • Settings
    • Added: markdown-fiction-writer.statusbar.items
    • Added: markdown-fiction-writer.splitDocument.switchToNewlyCreatedDocument

Changed

  • Settings moved: markdown-fiction-writer.view.statusbar.* to markdown-fiction-writer.statusbar.*.
  • Don't show the This Version Contains Breaking Changes.. notification message for minor alpha version changes.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that did not always hide status bar when changing active editor to a non-markdown editor.

0.0.52 - alpha 5.2

Added

  • Keybinding: Ctrl+F11 toggles both ZenMode and Writing Mode
  • Focus Mode: fade out all text except current text line (not editor line)
  • Command: Select Writing Mode font size now is accessible from command pallete.
  • Command: Select Writing Mode theme shows a selection of all installed themes to choose from.
  • Command: Toggle Focus Mode enables/disables focus mode

  • Settings

    • markdown-fiction-writer.view.focusMode.opacity
    • markdown-fiction-writer.writingMode.toggleFocusMode

Changed

  • Moved markdown-fiction-writer.view.writingMode.* settings under markdown-fiction-writer.writingMode.*

0.0.50 - alpha 5.0

Added

Changes

  • _bk folder now created under .fic folder
  • Setting markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.defaultCategory becomes markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.categories.default
  • Selecting an item in Metadata View does not immediately open file. The file can now be opened from the Open File icon in the view title bar
  • Document Statistics: can be computed for any document, not only for .md files
  • Hide unecessary commands from Command Pallete

Fixes

  • Fix: markdown formatting now skips inline metadata blocks
  • Fix: document statistics and repetitions now skips metada block
  • Fix a bug on Linux, that prevented opening files in external editor
  • Fix a performance issue when Document Statistics was loading even if view was not visible.
  • Consistent name of Writing Mode everywhere (some places still using the old Enhanced Zen Mode naming)

0.0.50 - alpha 5

Added

Fixes - Focus Mode now can highlight paragraph, or line (set up in settings)

0.0.42 - alpha 4.2

Added

Fixed

  • Fix some typos in documentation
  • Fix some configuration key descriptions
  • Fix debug flag that was showing file cache debug view

0.0.35 - alpha 3.0

Added

  • Metadata: now supports yaml markdown metadata support
  • Metadata: new metadata tree view under explorer
  • Metadata: file colors, badges are resolved using keywords
  • Metadata: easy array parsing (add arrays without []) for known categories

  • Settings:

    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.enabled
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.categories
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.categoryIconsEnabled
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.defaultCategory
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.keywords.badges
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.keywords.badgeCategory
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.keywords.badgesInFileExplorer
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.keywords.colors
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.keywords.colorCategory
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.keywords.colorsInMetadataView
    • markdown-fiction-writer.metadata.keywords.colorsInFileExplorer

Changed

  • Updated extension icon (still work in progress)
  • Update configuration setting descriptions (still work in progress)
  • All main settings are now User settings (not workspace settings)
  • various small fixes and bugs
  • Writing Mode now is disabled when restarting editor (if closed with it enabled)
  • Statistics view now auto-refreshes when changing text-editor is changed and on save
  • fix Extension name Configuration Settings
  • fix a bug where text formatting was ignoring heading

Removed

  • settings:
  • markdown-fiction-writer.view.fileTags.enabled (replaced by markdown.fiction-writer.metadata features)
  • markdown-fiction-writer.view.fileTags.definitions

Fixed

  • Fix disposables not disposed of properly
  • Fix Document Statistics view not refreshing on config change

0.0.23 - alpha 2.3

Added

  • Writing mode
  • Reorganizes settings (breaking change)

0.0.21 - alpha 2.1

Added

  • View: Highlight dialogue markers
  • View: Highlight quoted dialogue
  • View: File Tags - add small 2 letter badges to files form current directory markdown-fiction-writer.view.fileTags
  • Major Refactorings to Disposable usage
  • Settings:
  • markdown-fiction-writer.format.backupBeforeEachFormat setting. It always asks before performing formatting.

0.0.17 - alpha 1.7

Added

  • Export: Add SaveAs dialogue to export commands.
  • Export: Add option to always show SaveAs dialgoue
  • Export: Add option to change TOC filename
  • Export: Show OpenFileDialogue when use template is enabled

0.0.11 - alpha 1.1

Added

  • add writing statistics (word count, etc)

0.0.6 - alpha 0.6

Added

  • add text analysis (word frequency count)

0.0.3 - alpha 0.3

Added

  • add status bar buttons
  • folding, unfolding of paragraph lines
  • more support for one-sentence-per line

0.0.2 - alpha 0.2

Added

  • add text formatting options
  • add include .md file support using {file.md} syntax
  • add syntax highlighting for included file

0.0.1 - alpha 0.1

Added

  • add compile/export using pandoc
  • supporting em-dash (—) dialogue markers
  • new paragraph on Shift+Enter
  • support for one-sentence-per line

Known issues

  • As this plugin rebinds some keys, like:enter, shift+enter, delete, tab, backspace, it can interfere with other extensions that also overwrite this key bindings.

  • Consider inspecting and rebinding some of them, as described here: Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code