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Plover 4.0.0.dev11

Plover is going through a huge overhaul to make for a better experience for our users, and developers, too.

Warning: Version 4 is a major change and the configuration file it creates is not compatible with Plover 3 or earlier. Please backup your plover.cfg

Installation Guide

Read the Installation Guide to see which file you need to download.

Features

Core

  • Switch to plover_stroke for better steno handling: faster and stricter. (#1362, #1417, #1452)
  • New faster and improved RTF/CRE parser. (#1364, #1365)
  • Correctly handle formatting currency with thousands separator(s): 23,000.15{:retro_currency:$c} => $23,000.15. (#1391)
  • Improve “English stenotype” system compatibility with RTF/CRE spec: support arbitrary placement of the number sign when parsing steno (e.g. 18#, #18, and 1#8 are all valid and equivalent). (#1491)
  • Improve translation stage: cut down on unnecessary / duplicate dictionary lookups. (#1513)

User Interface

  • Improve accessibility:
    • Disable tab-key navigation in tables, so focusing a table does not lock global tab-key navigation to it.
    • Remove some container widgets, tweak focus rules to avoid extra unnecessary steps when using tab-key navigation (like selecting the dictionaries widget outer frame).
    • In form layouts, link each widget to its label (like each option in the configuration dialog).
    • Set the accessible name / description of focusable widgets.
    • Use lists for the dictionaries widget, suggestions widget, and the paper tape. (#1308, #1332, #1434, #1451)
  • Show a message when hiding to tray. (#1333)
  • Improved steno handling:
    • validate inputs in the "add translation" dialog and dictionary editor
    • sort on steno order in the dictionary editor, and signal invalid steno entries (#1362, #1501)

Linux

  • Improve D-Bus logger implementation. (#1496)
  • Add WM_CLASS property to windows (WM_CLASS(STRING) = "plover", "Plover"). (#1498)

Bugfixes

Core

  • New reworked RTF/CRE support:
    • correctly handle multi-lines mappings
    • detect syntax errors (with recovery)
    • use \n\n for new paragraphs (instead of non-undoable {#Return}{#Returns})
    • similarly, use \t and \n for \tab and \line
    • correctly escape {}\ on save
    • use custom ignored groups for Plover macros and metas
    • use groups to improve round-tripping affixes (so there's no ambiguity when parsing back, e.g. {^in^}fix -> {\cxds in \cxds}fix instead of \cxds in\cxds fix) (#1364, #1365)
  • Fixed a memory leak on reloading externally modified dictionaries. (#1375)
  • Do not discard existing filters on dictionaries reload. (#1388)
  • Fix engine's running state: make sure the translator' state is empty when enabling output for the first time. (#1504)
  • Fix exit handlers not getting always executed. (#1507)
  • Fix StenoDictionaryCollection.longest_key implementation: ignore disabled dictionaries! (#1512)

Dictionaries

  • Fix KHR*PB stroke to not be misinterpreted as a command. (#1463)

User Interface

  • Speedup dictionary editor startup (avoid duplicate sort). (#1351)
  • Updated Spanish translation. (#1420)
  • Updated French translation. (#1422)
  • Speedup suggestions widget implementation: should noticeably improve performance when there's a large scrollback. (#1481)

Windows

  • Drop launch option from installer's final page: avoid possible issues (e.g. permission errors with the controller's pipe) because Plover was run as admin. (#1495)
  • Fix notifications behavior: no persistent duplicated icons (one for each notification). (#1507, #1508)

API

Breaking Changes

  • The custom test command implementation provided by plover_build_utils.setup.Test has been removed:
    • support for it on setuptools' side has been deprecated since version 41.5.0
    • the custom handling of arguments conflicts with the use of some pytest options (e.g. -m MARKEXPR)
    • the workaround for pytest cache handling is not necessary anymore (#1332)
  • The steno helpers (Stroke class, normalize_stroke, …) now raise a ValueError exception in case of invalid steno. (#1362, #1501)
  • The support for StenoDictionary and StenoDictionaryCollection longest key callbacks is gone, use the longest_key properties instead. (#1375)
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