v1.9.0-beta.0

• Ensuring the devtools window is closed immediately after closing its target window
• Using "tiny-readdir" rather than old custom implementation
• Preview: improved footnotes spacing
• New nanodash method: escapeMarkdown
• TOC: ensuring a correct link is generated for headings containing escaped characters
• Autocomplete: ensuring placeholders are autocompleted too
• New nanodash method: isShallowEqual
• Updated some dependencies
• New setting: tabs.alwaysVisible
• Ensuring the tabbar can be visible if it has no tabs too
• Ensuring the tabbar is styled properly if it has no tabs
• Avoiding permanently deleting files if moving them to the computer’s trash fails
• Ignoring some extra paths usually related to atomic writes performed by editors
• Export: ensuring any custom CSS is used when exporting too
• Export: added support for targeting different export modes via custom CSS by using the following selectors: html[data-export="html"], html[data-export="pdf"], html[data-export="print"], html[data-export="share"]
• New command: shortcuts.screencast.reset
• Shortcuts screencaster: resetting it on Click, closing it on CmdOrCtrl+Click
• Shortcuts screencaster: added a more descriptive tooltip
• Shortcuts screencaster: ensuring it can be rendered reasonably no matter how much space is available
• Shortcuts screencaster: resetting automatically after 1s of inactivity and allowing for max 12 shortcuts to be displayed at once
• Added basic support for pointer screencasting
• New context key: isPointerScreencastOpen
• New commands: pointer.screencast.enable, pointer.screencast.disable, pointer.screencast.toggle
• Updated shortcuts: enabling pointer screencasting too on C-K C-K C-S
• New setting: spellChecker.statusbar.displayLanguage
• Sidebar: showing an icon next to collapsed sections
• Definition lists: ensuring accurate line mappings are outputted for them
• Definition lists: ensuring they are foldable in the editor
• Added very basic support for persistent tags
• Ensuring the currently active tag stays active if it gets renamed
• New command: tag.new
• New commands: tag.new.notebook, tag.new.template
• Added some simple "+" buttons to all sidebar sections
• Spell checker: ensuring the language region can be displayed too
• Sidebar: aligned counters’ styling with icons
• Tree: using a more compact layout
• Design: minor update and cleanup
• Window options: added support for "focused"
• New context key: isFocused
• New modernizr test: is-focused
• New theme colors: titlebar:foregroundInactive, titlebar:button:close:foregroundInactive
• New theme colors: tabbar:tab:backgroundInactive, tabbar:tab:foregroundInactive
• New command: editor.join.lines
• Ensuring when retrieving an unused path special characters are sanitized first
• Generalized some React hooks: useActiveEditor -> useEditor, useActiveEditorSelections -> useEditorSelections
• New React hook: useEditorSelectionsValues
• Words counter: counting also words in selections
• Quickpick: ensuring the height is calculated correctly for lists containing only 1 item too
• Note: added quickPick APIs for templates
• New command: editor.insert.template
• New spell checker words: todo, fixme
• New spell checker words: covid, coronavirus
• Removed theme color: tabbar:border
• New theme color: tabbar:tab:borderActive
• Tabs: significantly improved styling, making it much clearer which tab is active
• Changelog: improved styling of disabled tabbar buttons
• Spell checker: increased debounce time to 1000ms
• New setting: spellChecker.interval
• Sidebar: ensuring sections containing at least one standalone tag are shown
• Drag and drop: added support for toggling an attachment for a note by dropping the attachment into the note’s tab
• Drag and drop: added support for toggling a tag for a note by dropping the tag into the note’s tab
• Drag and drop: added support for toggling multiple tags for a note by dropping the tags into the note’s tab
• Drag and drop: the multi-note editor is now a droppable target
• Drag and drop: added support for toggling selection for multiple notes by dropping the notes into the multi-note editor
• Drag and drop: added support for toggling a tag for multiple notes by dropping the tag into the multi-note editor
• Drag and drop: added support for toggling multiple tags for multiple notes by dropping the tags into the multi-note editor
• New context key: isDragging
• Ensuring focus traps don’t mess with drag & drop
• Editor: ensuring view zones are taken into account when moving cursors up
• Shield: ensuring indentation is preserved
• New settings: editor.cursor.blinking, editor.cursor.style
• Mermaid: ensuring gannt diagrams are rendered at a comfortable 800px width
• Emoji: improved detection
• Added support for renaming notes by Alt+Clicking on their tabs
• Ensuring tab titles are rendered with the same font size throughout the app
• Modal: avoiding accouning for window control buttons in favor of using available space more usefully (macOS)
• Note: ensuring the "title_custom" property gets removed when resetting titles even if the actual title won’t change in the process
• useInputEditable: ensuring the callback reference gets updated when it changes
• React: ensuring all refs have a name that ends with "ref"
• Table formatter: ensuing missing trailing cells are handled properly
• Attachment: treating "*.greenshot" files are renderable files
• Spell checker: resetting markers immediately when the language to use changes
• Ensuring list headers and the statusbar have the same height
• Minor changes
• Table of contents: ensuring headings containing strings that look like Markdown are parsed properly
• Dialog: ensuing it’s rendered with a border applied to it, for consistency with the other floating widgets
• New nanodash method: fill
• Database: ensuring only notes get read from disk in batch
• Reusing retrieved stats objects from the watcher whenever possible, avoiding prodding the filesystem twice in some cases
• Tags: ensuring the tree is rebuilt efficiently, without performing proxy dirty checks
• Tags: optimized tree updates for initially added notes
• State deserialization: optimized some note lookups
• Database: added support for path lookups to the filesystem backend
• Note: mode lookups by path an O(1) operation rather than O(n)
• Attachment: mode lookups by path an O(1) operation rather than O(n)
• Note: lookups by title now take 90% less time
• Attachment: lookups by relative path now take 90% less time
• Optimized away Electron’s needlessly expensive asar path checks
• Note: filtering them in 90% less time
• Attachments: filtering them in 90% less time
• Ensuring note tabs have a title attribute
• Added very basic support for report production
• New report: orphan attachments
• New command: attachments.report.orphans
• New report: missing attachments
• New command: attachments.report.missing
• Mermaid: outputting the source code too
• Sharing: submitting the source markdown to the echo endpoint too, which can then be retrieved by appending ".md" to the returned URL
• New setting: sharing.ttl
• New setting: sharing.password
• Renamed command: link.releases.experimental -> link.releases.insiders
• Bump: updated stable and insiders configurations
• New setting: updater.channel (either "stable" or "insiders")
• Words: fixed an off-by-one error when counting them
• Note: avoiding duplicating pasted or dropped attachments coming from the attachments directory
• Attachment: prompting for deletion too after removing an attachment from a note
• Docs: refactored and unified documentation notes
• Quick modals: generating help pages too
• Renamed command: help.theming -> help.themes
• Renamed command: help.linking -> help.links
• Renamed command: help.search -> help.search
• New help pages: notebooks, palette, tags, templates
• New commands: help.notebooks, help.palette, help.tags, help.templates
• Docs: wired notes with help pages
• Tags: ensuring potential relevant metadata changes are account for too when trying to skip an update
• Docs: updated build scripts that broke fater the refactor