Komodo IDE/Edit Release Notes
Welcome to Komodo, ActiveState's Integrated Development
Environment (IDE). These Release Notes cover what's
new, detailed changes and bug fixes and known issues for Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit.
What's New in Komodo IDE/Edit
5.1
Edit and IDE
- History: Navigation (forward and back) buttons
and a drop list in the toolbar that let you browse though the files
and buffer locations you've been editing recently.
- Go to
File: A new dialog for quickly jumping to open files, or
opening files from the History, current live projects and
current directories.
- Editor
Hyperlinking: 'Ctrl'+'hover' will highlight HTTP and FTP
hyperlinks under the pointer; 'Ctrl'+'click' will open
the URL in the configured browser.
- CSS Color Popup: 'Ctrl' + 'hover' over a color
value in CSS will display a popup of that color; 'Ctrl'+'click' will
open the color picker.
- Search Highlighting: Matches are now highlighted
in the current buffer.
Detailed Changes and Bug Fixes in Komodo IDE/Edit
Changes related to debugging, interactive shells, source code
control, the HTTP Inspector, the Rx Toolkit, the Code Browser, and the
Sections List apply to Komodo IDE only.
5.1.4 Bug Fixes
- Find in Files now remembers last find context. (Bug 81579)
- Toolbox: Auto-save the toolbox after editing a macro in an editor
tab. (Bug 82878)
- Tab Groups: Fixed incorrect 'Ctrl'+'Tab' behavior. (Bug 82776)
- Fixed inconsistent check marks in the "View|Tabs and Sidebars"
menu. (Bug 82862)
- Python: Fixed an error determining the version of the configured
Python interpreter. (Bug 80780)
- Mac OS X: Fixed problem with some applications having trouble
sharing clipboard data with Komodo. In particular, applications built
with Java and pgadmin couldn't read copied data from Komodo. (Bug 81340)
- CSS: Fixed incorrect autocomplete inserts starting with "#". (Bug
82968)
- Run Commands: Set processes to execute correctly on Vista. (Bug 83001)
- Fixed links in the "internalError" dialog. (Bug 83015)
- Fixed code intelligence memory leak. (Bug 65502)
- Preferences: Arrow keys now work properly in the Servers menulist.
(Bug 83314)
5.1.3 Bug Fixes
- Corrected super method call for process terminate method. (Bug 82953)
5.1.2 Bug Fixes
- Fast Open:
- Removed duplicates in "Go to File" list. (Bug 82705)
- Current search is aborted when the "Go to File" dialog is
closed. (Bug 82529)
- Tab now autocompletes instead of moving to the next match. (Bug 82677)
- Added 'Ctrl'+'n/p' keybinding for down/up navigation. (Bug 82678)
- Vi Emulation:
- Comment/uncomment working correctly in visual line mode. (Bug
82369)
- Fixed visual line selection mode indent/dedent problems. (Bug 82368)
- JavaScript:
- Stopped ciler (scanner) failing on certain file contents. (Bug
82659)
- Updated Dojo catalog to version 1.3.0. (Bug 75112)
- Fixed XML tag highlighting bug. (Bug 82325)
- Code Formatting: fixed problem with formatter losing some UTF-8
characters. (Bug 82615)
- Mac OS X: Keybindings once again work for combinations involving
Ctrl, Shift, and a non-alpha key (e.g. 'Ctrl'+'Shift'+'8' to show
whitespace. (Bug 80844)
- Fixed problem opening files with "%" in the name. (Bug 82660)
- You can now drag and drop ".ksf" color scheme files (or URLs) into
Komodo. (Bug 82632)
- Better handling of faulty color scheme files. (Bug 82643)
- Perl: The debugger no longer shows variable refs as "%$foo"
when they're used in an each loop. (Bug 82650)
- Localization fixes. (Bug 82580,
82819,
82821,
82822,
82824,
82825)
- Vi Emulation: The "cc' command now maintains line indentation.
(Bug 82707)
- Hyperlinks: Added keyboard driven hyperlink jump command
(cmd_invokeHyperlink). (Bug 82704)
- Color scheme names may now contain characters in "-,.+=@#$%", as
well as ASCII letters, digits, space, and "_" as before.. (Bug 82644)
- PHP: Support for PHP4 class constructor styles. (Bug 82721)
- Run Commands: Fixed terminate process button not always working on
Windows. (Bug 82655)
- PDK: Fixed incorrectly disabled menu PDK menu items on OS X. (Bug
82459)
- Notification box for accepting or reverting color scheme. (Bug 82657)
- New preference for controlling tab close behavior. By default,
Komodo now shows the next tab on the right (or left) when a tab is
closed, as it did before 5.1.0. (Bug 82739)
- Importing Komodo package files (.kpz) now easier. (Bug 82631)
- Fixed problem determining sub-languages. (Bug 82761)
- Projects: Create URL link when dropping an HTTP URL into a project
or toolbox. (Bug 82782)
- Debugger: Sort all PHP variables and child properties. (Bug 82793)
- Ruby: Fixed Ruby linting. (Bug 82849)
5.1.1 Bug Fixes
- Perl: Added support for Perl::Critic linting (if the module is
installed), including a preference to indicate which severity level to
use. (Bug 80330)
- Debugger: Fixed problem in redrawing variable tabs which caused
slowdowns and hangs when debugger was run repeatedly. (Bug
82518, 82542, 82426, 82557).
- SCC History:
- Date column now sorting correctly for git, bzr and hg.
(Bug 82372)
- Fixed support for Unicode usernames with hg. (Bug 82493)
- Mac OS X: Fixed potential error opening browser from within
Komodo. (Bug 82470)
- Go to File: Added support for filesystem paths (e.g.
"~/dir/file.ext"). (Bug 82483)
- Remote Files: Don't re-prompt for password when username contains
"@". (Bug 73780)
- PHP: Fixed Fixed stdlib code completions failing after trying to
parse a binary file. (Bug 82543)
- Fixed bug saving files in some less common languages. (Bug 82512)
- New behavior: When a buffer is closed, Komodo now switches to the
previously visited buffer. The title bar now correctly shows the name
of the new current buffer after the close. (Bug 82474)
- Projects: "Move to trash" fixed on Ubuntu 8.10. (Bug 81138)
- Code folding fixes. (Bug 82524,
82536,
82537,
82538)
5.1.0 Bug Fixes
- API Change: The localizations file has moved from
'chrome://komodo/locale/pref.dtd' to
'chrome://komodo/locale/pref/pref.dtd'. Any extension making use of
this localization file will need to be updated to use the new
location.
- PHP: Xdebug builds:
- Universal binaries for Mac OS X
- Added binaries for Linux x86_64.
- Added binaries for PHP 5.3.
- Removed binaries for PHP 4.3.
- Vi Emulation: Added '' and ``. Apostrophes return to the exact
position, apostrophes return to the start of the position's line,
similar to the way the two commands work in Vim 7.1. Unlike the rest of
Komodo's History navigation, these commands stay in the current
document. (Bug 81919)
- Allow custom ("friendly") project names when specified directly in
kpf files. (Bug 82050)
- Fold margin colors can now be customized. (Bug 81867)
- Debugger: Restoring cursor position after a debugging run is now
optional. (Bug 80610)
- Fixed line selection when clicking on the line number margin
(Linux). (Bug 37406)
- PHP: Fixed greedy comment/calltip parsing. (Bug 78449)
- Preferences: Bold and italic buttons in the font preferences now
update correctly. (Bug 81339)
- History: When closing a file, Komodo moves to the previous history
position. (Bug 82145)
- Vi Emulation: Ensure replace in visual line-selection mode uses
the correct start/end points. (Bug 81570)
- History: The list of items in the history includes points where
changes were made. Where more than one sets of edits is done in a
single section, only the most recent edit is recorded. (Bug 82288)
- OS X: Keybinding changes (Bug 82150):
- Open/hide toolbox (cmd_viewToolbox): was Ctrl+Shift+T, now Ctrl+Shift+L
- Step out (cmd_stepOut): was Meta+Shift+T, now Ctrl+Shift+T
- Added keybinding for cmd_reopenLastClosedTab: Meta+Shift+T
- Fixed disabled complete word menus after workspace restore. (Bug 80942)
- PHP: Fixed hang on Mac OS X 10.4 when checking unconfigured PHP
prefs. (Bug 80794)
- Files: Komodo will not open files containing null bytes. (Bug 35678)
5.1.0 Beta 1 Bug Fixes
- Fixed crash after closing a split view buffer. (Bug 82032)
- Editor: Extend the functionality of the "duplicate line" function.
(Bug 78819)
- Editor: "Jump to Matching Brace" now works for end tags in HTML,
XML and PHP. (Bug 73239)
- Editor: When a tag is clicked, the matching tag is highlighted.
(Bug 81606)
- Calltips now correctly display Unicode doc comments. (Bug 70448)
- History: Obsolete URIs (positions which are no longer accessible)
are now ignored when navigating the editing history. (Bug 81939)
- Debugger: Fixed Name, Type, and Value column resizing in the
variable viewer tabs. (Bug 80566)
- Window menu list of open buffers now correctly tracks unsaved
("dirty") state. (Bug 82142)
- PHP: Allow explicit variable code completion after "$". (Bug 82165)
- Added highlighting and ctrl-clicking for "Go to Definition". (Bug
76721)
- History: "File|Recent Closed Tabs" gives quick access to the
recently closed tabs. Ctrl-Shift-T reloads the first one in the list
on (Windows and Linux only). (Bug 82150)
- History: Location history is now window-specific. Moving back or
forward never switches windows. (Bug 81920)
5.1.0 Alpha 2 Bug Fixes
- SCC: A new context menu in the SCC History view to get diffs
between two versions or diff against the current version.
- Find: Highlight all matching search terms in the editor. (Bug 32695)
- Breakpoint colors are now fixed, but bookmark colors are now
changeable. (Bug 81379)
- Start Page shows full path names rather than base names. (Bug 81885)
- SCC: SVN history now shows all revisions of a file, not just up to
the local revision. (Bug 81881)
- Macros: Get
doCommand
working again. This fixes the
behavior of certain macros which would work immediately after
recording, but not once they were saved to the Toolbox. (Bug 53647)
- Editor: Cursor now moves to the correct place when text is dragged
and dropped in the editor. (Bug 81413)
- Editor: Fixed mouse block selections setting focus to menu. (Bug
81541)
- Stopped random crashes after closing files. (Bug 81293)
- History: While stepping through a file in debugging, Komodo tries
to map sequential runs of lines in a single section (usually a
function) to the most recently visited. (Bug 81812)
- Vi Emulation: Ensure ":q!" does not prompt to save changes. (Bug
81956)
- Editor: Added a pref to control zero-selection cut/copy.
(Bug 77735)
- The "Clean trailing whitespace" file save preference is now
ignored for file types where whitespace is significant (e.g. YAML,
Diff, nroff). (Bug 81878)
5.1.0 Alpha 1 Bug Fixes
- Vi Emulation:
- Fixed behavior of 'yank' and 'cut' on last line with no EOL.
(Bug 81184,
51878)
- Ensure 'c' in visual mode enters insert mode. (Bug 81763)
- Pasting in visual mode no longer moves down one line. (Bug 81576)
- Vi commands no longer operating outside of the editor pane.
(Bug 81633)
- Perl:
- Perl: Autocompletion on '$var = new object' syntax
now works. (Bug 80856)
- Perl: Fixed autocompletion not working on variable names
ending with a digit. (Bug 81788)
- CSS:
- Do not trigger CSS code completions after a '/'. (Bug 81661)
- Cancel autocomplete list when a '{' or '#' entered in CSS
code. (Bug 81755)
- Interactive Shell: Fixed shell not launching when Command Output
or Find Results tabs had focus. (Bug 80152)
- Files changed outside of Komodo are now re-scanned when opened in
Komodo. (Bug 77866)
- Fold state preserved when reopening documents. (Bug 45621)
- Macros: Triggered macros now fire with an argument called "subject", available
as a global within the macro. At startup, any post-open trigger macros
now fire after the startup trigger has fired, guaranteeing that Komodo
is fully initialized. (Bug 76933)
- Mac OS X: Fixed run/debug. (Bug 81298)
- Fixed exception caused by removing all items from a project
folder. (Bug 81315)
- JavaScript debugger now correctly handles paths that contain
parentheses. (Bug 81336)
- Projects: The active project no longer changes when a non-active
project is closed. (Bug 81300)
- Unit Testing: The PHP unit test harness now supports additional
arguments '--file fileName' and '--class className', which filter
tests based on simple substring matching on filenames and class names
respectively. (Bug 81286)
- Support opening files with percent characters in their paths. (Bug
81275, 70777)
- Prevent the 'this.parentNode is null' JavaScript error message
when closing a tab. (Bug 80115)
- Clicking on a button in the embedded browser's navigation bar
gives the browser window the focus. (Bug 81288)
- Tcl: Handle 4-line messages from kotcllint. (Bug 81326)
- Mac OS X: Fixed slow typing response. This fix has an impact on
extensions using API calls such as "ko.open.URI" (see Open Komodo revision
2751 for details). (Bug 80683)
- Panel and splitter states restored correctly on startup. (Bug 81170)
- Windows: Fixed possible hang on start. (Bug 81363)
- Python: Interactive shell in debugging sessions now shows current
frame. (Bug 81287)
- Allow opening a Komodo project from the command line. (Bug 81394)
- Fixed nested setTimouts for updateCommands('interactiveshell')
sometimes causing a hang. (Bug 81402)
- HTML: Autocomplete now correctly un-indents end tags. (Bug 64217)
- Using multiple windows no longer suppresses "Save Modified Files?"
dialog. (Bug 81707)
- The 'cmd_lineDuplicate now duplicates selections as well. (Bug 78819)
- Fixed delete key behavior within textboxes in Komodo dialog
boxes. (Bug 65504)
- SCC: Fixed mercurial diff on an unchanged file causing a hang in
the diff window. (Bug 81444)
- Flock browser on Linux now correctly detected in browser
preferences (as 'flock-bin' rather than 'flock'). (Bug 81743)
- Remote Files: Fixed date display bug. (Bug 81475)
Known Issues
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.
- Windows Vista will prompt you to either 'Allow' or
'Deny' the installation. Click on 'Allow' and Komodo will
install normally.
- 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)
- 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.
- Tabstop syntax has changed in
Komodo 5.0. Abbreviation from the Toolbox|Samples directory of pre-5.0
versions of Komodo will not work as expected with the current
implementation. Delete the older versions to use the ones featured in
the "Samples (5.0.0)" directory. Alternatively, if you have made
modifications to these snippets or have implemented your own using
tabstops linked by name, consult the documentation and revise
them using numbered linking.
- By design, Komodo does not attempt Replace in Files operations on
unknown file types. However, file association preferences can be used
to associate a user-defined extension with a language category (e.g.
"Text") which then enables replacements for that file type.
- 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 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)
- 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)
- PHP: A non-empty
doc_root
setting in php.ini
causes a 'No input file specified' error when starting a local
debugging session with CGI emulation. The Web Developer Suite 2.0
package and others use this setting, and it is copied into the
debugging version of php.ini during PHP auto-config. Comment
this setting out in the file specified in
'Preferences|Languages|PHP|Path to alternate PHP configuration file'
to avoid this problem.
- Python: Breakpoints will not work with the Psyco extension enabled.
The Komodo FAQ has a
work-around solution.
- 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)
- As of Komodo 5.0, the Perl debugger emits numeric hash keys with
embedded underscores. For example, a hash key of '123456789' now
appears in the variables tabs as '123_456_789'.
- Breakpoints don't work in files with symlinks in their path. The
debugger engine calculates whether to break based on the actual file
path. To work around this limitation, load the file in Komodo using
the real path, or create a hard link (e.g. on Linux, use 'ln' without
the '-s' option). (Bug 79147)
- The interactive shell does not initialize properly when invoked
while the Command Output tab has focus. To avoid this, switch focus to
another tab or sidebar before starting the interactive shell.
- 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 its
interactive shell so getpass will fail with an exception.
(Bug 34259)
- The SCC Checkout wizard does not correctly handle password
authentication. SCC checkouts requiring password authentication should
be done at the command line.
- 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 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
restarted.
- Throughout the Komodo documentation there are
references to key bindings that use the 'Cmd' 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 appropriate context menu event
to handle this behavior 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 'Cmd'+'PageDown' to
view the next file and 'Cmd'+'PageUp' to view the
previous file. (Bug 40716)
- The Fonts and Colors pane in the
Preferences dialog box displays the same list of fonts in
both the Fixed and Proportional lists. There is no
programmatic way to identify whether a font is
proportional or not on GTK; therefore, users must know
the properties of the individual fonts when modifying
these values. (Bug 27206)
- Install Komodo into a directory path that only
includes alphanumeric characters. Komodo is known to have
trouble with paths that include spaces and some
non-alphanumeric characters.
- Key bindings defined in the window manager (such as
KDE) take precedence over Komodo key bindings. In the
case of conflicts, you must either change the Komodo key
bindings or the window manager key bindings. (Bug
30926)
- You cannot move an existing Komodo installation to a
new directory. You must uninstall Komodo from the
existing location and reinstall it in the new location.
(Bug 19478)
- When using the PHP Configuration Wizard, you must
have write access to any directories you specify in the
wizard. (Bug 37176)
- Red Hat Linux 9.0 is known to have threading library
bugs in its glibc that may cause Komodo to hang in
certain situations. The recommended solution is to
upgrade to the latest glibc for Red Hat Linux 9.0. (Bug
24340)
- Using colon-separated include paths in the Perl
shebang line causes a parse failure on some versions of
Perl. Instead of using "/usr/bin/perl -cwT
-I/path1:/path2 yourscript.pl", try using multiple
include arguments such as "/usr/bin/perl -cwT -I/path1
-I/path2 yourscript.pl"
(Bug 33524)
- Komodo may not start up correctly on some Linux
systems if C++ compatibility libraries have not been
installed. On Fedora and Red Hat systems, install the
"compat-libstdc++" package. On SuSE, install the "compat"
package. On Gentoo, as root, run
emerge
lib-compat
. This is not thought to be a problem on
Debian systems. (Bug 36244)
- 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)
- 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 multi-byte 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)
- 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)
- 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)