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
5.0
Edit and IDE
- Built on Mozilla 1.9: Komodo is now built on the
Mozilla 1.9 branch, the same code base Firefox 3.0 is built on. This
includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, and
provides a more platform-native look and feel.
- Multi-Window: Komodo can now open multiple
top-level windows, allowing you to configure your workspace the way you want
when editing or debugging.
- Improved Tabstops: Tabstops in snippets and file templates are
now more intuitive and flexible.
IDE only
- Mercurial, Bazaar, and Git Support: Integration
support for the Mercurial (hg), Bazaar (bzr), and Git source control
systems.
- Code Formatting: Configurable
commands for formatting selections and documents.
- SCC Checkout: A new interface for checking out
working copies of a repository from within Komodo.
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.
5.0.3 Bug Fixes
- Tcl: Fixed spawnpoints in Tcl debugging. (Bug 81047)
- Fixed updating of add-ons from the ActiveState Community site.
(Bug 81121)
- Fixed crash when working with a UDL language with an empty state
map. (Bug 81200)
- Ruby: Debugger now properly handles UNC paths. (Bug 80991)
- Fold state preserved when reopening documents. (Bug 45621)
- Mac OS X: Fixed run/debug. (Bug 81298)
- Fixed exception caused by removing all items from a project
folder. (Bug 81315)
- 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)
5.0.2 Bug Fixes
- Fixed settings import from previous versions when KOMODO_USERDATIDIR
is set. (Bug 80768)
- Preferences: Added preference for turning off mixed EOL warnings.
(Bug 33318)
- Preferences: Fixed encoding and language pop up menus so nested
items can be selected. (Bug 80721)
- Leading whitespace in snippets now follows the global settings.
The tabWidth in a snippet is the indentWidth in the editor, as each
tab corresponds to indenting by one indentLevel when a snippet is
inserted into a buffer. (Bug 79809)
- PHP: Fixed code intelligence failing when scanning encounters a
non-existing symlinked PHP file. (Bug 80841)
- SDK: The koext tool now zips additional directories for Mozilla
extensions. (Bug 75091)
- PHP: Fixed non-expanding arrays in debugger variable view. (Bug 78260)
- SCC: Fixed SVN diff options being ignored. (Bug 80799)
- JavaScript: Provide calltips for "Function.apply" et al. (Bug 80880)
- Linux: Fixed file encoding preferences not being displayed
correctly. (Bug 75399)
- Rx: Fixed "$" matching line feed rather than current line ending
when combined with a range. (Bug 80881)
- Fixed template names with periods being cut off. (Bug 80882)
- Remote Files: Fixed FTPS. (Bug 80386)
- SCC: Filter out "path contains illegal component: .hg" warning
messages. (Bug 80762)
- Leading tabs in snippets are now replaced with [indentWidth]
spaces on snippet insertion. (Bug 80784)
- SCC: Fixed diff between history versions failing with hg. (Bug 80933)
- JavaScript: Fixed object variables being incorrectly recognized as
class members. (Bug 78497)
- Calltips: New preference for setting the calltip maximum line
width. (Bug 67403)
- Debugging: CGI debugging of POST requests is fixed. (Bug 80970)
- "Jump to corresponding line" now works in diffs with relative
paths. (Bug 80989)
- Fixed LangInfoError exception on unknown filetype: matlab and
Forth. (Bug 80803)
- OS X: Fixed problem grabbing bottom pane splitter. (Bug 80756)
- OS X: 'Cmd'+'H' now hides Komodo. (Bug 80666)
- Tab key now inserts white-space when at end of a word with no
autocompletions. (Bug 80647)
- Code Browser sidebar state now correctly saved. (Bug 80843)
- Fixes for multi-window layout save and restore. (Bug 79920)
5.0.1 Bug Fixes
- Remote Files: Fixed "ValueError" warning message on console. (Bug 80726)
- Fixed run commands failing when using "Pass selection as input" or
"Insert output". (Bug 80732)
- Linux: Fixed blurry icons when task switching. (Bug 80727)
- Windows: Fixed Komodo application icon. (Bug 80689)
- Windows: Maximized window state now restored properly. (Bug 80661)
- Remote files: Remote server accounts without passwords were not
being properly migrated from 4.4 profile. (Bug 80724)
- Removed incorrect error message when inserting snippets containing
[[%w]] or [[%W]] interpolation shortcuts. (Bug 80741)
- Mapped URIs: Fixed broken 'Remote' button in mapped URI dialog.
(Bug 80730)
- Fixed problem saving preferences with "Use tab character to
complete words like Ctrl+Space" selected. (Bug 80767)
5.0 Bug Fixes
- Key binding changes: Moved the debugger's default step over
keybinding from 'F10'/'Ctrl'+'F10' to 'F12'/'Ctrl-F12'. Toggling the
interactive shell has moved from 'F12' to 'Shift'-'F12'. (Bug 80296)
- SCC: fixed bzr incorrectly showing non-scc files as being under
scc control. (Bug 80431)
- Fixed file type not showing up in the status bar after opening or
creating a file. (Bug 80462)
- Projects: Moved the "New Project", "Open Project" and "Save
Project" buttons into a "Project Tools" menulist to make more room for
the filter box. (Bug 79625)
- Fixed truncated run command and debugger output. (Bug 80291, 80258)
- JavScript and PHP: Keywords now included in 3-char trigger completions.
(Bug 78185, 77532)
- Editor: Fixed indentation guessing for newly opened files. (Bug 80188)
- Toolbox: Trap exceptions on loading a toolbox that references
non-existent live folders. (Bug 80420)
- Snippets: Cursor position is now handled correctly after snippet
insertion. (Bug 80439)
- Editor: Fixed problem with increase line indent not handling
non-ASCII content. (Bug 80493)
- Fixed erroneous prompt to create a new file when double-clicking a
line in "Find Results" output for an untitled (new) document. (Bug 80232)
- Keybindings: Reordered keybindings so common shortcuts appear in
menus. (Bug 80530)
- Fix non-ascii character handling in replaceTarget (indent region,
comment/uncomment region, vi-mode replace, spell check, find/replace). (Bug 80511)
- Sped up parsing of long lines of JavaScript and HTML. (Bug 80496)
- SCC: Less CPU intensive mercurial status checking. (Bug 80563)
- HTML: Changed default tidy linting to not include accessibility
checks. (Bug 80598)
- Remote Files: Fixed "File|Save Remotely As..." not working for
untitled (new) files. (Bug 80605)
- Fixed bug causing some editor commands to be disabled at startup.
(Bug 80583)
- OS X: Fixed 'Cmd'+'W' close behavior for the Preferences dialog.
(Bug 80619)
- JavaScript API: Added simple API for clipboard operations. (Bug 79772)
- JavaScript API: Added the xtk namespace to the API documentation.
(Bug 80646)
- Windows: Fixed hard crashes. (Bug 76066)
- Calltips: Added preference for maximum number of lines shown. (Bug
70560)
- PHP: Statically typed function arguments now correctly parsed.
(Bug 79003)
- Common application directories now added to the PATH in Komodo's
user environment settings. (Bug 80656)
- Vista: Fixed menus appearing with a vertical line through the
text. Extension authors must update usages of <menu
class="menu-iconic-wide"> and <menuitem
class="menuitem-iconic-wide"> according to these rules:
- Drop custom 'menu-iconic-wide' and 'menuitem-iconic-wide'
classes/bindings in favor of the Mozilla toolkit 'menu-iconic' and
'menuitem-iconic'.
- Use these classes only if your menu/menuitem has an icon.
Otherwise the alignment of the menu/menuitem labels will be
incorrect in context menus on Mac OS X.
(Bug 80629)
- Debugger: Starting a remote debugging session no longer prompts
twice to create a mapped URI". (Bug 80125)
- Prefs: Fixed failure to load preference files containing high-bit
characters. (Bug 80676)
- SCC: Fixed bzr status failing to detect all files in a folder.
(Bug 80431)
- OS X: Workaround for custom menus crashing. Custom menus in
projects and toolboxes are no longer available on OS X due to an
internal error in the underlying Cocoa UI code. (Bug 80697)
5.0 Beta 1 Bug Fixes
- CSS: Removed autocompletion fillup characters that got in the way
of regular usage. (Bug 80063, 80126)
- Debugger: Fixed space key failing to toggle breakpoint state in
breakpoints tab. (Bug 80163
- Multi-window: Added support for breakpoint handling when multiple
windows are open. (Bug 79117)
- Fixed error indicated by console error messages referencing
"ko.dbg.manager". (Bug 80279)
- Added background syntax checking support for Python 3.
- Tabstops in snippets and templates are now implemented with
invisible markers in the buffer. Komodo now uses
highlighting/outlining instead of chevrons to delimit them. Nested
tabstops are now possible. (Bug 80201)
5.0 Alpha 3 Bug Fixes
- Remote debugging fixed (dbgp URIs not working in Alphas 1 and 2). (Bug 80017)
- Vi Emulation: Fixed the 'r' command (replace character). Now
correctly maintains the same cursor position. (Bug 79021)
- PHP: Fixed autocompletion when an instance name is the same as the
class name. (Bug 70015)
- SCC: SCC operations on project folders working again. (Bug 79687)
- Komodo now saves the layout information of multiple windows on
shutdown and restores them on restart. (Bug 79920)
- Windows: Fixed problems with sub-process launching (affecting
debugging, background syntax checking, run commands, etc.) when
starting Komodo from the command line. (Bug 76208)
- OS X: HTTP Proxy dialog is now a real dialog window, not a sheet.
(Bug 74504)
- Fixed large memory leak in Find/Replace. (Bug 78638)
- Snippets:
- Extra newline no longer added at insertion point.
(Bug 78354)
- Snippets now use spaces instead of tabs. To insert an actual tab in
a snippet you'll need to paste one in. (Bug 79809)
- Indentation fixed for snippets containing selections. (Bug 72662)
- Fixed JavaScript debugging for Firefox 3. Connection was failing due
to attempt to use obsolete Firefox 2 code. (Bug 78845)
- Macros: The syntax checker no longer complains about return statements in
the top level of macros. (Bug 78810)
- Perl: The interactive shell now displays overloaded objects, and
also displays regexp objects. (Bug 79784)
- PHP: Obtain the correct expression for static class variables.
(Bug 79991)
5.0 Alpha 2 Bug Fixes
- Windows: Fixed crash on startup caused by checking a trial
license. (Bug 79607)
- Restored missing application icon for Komodo Edit. (Bug 79539)
- Fixed 'Refresh Status' not causing a status update on remote files.
(Bug 79567)
- Mapped URIs: Komodo no longer adds an extraneous slash after
protocol names. (Bug 78847)
- Sections List: Fixed section types for languages using
section_regexes. (Bug 79073)
- Fixed print preview. (Bug 79701)
- Continuing work on sidebar and tabs UI.
- Miscellaneous plugin fixes.
5.0 Alpha 1 Bug Fixes
- SCC:
- SVN was slow to update modified status for paths that
contained spaces. (Bug 79065)
- Enabled the diff command when a file has a conflict. (Bug 78883)
- Added "Don't display this dialog again" option to File|Revert
dialog box. (Bug 78328)
- Tcl Interactive shell menu option was grayed out - not respecting
Tcl preferences. (Bug 79111)
- Active project state correctly saved between Komodo sessions.
Previously, the last project opened at session start would be the
active one. (Bug 78285)
- Unit Testing: Fixed TAP parser problem (Perl) causing failed tests
to appear as passed. (Bug 78781)
- Keybindings: SCC commands can now be set in preferences. (Bug 78938)
- Windows Powershell language support. (Bug 78905)
- PHP: Code browser now shows functions inside alternative syntax
conditionals. (Bug 78957)
- PHP: Fixed code intelligence not working with chained function
calls that contained function arguments. (Bug 77834)
- Remote Files: Invalid HOME environment variable would break the
remote file dialog. (Bug 72402)
- Fixed bug causing autocomplete to only display on primary monitor.
(Bug 38281)
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)