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SOFTWARE: vile 8.0 release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (T.E.Dickey)
Thu Jun 4 03:19:33 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.mit.edu
Date: 04 Jun 1998 00:10:00 -0400
From: dickey@clark.net (T.E.Dickey)
Reply-To: dickey@clark.net (T.E.Dickey)
Reply-to: dickey@clark.net (T.E.Dickey)
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hello --
I've just put vile 8.0 up for ftp at the usual place:
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile/vile.html
ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile/vile-8.0.tgz
and it should be mirrored soon at
ftp://id.wing.net/pub/pgf/vile/vile-8.0.tgz
ftp://ftp.phred.org./pub/vile/vile-8.0.tgz
The PC binaries will appear soon, time permitting. (I've built the OS/2
and DOS binaries; other people have been building the WinNT binaries).
For those that are new around here, don't be put off or excited by the '8'
in "8.0". It just means it's the first release of 1998.
Vile is a text editor which is extremely compatible with vi. It has
extended capabilities in many areas, including: multi-file editing and
viewing, mouse support, infinite undo, additional operators, rectangular
operations. optional Perl interface for UNIX and NT. It can also be built
as "xvile", which is fully X-aware, with scrollbars etc. It will run under
VMS, DOS, OS/2, or NT. Binaries for some PC operating systems are
available. (OS/2 is currently native or EMX console mode port, NT is both
console and GUI).
Highlights since 7.0:
+ lots of bug fixes, of course
+ implement optional interface to Perl, which supports extensions
to vile, e.g., a recursive grep with hypertext links in Perl.
+ implement winvile (Win32 port, with mouse, colors, font
selection, resizable window)
+ rewrote the command-line processing to be a minibuffer, with both
arrow-key and vi-style cursor movement and insertion.
+ implementation of majormodes, which supports grouping of buffer
modes, together with qualifiers (e.g., cmode and c-suffixes).
New commands include define-mode, define-submode, remove-mode,
remove-submode, list-majormodes.
+ procedures now behave more like built-in functions--they may be
bound to keystrokes and listed in the [Binding List] pop-up (for
which an optional help string may be supplied).
Other new features/improvements:
+ restructured configure script to use improved tests from other
programs (e.g., ncurses, tin and xterm).
+ make search rule for startup file and :so consistent - and always
using $VILE_STARTUP_PATH if the file is not found in the current
or $HOME directory
+ modify quote() function to show the accumulated number for ^Vnnn.
+ add vile-pas-filt program
+ added "crypt-til" operator (bound to ^X-C) which will
encrypt/decrypt an arbitrary region.
+ add vile-crypt program
+ add command show-printable to show exactly what vile does with
the character classes.
+ add tagignorecase mode, which causes tag searches to be done
ignoring case.
+ add mode 'tagword', which allows user to lookup the whole word
rather than a substring.
+ implement tags-completion.
+ add %B substitution for error-buffer regular expressions to allow
using [Standard Input] and other scratch buffers as error
buffers.
+ modify format-til command to support comment-prefix mode and
handle repeated prefix, so that, for example, vile can now format
multiple levels of email replies.
+ remove limit on length of mapped strings.
+ add comment-prefix mode, which specifies a regular expression
that controls the portion of a line which is prefixed when
formatting.
+ add $ncolors variable to allow run-time modification of the
meaning of colors (e.g., white).
Improved support for several platforms:
+ integrated menu-support for xvile (both Motif and Athena)
+ add a "+fork" option to xvile to override forkOnStartup resource.
+ distinguish MS-DOS drives from UNC pathnames
+ implement 'flash' for WinNT console driver
+ modify termcap and IBM terminal drivers to support 16 colors.
+ implement color attributes for OS/2 and Win32.
+ implement mouse and flash in OS/2 VIO driver.
+ pipes for Win32 (both console and GUI)
The bug-fixes include some longterm annoyances:
+ modify :-line line specification parsing so that statements such
as
:.,.+2,+3,-4;99p
work as in vi. Both the repetition for commas and the character
class for semicolon were missing.
+ modify :-line line specification parsing so that statements such
as
:1,w filename
:.w filename
work as in vi. Vi accepts an empty string (e.g., between the ","
and "w") as ".", and does not require that both limits in a range
be given. Previous behavior of vile would prompt, in the latter
example, when the space after "w" is typed, for the number of
lines.
+ corrected :-line parser bug which caused state hang, e.g, when
typing
<esc>:a<backspace>1<return>
vile would be expecting a command verb when the '1' is read, so
it would only allow the user to abort the command.
+ modify end-character parameter of readpattern so that it is not
necessary to escape a '?' when doing a reverse search.
+ correct logic of set_rect_columns() so that reversed rectangular
selection (where DOT > MK) gives the right number of columns
+ modify 'working' mode so that xvile simply sets the watch cursor.
+ Fixed both OpenLook and Motif versions so that they don't delete
the window when it is shrunk to a size less than 1 line.
+ change logic that determines whether to set dos mode for a file
so that .vilerc (or vile.rc) and source'd files are treated
specially. For those files, all lines must end with ^M's to set
dos mode automatically when they are read. This will reduce the
chances of trimming ^M's from map commands.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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