Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/01/30/11:31:39
That's the announcement that I released the SET's editor v0.4.54.
This is a major stable release and will be available from Simtel when I'm
sure the packages doesn't have any silly error.
When compared with v0.4.41 (the one available from Simtel) this release
fixes 68 problems and adds 94 new things.
What's SET's editor?
SETEdit or setedit or SET's editor is a text mode oriented text editor
with the look & feel of the old Borland's IDE. It have windows that can be
overlapped, common widgets (buttons, menues, check and radio buttons,
etc.), mouse support and old the funny things you usually find in a GUI
editor (even when all is in text mode).
The editor is mainly oriented for programmers because it have tons of
tools that helps writing programs, specially C/C++, but suitable to edit
any kind of text file. In fact the code page and fonts handling options
make it very suitable to edit text in different encodings and convert it
back and forth from one encoding to another. Some nice widgets like
graphical screen savers and MP3 player also makes the editor a funny
environment.
For those who know about RHIDE: setedit is the same editor you can find
inside RHIDE but without the IDE itself, as it's the last version have more
features (and bugs?, I hope it have less ;-), seriously, I killed a huge
number of bugs most small but some very annoying).
Is also true that some features takes a lot of time to be incorporated to
RHIDE or just won't be incorporated to RHIDE at all. The standalone editor
is also very suitable to be used for the parts of your project that are
handled with makefiles.
Main features:
* Easy to use for DOS users because have a lot of CUA and Wordstar commands
used in the editors of other compilers.
* Full configurable keyboard.
* Full configurable menu (OS dependent features and macros in menues).
* Advanced features: Rectangular blocks, intelligent indent, configurable
syntax highlight and more.
* Simple macro language, will be expanded only if the people is interested
and helps a bit (which is starting to happend).
* PMacros for fast writing.
* Real macros.
* Documentation tool for libraries or large projects.
* Fonts, code pages, screen modes and palette customization.
* You can run make or grep from the editor collecting the errors/hints.
* Clock and screen saver.
* Linux and Win32 versions.
Why I could want to download it if RHIDE exists?
The editor is the newest version v0.4.54 and have a lot of differences
with
the one included in RHIDE 1.4 (v0.3.6). Attention! Robert released a new
beta of RHIDE (1.4.9) containing one of the newest editors.
Here are some of the reasons you could have:
1) You like the editor and want to use it without needing to start the whole
IDE. The editor have a half of the size of RHIDE mainly because GDB isn't
inside of the editor. I use my editor to edit all the files I create ;-).
2) You are a RHIDE fanatic and want to test the new features or check if
some bug was killed.
3) You are a djgpp fanatic and want to collect anything made with djgpp (I'm
one of these crazy mans ;-).
4) You don't like RHIDE at all, you think it sucks, but you think you can
help to make it a really good thing.
...
Ok, where can I get it?
http://setedit.sourceforge.net/
(DOS/Linux/Win32 sources/binaries/cvs are available from this page).
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New [94 things]:
+ Various [10]
* Transparent support for bzip2 compressed files (text and info files).
Suggested by Salazar <jsalaz3 AT almez DOT pntic DOT mec DOT es>.
* A dialog asking if a compressed file saved with "save as" should be
also saved compressed. Reported by Grzegorz.
* New calculator parser from Burton Radons. It adds conditionals, variables
definitions and function definitions.
* Now is possible to have two files with the same file name in projects if
they are different files (from different directories). After some talk with
Grzegorz.
* German traslation for most of the messages. Contributed by Oliver Schieche
<oliver DOT schieche AT d2mail DOT de>.
* When a file that was stored in the desktop file no longer exists the
editor doesn't open an empty window. Suggested by Martijn Versteegh
<m DOT versteegh AT hccnet DOT nl>
* Modified the behavior of Paste from Win Clipboard to be consistent with
what a regular windows user would expect. Now it just does not copy the
previous selection to the clipboard and selects the pasted text only if
persistent blocks are enabled. Patch from Anatoli Soltan
<anatoli AT iname DOT com>.
* Now File Open dialogs not only remmembers paths+masks but also file names
(full qualified).
* The number of lines of the saved text (not only size).
* Mazovia code page (polish).
+ Configuration [12]
* A button to the file open/save/etc dialog to configure the sorting
options.
* New options to hide .*/*~/*.bkp and sort .* to the end to the dialog to
configure the file open dialog.
* Now the "Open only specified files" option is divided in various
options to give more control about what is stored in the desktop file. Now
the windows are divided in three types: Editor, Non editors and Closed
Editors. For each group is possible to set if we want to: remmember it,
remmember it but if the command line contains file names forget or just
don't remmember. These nine options replaces the old one.
* An option to not remmember the cursor position while loading the desktop.
* Configurable status line, so now the accelerators shown at the bottom of
the screen are configurable. Suggested by Dean Limbaugh
<edl AT ns1 DOT co DOT alachua DOT fl DOT us> and Bernd Becker <munin AT munin DOT inka DOT de>.
* Now the $if command supports and/or operators for menu files.
* An option to indicate in which directories to search files we indicate
with
Ctrl+Enter. Usually include dirs.
* If SET_FILES wasn't defined the editor also tries to guess using the
prefix
indicated during configuration.
* When the user have one central desktop file the editor makes a
back-up of it before writing a new one. This is quite useful for Windows
systems that likes to crash and corrupt files. Suggested by S. M. Halloran
<mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>.
* A new option to avoid making backups for some particular files. The
setting
is just a list of regex (Perl style) stored in a text file. If a file name
matches any of the regex the editor doesn't create a backup.
* An option to disable the R.O. file warning. In this case the editor will
warn when you try to save so you have an oportunity to revert it. Suggested
by Marc-Antoine Massicotte <marc DOT massicotte AT videotron DOT ca>.
* Option to open R.O. files as R.O. buffers.
+ InfView [2]
* Real support for Texinfo 4.0's Ref: references. They jump to the correct
node and positions the cursor at the right line.
* InfView now looks in all the file if the node isn't found in the first
try.
It helps for handedited/damaged info files.
+ List of functions [5]
* Now the list of functions lists members like this "member (class)" instead
of C++ syntax "class::member". It makes the incremental search much more
simple.
* A button to the function list called "Browse". It sends the list of
functions to the message window sorted alphabetically or by line number and
then you can browse the source code jumping from function to function.
Suggested by Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha AT iname DOT com>.
* Support for Clipper, Perl, Texinfo, assembler and SHL functions in Alt+F2.
* An option to the search dialog to show the name of the function where a
the
text was found.
* The heuristic parser for C sources takes only one part of #if #elif #else
#endif sequences when they are inside a function. It solves a well known
limitation.
+ Run external programs and message window [4]
* Now is possible to enter comands upto 256 characters long in the run
external program dialog (was 80).
* Now the messages/errors from the external program can be parsed in
background. Is slower but you can continue working. That's the default
when the command runs in parallel, but can be enabled even if the process
will block the editor.
* Options to configure how often the Message Window is updated when
the messages are parsed in parallel with the child program (the parameter
is how many lines are processed before releasing the CPU to poll input
devices). Also to configure if the window is forced to scroll or not.
* A new option to the Run program options dialog. When enabled and we get
errors from the child process the editor jumps to the first line with
errors.
+ Edition modes [6]
* Yet another tab option: Now is possible to indent using spaces but
also using an indentation ammount different than the tab size. The new
option
is called "Use indent size" and you can also configure the value of "indent
size". Suggested by Martijn Versteegh <versteegh AT kvi DOT nl>.
* Now tab size, indent size and wrap column are stored for closed files and
project items.
* Don't purge spaces options. When enabled the spaces at the end of lines
aren't automagically deleted by the editor. Suggested by Martijn Versteegh
<versteegh AT kvi DOT nl>.
* Now backspace behavior is not tied to the Real Tabs option. It have your
own option.
* A new option that forces the editor to do the match pair 'on the fly'
without waiting for idle. Suggested by Oswald Buddenhagen
<ob6 AT inf DOT tu-dresden DOT de>.
* Column markers used to highlight columns. This is useful for languages
that
needs text in particular columns (Fortran and Cobol I think). I tested
global
and local settings and default global options. Suggested by Martijn
Versteegh.
+ Editor commands [8]
* Jump to last column in screen. Suggested by Leon
<Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au>.
* A new command called cmcWhichFunctionIs. It determines the name of
the function where the cursor is positioned. It isn't associated to a key.
Suggested by Jeremy W. Murphy.
* CommentIndent command, it indents a block with the EOLCom1 definition.
Suggested by Thiago.
* CommentUnIndent, it unindents a block using the length of EOLCom1 as
reference. Suggested by Thiago.
* Code page remap for a block of text (no the whole file). It have undo and
I
reused code from toupper/lower block.
* Block invert case and alternate case.
* A (cmcInsertKeyName) to insert the name of the key in the text you are
editing. Suggested by "Thiago F.G. Albuquerque" <tfga AT zaz DOT com DOT br>.
* Name of current function menu option.
+ Sound system [3]
* The MP3 list can be loaded/saved as a WinAmp M3U list.
* Board level sound mixer. With options to disable it from command line
(--no-mixer). Under DOS only SB Pro and SB 16 compatible mixers are
supported.
Under Linux OSS mixer is supported. The values can be optionally stored in
the desktop file.
* Support for MP3s inside wavs, damaged MP3 files, VBR encoded files with a
modified version of the mpegsound library (splay).
+ Syntax highlight and pmacros [15]
* SQL. Contributed by Jeremy W. Murphy <jwm AT amc DOT com DOT au>.
* Objetive C. Contributed by Beni Cherniavsky <cben AT crosswinds DOT net>.
* PDP 11 assembler. Contributed by Beni Cherniavsky <cben AT crosswinds DOT net>.
* .po files.
* PostScript. Contributed by S. M. Halloran <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>.
* JavaScript. Contributed by S. M. Halloran <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>.
* Cascading Style Sheets v2. Contributed by S. M. Halloran
<mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>.
* Fortran. Contributed by Martijn Versteegh <versteegh AT kvi DOT nl>.
* More tags to the HTML syntax highlight contributed by S. M. Halloran
<mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>.
* Better TeX syntax highlight with some stuff contributed by Jan Cnops
<jan DOT cnops AT hogent DOT be>.
* Updated Tcl/Tk. Patch by Philip Moore <FireEgl AT EMail DOT com>
* Now the keywords of the syntax highlights aren't loaded at start-up,
intead they are loaded on demand. The keywords and the search tables are the
most memory consuming parts of the syntax highlight structure. Is possible
to
force the load of some of them at startup.
* A couple of new pmacros for Clipper.
* Now all modes are supported in the Mode setence used by the pmacros.
* Support for "namespace" and "using" C++ keywords to the internal shl.
+ sLisp [13]
* OpenFile: opens a file as a new window. (Asked by "Thiago F.G.
Albuquerque"
<tfga AT zaz DOT com DOT br>)
* length: returns the length of a string.
* strcasecmp/strcmp: compares strings.
* Operator -: for integers.
* MessageBox: to communicate things to the user.
* Operatot ~: it behaves like not did and now not is boolean (not bitwise).
* progn: that's an alias for eval, the regular Lisp language uses it.
Suggested by Thiago.
* cond: that's something like switch/case, is similar to Clipper's do case.
Contributed by Thiago.
* tostr: converts any sLisp variable into a string. Contributed by Thiago.
* SelectionExists: returns true if some text is selected. Contributed by
Thiago.
* A new optional parameter to RunProgramRedir. If provided is used for the
stdin of the external program. Suggested by Grzegorz.
* An example of how to use the new RunProgramRedir to run an external filter
program. (tested with "recode ISO8859-1..html"). And a lot of examples
contributed by Thiago.
* A couple of command to execute sLisp from the editor (selected text) or
entering it in an input line. Suggested by Thiago.
+ Linux [10]
* The configuration files are now stored in ~/.setedit for each user.
* MP3 support.
* Palette support.
* A shell option. I ever thinked it wasn't a good idea but a user asked for
it. Suggested by David Xu <davidx AT viasoft DOT com DOT cn>.
* The run external program option now can run the program in background. It
can optionally disabled by the user.
* The background process can be stopped just selecting the Message Window
and
pressing Ctrl+C. The status line indicates if that's available or not (the
process is running or we still parsing their output).
* Now the editor also dumps a stack trace when crashes. I also added a
message informing the user where the unsaved buffers and crash information
can be found.
* Two new behaviors in case of a crash. One calls gdb to get a detailed
stack
trace and information about local variables the other not only does it but
also gives the control to gdb so we can get more information. If we are in a
X a separated xterm is created for gdb. Based in code by Bjorn Reese
<breese AT mail1 DOT stofanet DOT dk> sent me by Grzegorz. It can be selected from the
command line and with an environment variable.
* Now when expanding compressed info files the temporal file is removed just
after opening it. Making it we don't let those temporals when the editor
crashes or we debug it.
* Now the editor loads ~/.file first that ~/file for any configuration file.
+ Windows [1]
* Window title for W9x adding information about the version and loaded
project. Suggested by Jeremy W. Murphy <jwm AT amc DOT com DOT au>.
+ Cosmetic [5]
* Now double clicking in Alt+0 window is the same as pressing the Go button.
Suggested by Philip (FireEgl) <FireEgl AT EMail DOT com>.
* An horizontal scroll bar to the MP3 list dialog.
* The list of functions and list of windows now have horizontal scroll bar.
* All the Turbo Vision messages to the translations.
* When you jump to an error the editor puts in the status line only the
description of the error and not the entire line generated by the compiler.
Fixed [68 things]:
+ Fatal [13]
* GPFs produced by the column and row cursors when the cursor was outside
the
visible area, also uninitialized data.
* Hangs when InfView can't find a node.
* A GPF when the editor was stopped during a list play operation and it was
restored in another run.
* The editor added read-only copies to the list of closed windows when
closing one of them. It produced a crash when opening the file from the
closed list. Reported by Volker Kiefel <volker DOT kiefel AT med DOT uni-rostock DOT de>.
* A crash when deleting all the items (and one more ;-) in the MP3 list.
Only
happend if you did it very quickly.
* When loading some old desktop files with black palettes (created by
some really old versions of the editor) you got a black screen. Now the
editor
checks for such a silly situation and reverts to the default palette.
* If the errors.cle file wasn't there the editor crashed when you run
external
programs. Reported by Grzegorz.
* If the editor remmembered a file that is read-only at start-up a dialog
pop-ups asking if we want to revert it, but it happends while the editor is
still loading files and the problem is that the idle() makes some searchs in
the list of opened windows. As it isn't completly loaded the result was a
SIGSEGV.
* When specifying an out of range marker in pmacros a stack corruption
ocurred.
* After a grep search or similar thing creating a new editor (File|New) and
inserting text there produced a SIGSEGV (ignored by Win9x).
* Some sLisp commands returned variables that were released from memory
before used producing SIGSEGVs or garbage. Only in some cases.
* If when trying to overwrite a file when saving a block of text the
operation failed the editor generated a SIGSEGV.
* Using the Macro|Generate Code at the end of a file while editing a line
produced a SIGSEGV. Reported by Thiago.
+ Not fatal [39]
* A small error in the MSVC errors parsing. Pointed out by Grzegorz.
* The error pattern description for Borland C compilers. Now it works
for BC++ 5.5. Reported by Grzegorz.
* ESC doesn't reset the palette to defaults in the palette dialog. Reported
by Philip (FireEgl) <FireEgl AT EMail DOT com>.
* When loading .dst files older than 0.4.32 the memorized flags for closed
files were converted in the wrong way. Some times enabling the cross cursor.
* When using the match pair on the fly the editor always forced a line
flush even if the cursor weren't in a potential match. Now that's done only
if the cursor is over {, }, (, ), [ or ]. A side effect of this behavior was
reported as a bug by Martijn Versteegh <versteegh AT kvi DOT nl>.
* Bug in relative paths interpretation of the code that parses messages from
external programs.
* Now if you have two functions with the same name SDG will list both in the
index. Reported by Grzegorz.
* The syntax highlight for shell scripts needed EscapeAnywhere=1. Reported
by
Grzegorz.
* When following a list of errors/hits with Alt+F8 in some cases the
previous
hit wasn't cleared.
* The generation of .html files from the .txt ones. Now < and > are
replaced.
Reported by Neil Parks <nparks AT torah DOT org>.
* Now when passing a list of files to grep the filenames are quoted to avoid
problems with file names containing spaces. Reported by Grzegorz.
* The message window scrolled horizontally only 255 columns and lines
are allowed to be 1000 columns (then are wrapped). So now you can fully
scroll upto 1000 columns.
* A bug in "Intelligent C indent". A parenthesis after a / was not
counted leading to wrong indentation.
* When jumping to another manpage double clicking the name of the new one
the
window didn't update their title.
* The GNU errors parsed was fulled by some gcc messages like it: In file
included by .....:line:\n Now those lines are discarded.
* When running `make' as the external program the editor keeps track
of the various directory changes that makes does (nested makefiles). That's
needed for programs that reports errors giving relative names. The problem
was that when using spanish messages the editor got confused. Now the
editor tries with english and if it fails tries translating it. Currently
only english and spanish are supported but that's done with the .mo file
so any language can be supported without recompiling.
* Now the Message Window only scrolls to the first line only if we collected
lines to jump. It was the original idea but was wrongly implemented.
* Now Prev/Next message are enabled only if the Message Window really have
lines to jump to.
* If no default options file was defined the default mask used to reset
modes
was just 16 bits and not 32 clearing "Use indent size", "Don't purge spaces"
and "Backspace unindents". So they failed to be transfered from global to
local options.
* The generic error parsers some times added an extra / generating file
names
with to consecutive / (invalid for UNIX).
* The option to open only the editor indicated in command line was broken.
* When enabling the column cursor in a window that wasn't restored from disk
it sometimes was shorter than what we expect. It was due to a wrong
initialization of CrossCursorCol member, the same could happend with the row
cursor.
* I was damaging argv[0]. It was easy to see when running ps, the editor
name
had a space after the last slash.
* The "backspace unindents" could get confused with lines containing only
spaces.
* When adding items to a project the only way to exit is by pressing ESC,
but
then the editor didn't remmember the path we used and when inserting again
we
must get it from the history. Now remmembers it.
* When I changed from absolute to relative projects the memory of settings
for project items got broken.
* Fails to set the ShowMatchPairFly from the default flags file.
* When collecting errors/messages the editor didn't check for names like
it: /dir/../dir/file and similar situations. In this case the editor failed
to find the information about this file in the project window. Now the
editor
shows only the name of the file as the external program repoted, internally
adds the right path and ensures the name doesn't have such an artifacts.
* The perl pmacros file made reference to an unexistant marker (@4).
* Code page support to the ManPageView scroll bars.
* All ManPageView windows didn't remmember the position (just centered every
time).
* The C/C++ function parser failed with sequences like it: "\\\\". Reported
by Grzegorz.
* After jumping to a function name extending the selection usually generated
strange results. It was like extending an old selection. Now the selected
line is made with a temporal selection like in the search mechanism.
* When jumping to a function already in the screen it wasn't highlighted.
* When match on the fly was enabled and also no wait the editor failed to
propagate some syntax highlight situations.
* When jumping to a file reported by an external program and the file
doesn't
exist the editor doesn't open an empty window, is just ignored.
* The syntax highlight for .s files didn't separate strings starting with "
and '.
* Calculator parsers aren't "locale aware" but libc is so it generated a
mess.
Now the locale is set to C before running them. Reported by Ivan.
* When using a central dst file and loading another in a directory the
settings
were transferred to the central one. Reported by Ivan.
* Now is possible to enter negative values in sLisp code.
* After running an sLisp macro that returned with error it wasn't cleaned
in the next run
+ Undo [4]
* The undo of the arbitrary indent used the starting selection instead of
the
final one generating problems for long blocks.
* UnIndentBlock failed to update the syntax highlight, it was clear after
removing the comments in the block.
* The routine that restores a line under edition failed to update the
correct
start of the selection when it purged spaces at the left of the cursor
position.
* The undo of BackSpace inserted spaces at the wrong column when they were
completly purged during the action.
+ Linux [6]
* The editor didn't preserve the UID/GID of files when creating back-ups.
* When a manpage didn't exist Linux's man outputs to stderr a message. In
the
past the editor missed it giving no help to the user and also letting an
error
file in the home directory. Now stderr is also redirected and if stdout is
empty stderr is shown. Reported by "GiBa" <giba AT lacasilla DOT com DOT ar>.
* A bug in the use of putenv, it made the editor fail to detect the /tmp
dir.
As a result the editor created temporal files in the current directory.
* It was possible to fool the editor and open the same file twice if it was
modified by an external program and saved with another i-node value.
* All editor functions that collected word characters (like ctrl+right/left
arrows) wrongly stopped in accents. The problem was that it didn't reflect
the selected code page, just CP 437.
* When running suid root the stderr redirected files were owned by root.
Reported by Ivan.
+ Cosmetic [4]
* Now the FileOpen dialog used in the project and MP3 list says "Done"
instead of "Cancel". Suggested by Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>.
* Some spelling errors (remmember, allready and latter). Reported by
Bernd Becker <munin AT munin DOT inka DOT de> and Philip (FireEgl) <FireEgl AT EMail DOT com>.
* The 'D' shortcut was used twice in the redmond.smn for the File menu.
Reported by Jeremy W. Murphy <jwm AT amc DOT com DOT au>.
* When modifying files like deflopts.txt with the menues and the file was
opened by the editor the opened buffer got out of sync. Now the editor
checks
if it was changed and then reloads the file. The same applies to nobkp.txt
and userword.txt files.
--
Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer)
Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or
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