Date:	Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:49:19 +0100
From:	Florian Xaver <flox AT drdos DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: SETEdit v0.5.0 released
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Very good work!!!

I promoted it in the freedos community ;-)

bye, flox

Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:
> That's the announcement that I released the SET's editor v0.5.0:
> 
> 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 v0.5.0 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 (1.5) 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/
> Or from any Simtel mirror from the following directory:
> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/
> To download the installer from simtel use:
> http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/edi050i.zip&name=edi050i.zip 
> 
> 
> (DOS/Linux/Win32 sources/binaries/cvs are available from this page
> QNX/FreeBSD/Solaris versions must be compiled from sources).
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> New [41 things]:
> 
> + Various [16]
> 
> * FreeBSD support.
> * Solaris support.
> * QNX support.
> * Big endian CPUs support (runs quite well on SPARC machines).
> * X11 (X Window) native support.
> * Support for X11 clipboards and mouse wheel.
> * Much better XTerm and Eterm support.
> * New screen, fonts and encoding dialogs with more and better options.
> * An option to select a "Color Theme", currently only the "Default", "FTE
> like" and "Console + VIM" themes are available.
> * Euro symbol to the fonts.
> * More fonts are available.
> * Now is possible to indicate a project to load without the extension in 
> the
> command line.
> * Option to generate HTML 4.01 + CSS in the HTML export.
> * Now if you unindent uncommenting the editor checks that at least the 
> first
> line is already indented, if not the operation is aborted.
> * Now the matchpair and the complementary element jumps are affected
> by the syntax highlight.
> * An LRU algorithm to remove entries in the closed list.
> 
> + Configuration [4]
> 
> * Configuration questions in the installer [DOS and Linux .deb files].
> * Now ~/.tcedit.dst have more priority than ~/tcedit.dst.
> * Option to save a desktop file in the current directory.
> * Independent set of options are stored for each driver used (DOS, Linux,
> X11, etc.) in the desktop files.
> 
> + InfView/ManView [3]
> 
> * Ctrl+Arrows support.
> * Support fot copy from man page to: editor's clipboard, main OS clipboard
> and secondary OS clipboard.
> * The default ManView colors as suggested by Ivan, now they are more 
> coherent
> with InfView.
> 
> + List of functions [2]
> 
> * If two identical functions (most probably only one is really used at 
> compile
> time) both are listed in the list of functions.
> * PHP functions parser. Ivan Baldo <lubaldo AT adinet DOT com DOT uy>
> 
> + Run external programs and message window [4]
> 
> * Options to avoid reseting the horizontal position of the message window
> when new entries are added.
> * Options to indicate when we reached the last/first item in the errors 
> list.
> * "Vertical project window" options.
> * Tasm 2.02 errors parser.
> 
> + Edition modes [1]
> 
> * When the user sets the "Use Tabs" option the editor checks if
> other options commonly used with tabs are also coherent. If not an advice
> dialog is created.
> 
> + Sound system []
> 
> * Solaris support.
> 
> + Syntax highlight and pmacros [6]
> 
> * Lua. David A. Capello <dacap AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>.
> * Flat Assembler. Matt C. <talktomatt AT egl DOT net>
> * PHP. Richard Vrijhof <R DOT J DOT Vrijhof AT bigfoot DOT com>.
> * POV-ray. Martijn Versteegh <m DOT versteegh AT hccnet DOT nl>.
> * Turbo Vision configuration files.
> * XML [Very limited!!]
> 
> + Linux [2]
> 
> * A clipboard mechanism based on a special file.
> * AA-lib plasma screen saver.
> 
> + Cosmetic [2]
> 
> * The editor now checks if the screen saver is suitable for the current
> driver.
> * When the editor loads a file the "busy indicator" is used (different 
> mouse
> cursor under X11).
> 
> 
> Fixed [26 things]:
> 
> + Fatal  [5]
> 
> * SIGSEGVs when using "Tool&Ops|Options|Run program" when no desktop 
> file was
> loaded.
> * Buffer overflow in temporary names created by infview (L_tmpnam).
> * When starting the editor with a remmembered file that no longer
> exists located in a directory where we don't want backups the editor
> removed the dektop structure from the list and inmediatly used it.
> * Crash in InfView when no desktop file was available.
> * Some problems that made the editor crash when opening a file from
> the windows list dialog and this process needed to show a messageBox.
> 
> + Not fatal [13]
> 
> * A bug in InfView parser. When a node had a lot of cross references
> that started in a line and ended in another *and* the last cross reference
> was near to the end of the node *and* the hide options were enabled.
> * Code generated for a recorded macro now uses \t instead of an ASCII 9
> embedded in the string.
> * The show match pair on the fly without waiting had an interaction with 
> the
> syntax highlight computation.
> * C++ operators parsing in the list of functions.
> * When browsing the list of errors and selecting an error reported
> in a non-existant file the editor opened an empty buffer.
> * When the editor fails to load a desktop file (wrong version,
> corrupted file, wrong access rights, ect.) the editor tries to load the
> global desktop file.
> * One preprocessor combination that fooled the functions parser.
> * When typing in overwrite mode the line length was wrongly computed.
> * The editor didn't allow to save ReadOnly files using "Save As".
> * The selection adjust done when we leave a line under edition failed if 
> the
> line had extra spaces at the end.
> * Now when choosing to "never remember windows" the options "resume" isn't
> applied.
> * When indenting a block using the arbitrary indent or comment indent the
> syntax highlight wasn't recomputed.
> * C/C++ functions list parser to support namespaces.
> 
> + Undo [1]
> 
> * Bug in the undo of text typed while using overwrite mode.
> 
> + DOS [3]
> 
> * The installer now uses cwsdpmi and a regular stub (much more reliable 
> than
> pmodedj).
> * Ctrl+Break is now blocked.
> * When using the editor without djgpp the editor failed to find the
> internationalization files.
> 
> + Cosmetic [4]
> 
> * The ASCII window grown after a window resize.
> * "Shell" instead of "DOS shell".
> * Error in docs about delete left/right word.
> * When restoring the settings of a closed window (or project item) the
> "overwrite" status wasn't reflected in the cursor shape.
> 

-- 
Florian Xaver
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