- Query windows now expand to multiple lines if necessary
- Single key queries are now internationalized (set local versions in the
.po file)
- Spell check language can be set in the editor
- New syntax files: m4, joerc
- New debug window for highlight file syntax errors.
- Macros can be typed at the ESC X prompt (before it used to accept only
commands).
- Built-in joerc file allows joe to run even if /etc/joe directory is
missing.
- Support for 'long long' allows editing parts of files larger than 4GB.
For example, you can say: joe /dev/hda,0x100000000,0x1000 to edit the 4KB
block at offset 4GB of a hard drive.
- Option which allows you set how many undo records to keep.
- You can give a path to the tags file in the TAGS environment variable.
- Paragraph reformatter and word wrap now handle '*' and '-' bullet lists.
- Better internationalization (i18n)
- Multi-file search and replace
- JOE now restores cursor position in previously visited files.
- Build and grep window work more like Turbo-C: the messages window is
forced onto the screen when you hit ^[ = and ^[ -.
- Syntax highlighter definition files (.jsf files) can now have subroutines.
This eases highlighter reuse: for example, Mason and PHP can share the HTML
highlighter.
- I've changed the way JOE handles '-' and redirected input
- Many bugs have been fixed. I've tried to address every issue in the bug
tracker. Hopefully I didn't create too many new ones :-)
- You can now define which characters can indent paragraphs. Also the
default list has been reduced so that formatting of TeX/LaTeX files works
better.
- Highlighting now uses less CPU time and always parses from the beginning
of the file (the number of sync lines option is deprecated). Here is a
CPU usage comparison for scrolling forwards and backwards through a 35K
line C file:
- JOE now matches Thomas Dickey's implementation of my xterm patch (but
configure xterm with --paste64).
- File selection menu/completion-list is now above the prompt (which is more
like bash). Also it is transposed, so that it is sorted by columns
instead of rows.
- "Bufed" (prompt for a buffer to edit), works like other file prompt
commands: it's a real prompt with history and completion.
- Automatic horizontal left scroll jumps by 5-10 columns.
- New syntax files: troff, Haskell, Cadance SKILL, REXX, LUA, RUBY. Many of
the existing syntax files have been improved.
- The default background color can now be set.
- JOE now supports 256 color xterm.
- The mouse can now resize windows and select menu entries.
- During selection with the mouse, the window will autoscroll when you go
past the edge.
- An xterm-patch is included which makes "-mouse" mode work better. (With
the patch, also set "-joexterm").
- Syntax files are provided: ADA, AWK, COBOL, SED, Postscript, and SQL
- Improved jpico: search now looks more like real pico
- Grep find: use ESC g to grep. Then use ESC space to jump to
to indicated file/line.
- A Perforce SCM "p4 edit" macro has been supplied (along with the hooks
within JOE which support it) so that when you make the first change to a
read-only file, JOE runs "p4 edit". (look in joerc file to enable the
macro).
- Hex edit mode has been added. For example: joe -hex /dev/hda,0,1024
- New '-break_links' option causes JOE to delete before writing files, to
break hard links. Useful for 'arch' SCM.
- JOE now has GNU-Emacs compatible file locks. A symbolic link called
.#name is created, "pointing" to "user@machine.pid" whenever the buffer
goes from unmodified to modified. If the lock can't be created, the user
is allowed to steal or ignore the lock, or cancel the edit. The lock is
deleted when buffer goes from modified to unmodified (or you close the
file).
- JOE now periodically checks the file on the disk and gives a warning if
it changed when you try to modify the buffer. (JOE already performed this
test on file save).
- The built-in calculator (ESC m) is now a full featured scientific
calculator (I'm shooting for Casio Fx-4000 level here :-), including
hexadecimal and ability to sum (and perform statistics on) a highlighted
(possibly rectangular) block of numbers. Hit ^K H at the math prompt for
documentation.
- You can now change the current directory in JOE (well, it prompts with
the latest used directory).
- Colors can now be specified in the joerc file
- Macro language now has conditionals and modifiers for dealing with
repeat arguments. Jmacs now works better due to this.
- Tab completion works at tags search prompt ^K ;
- ^G now jumps between word delimiters (begin..end in Verilog, #if #else
#endif in C, /* .. */ and XML tags). If it doesn't know the word, it
starts a search with the word seeding the prompt. It is also much smarter
about skipping over comments and quoted matter.
- TAB completion is now much more like bash (again :-). The cursor stays
at the file name prompt instead of jumping into the menu system. Also
^D brings up the menu, as in tcsh. Also, tab completion now works on user
names for ~ expansion.
- Now there is a ~/.joe_state file which stores:
all history buffers
current keyboard macros
yank records
- Joe now has xterm mouse support: when enabled, the mouse can position
the cursor and select blocks. The mouse wheel will scroll the screen.
When enabled, shift-click emulates old xterm mouse behavior (cut &
paste between applications).
- More syntax files: TeX, CSS, OCaml, Delphi, SML and 4GL. Thanks to
all of the contributers.
- Vastly improved highlighting of Perl and Shell due to the highlighter now
understanding word and balanced delimiters.
- Many bugs have been fixed (every bug which has been entered into the
sourceforge project page has been addressed). Hopefully I didn't add
too many new ones :-)
* Regex and incremental search (jmacs ^S) now work for UTF-8
* More and improved syntax highlighting files, including Mason
* Use ^T E to set character set of file (hit <tab> <tab> at the
prompt for a list of available character sets).
* Can install custom "i18n" style byte oriented character set
definition files.
* No longer depends on iconv() (easier to compile)
* Fix bug where right arrow was not doing right thing on last line
* Fix UTF-8 codes between 0x10000 - 0x1FFFF
* Now prints <XXXX> for unicode control characters
* Improved smart home, indent, etc.
* TAB completion is now more "bash"-like
* When multiple files are given on command line, they end up in
same order on the screen in JOE (before they were shuffled).
* Menu size is now variable (40% of window size or smaller if
it's not filled).
* Added -icase option for case insensitive search by default.
* Added -wrap option, which makes searches wrap
* Added status line sequence %x: shows current context (function
name if you're editing C).
* Added tab completion at search prompts and ESC-Enter for tab
completion within text windows.
* Warn if file changed on save.
* Added Ctrl-space block selection method
* Added Ctrl-arrow key block selection method
* ^K E asks if you want to load original version of the file
* jmacs bugs fixes: upperase word, transpose words, ^X ^C is
more emacs-like., ^X k and ^X ^V more like emacs.
* Much improved compile system ^[ c
* Much improved jpico
* aspell support.
