- Significant extensions to the regular expression syntax.
- Incremental search, and optional search bar.
- New ctags code with full support for Exuberant Ctags, better
handling of tag collisions, multiple tag file support, on-demand
loading of tag files, and automatic reload of modified tag files.
- Optional display of line numbers along the left side of the text.
- NEdit can now read and write MS DOS format files.
- New built-in syntax highlighting patterns for Lex, PostScript, SQL,
Many syntax highlighting pattern improvements.
- Improved international character set input
- New macro subroutines: list_dialog, getenv, set_language_mode.
- Optional warnings about external modifications to files
- Clearcase awareness
- Session manager restart capability
- Default language mode "*" for user-defined menu items, allows
per-language variations on a common base
- Allow additional modifiers like Sun diamond key in user defined
accelerators
- Option to sort open previous menu.
- -geometry and -iconic command line arguments act per-window, and
can be specified via nc
- -geometry now specified in characters, rather than pixels
- -lm (language mode) command line option
- Save As dialog defaults to same file name
- .nedit file version mechanism to make future upgrades easier
- Crash on large amounts of data fed to shell command which does not
take input
- Delayed secondary windows when executable statements specified in
users .neditmacro file
- Many corrections to online help
- Many highlight patterns corrections
- Using window close box in file open/save dialogs leaves nedit server
unresponsive
- escape in macro dialogs can cause macro hang
- Lesstif-specific fixes: attachment warnings in font selector,
Work around replace dialog focus bug.
- NEdit no longer maintains original protection settings on files. It
allows them to be changed externally.
