new features in 5.4:
- Calltips (SF patch #495286)
- Rangesets (SF patch #529298, #628933)
- Backlighting (SF patch #529298)
- Highlighting information macros (SF patch #529298)
- Full mouse wheel support for XFree86 (SF patch #715941)
- Look-behind matching for regular expressions (SF patch #530308)
- Regular expression and syntax highlighting speed-ups
- Flexible resource file location (SF patch #484674) See the section
"Upgrading from 5.3 to 5.4" of the README file for more information.
- Color dialog (SF patch #595330)
- Option to auto-hide mouse pointer while typing
- Option to keep cursor away from top and bottom of the screen
- Check for real changes of externally modified files (SF patch #602426)
- Synchronized interaction between nc and nedit (SF patch #403647)
- Several smaller improvements on usability and speed
- Several smaller improvements to the macro language (SF patch #552760, ...)
For a complete list of features see the release notes at:
http://nedit.sourceforge.net/relnotes.shtml
Also (temporarly) change the HOMEPAGE/MASTER_SITE since nedit.org's ISP
has problems. See the (current) homepage at http://nedit.sourceforge.net/
for details.
New features:
* The built-in Help system was revamped, a hyperlink mechanism was
added for following cross-references
* Enhanced Exuberant ctags support
* Line numbers are available in shell commands
* Goto Line also accepts column numbers
* Automatic line-feed termination when saving is now optional
* A customizable window title
* Optional syntax based parenthesis matching (iso. purely character based)
Fixed bugs:
* Find Definition incorrectly reads the X selection when not needed
* Background popup menu could lock up X-server when used with
any of the lock keys on
* Very wide windows when starting NEdit under fvwm
* Workaround for illegal key bindings installed by other Motif
applications, causing PageUp/PageDown and arrow keys to stop
responding in NEdit. This is not an NEdit bug, it just looks like one
* Fix for PageUp/PageDown keys not responding
* Crash when running X on 2nd screen
* Line number display updating in continous wrap mode
* Performance problem with X Resources highlight patterns
* Menu fonts showing up as blocks
* Lockup's in syntax highlighting (especially Perl)
* Crash when using characters with ASCII code >= 128 in syntax
highlighting patterns
* Crash when modifying tab distance in continous wrap mode
* Crash when running NEdit in low-depth color modes
* Continous wrap mode + variable width font display bugs
* Potential scroll bar corruption in continuous wrap mode
* Workaround for selection copy/paste problems with recent versions
of gnome-terminal
* Jump to tags only referenced by line number
* Composed characters in learned sequence
* Missing titles in some dialogs
* Macro language: continue statement outside loop crash
* Rectangular overstrike paste fixes
* Hard-coded statistics line font
* Open filenames starting with a dash
* Crash when closing window of non-existing file while error dialog is up
* Bad CapsLock grab on certain keyboard configurations
* Replacements in rectangular selections could sometimes fail
* Various buffer overflow fixes
* Multiple selection dialog does not pop up on first find
* Tag not found
* Files opened with -read command line option could not be unlocked
Also, pass down ${_MOTIFBASE} from the package makefile during the
build, and use it in the Makefiles. Fixes PR 15277 from Hiramatsu
Yoshifumi, hiramatu@boreas.dti.ne.jp, albeit in a different way to
the fix in the PR.
- Added built-in patterns for CSS, XML, and regular expressions (Regex).
Many other pattern updates.
- Support for high- and true-color systems. NEdit now will automatically
select the best visual from your X server. This reduces the chance of
running out of colors.
- New features in the Find and Replace dialogs:
o Replacement across multiple windows in a session.
o Case sensitivity may be set independently of regular expressions.
o Add "Replace and Find" command, which saves keystrokes when doing
a large-scale find & replace.
- ClearCase version-extended pathnames.
- Many new macro subroutines and variables, array support in macros.
- Range highlighting of matching delimiters.
- Undo and Redo highlights the text that has changed, when visible.
- Support for wheel mouse scrolling on servers that support it (XFree86).
- Improved accelerator key handling.
- Insert Control Code dialog accepts value in any valid C notation
- Optional beeping when search operations wrap.
- Additional default search styles.
- Optional displaying of path names in the window list menu.
- Fix a crash when entering an invalid line number in "Goto Line".
- Fix problems when running NEdit on 64-bit platforms like Alpha
- NEdit failed to open files if some directories above were not "readable"
- Fix potential crashes if some system calls fail
- When no colors are left, attempt to reuse the closest matching color. This
allows NEdit's syntax highlighting to better coexist with Netscape, which
unfortuntely takes all available colors.
- Accelerators now available in confirmation dialogs, and may be invoked
without the Alt key.
- Don't even try to open a directory for editing
- Fix a couple of memory corruption problems
- 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.
